Gathered at the Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes for the First
National Encounter on Palestine, the Palestinian National Committee
and the Brazilian National preparatory committee we launched the WSF Free
Palestine, to be held in November 2012 in Porto Alegre (Brazil).
This call follows the decision of the International Council of the WSF
in May to support the project of a WSF on Palestine as well as
extensive consultation in Brazil including the federal and national
governments as well as the commitment to the event of the Coordination
of the Social Movements in Brazil.
We commit to work together to ensure that the WSF Free Palestine will
be a global meeting of solidarity with Palestine based on broad-based
popular and civil society mobilization in Brazil and across the world
that will show the strength and diversity of solidarity with the calls
of the Palestinian people for justice based on Palestinian rights.
The WSF Free Palestine aims to be a space for
discussion, strategizing and planning able to respond to the global
challenge represented by the ongoing wars and occupations as well as
the ongoing popular struggles in Palestine and the Arab world.
We call on all organizations, movements, networks and unions across
the globe to support this effort and to join us to ensure that the
success of the event and to bring solidarity with Palestine on a new
global scale.
The Palestinian National Committee for the WSF Free
Palestine
The Brazilian National Committee for the WSF Free
Palestine