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Ação global nas areias do Rio

O Comitê Rio do Fórum Social Mundial avisa que vai promover um grande evento no dia 26 de janeiro, na orla carioca, juntando cultura e política na luta por outra mundo possível. Em nota divulgada pelo último boletim do FSM, a organização informa qu...

There’s An Alternative World… If Only We Can Find It

DM: Let's start with the media issue. In the May 2005 referendum on the European constitution, most newspapers in France supported a yes vote, yet 55% of the electorate voted no. This suggests there is a limit to how far the media can manipulate public opi...

2007 – Uma redação internacional

A reunião foi chamada para dar início aos diálogos entre participantes de midias alternativas vindos dos diferentes continentes, rumo às jornadas de mobilização global chamadas pelo Fórum Social Mundial para janeiro de 2008.

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The WSF after Nairobi

The 7th WSF ended on 25 January in the Kenyan capital. It was followed by a two-day meeting of the International Council (IC), a decision-making body consisting of about one hundred organizations from all continents. [1] After a first contradictory assessm...

We won’t pay to discuss our own poverty!

Foto: Nadir "The World Social Forum is suppose to be a space for us, but we are denied entry if we can't pay the 500ksh ($7us). We shouldn't have to pay to discuss our own poverty!" decried David Odhambo Ayimo, a local activist from the Nairobi slums on ...

The ‘alter-globalists’ hit their stride

Foto: Nadir From the beginning, the WSF, which met in Nairobi from Jan. 20-25, has been a gathering of a wide range of organizations and movements from around the world that defined themselves as an opposition to neoliberal globalization and imperialism i...

Self-Help and Making Do or Radical Transformation for Africa?

Foto: Nadir Our days and nights in Nairobi, Kenya and visiting rural communities in Western Kenya were a joyful return for me to a country I had once lived a slice of 25 years ago, as a young school teacher high in the Aberdare mountains among barefoot Ki...