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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Laços de Nairóbi
Foto: Verena Glass No dia 11 de março, 56 jovens de uma rede de ativismo social chamada Parlamento do Povo (ou Bunge la Mwananchi, em swahili) foram detidos na cidade de Nairóbi, capital do Quênia, sem explicação da polícia. Ficaram presos durante ...
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A recriação que passa pela África
Foto: Henrique Parra Desde que o 7º Fórum Social Mundial se encerrou em Nairóbi, no dia 25 de janeiro, diversas análises e comentários têm aparecido, seja na grande imprensa, seja nos sites especializados. Uns procuram mostrar que a própria intuiç...
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En Diversidad, Otro Mundo es posible:
Celebramos el séptimo Foro Social Mundial en Nairobi y con él, las lecciones obtenidas. La visibilización, el fortalecimiento y la articulación de luchas y resistencias, la politización de por organizaciones Africanas de temas claves en la construcci...
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Os tsunamis tecnológicos do futuro
Durante muito tempo, as esquerdas e os movimentos sociais relegaram ao segundo plano a tecnologia, considerando seus efeitos sempre como positivos, sinônimos de progresso da humanidade. O debate a respeito de seus rumos, diziam, não fazia parte da luta p...