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El Foro Mundial de Alternativas en Nairobi
El Forum Social Mundial de Nairobi en 2007 será orientado sobre las alternativas y las estrategias. El FMA organizara cuatro grupos de trabajo en el seno del Forum que retomaron los principales temas del Llamamiento de Bamako, abiertos a todos los que qui...
[en]The World Comes To Nairobi [pt_br]O mundo vem a Nairóbi
Photo: Bush doll during a march in WSF 2005, by Marcello Casal Jr/ABr The road to this event has been long and arduous. Members of the Social Forums in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda attended the 3rd African Social Forum (ASF) in Lusaka, Zambia, in December 2...
[en] Towards Nairobi: The world against the war [it] Il 12 luglio, il mondo contro la guerra [fr]Le 12 août, le monde contre la guerre[pt_br]Rumo a Nairóbi: O mundo contra a guerra
[en]Organizations, networks and social movements around the world repudiate Israeli attacks against Lebanon and prepare an international day of protest and solidarity on August 12th International appeal from the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), w...
¿Hasta cuándo?
Por Eduardo Galeano. ¿Hasta cuándo? Un país bombardea dos países. La impunidad podría resultar asombrosa si no fuera costumbre. Algunas tímidas protestas dicen que hubo errores. ¿Hasta cuándo los horrores se seguirán llamando errores? Esta carnic...
La guerra es tragedia para todos
La humanidad se ve sacudida por el aumento de guerras y conflictos armados, el incesante aumento de la irracionalidad, de pensar que la violencia es la solución. Lo único que han logrado hasta el momento es aumentar las muertes, y el derramamiento de...
Evaluations of WSF in 2006
The transcripts (pdf) of the latest meeting of the International Council (the overarching body of the WSF) in March include an interesting discussion between IC members on the learnings from the polycentric forums in Bamako and Caracas. Most importantly on...
Africa’s Time to Use Global Meet
I have had interviews with media in Kenya before, but nothing compares to the sessions with the Press in Finland and Sweden in the last one week. The interest is simple to understand, but I am still mesmerised. In January 2007, for the first time, Africa w...
Four ways of looking at WSF
The World Social Forum is now on its way to place its annual gathering in very different national and regional settings from its origins 2001 in a Brazilian political culture in the Southern state Rio Grande do Sul. A first successful attempt was made 2004...