//FSM 2007
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Wangui Mbatia: the Kenyan woman that forced the gates of the WSF dies
Wangui Mbatia, that young woman the World Social Forum partiicipants knew in 2007, when she rallied with the group of poor people at the Kenyata gates demanding to be let in the WSF territory for free, died yesterday (11) after a three-year struggle with c...
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Wangui Mbatia: morre a queniana que forçou os portões do FSM
Wangui Mbatia, aquela jovem que ficou conhecida do FSM em 2007, quando se reuniu e marchou com um grupo de ativistas pobres até os portões do Estádio Kasarani, de Nairobi, exigindo entrada no território do FSM sem pagar a taxa de inscrição, e prote...
The three faces of the World Social Forum
The World Social Forum (WSF) is about three things, a young Frenchman told me. We were coming back from Kenya together. He had been to most of them since they first began in Porto Alegre in Brazil in January 2001. They are, he said, about protesting, netwo...