IPS Inter Press Service - WSF
After last year's polycentric experience on three continents -- in Caracas, Bamako, Karachi --, the World Social Forum returns to a single venue: Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The big question, as in previous Forums, is: Should the WSF remain a space for civil society to reflect, or transform into an instrument for action? Once again, thousands of activists, academics, labour leaders and experts will tackle the issues surrounding the path of the globalisation process and the predominant forms of citizen participation and social organisation.
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- WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: More Words than Action
SANTIAGO, Jan 29 (TerraViva/IPS) - Unlike the massive gatherings of past years, the World Social Forum’s "Global Day of Action" Saturday did not fill avenues around the world, nor did it make headlines in any major progressive media outlet, let alone mainstream ones. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Diversity, a Birthright Waiting to Be Recognised
CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil, Jan 28 (IPS) - For many people, the World Social Forum (WSF)’s influence and effect is waning, perhaps because it has outpaced public opinion and the dominant political processes, but not the real needs of the times, which require complex and urgent solutions. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Mumbai Marches on Against Globalisation
MUMBAI, Jan 27 (IPS) - There was grim determination on the faces of the 500-strong crowd that marched through the streets of this western port city for the World Social Forum’s Global Day of Action on Saturday. - TRADE: Developing Countries Insist On Balance
DAVOS, Jan 27 (IPS) - Ministers from India, Brazil and South Africa warned at the Davos World Economic Forum Saturday that the success of Doha trade negotiations over the next couple of months will depend on "balanced" commitments between agriculture and opening of markets for industrial products. - DEVELOPMENT: For the U.S., It Must Be Different
DAVOS, Jan 27 (IPS) - International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has proposed a global fiscal stimulus to prevent economic contagion from the worsening housing and credit market crisis in the United States. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Evictions High on Atlanta Agenda
ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 26 (IPS) - Some 400 activists from Atlanta, Georgia and around the U.S. South gathered for a People's Movement Assembly Saturday, in solidarity with the Global Day of Action organised under the World Social Forum process. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Brazilian Youth Raise Their Voices
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 26 (IPS) - Brazil, the cradle of the World Social Forum (WSF), is hosting events in 19 cities Saturday for the Global Day of Action. The main participants will be young people, as they have always been at every meeting of the Forum. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Palestinians in Lebanon Seek Right of Return
TYRE, Lebanon, Jan 25 (TerraViva/IPS) - "We know when we start a campaign we work for an achievable goal," declares Wafa Yassir, the energetic head of Norwegian People's Aid (NPA), which runs programmes for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Post-Socialist Europe Unconcerned
PRAGUE, Jan 25 (TerraViva/IPS) - As another crucial civil society event approaches, questions are once more raised over the almost non-existent participation of civic actors from post-socialist Europe. - RIGHTS: WEF Takes On Terrorism, Terribly
DAVOS, Jan 25 (IPS) - The global political elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos is focusing on terrorism as the major threat to international peace -- but is conspicuously silent on ensuring that counter-terrorism measures do not breach human rights. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Italians Awaken to Palestinian Pain
ROME, Jan 25 (IPS) - Several Italian civil society groups will mark the World Social Forum's global day of action Saturday by pledging support for Palestinians. - Q&A: ‘The WSF Has to Agree On Common Actions Against Common Enemies’
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 24 (IPS) - Joao Pedro Stédile thinks that the World Social Forum (WSF) should remain a debating arena for civil society, because with all its breadth and variety, to attempt to agree on resolutions is "an illusion." - Q&A: "It Is Upon Us to Pave the Way for Sustainability"
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (IPS) - Anuradha Mittal is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture. In 2004, she founded the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank focused on social, economic and environmental issues. - DEVELOPMENT: China, India, 'Decoupled' From US Crisis
DAVOS, Jan 24 (IPS) - China and India have claimed that that they are "decoupled" from the credit and banking crisis in the United States. - DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Democracy In Conflict With Free Market Policy
NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (TerraViva/IPS) - Two years ago India was the toast of global investors at the World Economic Forum meet in Davos with the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proudly proclaiming the country as the ‘world’s largest free market democracy’.
