World Social Forum

WSF: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs

February 2, 2010

By Mario Osava SALVADOR, Brazil, Jan 31, 2010 (IPS) One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living “on the brink of survival”, while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment. This warning...
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World Social Forum: Crisis as Opportunity for “Another World”

January 22, 2009

By Mario Osava January 22, 2009, Inter Press Service News Agency RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 21 (IPS) – A World Social Forum (WSF) revitalized by a global crisis that has awakened new interest in the proposition that “another world is possible” – now perceived as either less utopian or more urgently needed – will...
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U.S. Social Forum: A Nightmare Called Katrina

October 16, 2008

Matthew Cardinale Atlanta, Jun 29, 2007 (IPS) Under the banner, “If another world is possible, another U.S. is necessary,” 10,000 civil society activists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday for the beginning of the first U.S. Social Forum. A spin-off of the annual World Social Forum, the USSF aims to “send a message to other...
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Latin American Groundswell of Social Movements

October 15, 2008

Franz Chávez La Paz (IPS) The struggle against social exclusion and the defence of the environment and natural resources such as water have made progress in Latin America – so much so that they have become an influential groundswell of opinion which is giving shape to a new way of life, say Bolivian activists....
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World Social Forum: Dying, or More Alive than Ever?

October 15, 2008

Mario Osava Rio de Janeiro (IPS) There are plenty of prophets of doom foretelling the death, or at least a deep crisis, of the World Social Forum (WSF), based on reports about organisational problems and a great fall in numbers at the 7th WSF, held in Nairobi in January. Some champions of the WSF,...
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    The so-called "Northern Triangle" of Central America, plagued by poverty, violence and the legacy of civil war, is considered one of the most violent areas in the world. But neighbouring Nicaragua has largely escaped the spiralling violence, and many wonder how it has managed to do so. […]
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