Alliances Day brings the World Social Forum to an End
The World Social Forum came to an end last Sunday in Belém do Pará. The last day was Alliances Day and was devoted to extended meetings with the aim of finding common grounds for common action. In the morning there were partial...
The Crisis in the World Social Forum
The international crisis was one of the main issues discussed on the World Social Forum. On the last day, I was in charge of delivering a lecture about it, together with the Venezuelan economist Eduardo Lander, in a seminar...
Lula meets the WSF International Council
Lula da Silva fostered a meeting with the organisations represented in the World Social Forum International Council. This meeting brought together about 80 people in a hotel room in Belém do Pará. The president of Brazil welcomed...
Correa, Lugo, Morales and Chavez at the WSF
Lula was not there to play hostess, but yet four Latin American Presidents of the Republic united their voices in a rally in Belém do Pará, outside the Word Social Forum. They asserted the importance of the WSF contributions to...
Amazon Rainforest, a heritage for all
After the huge march at the start of the World Social Forum, Wednesday saw the beginning of the more than two thousand debate sessions that make up the program, spread out by major thematic areas which point out the main claims...
100 000 march on the opening of the World Social Forum
The hundred thousand participants in the WSF who crossed the city of Belém stopped the traffic and brought the locals to their windows. The huge police deployment was intimidating enough, but did nothing but watch an...
The World Social Forum starts this Tuesday
The World Social Forum starts this Tuesday, in Belém do Pará, close to the Amazon Rain Forest. More than one hundred thousand participants are expected, to attend more than two thousand panels and discussion seminars, as well as...