The No-Vox Network will be present at the 7^th World Social Forum with the participation of several movements of struggle by the “have-nots” in France, Belgium, Japan and Mali: Droit au Logement (Right to Housing), Droit Paysan (Peasant Rights), Agir ensemble contre le chômage (Action Against Unemployment), Association pour l’Emploi, l’Information et la Solidarité (Association for Employment, Information and Solidarity), Droits Devant!! (Rights Up Front!!) Japanese Association of Support for Marginalized Workers and the Homeless, Cherche Midi Association of Brussels, Malian Association of the Deported.

This participation expresses one of the network’s aims, i.e. “to strengthen the representation of struggles, demands and alternatives in social forums by the movements themselves” and “to organize a permanent exchange of support based on convergence and concrete solidarity”.

No-Vox, as it does at every Forum, will organize a General Assembly of the Have-Nots (January 23^rd) so as to unite movements involving men and women from around the world,
talk about the present state of our struggles, exchange and analyse our practices and the alternatives we propose. In this assembly, we will show images of the different struggles by the world’s “have-nots” and carry the problems of precarity, poverty and social, economic, political and cultural exclusion to the very heart of the social forum.

Meetings will also be organised with the anti-free market forces of Japan, the Dalit movement, (NCDHR), the Human Rights March from the USA and these movements will be associated with the activities of the urban and women’s areas. No-Vox will participate in the Assembly of Migrants and the Final Assembly of Social Movements set January 25^th.

No-Vox has been informed of two parallel events: the forum of shantytowns and the Caravan of the Zambian Social Forum to which the Network expresses its solidarity.

In connection with France, the No-Vox Network will be connected to the relay-Forum, dubbed Espace Zapatista, organized in Marseille during the WSF.

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