Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Movements (Asian)
The first meeting of Asian Social Movements takes place against a background of what is shaping up as the worst crisis of global capitalism since the Great Depression, seventy years ago. Charting our direction for the future is greatly dependent on accurately understanding the nature and (…)
, by MUTO Ichiyo
Contribution to the People’s Plan 21 General Assembly, Rajabhat Institute, Bangkok, June 22-23, 2002.
As we all may agree, the people’s alliance has been the key concept to the PP21 processes which we launched in Minamata in 1989. But it appears to me that we have not fully discussed this (…)
, by BELLO Walden, Oxfam
We are publishing below a crticism by Walden Bello of an Oxfam campaign to promote wider access for developing country products in northern markets and Oxfam’s response.
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What’s Wrong with the Oxfam Fair Trade Campaign?
Focus on Trade #77, April 2002
Walden Bello (…)
, by AGUITON Christophe
Barcelona, March 2002, demonstration
, by DRUCKER Peter
CLAYTON SZCZECH AND Shira Zucker did a good job (“Reflections from the Trenches,” ATC 95 ) of explaining how terrible the repression was in Genoa during the G8 summit last July and what a big success the actions there were. Sadly, they did less well in explaining t.
How were 300,000 people (…)
1) In the face of continuing deterioration in the living conditions of people, we, social movements from all around the world, have come together in the tens of thousands at the second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. We are here in spite of the attempts to break our solidarity. We come (…)
, by World Parliamentary Forum
Resolution on the IPN
, by World Parliamentary Forum
On ALCA
, by World Parliamentary Forum
Declaration on Argentina
, by World Parliamentary Forum
Declaration on Biodiversity
, by World Parliamentary Forum
Declaration on Cuba
, by World Parliamentary Forum
Declaration on War
, by World Parliamentary Forum
Declaration on Youth
, by NGWANE Trevor
Notes from a speech to the African Social Forum’s African Seminar, World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2 February 2002.
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1. Introduction
How long must Africans suffer? After many years of plunder, robbery, slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism and apartheid, we are now facing (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Porto Alegre is not exactly a Third World city. Located in one of Brazil’s more prosperous states, Rio Grande do Sul, and populated by people mainly of European stock, this city of 1.2 million people is First World when it comes to infrastructure and social services. In fact, it ranks near the (…)
, by World Parliamentary Forum
On the Colombia Plan
, by Attac France, CUT, Focus on the Global South, WMW
ORIGINS
During the first World Social Forum, more than a thousand people representing hundreds of social movements, NGOs and trade unions of the whole world gathered in a common assembly and, with a feeling of strong unity, approved the “Porto Alegre Call of the Social Movements for (…)
, by Our World Is Not For Sale Network
Services are the lifeblood of all societies. The manner in which they are provided is of critical importance to all people. For this reason, the undersigned organizations, representing millions of concerned citizens around the world from both developed and developing countries, find it totally (…)
, by SEARS Alan
Governments and employers have used the horrible terrorist attacks of September 11 as a pretext to justify a speed-up in implementing their right-wing agenda. They are blatantly using the fear and grief that these attacks created as a cover for hasty moves to strip away rights we have won over a (…)
, by CANNAVO Salvatore
After the attacks in Manhattan and in the context of a war which promises to be long, hard and terrifying, can the movement against capitalist globalisation continue as before? Can its identity, perspectives, and priorities remain unchanged or should they undergo a profound transformation?
A (…)
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