Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Articles on the World, Regional and National Social forums in India are placed in the sub-section “Social Forums” of the “India” section.
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The section Social Forums (India)
The following articles are posted there (this list will be (…)
, by HELIE Anissa
Women around the world design and adopt different strategies for change, based on their own (individual or collective) interests, and depending on the socio-political circumstances in which they live. Women get involved in initiatives that are informed by their multiple, overlapping, identities, (…)
, by Movements (international)
Comrades from international and regional networks and social organisations that have been working together for several years, we are calling seminar strategies of the social movements for September 28-30th and October 1st that will take place in Brussels, Belgium
On the call to the seminar. On (…)
, by Movements (international)
Dear friends,
We are networks and international or regional social organizations who have been working together to prepare the Assemblies of social Movements in World Social Forum, to coordinate actions against the war and and to set up counter-summits against free trade and multilateral (…)
, by ESSF
After a meeting of the concerned movements, May 5, 2006, the Thai Social Forum informed that:
“The Bangkok WSF 2006, originally planned as a S.E. Asia / E. Asia Social Forum, has now been changed to a”Thai Social Forum"... [...]
We ask for your understanding on the basis that a majority of (…)
, by Movements (Europe)
For a more complete information, see: 4th European Social Forum: declarations of the Assembly of social movements and networks
We, women and men from social movements across Europe, came to Athens after years of common experiences, fighting against war, neoliberalism, all forms of (…)
, by HALLIDAY Fred
To what extent have the movements for women’s emancipation that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s achieved their ambitions? Fred Halliday draws up a balance-sheet.
In 1981, before the dissolution of democratic socialism in western Europe and the collapse of communism in the east, the Marxist (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Update September 9, 2006 (the list of articles will be regularily updated)
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The section “Social Forum” (Pakistan)
The dossier on the Karachi March 24-29, 2006 can be find under the Pakistan rubrique. (…)
, by NANGA Jean
In January 2004, the World Social Forum (WSF) was for the first time held outside Brazil: in Mumbai, India. This year the WSF has been organised in polycentric fashion, in Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and - a little late because of the recent earthquake in Kashmir - in Karachi (Pakistan). (…)
, by Movements (international)
Comrades from international and regional networks and social organisations that have been working together for several years, we are calling (see in annex, the origin of this call) for: The seminar strategies of the social movements for September 28-30th and October 1st that will take place in (…)
, by JUEGO Bonn
A Narrative Report prepared by Bonn Juego for the International Exchange (INEX) Programme, Institute for Popular Democracy, Philippines, as a result of the Asian International Organising Committee (IOC) meeting of the Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) on 12-14 March 2006, at Ho Chi Minh City, (…)
, by BADRAN Margot
I gave a talk in Cairo in 2002 titled: “Islamic Feminism: What’s in a Name?” There I explored the paradigm shift in feminism occurring within the Muslim umma at various locations during the 1990s that Muslim observers led in the process of naming Islamic feminism (see Al-Ahram Weekly, 17- 23 (…)
, by BELLO Walden, MALIG Mary Louise
The 6th World Social Forum held in Caracas, Venezuela, provided the shot in the arm needed by this annual gathering of global civil society. The WSF had come under fire, even from some of its key founders, for simply recycling the discussions of previous fora with no discernible direction and (…)
, by CONWAY Terry
Anti-abortionists in Britain are waging a huge propaganda campaign and have taken some important actions through the courts. So far unsuccessful in their aims, the anti-abortionists are trying to create a climate of opinion which would ease the way to abortion restrictions.
Britain’s main (…)
, by DIAGO Édouard
The Caracas component of the polycentric 2006 World Social Forum took place from January 24th to 29th. Its exceptional character derived from the fact that it was taking place at the heart of the revolutionary process that Venezuela is experiencing. The Forum provided an illustration of the (…)
, by OBIKO PEARSON Natalie Obiko
CARACAS, Venezuela
Hundreds of activists are holding an alternative symposium to this week’s World Social Forum, accusing the main event of straying from its freethinking leftist roots and serving as a propaganda tool for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The seven-day Alternative Social (…)
Assembly of Social Movements at the Teresa Carreño Theatre during the World Social Forum, in Caracas, the morning of 29th January 2006.
Over the last few years the populist fight against neo-liberalism and imperialism in the Americas and other parts of the world has caused a crisis of (…)
, by MARQUEZ Humberto
CARACAS - The debate on whether the World Social Forum (WSF) should remain merely a space for reflection and protest or should move on to proposals for concrete action once again emerged at the sixth edition of the annual global civil society meet, taking place in the Venezuelan capital this (…)
A Social Movements General Assembly met in Bamako at the occasion of the World Social Forum, January 22, 2006. This meeting gathered about fifty activists on behalf of several movements and networks from different continents. We report hitherto the provisions that have been finally agreed. (…)
, by GELOO Zarina
IPS - Terra Viva
The Bamako World Social Forum (WSF) which ends tomorrow and moves to Caracas in Venezuela, created a focus on ‘Afrocentric’ issues that used to be swallowed up in other forums, forum coordinator Mamadou Goita said.
Goita told Terra Viva that issues which were specifically (…)
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