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World Social Forum 2010 starts with great event in the Greater Porto Alegre - Brazil

Celebrating its tenth year of existence, the World Social Forum (WSF), will take place in 2010 in a decentralized manner, with at least 27 regional, national and local events throughout the world over the next period (see agenda on the WSF official website: www.forumsocialmundial.org.br) Opening this process, the regional event "FSM 10 Years: Greater Porto Alegre" which is going to happen from January 25^th to 29^th in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, will have over 500 decentralized activities in the cities of Porto Alegre, Gravataí, Canoas, São Leopoldo, Novo Hamburgo and Sapiranga. Given the importance of the date and the event itself, the presence of some heads of state is waited (Lula, Evo Morales, Mojica and Fernando Lugo), as well as several ministers and prominent politicians (Dilma Rouseff, Marina Silva, Heloisa Helena and Ciro Gomes) which have already expressed their interest in accepting invitations to activities during the event.

Seminar discusses 10 years of World Social Forum One of the core activities of the Greater Porto Alegre Social Forum is the International Seminar "10 Years Later: Challenges and proposals for another possible world" which will feature more than 70 intellectuals and social leaders around the world - many of whom have integrated the process of creation and construction of the World Social Forum (WSF) in the last ten years. The seminar, held in the city of Porto Alegre, aims to examine the new challenges of alter-globalist civil society and to design future directions to be followed by the WSF. It also aims to provide a more systematic reflection on what has been done thus far, mistakes and successes, and the WSF institutional dynamics, becoming thus a moment of strategic thinking addressed to the activists most involved in the process.

Program of the Seminar "10 years later: challenges and proposals for another possible world"

1^st day, January 25 - World Social Forum – Examining the last 10 years 2^nd day, January 26 - World conjuncture today Table 1: Environmental Conjuncture Table 2: Economic Conjuncture Table 3: Political Conjuncture Table 4: Social Conjuncture 3^rd day, January 27 - Elements of a new agenda I Table 1: Common Goods Table 2: Common Goods Table 3: Economy and Gratuity Table 4: Good Life 4th day, January 28 - Elements of a new agenda II Table 1: State Organization and political power Table 2: Rights and Collective Responsibilities Table 3: New World Order Table 4: How to Construct Political Hegemony 5th day, January 29 - Systematizing big issues and contributing to the World Social Forum process TOWARDS DAKAR 2011: the multiplicity of forums Pan-Amazonic Forum Americas Social Forum African Social Forum Maghreb Social Forum Stateless Peoples Forum Palestine Forum European Social Forum United States Social Forum Crisis of Civilization Forum You may find attached the list of participants. Press: - São Paulo: seminariofsm10@gmail.com, phone: (11) 9853-9950 - (Verena Glass) - Porto Alegre: fsm2010comunicacao@gmail.com, phone: (51) 3433.1233 / (51) 9317.0862 - (Luciana Borba) More information Greater Porto Alegre Social Forum official website: http://www.fsm10.org/ Seminar "10 years later" official blog: http://seminario10anosdepois.wordpress.com/