world social forum

Don't miss this week's Community Bridge radio show with Christopher Renner this Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 5:00 pm.

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I'll be talking about the World Social Forum from Dakar in February 2011 as well as what's happening next. Another World Is Possible!

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Political Climate
The political climate of the Palestine World Education Forum was the inspiration for a decentralized event. Because Palestinians have been displaced all over the world, a truly Palestinian forum event needed to be held in multiple locaitons. Therefore, workshops and conferences were scheduled in dozens of cities in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Palestine 1948 territory, and Lebanon.

The World Education Forum follows the model of the World Social Forum to provide the conditions necessary for a movement of movements. Within Palestine, the thematic topic of education is important in many ways, however the forum itself addresses all issues within the context of its occupation.

On April 20, 2010, at 7:00 pm Eastern time people in various cities of the United States will gather for a direct interaction via the Internet with participants in the Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre Cambio Climático y Derechos de la Madre Tierra. This multi-city event will be one of the first fully interactive convergences of its type, moving our Hemispheric movement forward a step.

As the final months approach in planning for the second United States Social Forum, deep debate broke out among its organizers. The topic of the debate addresses the political paradox of corporate social networking and its role in progressive organizing: Whether or not to link corporate, social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook on the USSF website's homepage. Organizing for the second US Social Forum is increasing in intensity as the forum, to be held at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in Detroit, June 22 - 26, 2010, approaches.

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

Detroit

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The second day of International Council meetings for the World Social Forum showed the breadth with which the social forum process has become a movement. Organizers from all over the world are meeting in Montreal, Quebec this week to discuss upcoming WSF events in 2010 and 2011. Twenty-four thematic and regional forums are scheduled for 2010.

Delegates from the United States Social Forum participate in the International Council meetings of the World Social Forum to discuss global movement responses to current crises. In 2001 The World Social Forum (WSF) was created in Brazil in direct response to the neo-liberal strategic meeting of the World Economic Forum.

Brazilian feminists marched for their rights along the main road running through the UFRA campus during the 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. A young activist says in an interview "In Brazil, abortion is not legalized and it should be legalized." Other inequalities exist in Brazil such as equal pay for equal work.

FVIR January 29, 2009 Steven Heape of Rich-Heape Films discusses "Trail of Tears Cherokee Legacy" exploring America's darkest period: President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830-38 and the forced removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma. We also talk with Mallory Knodel, co-director of the Indigenous Film Series as she reports from Belem, Brazil on the World Social Forum.

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