by Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 24, 2010 (IPS) – The World Social Forum (WSF) is only “a tool” and must not be confused with the global movement for another world, says Chico Whitaker, one of the founders of this meeting which is celebrating its tenth year with a seminar to assess its track record Jan. 25-29, in its southern Brazilian place of origin, Porto Alegre. Continue reading WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Back Seat Driver of Social Change
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By Mario Osava*
SALVADOR, Brazil, Jan 31, 2010 (IPS) – One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living “on the brink of survival”, while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment. Continue reading Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs
By Mario de Queiroz
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LISBON, Jan 23, 2010 (IPS) – Nearly a decade after its inception, and in spite of some reverses, on balance the World Social Forum (WSF) has proved a resounding success as a platform for planet-wide debate, from the point of view of the people most affected by the world’s problems. Continue reading WSF, Positive Reviews on Balance
Stanley Kwenda interviews DAKARAYI MATANGA, Southern Africa Social Forum
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HARARE, Jan 28, 2010 (IPS) – The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination.
“Global solidarity has proved to be the only sustainable mode of confronting global apartheid, as exemplified by the liberation struggles that were fought in the 20th century,” says Dakarayi Matanga.
Global apartheid refers to the divergence in the economic and social development of a white North in the industrialised world and a brown South in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Continue reading WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Africa Continues to Draw Inspiration
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation 