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International - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

World Social Forum 2005 Jan 26th to 30th Porto Alegre

category international | public consultation / irish social forum | event notice author Thursday January 20, 2005 03:24author by p Report this post to the editors

Love or hate it

Themes

1. Assuring and defending Earth and people’s common goods – as alternative to commodification and transnational control (E):

2. Arts and creation: weaving and building people’s resistance culture (C):

3. Communication: counter-hegemonic practices, rights and alternatives (D):

4. Defending diversity, plurality and identities (B):

5. Human rights and dignity for a just and egalitarian world (J):

6. Sovereign economies for and of people – against neoliberal capitalism (I):

7. Ethics, cosmovisions and spiritualities – resistances and challenges for a new world (K):

8. Social struggles and democratic alternatives – against neoliberal domination (F):

9. Peace, demilitarisation and struggle against war, free trade and debt (G):

10. Autonomous thought, reappropriation and socialisation of knowledge and technologies (A) :

11. Towards construction of international democratic order and people’s integration (H):

*Cultural and artistic events:

Programme
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=7&cd_language=2

Irish Social Forum
http://www.irishsocialforum.org/index.php

author by Sinn Féinpublication date Tue Jan 25, 2005 15:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

24 January, 2005

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún will tomorrow travel to Brazil to participate in the World Social Forum at Porto Allegre, Brazil. Speaking before her departure Ms de Brún said the World Social Forumpresents the opportunity to 'map out an alternative world, one concerned with prioritising social justice and human rights protections'.

more:
http://www.sinnfein.ie/news/detail/8229

author by Barrypublication date Tue Jan 25, 2005 17:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Perhaps the former Minister of the crown can
show them how to close down hospitals in rural areas as well, while keeping a straight face and talking about revolutionary ideals and socialism.

author by Johnpublication date Wed Jan 26, 2005 17:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Good point Barry. Would someone from SF like to repsond?

author by mms - mmspublication date Wed Feb 02, 2005 23:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I was in Porto Alegre,
One Italian MEP from the Left group in Brussels he told met that he went to see Chaves at the Gigantinho with Mrs De Bruin.
I went to see Chaves s well, but in the morning at the MST settlement, it was amazing...

author by Anti-Fascistpublication date Mon Feb 07, 2005 18:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"_campaigners prepare for continental social forums in Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe and Pacific."
The world needs to unite in opposing the threat posed by the USA to our existance

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