01-31-2007, 08:22 AM
The three faces of the World Social Forum
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The World Social Forum (WSF) is about three things, a young Frenchman told me. We were coming back from Kenya together. He had been to most of them since they first began in Porto Alegre in Brazil in January 2001. They are, he said, about <b>protesting, networking and proposing</b>.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2004 the WSF was held in Mumbai with an enormous mobilisation of Indian organisations.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The World Social Forum (WSF) is about three things, a young Frenchman told me. We were coming back from Kenya together. He had been to most of them since they first began in Porto Alegre in Brazil in January 2001. They are, he said, about <b>protesting, networking and proposing</b>.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2004 the WSF was held in Mumbai with an enormous mobilisation of Indian organisations.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->