Current Explorations

Southern Africa Social Forum is Banned (More)

Heads of State at the WSF ? Join the Debate on WSFDiscuss

Recent Event ESF is the regional counterpart of World Social Forum. It was first held in Florence 2002, lastly in Athens 2006. Nearly 10,000 people from across Europe took part in hundreds of political and cultural events over four days. The 2008 ESF has created a lot of exiting initiatives, from networking towards the Climate summit in Copenhagen 2009 to campaigns for labour rights, common welfare and a real social Europe. MOBILISATIONS | NEWSCAPE | ARTICLES | REPORTS Roundtable discussion at European Social Forum, Malmo on theme How Relevant is the WSF to Struggles for Social Justice in the World Today ? September 19 2008, 10-1 pm, Eurozine Café at Babel (Jeriko, Spångatan 38), Sweden with Alex Callinicos, America Vera-Zavala?, Dimitri Roussopoulos, Gina Vargas, Gustave Massiah, Moema Miranda, Raffaella Bolini. See details Belem Methodology meeting agenda. Read more on the Strategy Debate for WSF 2009.

WSF Updates WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2008 Jan. 26, 2008 - Act together for another world! We are millions of women and men, organisations, networks, movements, trade unions from all parts of the world; we come from villages, regions, rural zones, urban centres; we are of all ages, peoples, cultures, beliefs, but we are united by the strong conviction that ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE ! MOBILISATIONS | NEWSCAPE | ARTICLES | REFLECTIONS A whole new world: WSF, what form should it take? Ben Trott, January 26 2008 Interview with Joao Pedro Stédile : ‘The WSF Has to Agree On Common Actions Against Common Enemies’ January 24 2008 Interview with Aminata Dramane Traoré: ‘If the WSF Didn’t Exist, It Would Be Necessary To Create It’ January 22 2008 Interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos: ‘WSF Is As Much a Cultural Struggle As a Political One’ January 21 2008 Interview with Roberto Savio, member of the International Committee of the WSF January 9 2008 Evaluating from the Inside, With Optimism Chico Whitaker answers CACIM’s call for an evaluation of the WSF, January 2008

Just Published Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement Author: Luis A. Fernandez , RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, March 2008 A firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, and using an incisive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Fernandez maps the use of legal, physical, and psychological approaches. This book does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters. Read More The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires, Second Edition Jai Sen, Peter Waterman, editors Experimenting with a politics that can cope with uncertainty.Book Release at ESF, Malmo September 18 2008, 1-3 pm, Eurozine Café at Babel (Jeriko, Spångatan 38), Sweden. More on Our Publications A bibliography on the policing and repression of anti-globalisation protests and movements drawing on a variety of sources - academic, media, movement and security forces. Tomás Mac Sheoin, First draft, March 21 2008 Download

This web space is administered by CACIM (Critical Action : Centre in Movement) on behalf of a Coordination Body within the EIOS Collective. CACIM is a non-profit organisation based in New Delhi, India. We invite and encourage participation in this webspace — in any way you consider possible. You can comment on existing content, edit existing content where possible, contribute articles, write reviews, upload documents, images, audio, blog, and start discussion forums or participate in them - and you can even volunteer to manage a section of this webspace that is close to your heart. Please contact us. This webspace is very much an experiment, and will evolve with time and experience.

Browsing and downloading articles from webspace is open to everybody but editing, uploading, and blogging requires a simple process of registration (through a window in the column on the right) to avoid unwanted things finding their way to the space largely through SPAM.

We are also very open to suggestions and ideas for how this webspace can be structured, made more participatory, and accessible — within the constraints of this TikiWiki installation and the abilities of the software.

Disclaimer

• The views of the authors in various articles are not necessarily the views of this webspace.
• The display of articles on this webspace does not necessarily imply that the authors agree with the views of this webspace.