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Articles pertaining to the Polycentric World Social Forum

Here are a few links and articles in relation to the Caracas Forum, both in favour of what is happening and critical of it. Let's debate these ideas in this space, and also take them up for local discussions wherever you are, taking them as far and as wide as you can in this time ­ and also within the Forum/s, in case you are attending any of them.

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Related Sites

• A Week in Venezuela: World Social Forum 2006, Venezuala Reporting on Truth Out (truthout.org)
• Choike.org page on the WSF 2006; last accessed on January 13 2006
• Official WSF website

Articles

• First Report From Bamako; Geoffrey Pleyers, 19th January 2006; (PDF file, in French and translated to English)
• Letter written by three members of the Brazilian Organizing Council to the organizers of the "Bamako Manifesto" meeting; 17th January 2006; (PDF file, in French and translated to English)
• The Bamako Appeal; as circulated on the NIGD list on February 7, 2006 after receipt from Samir Amin
• Que outro mundo e possivel (That another world is possible); Article by Antonio Martins, member of the International Council of the WSF; 24th January 2006; (PDF file, in Portuguese). NOTE: This is an article by Antonio Martins, member of the International Council of the WSF in Sao Paulo. The article is in Portuguese and is a response to the recent critiques of the World Social Forum by Ignacio Ramonet (of Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris) and Francois Poulet. For those of you unfamiliar with Portuguese, here is the English translation 'That another world is possible'.
• FSM precisa discutir a sério relação com partidos e Estados; (in Portuguese) Teivo Teivainen Interview with Carta Maior radio, Brazil; January 26, 2006. The English Translation is The WSF and its relationships with State and Political Parties.
• Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela : The WSF Should Have A Strategy Of Power; Mario Dujisin, January 31 2005
• Hacia el II Foro Social Américas y el VI Foro Social Mundial policéntrico - Towards the 2nd Americas Social Forum and the polycentric 6th World Social Forum, in Spanish; Irene León, June 20 2005
• ­ Alternative Social Forum - Caracas, January 2006, fsa NOSPAM_AT_NOSPAM contrapoder.org.ve; Foro Social Alternativo - Alternative Social Forum, October 18 2005
• The VI World Social Forum Caracas 2006; Carlos Torres, December 5 2005
• WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela's social movements; Carlos Torres, December 5 2005
• A POLYCENTRIC FORUM FOR A CONVERGENT SOCIAL MOVEMENT -- World Social Forum 2006: Defining priorities and common axes; Sergio Ferrari, December 5 2005, Interview with Eric Toussaint, Member of International Council of the WSF
• ((Rafael | Re: (en) El Libertario* - WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela's social movements')); Email response by Rafael Uzcategui received on January 4 2006 9:05 pm
• WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Global Protest with a Caribbean Twist; Humberto Márquez, January 9 2006
• WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Will the Bamako Meeting Tackle Africa's Sore Spots?; Moyiga Nduru, January 10 2006
• World Social Forum 2006, Chico Whitaker, December 2005; Originally published in No. 208 of Faim and Dveloppement ('Hunger and Development' in French) magazine (CCFD, France)
• Long Term Strategizing – Anticipating Uncertain Futures; Kolya Abramsky, January 2006
• Le FSM n’a pas encore officiellement commencé, mais voici déjà quelques informations à chaud sur cette première journée…; Geoffrey Pleyers, January 18 2006
• Never give up on that other world; Ignacio Ramonet; In Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2006, Re-published from http://mondediplo.com/2006/01/01giveup
• WSF towards Karachi and Nairobi; Tord Björk March 2006
• The World Social Forum (WSF) : Periodicity; Oded Grajew, nd, c.May 2006
• Understanding the World Social Forum : The WSF as an Emergent Learning Process - Notes on the Dynamics of Change, Jai Sen, January 2006 published in Mainstream (New Delhi), March 25 2006, pp 9-24.
• The empire, the movement, and the politics of scale: Considering the World Social Forum by Janet Conway, February, 2005 Prepared for “Towards a Political Economy of Scale: Studies in Political Economy'' Conference, York University, February 3-5, 2005.
• Social Forums, Social Movements, and Social Change : A Response to Peter Marcuse on the Subject of the World Social Forum, Janet Conway, June 2005 in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 29.2, June 2005