Final decisions on next year's meeting will be taken in April, but it looks more than likely that the World Social Forum in 2006 will be chopped up
I’ve been discussing forum experiences with people over the past few days. It’s not just me who felt the Forum in 2003 was more emotionally charged, more inspiring,
It’s 10pm and Chavez just finished his speech to the cheers of people a few miles away in the Gasometro cultural centre, which is at the heart of much
Back in London, Monday morning, its chilly, but not a Davos cold, first day for a week where I do not have 15 meetings one after the other from 7
Oh Dear. Fred Halliday in Sunday's Observer in the UK, on why he thinks the World Social Forum belongs in the "Third Dustbin of History". I
"Ole, ole, ole, ole, Chavez, Chavez!" Rock stars don't get the kind of adulation that the president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez received as he strolled to
So as not to end on a sour note, here are two things.
First, an "instant memory" site - under construction but open for business soon. Consider: the
An open debate on the future of the forum assembled this afternoon to find that a "Group of 19" had jumped the gun and sketched a Porto Alegre
James Crabtree's previous entry in this blog, Porto reflecto, makes a coherent case on the shortcomings of the forum. But here are some caveats:
1."The dominant
Just past eight in the morning on Saturday morning…the cold outside is intense, of the order of minus twenty…I slip into the main Congress Hall, noticing how lonely
I’m leaving tomorrow. So, before team OD repairs again to watch the sunset from yellow boat on the river, its time for reflections. Or, perhaps, confessions. If you are
Its almost reached a point where having a session on partnerships is like having a session on ‘development’…I fondly remember Wolfgang Sach’s (the other one) Development Dictionary that
