karlos says: from Joann at GGJ...
Copied and pasted below is an exerpt from an article where GGJ gets mentioned and a link to some short videos of the WSF. (There is a link to the complete article.)
Video’s
The GGJ banner comes out for a brief sec on the “Kickoff” video. http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm
1. Kickoff at the World Social Forum
2. The opposition to Chavez
3. In the barrios
4. Final report on the World Social Forum
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Under the Sign of Bolívar:
The World Social Forum of Caracas (2006)
by Jim Cohen
ZNet
February 09, 2006
http://www.zmag.org/
The World Social Forum is taking place this year in a "polycentric" manner and in three stages: first in Bamako, Mali (January 19-23), then in Caracas (January 24-29), and finally in Karachi (March 25-28). In Caracas, inevitably, the gathering came under the influence of the presidential regime of Hugo Chávez, which led to a more fervent and more strategically-oriented brand of political language than usual in the space of the Forum. This led some commentators and participants to worry about a political takeover of the Forum. It must be recognized, however, that in Latin America today, the "radical pole" taking shape around Chávez and the new Bolivian president Evo Morales is not a marginal phenomenon, and the demand for a decisive political break with the neoliberal model of society is becoming insistent. Yet by no means did the Forum in Caracas cease to be a very pluralistic space of interaction among social movements and currents of thought in all their diversity...
The Forum organizers also made sure that large numbers of activists from the U.S. were on hand. Among the groups most visibly present were Grassroots Global Justice, which describes itself as "an alliance of US-based grassroots groups who are organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people." MORE
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