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Despite its significance and comprehensiveness, the meeting went unnoticed for most of the traditional media, digital media being collected by alternative.
These meetings come at the beginning of the millennium, in 2001, aided by a series of transform society organizations such as ATTAC in order to find alternatives to neoliberal policies and do battle and report the problems the world such as poverty or change climate, always under the motto "another world is possible" .
secular, nongovernmental and nonpartisan independence of the Forum is total, that is why any organization that shares his ideas on the need to change the world and its system, is welcome to join in the Assembly held during the celebration Forum. That is why working together all types of groups: feminists, youth, environmentalists, anti-capitalist, humanitarian, NGO's, etc.
The first three forums were held in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. Since then, the WSF has been convened in different parts of the world, particularly in capitals Third and Bamako (Mali), Nairobi (Kenya), Bombay (India) and Karachi (Pakistan).
addition to the FSM, has been made in the last decade various regional forums, such as the European Social Forum and African, of which there are five editions of each. And even Thematic Forums have been made, as the European Educational Forum or Social Forum Ethics and Morals held in Seville in 2009.
All forums have some common patterns: a contemplative and an active part. The contemplative is to maintain a series Meeting in the form of thematic assemblies, debates between the various delegates from the various participating organizations that serve to bring principles and ideologies so that you can organize and coordinate global action from regional groups (as they say: "Think globally and act locally" ). The active is nothing to take to the streets en masse in protest, to protest in favor of other more humane and supportive, and against the establishment. WSF meetings have even led to peaceful demonstrations and a million more people coming from all over the world.
Its open and pluralistic character makes the combination of ideas and associations these forums is overwhelming, but there are basic objectives that we all share: to create an alternative economic system to capitalism to combat human inequalities and environmental imbalances, build deeper and participatory democracies in which the individual has more more weight than a mere vote , and of course, defend at any cost the strict observance of human rights by all states.
The WSF 2011 has revolved around the economic crisis, Africa and its diaspora or the riots in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, among many other issues. And, in this FSM, the debate about the need to rethink the format of assembly and organization to achieve in the future be a true global anti-globalization movement has also been very present but not substantial conclusions. WSF In 2011, the correspondent of Esther Vivas, anticapitalist leader and journalist, has been important to inform the international meeting and his articles have been published on his blog and in some alternative media major counter- Rebellion as or Kaos en la Red .
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