By Christophe Ventura

For the 10th anniversary of the World Social Forum (WSF), two encounters were organised in Brazil: the first at Porto Alegre, from January 25 to 29 and the other at Salvado de Bahia, from January 29 to 31. They took place in the context of a year of action including dozens of events connected with the Social Forum process throughout the world.

DAKAR, SENEGAL NOVEMBER 5-7, 2010   In the run up to the World Social Forum of 2011 in Dakar and following the proposal of the Social Movement’s Assembly Seminar held in Sao Paulo 21-23 January 2010 that a similar seminar take place in Dakar, a meeting was organised on Saturday, May 29^th, 2010 in the Amadou Gaye Sociocultural Centre in Dakar. (See attendance list below) 

A meeting took place in Mexico City from 2-4 May 2010, for the Thematic World Social Forum; ‘Of the people and by the people; other solutions to the global crisis are possible’, where extensive moments of dialogs and proposal debates took place among representatives of social movements, organisations, networks, national and international personalities and experts around the popular alternatives facing the neoliberal economic model and its impacts on all the dimensions of human activity. Amongst them, there were representatives of movements like; Indigenous people from Bolivia, Climatic Justice and South Jubilee; as well as intellectuals like Helio Gallardo, Pablo González Casanova and François Houtart.

INVITATION

DAKAR, SENEGAL

NOVEMBER
5-7, 2010

In the run up to the World Social Forum of 2011 in Dakar and following the proposal of the Social Movement’s Assembly Seminar held in Sao Paulo 21-23 January 2010 that a similar seminar take place in Dakar, a meeting was organised on Saturday, May 29th, 2010 in the Amadou Gaye Sociocultural Centre in Dakar.
(See attendance list below)