SPECIAL FOLDER "World Social Forum"

Sunday, February 6, 2011, thousands of men, women, youth and children from social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations around the world marched through the streets of Dakar on the occasion of the grand march Opening the World Social Forum.

Throughout the week, all these people came together to discuss, think, share experiences and testimonies, propose alternatives, to build together a different world based on solidarity, convergence of struggles and resistances.

News from social movements in Tunisia and Egypt, of course, have been at the heart of this Forum. We closed the forum by celebrating the departure of Mubarak.

Hundreds of workshops were also organized on the following topics: health, women, environment, human rights, freedom of movement, DESC, migration ...

TO READ 

  • On e-joussour

2011 World Social Forum In Dakar: Strong Solidarity with Arab Popular Revolutions and Palestinian Struggle

  • On the web

Find informations about the WSF on IPS Terra Viva World Social Forum 2011

Forum Social Mundial

World Social Forum: 10th Anniversary (Alternatives International)

The World Social Forum, Egypt, and Transformation

Social movements call for global actions


The fight for accessibility

"Shared communication is strategic for the WSF"

Gender issues dominate campaign for economic and social rights

World Social Forum: grassroots Africa takes centre stage

World Social Forum is so much more than Evo Morales

Marching On With Renewed Hope

What is the World Social Forum?

Senegal hosts 2011 World Social Forum

 

STATEMENTS OF THE ASSEMBLY

Statement of the Assembly on the Right of Communication

Peoples Movement Assembly on Palestine.pdf

Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly

 

VIDEOS

  • On e-joussour

WSF 2011 : The opening march

Salma ElNaqqash an activist from Egypt at the Dakar World Social Forum recounts the story of the past two weeks in Tahrir square

  • On the web

Find all the videos of the World Social Forum TV

Women in Africa  

Interview with Naomi Klein, writer and activist from Canada, Kouyate Djema, FESCSDA Senegal, and Melanie La Via Campesina from Congo

Anand Kumar BGD at World Social Forum Dakar

Alla Glinchikova BGD at World Social Forum Dakar

Jan Aart Scholte BGD at World Social Forum Dakar

Alfred Nhema Interview MEJN BGD World Social Forum Dakar

Lerzan Caner Turkey BGD at World Social Forum Dakar

Climate Justice Declaration from World Social Forum 2011

WSF Dakar 2011 / Benedikte Pryneid Hansen / Attac Norway

Wsf Dakar 2011 / Hugo Bran (ATTAC.TV)

Diana Brydon at World Social Forum Dakar

 

PHOTOS

World Chart of Migrants (Gorée, 4th-5th February 2011) - Abdellah El Korchi

World social forum March (Dakar, 6th February 2011)

World social forum March (Dakar, 6th February 2011) - Abdellah El Korchi

Workshop "Alternative medias" and Assembly on the right of Communication

Workshops (Dakar,7th - 11th February 2011)

Workshops (Dakar,7th - 11th February 2011) - Abdellah El Korchi 

 

USEFUL LINKS 

http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/

http://seminario10anosdepois.wordpress.com/

http://www.worldsocialforum.info/press-room

http://www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/

http://www.ciranda.net/

http://www.amarc.org/

Wsf Nairobi 2007

Wsf 2007 processnet

Forum Social Européen 2006

World Social Polycentric Forum Bamako 2006

World Social Polycentric Forum Caracas 2006

World Social Polycentric Forum Karachi, Pakistan 2006  

OpenFSM News

 

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Gobal year of action 2010 Preliminary report 23012011 -English.doc164 KB
Año Global de Acciones 2010 Informe Preliminar 23122011 ES.doc139.5 KB
Année globale d'actions 2010 Rapport préliminaire 23012011.doc142 KB

CALENDER

25 May
Africa day
22 May
International Day for Biological Diversity
21 May
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
19 May
Forum of the Popular Neighborhoods
17 May
World Information Society Day

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