Date: 9 Jun 2004 18:56:00 +0300 Searched: MasterFILE Premier for "world social forum" Find: Search Tips Folder is empty. To store items added to the folder for a future session, Sign In to My EBSCOhost 1 to 50 (of 67) Pages: 1 2 Sort by : Date Source Relevance See: All Results Magazines Newspapers Add (1-50) 1. The market rules, ok? By: Taylor, Richard. Adults Learning, Apr2004, Vol. 15 Issue 8, p7, 1p; Abstract: Offers observation on the decline of social purpose adult education. Social movements in Great Britain that have had close relationships with adult education; Reason the centrally important social movements have little contact with adult education; Highlights of the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. (AN 12796951) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (261K) 2. Another world is possible. By: Lindisfarne, Nancy. Anthropology Today, Apr2004, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p1, 3p; Abstract: Highlights the 4th annual World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. Demonstration against the Iraq war during the forum; Creation of schools and funding of local teachers; Understanding the relationship between the anti-capitalist movement and national political parties. DOI: 10.1111/j.0268-540X.2004.00255.x (AN 12823972) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 3. Salaam Mumbai. By: Taylor, Richard. Adults Learning, Mar2004, Vol. 15 Issue 7, p20, 2p, 1c; Abstract: Presents the activities and topics discussed during the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India held in January 2004. Symposia and seminars; Focus of different exhibition halls; Reasons behind the need for the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education to be involved with the annual event. (AN 12519059) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (490K) 4. India's challenge to Brazil at the World Social Forum. By: Conway, Janet. Canadian Dimension, Mar/Apr2004, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p14, 2p, 2bw; Abstract: The fourth World Social Forum (WSF) and the first to occur outside of Brazil wound up recently in Mumbai, India. Over 80,000 people from 132 countries and representing 2,660 organizations participated in what has become an annual gathering of social movements and civil society organizations from around the world united against neoliberal globalization. This WSF had all the hallmarks of its predecessors, over 1,000 self-organized events, hosting anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand people, constant parades and protests, hundreds of banners, thousands of leaflets, round-the-clock music and dance, hundreds of exhibits. (AN 12789688) HTML Full Text 5. The world police crisis and the construction of democratic policing. By: Dos Santos, José Vicente Tavares. International Review of Sociology, Mar2004, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p89, 18p; This paper develops the topic of the world crisis and the reform of policing. A major social crisis of the 21st century has been the failure of public security, identified as one of the political technologies of the nation-state. What constitutes appropriate policing has become a worldwide concern owing to its inefficacy and ineffectiveness in dealing with the increase of diffuse violence^× political, social, symbolic, and ecological violence^×as well as to the new profile criminal violence has undertaken in the 'late modernity'. This paper presents a sociological analysis of the world police crisis. Over 37 international meetings in several continents have been held to approach the topic^×ranging from the Human Rights Conference, in Vienna, promoted by the United Nations in 1993, to the seminar A Democratic and Citizenship Police for the Construction of Peace, held during II World Social Forum, 4-5 February 2002, in Porto Alegre, promoted by IFCH, UFRGS (Figure 1). Interestingly, in many countries collective actions by police officers have expressed the anomie of police work, as for example in their strikes in Brazil in 1997, 1999, and 2001. Such crises are an index of the difficulty within police work. Several social critics throughout the world have issued their attacks on the police culture and on the authoritarian and violent behavior the police display. Once reduced to the dimension of repressive social control, policing has drawn systematically on the use of illegal and illegitimate violence, which have resulted in gross violations of human rights. However, it is very likely that a paradigm shift to another ideal-type of police office is on its way, this time guided by the principles of the relationship with the communities and of the mediation of social conflicts. Furthermore, the features of social control are under debate in or for citizenship security^×one that manages to walk hand in hand with the... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1080/0390670042000186789; (AN 12583827) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 6. ^ÅImagine That! By: Ma'anit, Adam. New Internationalist, Mar2004 Issue 365, p27, 1p; Abstract: Focuses on the emergence of the World Social Forum and related regional and local forums and gatherings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Foundation for the global justice movement; Resilience of the movements fighting for positive social change; Importance of total debt cancellation in the process. (AN 12463059) PDF Full Text (291K) 7. World Social Forum. By: Albrecht, Sarah Joy. Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr2004, Vol. 34 Issue 3/4, p13, 6p, 6bw; Abstract: Presents the highlights on the participation of women in the Fourth World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. Formative background on the international congress, accommodation for delegates and seminars based from equity and principles; Adoption of five principal themes; Participation of women on the issue of religious fundamentalism. (AN 12802520) PDF Full Text (1.3MB) 8. World Social Forum. Progressive, Mar2004, Vol. 68 Issue 3, p13, 1p, 5c; Abstract: Highlights the fourth annual World Social Forum (WSF) held in 2004 in Mumbai, India. Purpose of the forum; Information on how WSF started; Credo of WSF. (AN 12356073) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (141K) 9. Cheaper drugs force life-and-decisions for poor AIDS patients. AIDS Weekly, 2/16/2004, p8, 2p; Abstract: Highlights the seminars and workshops on HIV/AIDS on the fifth day of the annual World Social Forum held on January 20, 2004. Participants of the seminars and workshops; Topics discussed during the seminars and workshops; Arm tags worn by the participants. (AN 12224979) PDF Full Text (135K) 10. India Hosts the World. By: Bidwai, Praful. Nation, 2/16/2004, Vol. 278 Issue 6, p7, 3p; Abstract: The author reports on the issues discussed at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. To the beat of drums by India's Dalits (former Untouchables) and Adivasis (forest-dwelling tribes) celebrating indigenous popular movements that refuse to be subdued, the World Social Forum opened in Mumbai. There were peace campaigners and labor unionists from the Arab world, feminists and sexual fights activists from Pakistan, refugee fights defenders and ad-busters from Western Europe, anticorporate campaigners and grassroots environmentalists from North America, artists and citizen weapons-inspectors from Central Europe, indigenous fights activists and media-freedom campaigners from Africa, and secularists working against politicized religion from around the world. It was highlighted at the inaugural and concluding plenaries, where speakers, including India's former President K.R. Narayanan and former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, Iraq's Abdul Amir Al-Rekabi and Brazil's Chico Whitaker, described the "war on terrorism" as an attempt to demonize Islam and establish US hegemony. Prominent in this dialogue process were India's Communist Party (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India, which command high moral and political importance despite having suffered a halving of their national vote (now under 3 percent each). Until the 1998 India-Pakistan nuclear blasts, they looked at the issue of nuclear weapons through a cold war prism. (AN 12157185) HTML Full Text 11. Poor AIDS patients forced to make life-and-death choices. AIDS Weekly, 2/9/2004, p38, 2p; Abstract: Reports that activists at World Social Forum, expressed that poor AIDS patients are forced to make life and death choices due to high cost of medicines. (AN 12159470) PDF Full Text (122K) 12. VOICES FROM THE EDGE: THE FAVELA GOES TO THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM (Film). By: Scheib, Ronnie. Variety, 2/2/2004, Vol. 393 Issue 11, p88, 1/7p; Abstract: Reviews the motion picture "Voices From the Edge: The Favela Goes to the World Social Forum," directed by Fernando Salis and Daniela Broitman. (AN 12163372) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (383K) 13. 100,000 attend World Social Forum. Adults Learning, Feb2004, Vol. 15 Issue 6, p5, 1/8p; Abstract: Presents information on the number of people who attended the World Social Forum in Bombay, India which focused on adult learning, in January 2004. (AN 12250038) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (200K) 14. The Anti-Davos. By: Rajan, Sara. Time Canada, 1/26/2004, Vol. 163 Issue 4, p25, 1/2p, 1c; Abstract: Discusses how activists, NGOs, and leaders of the anti-globalization movement convened at the World Social Forum to discuss America's dominance of the international political and social agenda. Suggestion from author Arundhati Roy that the U.S. aims to build a militaristic empire; Complaints from delegates from Africa that the U.S. is not effectively fighting the AIDS epidemic; Dangers associated with allowing corporations to control the supplies of water used by developing countries. (AN 12249377) HTML Full Text 15. INDIA: RAPE CHARGE AGAINST JUDGE WITHDRAWN. New York Times, 1/23/2004, Vol. 153 Issue 52737, pA10, 1/9p; Abstract: Reports on the withdrawal of the rape charges against judge Serajuddin Desai in Bombay, India. Delegates to the annual World Social Forum; Content of the media reports by the Press Trust of India. (AN 12279222) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 16. The Loud Answer to Davos, in Bombay This Year, Is Antiwar. By: Rai, Saritha. New York Times, 1/22/2004, Vol. 153 Issue 52736, pA8, 1/4p, 1bw; Abstract: Reports on the rally initiated by the initiated by Kenyans and South Koreans for an antiwar protest which has marked the close of the fourth annual World Social Forum in Bombay, India. Use of colorful robes and headgear with blue signs painted on their faces; Focus on denouncing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Issues of forum on caste and gender discrimination to nuclear disbarment and rights of the disabled. (AN 12303425) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 17. Anti-Globalization Forum Adds Variety of Causes to Its Agenda. By: Rai, Saritha. New York Times, 1/20/2004, Vol. 153 Issue 52734, pA7, 1/9p; Abstract: Highlights the World Social Forum in India. Keynote speakers; Number of participants; Discussion of sex discrimination. (AN 12275061) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 18. A talking shop with a difference. By: Kingsnorth, Paul. New Statesman, 1/19/2004, Vol. 133 Issue 4671, p31, 1p, 1c; Abstract: Offers a look at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. Report that the forum is a gathering of people and organizations from all continents dedicated to thinking hard about how to make the world work better; Proposals produced by the forum from food sovereignty and protection of cultural diversity to children's rights; Report that as the groups grow in numbers, popularity and influence, politicians are beginning to take notice. (AN 11961154) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (54K) 19. Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum/Good News for a Change: How Everyday People Are Helping the Planet (Book). By: Webb, Audrey. Earth Island Journal, Winter2004, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p38, 1p; Abstract: Reviews two books on environmental protection. "Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum," edited by William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah; "Good News for a Change: How Everyday People Are Helping the Planet," by David T. Suzuki, Holly Dressel and Gary L. Saunders. (AN 11167532) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (196K) 20. Civil society and the power shift. By: Naidoo, Kumi. Global Agenda, Jan2004 Issue 2, p78, 3p, 1c; Abstract: Comments on the role played by civil society organizations. Result of a global study carried out by Environics International and released at both the World Social Forum and World Economic Forum on civil society groups; Two primary arguments on civil society that have advanced over the years; Definition of transparency. (AN 12790389) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 21. Movements Converge at World Social Forum. By: Utne, Leif. Utne, Jan/Feb2003 Issue 121, p46, 1/3p; Abstract: Announces that representatives of social movements from across the world will gather on January 16-21, 2004 in Mumbai, India for the fourth annual World Social Forum (WSF). Aim of WSF; Theme of the forum; Number of activists who attended the first WSF in Brazil. (AN 11974428) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 22. Interview with Meena Menon. New Internationalist, Dec2003 Issue 363, p33, 1p; Abstract: Interviews Indian activist Meena Menon. Involvement in the strengthening of the Asian presence of the 2004 World Social Forum; Importance of sovereignty to Indians; Aim to fight globalization. (AN 11614265) PDF Full Text (173K) 23. Free Trade Is War. By: Klein, Naomi. Nation, 9/29/2003, Vol. 277 Issue 9, p10, 1p; Abstract: The article focuses on activism against the World Trade Organization summit in Cancun, Mexico, in light of the Iraq War 2003. Activists will converge to declare that the brutal economic model advanced by the World Trade Organization is a form of war because privatization and deregulation kill by pushing up prices and making small farms unsustainable. War because those who resist and "refuse to disappear" as the Zapatistas say, are routinely arrested, beaten and even killed. War because when this kind of low-intensity repression fails to clear the path to corporate liberation, the real wars begin. The global antiwar protests that surprised the world on February 15 grew out of the networks built by years of globalization activism, from Indymedia to the World Social Forum. Despite attempts to keep the movements separate, their only future lies in the convergence represented by Cancun. Previous movements have tried to fight wars without confronting the economic interests behind them, or to win economic justice without confronting military power. Today's activists, already experts at following the money, aren't making the same mistake. When Washington started handing out reconstruction contracts in Iraq, veterans of the globalization debate spotted the underlying agenda in the familiar names of deregulation and privatization pushers Bechtel and Halliburton. If these guys are leading the charge, it means Iraq is being sold off, not rebuilt. Even those who opposed the war exclusively for how it was waged (without UN approval, with insufficient evidence that Iraq posed an imminent threat) now cannot help but see why it was waged: to implement the very same policies being protested in Cancun--mass privatization, unrestricted access for multinationals and drastic public-sector cutbacks. The greatest enemies of terror never lose sight of the economic interests served by violence, or the violence of capitalism itself. (AN 108422 HTML Full Text 24. Grassroots Globalization Network. By: Lehmer, Aaron G.. Earth Island Journal, Autumn2003, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p20, 1p; Abstract: Provides information on the environmental conservation activities of organization Grassroots Globalization Network. Overview of democratic alternatives to the corporate model; Highlights of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil; Percentage of the population of the world that rely on cooperatives for food and other basic needs; Examples of economic democracy in practice. (AN 10293289) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (208K) 25. Toronto Social Forum: "A world without war is possible!". By: Conway, Janet. Canadian Dimension, May/Jun2003, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p7, 1p, 1bw; Abstract: This article focuses on events of the Toronto Social Forum, an organizing process initiated in September 2002, as of June 2003. The Toronto Social Forum is one among hundreds of social-forum processes being organized worldwide. Following the 2002 World Social Forum, organizers urged participants to organize locally and regionally. One of the most significant aspects of the Forum is the range of ethno-cultural and political communities to mount events. In Toronto, Ontario, planning has begun for a Canada-wide People's Forum based on emergent and historic collaborations among Québeçois, Aboriginal and other popular-sector organizations in all regions of Canada. (AN 10104849) HTML Full Text 26. The liberation of Latin America. By: Ransom, David. New Internationalist, May2003 Issue 356, p9, 2p, 2c; Abstract: Reports on the third World Social Forum conducted in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Aim of the forum for a radical change in Latin America; Participation of various people from all over the world; Optimism of the people for global orthodoxy. (AN 9738865) PDF Full Text (394K) 27. The global backlash. (cover story) By: Kingsnorth, Paul. New Statesman, 4/28/2003, Vol. 132 Issue 4635, p18, 3p; Abstract: Discusses the outlook for the development of people power and a global revolution. Soweto, where people are in rebellion against the policies of the ANC government because it promised reconstruction, but embraced globalization; Description of life in South Africa; New Guinea, where there is a struggle to rid the nation of Indonesian occupation and multinational corporations; Views of guerrilla leader, Goliar Tabuni; Idea that globalization, or the spread of neoliberal capitalism, is taking away people's right to choose economic systems; Chiapas, Mexico in which rebel villages of Zapatistas, a movement of Mayan Indians, staged an uprising against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Number of dissidents at the World Social Forum. (AN 9637948) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (59K) 28. RESPONSE 3: Toward a Global Movement. By: Benjamin, Medea. Nation, 4/21/2003, Vol. 276 Issue 15, p14, 1/1p; Abstract: Responds to an article in this issue by David Cortright of the Win Without War coalition in which he discusses the emergence of a global peace movement against the Iraq War, and its short- and long-term goals. I find David Cortright's call useful but limiting. Antiwar organizing has given us the opportunity to expand geographically to areas such as the Middle East, where we had less developed contacts; to multiply our ranks with a dazzling array of new sectors, from city councils to women's and civil rights organizations; and, most important, to merge the peace movement with the movement to fight corporate-dominated globalization. Let's organize more World Social Forums where we gather physically to meet and strategize. Let's send grassroots teams to the world's hot spots--North and South Korea, Iran, Syria--to link up with appropriate local and regional groups to prevent the next-war, instead of sending human shields at the eleventh hour. Here at home, our greatest challenge is to make sure that our antiwar coalitions don't fall apart after the immediate crisis ends. And while Cortright is right that we must organize to get President George W. Bush out of power in 2004, let's realize that the two-party system is not working, that the Democratic leadership has blood on its hands for sanctioning this war and that we must build a multiparty system---opening the space for truly progressive parties such as the Greens--for democracy to take root in this country. (AN 9475030) HTML Full Text 29. 'Another world is possible'. By: Eldred, Jan. Adults Learning, Apr2003, Vol. 14 Issue 8, p11, 2p; Abstract: Presents information on the 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Topic discussed by the representatives from Colombia, Brazil and Mexico; Concern for world peace both in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the threat of war on Iraq; Presentations by Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy. (AN 9553672) HTML Full Text 30. Peace of my heart. By: Clinton, Kate. Advocate, 4/1/2003 Issue 886, p45, 1p, 1c; Abstract: The article focuses on experiences of the writer, a lesbian, on attending a social forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil addressed by the President of the country. The international gathering, themed ^ÓAnother World Is Possible,^Ô was so fabulous that she was able to maintain the fantasy of world peace all the way to the Säo Paulo airport in Brazil, where she got into a near-altercation over a television remote control in the business class lounge of Varig Airlines. At the World Social Forum's opening march, she and her girlfriend found the gay contingent under the rainbow flag amid red and white union flags, red Workers Party flags, and Brazil's blue, green, and yellow national flag. On Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, a huge rainbow flag marked the gay community among the thousands of umbrellas. (AN 9421460) HTML Full Text 31. Lula's Moment. By: Cooper, Marc; Frasca, Tim. Nation, 3/10/2003, Vol. 276 Issue 9, p11, 5p, 1c; Abstract: Lula, Brazil's newly installed president, Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva, told an appreciative crowd here on January 24, 2003, whose January 1, 2003 inauguration was dubbed the "first high point of the international left since the fall of the Berlin wall" by his adviser and renowned radical Catholic theologian Frei Betto--isn't your everyday populist. All Brazil knows how Lula was born in poverty and how his major campaign promise was to wipe out hunger. So when he spoke at the third annual World Social Forum, many of the 75,000 listeners at the Ptr-do-Sol outdoor amphitheater looked down and shook their heads; some wept. Brazil has the ninth-largest economy in the world but ranks fourth-worst on the globe in the gap between rich and poor-right behind Sierra Leone, the Central African Republic and Swaziland. In the shadow of Brazil's military dictatorship, Lula led the rejuvenation of the national labor movement and engineered the building of the PT--a sui generis mass leftist party that is neither orthodox Marxist nor social democratic but somewhere in between. José Dirceu, Lula's chief of staff and top strategist, was trained as a guerrilla fighter in Cuba and reentered Brazil after plastic surgery; his own wife didn't know his real identity until years later. But while the social portfolios all went to the left, Lula packed his economic team with conservatives: Vice President José Alencar is a textile magnate, and Central Bank president Henrique Meirelles is orthodox enough to calm the troubled sleep of Brazil's Wall Street investors and inspectors. (AN 9186245) HTML Full Text 32. Confronting Empire. By: Roy, Arundhati. Nation, 3/10/2003, Vol. 276 Issue 9, p16, 1p; Abstract: Following is an excerpt from Arundhati Roy's talk at the closing rally of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on January 27, 2003. So how do we resist "Empire"? The good news is that we're not doing too badly. There have been major victories. Here in Latin America you have had so many-in Bolivia, you have Cochabamba. In Peru, there was the uprising in Arequipa. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez is holding on, despite the US government's best efforts. And the world's gaze is on the people of Argentina, who are trying to refashion a country from the ashes of the havoc wrought by the IMF. Still, many of us have dark moments of hopelessness and despair. We know that under the spreading canopy of the War Against Terrorism, the men in suits are hard at work. While bombs rain down on us, and cruise missiles skid across the skies, we know that contracts are being signed, patents are being registered, oil pipelines are being laid, natural resources are being plundered, water is being privatized and George W. Bush is planning to go to war against Iraq. Today, we know that every argument that is being used to escalate the war against Iraq is a lie--the most ludicrous of them being the US government's deep commitment to bring democracy to Iraq. Killing people to save them from dictatorship or ideological corruption is, of course, an old US government sport. Here in Latin America, you know that better than most. It's more than clear that Bush is determined to go to war against Iraq, regardless of the facts--and regardless of international public opinion. We can continue to build public opinion until it becomes a deafening roan. We can turn the war on Iraq into a fishbowl of the US government's excesses. (AN 9186246) HTML Full Text 33. Optimism and Antiwar Fervor: A Report From Porto Alegre. By: Cooper, Marc. Nation, 3/10/2003, Vol. 276 Issue 9, p17, 3p; Abstract: At roughly the same hour on January 27, 2003 that Hans Blix was handing over his weapons inspection report to the United Nations, something like 15,000 people braved the stifling Southern Hemisphere summer heat here to pack the local Gigantinho indoor stadium to the rafters. Unfurling a sea of flags and banners, the crowd sweatily engaged in what had to be one of the most high-spirited peace rallies in recent times-replete with a series of rolling, rollicking audience "waves" ordinarily seen only at sporting events. Indian novelist, Arundhati Roy, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor, Noam Chomsky, sitting in front of a banner reading "Bush, Powell, Cheney = Axis of Evil" further amped up the crowd with a back-to-back pair of incendiary speeches thrashing the Bush Administration and in particular its war buildup against Iraq. The double-header demonstration--against war and against corporate globalization--was a fitting finale to this year's World Social Forum (WSF). The WSF was established in this city three years ago primarily by French and Latin American activists to run concurrently with, and serve as a sort of "people's" alternative to, the elite World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. The proof was all around: the collapse of the Argentine neoliberal economic model, the fall of Peru's Alberto Fujimori, the problematic but populist President Chávez in Venezuela, the rise of a formidable political left in Bolivia, the election of a reformist president in Ecuador and, last but not least, the earthshaking political events here in Brazil. (AN 9186247) HTML Full Text 34. POWER OF SOCIAL FORUM IS ITS GLOBAL DIFFUSION. By: Conway, Janet. Canadian Dimension, Mar/Apr2003, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p8, 1p, 1bw; Abstract: Focuses on the relationship of global diffusion with the power of social forum. Events around the world that highlight the power of World Social Forum; Effects of World Social Forum on movement politics in Canada and other parts of the world; Other developments related to the Forum. (AN 9455855) HTML Full Text 35. Why All the Fuss? By: Utting, Peter. UN Chronicle, Mar-May2003, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p65, 2p; Abstract: Highlights the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. Focus on the issue of public-private partnerships; Opinions on Global Compact initiative; Advantages and disadvantages of the Global Compact. (AN 9534134) PDF Full Text (565K) 36. Chaos Among People of Goodwill. By: Ehrenreich, Barbara. Progressive, Mar2003, Vol. 67 Issue 3, p12, 2p; Abstract: Presents an article on the anti-globalization and anti-war World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre in Brazil in 2003. Number of participants in the forum; Comments on the U.S. foreign policy; Description of the forum by veteran forum attendees. (AN 9209060) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (466K) 37. Another World is Coming... By: Gibbs, Terry. NACLA Report on the Americas, Mar/Apr2003, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p7, 1p; Abstract: Focuses on perspectives within the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland and the World Social Forum in Brazil pertaining to global changes in March 2003. Collaboration among social movements; Views from the WEF on the threat posed by the U.S. to world peace; Decline of civic trust in national legislatures and corporations. (AN 9477648) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (398K) 38. The Anti-Davos. By: Margolis, Mac. Newsweek (Atlantic Edition), 2/3/2003, Vol. 141 Issue 5, p36, 1p, 1c; Abstract: Discusses the World Social Forum that took place in P&oclrc;rto Alegre, Brazil. Gathering of anti-globalization activists who hoped to draw attention away from the simultaneous World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; Event that lacks a coherent theme; Realization that the forum must engage with the world's decision makers; Forum that opposes the powerful capitalists who lack concern for the world's impoverished majority. (AN 9017725) HTML Full Text 39. The Anti-Davos. By: Margolis, Mac. Newsweek (Pacific Edition), 2/3/2003, Vol. 141 Issue 5, p34, 1p, 1c; Abstract: Discusses the World Social Forum that took place in P&oclrc;rto Alegre, Brazil. Gathering of anti-globalization activists who hoped to draw attention away from the simultaneous World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; Event that lacks a coherent theme; Realization that the forum must engage with the world's decision makers; Forum that opposes the powerful capitalists who lack concern for the world's impoverished majority. (AN 9017894) HTML Full Text 40. An unimaginably big tent. By: Miliband, Edward. New Statesman, 2/3/2003, Vol. 132 Issue 4623, p16, 1p, 1c; Abstract: Discusses the World Social Forum and how it is attracting young people to politics. Number of activists, campaigners, academics, and trade organizers who gathered from more than 130 countries; Ideas discussed at this giant teach-in; Seriousness of the young people who attended and the energy their commitment emitted. (AN 9027747) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (36K) 41. Lula's message for two worlds. Economist, 2/1/2003, Vol. 366 Issue 8309, p32, 2p, 1c; Abstract: PERHAPS no other world leader could have pulled off the feat achieved last weekend by Brazil's new president, Luiz InÁcio Lula da Silva. First, an ebullient crowd of 75,000 at the World Social Forum, a global gathering of the radical left, hailed him as its leader. 'He provides hope not only to his own people but to struggling people all over the world,' said Thomas De Castro, a Canadian trade unionist, as he listened to Lula at the forum in Porto Alegre, a tidy state capital in southern Brazil. Then Lula flew directly to Davos, the Swiss town that hosts the World Economic Forum. There, his speech was greeted ecstatically by the assembled businessmen and bankers who symbolize everything that the Porto Alegre event was set up two years ago to oppose. Already it is clear that the obstacles to Lula's success may come less from Davos than from within his own camp. On the one hand, he has accepted the support of backwoods political barons whose problem with 'neo-liberalism' is that it means a smaller state to plunder. And on the other, his most vocal public critics are on his party's left, preparing to oppose the IMF, and the pension and labour reforms which Lula has accepted are essential to generate the growth and resources needed to fight poverty. Porto Alegre progressives would cheer each retreat from 'market fundamentalism', but the Lula government looks unlikely to give them many such satisfactions. (AN 9019918) HTML Full Text 42. A Leader With a Foot Now in Both Worlds. By: Smith, Tony. New York Times, 1/24/2003, Vol. 152 Issue 52373, pA8, 0p, 1 map; Abstract: Talks about the antiglobalization message of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the World Social Forum in Pôto Alegre, Brazil in 2003. (AN 9034107) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 43. Antiglobalization Forum to Return to a Changed Brazil. By: Rohter, Larry. New York Times, 1/20/2003, Vol. 152 Issue 52369, pA3, 0p, 1 map; Abstract: Discusses issues related to the opening of the World Social Forum in Brazil and the globalization policies of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. (AN 9028150) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 44. The World Social Forum and global democratisation: learning from Porto Alegre. By: Teivainen, Teivo. Third World Quarterly, Aug2002, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p621, 12p; Being anti-something can be politically useful, but only up to a point. The search for alternative globalisation projects has been central to the World Social Forum process. The first two forums, held in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in 2001 and 2002, provided a wide variety of approaches towards global democratisation. This article analyses the contradictions and prospects of various approaches towards global democratisation that could be found in the meetings, including the organisational aspects of the World Social Forum itself. It simultaneously argues for the political importance of learning from the innovative experiences in the so-called developing countries, such as the participatory budget planning of the Porto Alegre municipality. Without such learning that transgresses the idea of developed/adult/teacher vs developing/child/pupil, global democratisation cannot advance very far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; DOI: 10.1080/0143659022000005300; (AN 7484751) PDF Full Text (123K) 45. Another World Is Possible. By: Peters, Cynthia. Dollars & Sense, May/Jun2002 Issue 241, p6, 2p; Abstract: Highlights the World Social Forum which was held from January 31 to February 5, 2002 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Total attendance at the forum; Achievements of Brazil's Workers Party; Themes of the forum. (AN 7707662) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (399K) 46. FROM PROTEST TO POLITICS. By: Cooper, Marc. Nation, 3/11/2002, Vol. 274 Issue 9, p11, 5p; Abstract: Describes the system of politics and government in Port Alegre, Brazil. Conduction of the annual World social Forum at the Rio Grande do Sul with topics on humanity; Battle against dehumanization and banalization of civilization; Effects of globalization on the economic policy of the country. (AN 6325711) HTML Full Text 47. FEMINIST ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS IN PRACTICE? By: de Guerville, Diana Huet. Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring2002 Issue 54/55, p37, 2p, 3bw; Abstract: Relates experiences in attending the 2nd World Social Forum held in Brazil in January 2002. Purpose of the annual event; Different social movements that were represented at the forum; Information on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) or landless movement of Brazil; Gender relations within MST; Details on women's struggle for equality. (AN 7385002) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (430K) 48. Global citizens movement. By: George, Susan. New Internationalist, Mar2002 Issue 343, p7, 5/6p, 1c; Abstract: Reports the outcome of the global citizens movement World Social Forum meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Importance of a political project in saving the ecology of the planet; Inclusion of everyone in the global economy; Background of the movement. (AN 6325178) PDF Full Text (254K) 49. Other Worlds Are Possible. By: Gillbank, Melanie. Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr2002, Vol. 32 Issue 3/4, p22, 2p; Abstract: Highlights the World Social Forum in Brazil. Introduction of the Tobin Tax; Names of delegates; Theme of the forum. (AN 6437998) PDF Full Text (418K) 50. Feminist Report from the WSF. By: Werden, Frieda. Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr2002, Vol. 32 Issue 3/4, p23, 3p, 3bw; Abstract: Focuses on the role of the feminists during the World Social Forum. Elaboration of the rights of women; Protection of women in the society; Campaign against sexual abuse. (AN 6437999) PDF Full Text (654K) 51. Another world. By: Rebick, Judy. Maclean's, 2/25/2002, Vol. 115 Issue 8, p12, 1p, 2c; Abstract: Presents the experiences of the author with social activism and in attending the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Establishment of the forum to counter the World Economic Forum; Discussion of corporate globalization; Role of non-governmental organizations in the movement. (AN 6162548) HTML Full Text 52. Meanwhile, in another world. Economist, 2/9/2002, Vol. 362 Issue 8259, p32, 2p, 1c; Abstract: Reports on the 2002 World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in New York City. Discussion of globalization; Delegates who were invited to the forum; Message of the forum; Views of the forum concerning environmentalism, multinational corporations and globalization; Speakers at the event. (AN 6056752) HTML Full Text 53. Brazil Forum More Local Than Worldly. By: Romero, Simon. New York Times, 2/7/2002, Vol. 151 Issue 52022, pA18, 0p; Abstract: Highlights the 2002 meeting of the World Social Forum, the anti-globalization alternative to World Economic Forum, in Brazil. (AN 6254056) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 54. Bigger Crowd Urges a Focus On Social Ills. By: Romero, Simon. New York Times, 2/1/2002, Vol. 151 Issue 52016, pA18, 0p, 1bw; Abstract: Presents information on the 2002 World Social Forum, a gathering in Brazil to protest globalization. (AN 6118165) Tarkista saatavuustiedot LINDAsta 55. Antiglobalization Guerrilla. By: Le Quesne, Nicholas. Time Europe, 11/12/2001, Vol. 158 Issue 20, p65, 1p, 1c; Abstract: Profiles Bernard Cassen, a French activist who founded the ATTAC anti-globalization movement. Mention of his previous career as an English professor; Concept of the Tobin Tax, a levy on international capital transactions, which has been championed by ATTAC; Demonstrations planned to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization; Plans for a World Social Forum focused on mobilizing for peace. INSET: Q&A. (AN 5479938) HTML Full Text 56. Antiglobalization Guerrilla. By: Le Quesne, Nicholas. Time South Pacific, 11/12/2001 Issue 45, p94, 1p, 1c; Abstract: Profiles Bernard Cassen, a French activist who founded the ATTAC anti-globalization movement. Mention of his previous career as an English professor; Concept of the Tobin Tax, a levy on international capital transactions, which has been championed by ATTAC; Demonstrations planned to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization; Plans for a World Social Forum focused on mobilizing for peace. INSET: Q&A. (AN 5495524) HTML Full Text 57. The Civil Society. Canada & the World Backgrounder, Sep2001, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p24, 6p; Abstract: Focuses on the emergence of civil society movement as alternative to elected governments. Influence that transnational corporations have on governments; Factors contributing to the growth of civil society; Issues and legal rights taken up by members of the civil society. INSETS: A MOVEMENT IS BORN; WORLD SOCIAL FORUM; THE GLOBAL COMMONS; OPTING OUT. (AN 5325402) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (1.4MB) 58. This Is What Democracy Looks Like. By: Bruno, Kenny. Earth Island Journal, Summer2001, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p25, 1p, 1bw; Abstract: Discusses how the theme of the World Social Forum is being adopted in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Description of how democracy is being practiced in the city; Information on World Social Forum. (AN 4362286) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (258K) 59. From Meds to Reds. By: Welch, Sara J.. Successful Meetings, May2001, Vol. 50 Issue 6, p21, 1p, 1c; Abstract: Focuses on how Susana Martins of the meeting planning firm Nossa Equipe organized the World Social Forum, an anti-globalization demonstration in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Challenges faced by Martins in organizing the forum. (AN 4444150) HTML Full Text 60. Striking media giants with news on the Web. By: Lefort, Rene. UNESCO Courier, May2001, Vol. 54 Issue 5, p44, 3p, 2c; Abstract: Focuses on the significance of the Internet in the success of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in January, 2001. Mass media as an ideological machine of globalization; Significance of the Internet; Role of journalists in globalization. (AN 5336112) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (753K) 61. Leftist Revolutionaries Plan International Agitation. By: Burton, Douglas; Guimaraens, Gonzalo; Vasconcelos, Renato. Insight on the News, 03/26/2001, Vol. 17 Issue 12, p45, 3/4p, 1c; Abstract: Highlights the gathering of socialists at the January 2001 World Social Forum (WSF) in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Attitude of socialists on bankers and government finance ministers; Alleged involvement of WSF participants in violent land invasions; Theme of the workshops of WSF. (AN 4216647) HTML Full Text 62. A Fete for the End of The End of History. By: Klein, Naomi. Nation, 03/19/2001, Vol. 272 Issue 11, p19, 5p; Abstract: Highlights the first annual World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil on January 2001. Focus on the governance of the world economy; Reason for the selection of the site; Details on the discussions and visual performances. (AN 4213728) HTML Full Text 63. Porto Alegre Call for Mobilisation. Canadian Dimension, Mar/Apr2001, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p19, 1p; Abstract: Reports that social forces from around the world have gathered at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Struggle for peoples' rights, freedom, security, employment and education; Concerns about the negative effects of globalization; Multilateral organizations criticized for interfering with national policies. (AN 4344893) HTML Full Text 64. A Tale of Two Cities, I. By: Cray, Charlie. Multinational Monitor, Mar2001, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p4, 1/3p; Abstract: Part I. Provides information on the labor and financial issues tackled at the 2001 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Discussion on the foreign exchange market and the economic condition of the United States; Effect of neoliberal economic policies to labor groups; Actions taken against protesters and journalists at Davos. (AN 4158288) HTML Full Text PDF Full Text (271K) 65. GETTING SERIOUS. By: Theil; Margolis, Mac. Newsweek (Atlantic Edition), 02/05/2001, Vol. 137 Issue 6, p20, 2p, 1c; Abstract: Comments on anti-capitalist activity in response to the 2001 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Decision of Swiss authorities to ban protests at the meeting in the wake of threats by anticapitalist anarchists; Topics discussed at the World Social Forum, such as the perceived evils of globalization; Presence of the nongovernmental organization World Wildlife Fund at the WEF meeting. (AN 4056708) HTML Full Text 66. GETTING SERIOUS. By: Margolis, Mac; Theil, Stefan. Newsweek (Pacific Edition), 02/05/2001, Vol. 137 Issue 6, p26, 2p, 1c; Abstract: Comments on anti-capitalist activity in response to the 2001 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Decision of Swiss authorities to ban protests at the meeting in the wake of threats by anticapitalist anarchists; Topics discussed at the World Social Forum, such as the perceived evils of globalization; Presence of the nongovernmental organization World Wildlife Fund at the WEF meeting. (AN 4050211) HTML Full Text 67. Globalisation trashed in Brazil. Economist, 02/03/2001, Vol. 358 Issue 8207, p39, 1/3p; Abstract: Reports on the World Social Forum, which was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. How the forum is a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum; Discussion of the problems related to free-trade, free markets, and privatization; How demonstrators destroyed some businesses in Brazil. (AN 4047907) HTML Full Text © 2004 EBSCO Publishing. Privacy Policy - Terms of Use