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World Social Forum

December 27, 2022

The World Social Forum (WSF, Portuguese: Fórum Social Mundial [ˈfɔɾũ sosi'aw mũdʒiˈaw]) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemonic globalization.

World Social Forum
FormationJanuary 2001
FounderOded Grajew
Chico Whitaker
TypeSocial Forum
HeadquartersPorto Alegre, Brazil
Region served
Worldwide
WebsiteOfficial Website

The World Social Forum can be considered a visible manifestation of global civil society,[1] bringing together non governmental organizations, advocacy campaigns, and formal and informal social movements seeking international solidarity. The World Social Forum prefers to define itself as "an opened space – plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan – that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidarity, democratic and fair world....a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism."[2]

The World Social Forum is held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also referred to as the global justice movement) who come together to coordinate global campaigns, share and refine organizing strategies, and inform each other about movements from around the world and their particular issues. The World Social Forum is explicit about not being a representative of all of those who attend and thus does not publish any formal statements on behalf of participants.[3] It tends to meet in January at the same time as its "great capitalist rival", the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. This date is consciously picked to promote alternative answers to world economic problems in opposition to the World Economic Forum.

History

The World Social Forum first met in 2001, but it had its roots in Latin American activism, namely the encuentro, a meeting which emphasizes dialogue and exchange of ideas among activists. Some of the founders of the WSF, were part of the First International Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in 1996, and decided to expand the idea and make it a global forum for activists of all stripes opposing hegemonic globalization and neoliberalism.[4]

It has also been suggested[by whom?] that the beginnings of the World Social Forum originated in the Battle for Seattle November 1999, where anti-globalization activists protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization's latest trade negotiations.[5]

One of the originators of the World Social Forum, Oded Grajew, of the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility, said in an interview with InMotion Magazine in 2004, "Then I had the idea. Why not create the World Social Forum, as we have the World Economic Forum, speaking about the people in the world? Why not have the World Social Forum -- the social is more important than the economic -- to have a space to show that we can have an alternative? We have choice. This is not the only way you can see the world, globalization. We have another way to see it. And, at the same time, force people to look, to make a choice. What is your choice? What is your vision of the world?"[6][7]

Another one of the founders of the WSF, Cándido Grzybowski has said of the annual meetings, "The numerous recent crises are expressions of the contradictions and limitations of the form of global capitalism that has been imposed on humanity and the earth. The assertion that "another world is possible" is now an absolute necessity."[8]

Since 2001, the United Nations has had a presence at the WSF through UNESCO, showing the institutional credibility achieved by the forum, seen by UNESCO as a "prime opportunity for dialogue and a laboratory of ideas for the renewal of public policies" through "critical reflection on the future of societies we want to create and for elaborating proposals in search of solidarity, justice, peace and human rights".[9]

2003 World Social Forum

The third WSF was again held in Porto Alegre, in January 2003. There were many parallel workshops, including, for example the Life After Capitalism workshop, which proposed focused discussion on anti-capitalist and participative possibilities for different aspects of social, political, economic, communication structures.[10] Among the speakers was American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. Some credit this meeting of World Social Forum for the connections that made the global day of action on February 15, 2003 so successful. The global day of action was an international protest attended by an estimated 12 million people in 700 cities across 60 countries protesting the Bush Administration's plans to invade and occupy Iraq. At the time, the New York Times called international public opinion, a superpower to counter the United States.[11]

2004 World Social Forum

The fourth WSF was held in Mumbai, India, from 16 January to 21 January 2004. It was the first meeting of the World Social Forum held outside Brazil and its success has encouraged the WSF to expand in scope across the global South. Some credit it with inspiring the Asian Social Forum held in November of that year.[3] The attendance was expected to be 75,000 and it shot over by thousands. The cultural diversity was one notable aspect of the forum.[according to whom?] A notable decision[according to whom?] that was taken was the stand on free software. One of the key speakers at the WSF 2004 was Joseph Stiglitz. In contrast to earlier meetings, which had focused more on Euro-centric political intellectualism, the 2004 meeting included marches, as well as colorful and lively demonstrations.

The 2004 meeting also saw the convening of the General Assembly of the Global Anti-War Movement, an idea that originated from the Asian Social Forum in November 2003, and broadly coalesced in response to the invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003. The Assembly had few activists from the United States, but overwhelmingly tried to articulate that they opposed the policy, and not the country itself. The former director-general of UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, said at the Forum, "We must state it clearly. We must say to President Bush that we do not agree with the way he controls the world. We must tell him that he has to govern with his mind, not with might."[3]

2005 World Social Forum

The fifth World Social Forum 2005 was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil between 26 January and 31 January. There were 155,000 registered participants at the Forum, with most coming from Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Uruguay, and France. A number of participants in the forum released the Porto Alegre Manifesto. Since Article 6 of the World Social Forum's Charter of Principles bars the event from attempting to represent all participants through formal statements, the Porto Alegre Manifesto was released on behalf of 19 activists. This 'Group of 19' includes Aminata Traoré, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Eduardo Galeano, José Saramago, François Houtart, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Armand Mattelart, Roberto Savio, Riccardo Petrella, Ignacio Ramonet, Bernard Cassen, Samir Amin, Atilio Borón, Samuel Ruiz García, Tariq Ali, Frei Betto, Emir Sader, Walden Bello, and Immanuel Wallerstein.[12]

2006 World Social Forum

The sixth World Social Forum was "polycentric", held in January 2006 in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali, and in March 2006, in Karachi, Pakistan. The Forum in Pakistan was delayed to March because of the Kashmir earthquake that had recently occurred in the area.[13][14]

2007 World Social Forum

The seventh World Social Forum was held in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2007. There were 66,000 registered attendees, and 1,400 participating organizations from 110 countries, making it the most globally representative WSF so far.[15] It was criticized as being 'an NGO fair'[16][17] and movements of the poor in Kenya and South Africa mounted vigorous protests against some of the NGOs that attended and, in their view, dominated the forum in the name of the African poor.

2009 World Social Forum

The ninth World Social Forum took place in the Brazilian city of Belém, located in the Amazon rainforest, between January 27 and February 1, 2009.[18] About 1,900 indigenous people, representing 190 ethnic groups attended the event, to raise the issue of stateless peoples, and the plights that they face. The Escarré International Centre for Ethnic Minorities and Nations helped to organize the tent for the Collective Rights of Stateless Peoples, who are marginalized in an international system that recognizes only states as political units. Various stateless ethnic groups represented were the Basques, Kurds, Palestinians, Roma, Tibetans, Mapuche, Saharawi and Australian Aborigines.[19]

2010 World Social Forum

The tenth edition of the World Social Forum was another decentralized affair, with about 35 national, regional and local forums taking place across the world. In Porto Alegre, the flagship space for the WSF, events and speakers were held from January 25–29, entitled "FSM 10 Years: Greater Porto Alegre". The big event held in Porto Alegre was the International Seminar "10 Years Later: Challenges and proposals for another possible world", which featured over 70 intellectuals from around the world.[20] One of the notable regional forums was the US Social Forum held in Detroit, Michigan and attended by about 18,000 people.[21]

2012 World Social Forum

The 2012 World Social Forum was hosted in Porto Alegre, Brazil and ran from 24 to 30 January.[22]

2013 World Social Forum

The thirteen edition of the World Social Forum took place in Tunis from 26 to 30 March 2013.[23][24]

2015 World Social Forum

The fourteenth edition of the World Social Forum took place in Tunis from 23 to 28 March 2015.[25] It led to the creation of the Internet Social Forum.[26]

2016 World Social Forum

The fifteen edition of the World Social Forum took place in Montreal from 9 to 14 August 2016.[27] It was a multilingual event which featured organizations from around the world.[28]

2018 World Social Forum

The sixteenth edition of the World Social Forum took place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from March 13 to 17, 2018.[29] Having representatives of 120 countries.[30]

Regional Social Forums

The WSF has prompted the organizing of many regional social forums, including the Americas Social Forum, European Social Forum, the Asian Social Forum, the Mediterranean Social Forum and the Southern Africa Social Forum. There are also many local and national social forums, such as the Norwegian Social Forum, Iraqi Social Forum, Italian Social Forum, India Social Forum,[31] Liverpool Social Forum and the Boston Social Forum. The first-ever United States Social Forum took place in Atlanta in June 2007.[32] In 2010 Detroit, Michigan, hosted the United States Social Forum during June 22–26.[21]

Regional forums have taken place in the Southwest,[33] Northwest, Northeast, Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States. The first Canadian Social Forum took place in June 2010.[34]

Most, though not all, social forums adhere to the WSF Charter of Principles drawn up by the World Social Forum. The goal of these forums is to decentralize and allow far more people to engage in the open forum atmosphere of the World Social Forum without needing very much money for travel expenses. All of the various social forums in this mold include international attendees and are in no way specifically focused on the problems of a single region of country.

Criticisms

2001 Monsanto Incident

Some activities by activists attending the WSF have also been criticised, such as at the WSF 2001, where activists invaded and destroyed an experimental genetically modified plantation of the Monsanto Company.[35]

On January 26, 2001 a number of activists with Brazil's Movimento dos Sem-Terra (MST) reacted in protest to the growing role of Monsanto in global agribusiness, which was considered by the group to be unethically using their seed patents to harm the rights of rural peoples, tore up an experimental plot of transgenic crops in Não-me-Toque, 300 km from Porto Alegre, where the World Social Forum was taking place at the time. Three days later, Jose Bove, a French citizen, was arrested by Brazilian authorities as the World Social Forum ended on January 29, 2001. Connections between the Movimento dos Sem-Terra and the World Social Forum are not well known.[36]

Role of NGOs

See also: NGO-ization

The WSF has, especially in recent years, been strongly criticised for replacing popular movements of the poor with NGOs (non-governmental organization).[37] Movements of the poor in poorer parts of the world, like Africa, have argued that they are almost completely excluded from the forum[37] and in countries like Kenya and South Africa they have protested against donor funded NGOs that, they argue, determine and dominate African representation at the forum. It has also been argued that NGOs sometimes compete with popular grassroots movements for access to the forum and for influence there.[38]

The 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in particular was criticized as an "NGO fair" because of how many NGOs attended, crowding out less formal groups of activists. Also, it has been alleged that at the Forum not all the attendees were properly represented, with the bigger and wealthier NGOs having far more space to talk and lead the events, while others were marginalized.[39]

Raúl Zibechi argues that there is a "crisis" of the World Social Forum in that it has been "weakened" as it has been "taken over" by "those who were most capable of 'leading' assemblies, professionals from universities and NGOs."[40]

Role of Corporations

There was also criticism of the way that CelTel had exclusive rights at the Kenyan event, the virtual monopoly of a local hotel offering food at rates that the average Kenyan could not afford, and the physical and financial exclusion of local business.[41]

Organizers

A demographic transformation of the organisational background has taken place since a decade ago when critical voices were raised.[42] As of autumn 2020, preparatory meetings for the 2021 World Social Forum are run by a younger generation of female and male organisers while the founders (Oded Grajew and Chico Whiteker) have usually not intervened. Communicating languages are mainly Spanish and Portuguese (because of many Latin American organisers), and also English and French. New individuals, social groups and movements are invited to co-organise events in 2021; new ecological movements run by young generations, for example.

Further reading

  • Jai Sen and Peter Waterman, (2012), World Social Forum : Critical Explorations, OpenWord : New Delhi
  • Geoffrey Pleyers, (2011), "Alter-Globalization. Becoming Actors in the Global Age", Cambridge, Polity, 2011.
  • Richard Falk, (2009), 'Achieving Human Rights', Routledge.
  • Geoffrey Pleyers, (2009) The World Social Forum challenges, La vie des idées.
  • Mark Butler (2007), Re-connecting the World Social Forum", 2007
  • Jose Correa Leite (2005), The World Social Forum: Strategies of Resistance, Haymarket Books,[43] ISBN 1931859159
  • Smith, Jackie (2004). "The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy" (PDF). Global Networks. 4 (4): 413–421. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0374.2004.00102.x.
  • Teivainen, T. (2002). "The World Social Forum and global democratisation: learning from Porto Alegre". Third World Quarterly. 23 (4): 621–632. doi:10.1080/0143659022000005300. S2CID 155050248.
  • William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah (2003). Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2005). O Fórum Social Mundial: manual de uso, Cortez Editora.
  • Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar & Peter Waterman (eds). 2004. . New Delhi: The Viveka Foundation.
  • Mertes, Tom (ed.) (January 2004). A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible? London and New York: Verso, paperback, 288 pages.
  • Routledge, Paul (2008). Transnational Political Movements. In: Cox, Kevin., Low, Murray. and Robinson, Jennifer (eds). The Sage Handbook of Political Geography. London: SAGE Publications.
  • Leda Lu Muniz(2005) "O Forum Social Mundial: debate em aberto". Lecture presented to Nucleo de Análise da Conjuntura Internacional (NACI) of PUC-SP in March 2005,about the research and work since the beginning of WSF till January 2005.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Tijsterman, Sebastiaan (2014). "Global and cosmopolitan citizenship". In Van der Heijden, Hein-Anton (ed.). Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-78195-470-6.
  2. ^ "FSM 2009 Amazônia -". FSM 2009 Amazônia.
  3. ^ a b c Smith, Jackie (2004). "The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy" (PDF). Global Networks. 4 (4): 413–421. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0374.2004.00102.x.
  4. ^ "History: know the trajectory of the WSF 2018". February 18, 2019.
  5. ^ The 1999 Seattle protests gave birth to a global movement. Socialistworker.co.uk. Retrieved on 12 August 2013.
  6. ^ Interview with Oded Grajew - Initiator and Secretariat Member of the World Social Forum / Global Eyes / In Motion Magazine. Inmotionmagazine.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  7. ^ A variation on this creation story is reported by Bernard Cassen in "On the Attack," New Left Review 19, January–February 2003, pp. 48-49.
  8. ^ "Inter Press Service - News and Views from the Global South".
  9. ^ "UNESCO and the World Social Forum page". Portal.unesco.org. 2007-03-07. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  10. ^ "Welcome To ZNet". Archived from the original on 2007-08-07.
  11. ^ Tyler, Patrick E. (2003-02-17). "THREATS AND RESPONSES: NEWS ANALYSIS; A New Power In the Streets". The New York Times.
  12. ^ Porto Alegre Manifesto 2010-12-09 at the Wayback Machine. OpenSpaceForum. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  13. ^ . World Social Forums-Karachi. Archived from the original on 2006-07-18. Retrieved 2006-07-18.
  14. ^ Netto, Anil (24 March 2006). "WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Polycentric and Losing Focus". Inter Press Service. from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  15. ^ Frank Joyce. article on Alternet. Retrieved 2007-02-16.
  16. ^ "PZN - World Social Forum: just another NGO fair?". Pambazuka.org. 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  17. ^ Jens Glaschiøt happening 'In the Name of God'
  18. ^ "World Social Forum 2009".
  19. ^ "Inter Press Service - News and Views from the Global South".
  20. ^ World Social Forum 2010 2011-01-28 at the Wayback Machine. Choike. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  21. ^ a b US Social Forum | Another World Is Possible | Another US Is Necessary. Ussf2010.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  22. ^ "Brazil Hosts the 12th Annual World Social Forum Meeting - GEG Project". 24 January 2012.
  23. ^ "Maghreb Social Forum 2013"
  24. ^ الكرامة 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine. fsm2013.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  25. ^ . Archived from the original on 2015-04-03. Retrieved 2015-04-01.. fsm2015.org. Retrieved on 2015-09-11.
  26. ^ Katsiaficas, George. . Sri Lanka Guardian. Sri Lanka Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  27. ^ [1]. fsm2016.org. Retrieved on 2015-09-11.
  28. ^ "LegalEase Radio - CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal - Building a Better World". LegalEase Collective. 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  29. ^ "Open Letter convenes World Social Forum 2018 in Salvador". World Social Forum. World Social Forum. August 18, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  30. ^ "Livro que denuncia o golpe é lançado hoje, 15 h, no Fórum Social Mundial - O Cafezinho". O Cafezinho (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-03-14.
  31. ^ World Social Forum 2016-02-13 at the Wayback Machine. Wsfindia.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  32. ^ Americas Social Forum | United States Social Forum. Ussf2007.org (2007-07-01). Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  33. ^ . www.forosocialfronterizo.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2006. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  34. ^ . www.socialforum.ca. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  35. ^ "Folha Online - Brasil - José Bové, militante francês antiglobalização, chega a Porto Alegre - 28 January 2002". .folha.uol.com.br. 2002-01-28. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  36. ^ (1/30/2001) WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Don't Let Corporations Control Food Supply, Beg Farmers. Albionmonitor.com (2001-01-30). Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  37. ^ a b Another World is Possible: Reflections and Criticisms on the World Social Forum, 2009, in Belem, Mzonke Poni, 2009
  38. ^ Abahlali baseMjondolo (2007-03-06). "Article by David Ntseng on NGOs and grassroots movements at the forum". Abahlali.org. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  39. ^ World Social Forum: just another NGO fair? 2013-05-07 at the Wayback Machine, by Firoze Manji, Pambazuka News, 2007
  40. ^ Raúl Zibechi, Territories in Resistance, (AK Press: Oakland), 2012, p. 310.
  41. ^ . 17 March 2012. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012.
  42. ^ the Civil. Engaging Critically with the Reality and Concept of Civil Society, Jai Sen and Peter Waterman, eds, (2010) - Worlds of Movement, Worlds in Movement. Volume 4 in the Challenging Empires series. New Delhi : OpenWord
  43. ^ . Archived from the original on 2005-11-19. Retrieved 2005-11-19.

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The World Social Forum WSF Portuguese Forum Social Mundial ˈfɔɾũ sosi aw mũdʒiˈaw is an annual meeting of civil society organizations first held in Brazil which offers a self conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter hegemonic globalization World Social ForumFormationJanuary 2001FounderOded GrajewChico WhitakerTypeSocial ForumHeadquartersPorto Alegre BrazilRegion servedWorldwideWebsiteOfficial WebsiteThe World Social Forum can be considered a visible manifestation of global civil society 1 bringing together non governmental organizations advocacy campaigns and formal and informal social movements seeking international solidarity The World Social Forum prefers to define itself as an opened space plural diverse non governmental and non partisan that stimulates the decentralized debate reflection proposals building experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidarity democratic and fair world a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism 2 The World Social Forum is held by members of the alter globalization movement also referred to as the global justice movement who come together to coordinate global campaigns share and refine organizing strategies and inform each other about movements from around the world and their particular issues The World Social Forum is explicit about not being a representative of all of those who attend and thus does not publish any formal statements on behalf of participants 3 It tends to meet in January at the same time as its great capitalist rival the World Economic Forum s Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland This date is consciously picked to promote alternative answers to world economic problems in opposition to the World Economic Forum Contents 1 History 1 1 2003 World Social Forum 1 2 2004 World Social Forum 1 3 2005 World Social Forum 1 4 2006 World Social Forum 1 5 2007 World Social Forum 1 6 2009 World Social Forum 1 7 2010 World Social Forum 1 8 2012 World Social Forum 1 9 2013 World Social Forum 1 10 2015 World Social Forum 1 11 2016 World Social Forum 1 12 2018 World Social Forum 2 Regional Social Forums 3 Criticisms 3 1 2001 Monsanto Incident 3 2 Role of NGOs 3 3 Role of Corporations 3 4 Organizers 4 Further reading 5 See also 6 Notes 7 External linksHistory EditThe World Social Forum first met in 2001 but it had its roots in Latin American activism namely the encuentro a meeting which emphasizes dialogue and exchange of ideas among activists Some of the founders of the WSF were part of the First International Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism in 1996 and decided to expand the idea and make it a global forum for activists of all stripes opposing hegemonic globalization and neoliberalism 4 It has also been suggested by whom that the beginnings of the World Social Forum originated in the Battle for Seattle November 1999 where anti globalization activists protested a meeting of the World Trade Organization s latest trade negotiations 5 One of the originators of the World Social Forum Oded Grajew of the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility said in an interview with InMotion Magazine in 2004 Then I had the idea Why not create the World Social Forum as we have the World Economic Forum speaking about the people in the world Why not have the World Social Forum the social is more important than the economic to have a space to show that we can have an alternative We have choice This is not the only way you can see the world globalization We have another way to see it And at the same time force people to look to make a choice What is your choice What is your vision of the world 6 7 Another one of the founders of the WSF Candido Grzybowski has said of the annual meetings The numerous recent crises are expressions of the contradictions and limitations of the form of global capitalism that has been imposed on humanity and the earth The assertion that another world is possible is now an absolute necessity 8 Since 2001 the United Nations has had a presence at the WSF through UNESCO showing the institutional credibility achieved by the forum seen by UNESCO as a prime opportunity for dialogue and a laboratory of ideas for the renewal of public policies through critical reflection on the future of societies we want to create and for elaborating proposals in search of solidarity justice peace and human rights 9 2003 World Social Forum Edit The third WSF was again held in Porto Alegre in January 2003 There were many parallel workshops including for example the Life After Capitalism workshop which proposed focused discussion on anti capitalist and participative possibilities for different aspects of social political economic communication structures 10 Among the speakers was American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky Some credit this meeting of World Social Forum for the connections that made the global day of action on February 15 2003 so successful The global day of action was an international protest attended by an estimated 12 million people in 700 cities across 60 countries protesting the Bush Administration s plans to invade and occupy Iraq At the time the New York Times called international public opinion a superpower to counter the United States 11 Nobel peace prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel Ignacio Ramonet then editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique Protest by the Japanese delegation Walden Bello executive director of the Focus on the Global South NGO Youth Camp Social documentary photographer Sebastiao Salgado Crowd gathering Professor and activist Noam Chomsky2004 World Social Forum Edit The fourth WSF was held in Mumbai India from 16 January to 21 January 2004 It was the first meeting of the World Social Forum held outside Brazil and its success has encouraged the WSF to expand in scope across the global South Some credit it with inspiring the Asian Social Forum held in November of that year 3 The attendance was expected to be 75 000 and it shot over by thousands The cultural diversity was one notable aspect of the forum according to whom A notable decision according to whom that was taken was the stand on free software One of the key speakers at the WSF 2004 was Joseph Stiglitz In contrast to earlier meetings which had focused more on Euro centric political intellectualism the 2004 meeting included marches as well as colorful and lively demonstrations The 2004 meeting also saw the convening of the General Assembly of the Global Anti War Movement an idea that originated from the Asian Social Forum in November 2003 and broadly coalesced in response to the invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003 The Assembly had few activists from the United States but overwhelmingly tried to articulate that they opposed the policy and not the country itself The former director general of UNESCO Federico Mayor Zaragoza said at the Forum We must state it clearly We must say to President Bush that we do not agree with the way he controls the world We must tell him that he has to govern with his mind not with might 3 2005 World Social Forum Edit The fifth World Social Forum 2005 was held in Porto Alegre Brazil between 26 January and 31 January There were 155 000 registered participants at the Forum with most coming from Brazil Argentina the United States Uruguay and France A number of participants in the forum released the Porto Alegre Manifesto Since Article 6 of the World Social Forum s Charter of Principles bars the event from attempting to represent all participants through formal statements the Porto Alegre Manifesto was released on behalf of 19 activists This Group of 19 includes Aminata Traore Adolfo Perez Esquivel Eduardo Galeano Jose Saramago Francois Houtart Boaventura de Sousa Santos Armand Mattelart Roberto Savio Riccardo Petrella Ignacio Ramonet Bernard Cassen Samir Amin Atilio Boron Samuel Ruiz Garcia Tariq Ali Frei Betto Emir Sader Walden Bello and Immanuel Wallerstein 12 2006 World Social Forum Edit The sixth World Social Forum was polycentric held in January 2006 in Caracas Venezuela and Bamako Mali and in March 2006 in Karachi Pakistan The Forum in Pakistan was delayed to March because of the Kashmir earthquake that had recently occurred in the area 13 14 2007 World Social Forum Edit The seventh World Social Forum was held in Nairobi Kenya in January 2007 There were 66 000 registered attendees and 1 400 participating organizations from 110 countries making it the most globally representative WSF so far 15 It was criticized as being an NGO fair 16 17 and movements of the poor in Kenya and South Africa mounted vigorous protests against some of the NGOs that attended and in their view dominated the forum in the name of the African poor 2009 World Social Forum Edit The ninth World Social Forum took place in the Brazilian city of Belem located in the Amazon rainforest between January 27 and February 1 2009 18 About 1 900 indigenous people representing 190 ethnic groups attended the event to raise the issue of stateless peoples and the plights that they face The Escarre International Centre for Ethnic Minorities and Nations helped to organize the tent for the Collective Rights of Stateless Peoples who are marginalized in an international system that recognizes only states as political units Various stateless ethnic groups represented were the Basques Kurds Palestinians Roma Tibetans Mapuche Saharawi and Australian Aborigines 19 2010 World Social Forum Edit The tenth edition of the World Social Forum was another decentralized affair with about 35 national regional and local forums taking place across the world In Porto Alegre the flagship space for the WSF events and speakers were held from January 25 29 entitled FSM 10 Years Greater Porto Alegre The big event held in Porto Alegre was the International Seminar 10 Years Later Challenges and proposals for another possible world which featured over 70 intellectuals from around the world 20 One of the notable regional forums was the US Social Forum held in Detroit Michigan and attended by about 18 000 people 21 2012 World Social Forum Edit The 2012 World Social Forum was hosted in Porto Alegre Brazil and ran from 24 to 30 January 22 2013 World Social Forum Edit The thirteen edition of the World Social Forum took place in Tunis from 26 to 30 March 2013 23 24 2015 World Social Forum Edit The fourteenth edition of the World Social Forum took place in Tunis from 23 to 28 March 2015 25 It led to the creation of the Internet Social Forum 26 2016 World Social Forum Edit The fifteen edition of the World Social Forum took place in Montreal from 9 to 14 August 2016 27 It was a multilingual event which featured organizations from around the world 28 2018 World Social Forum Edit The sixteenth edition of the World Social Forum took place in Salvador Bahia Brazil from March 13 to 17 2018 29 Having representatives of 120 countries 30 Regional Social Forums EditThe WSF has prompted the organizing of many regional social forums including the Americas Social Forum European Social Forum the Asian Social Forum the Mediterranean Social Forum and the Southern Africa Social Forum There are also many local and national social forums such as the Norwegian Social Forum Iraqi Social Forum Italian Social Forum India Social Forum 31 Liverpool Social Forum and the Boston Social Forum The first ever United States Social Forum took place in Atlanta in June 2007 32 In 2010 Detroit Michigan hosted the United States Social Forum during June 22 26 21 Regional forums have taken place in the Southwest 33 Northwest Northeast Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States The first Canadian Social Forum took place in June 2010 34 Most though not all social forums adhere to the WSF Charter of Principles drawn up by the World Social Forum The goal of these forums is to decentralize and allow far more people to engage in the open forum atmosphere of the World Social Forum without needing very much money for travel expenses All of the various social forums in this mold include international attendees and are in no way specifically focused on the problems of a single region of country Criticisms Edit2001 Monsanto Incident Edit Some activities by activists attending the WSF have also been criticised such as at the WSF 2001 where activists invaded and destroyed an experimental genetically modified plantation of the Monsanto Company 35 On January 26 2001 a number of activists with Brazil s Movimento dos Sem Terra MST reacted in protest to the growing role of Monsanto in global agribusiness which was considered by the group to be unethically using their seed patents to harm the rights of rural peoples tore up an experimental plot of transgenic crops in Nao me Toque 300 km from Porto Alegre where the World Social Forum was taking place at the time Three days later Jose Bove a French citizen was arrested by Brazilian authorities as the World Social Forum ended on January 29 2001 Connections between the Movimento dos Sem Terra and the World Social Forum are not well known 36 Role of NGOs Edit See also NGO ization The WSF has especially in recent years been strongly criticised for replacing popular movements of the poor with NGOs non governmental organization 37 Movements of the poor in poorer parts of the world like Africa have argued that they are almost completely excluded from the forum 37 and in countries like Kenya and South Africa they have protested against donor funded NGOs that they argue determine and dominate African representation at the forum It has also been argued that NGOs sometimes compete with popular grassroots movements for access to the forum and for influence there 38 The 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi Kenya in particular was criticized as an NGO fair because of how many NGOs attended crowding out less formal groups of activists Also it has been alleged that at the Forum not all the attendees were properly represented with the bigger and wealthier NGOs having far more space to talk and lead the events while others were marginalized 39 Raul Zibechi argues that there is a crisis of the World Social Forum in that it has been weakened as it has been taken over by those who were most capable of leading assemblies professionals from universities and NGOs 40 Role of Corporations Edit There was also criticism of the way that CelTel had exclusive rights at the Kenyan event the virtual monopoly of a local hotel offering food at rates that the average Kenyan could not afford and the physical and financial exclusion of local business 41 Organizers Edit A demographic transformation of the organisational background has taken place since a decade ago when critical voices were raised 42 As of autumn 2020 preparatory meetings for the 2021 World Social Forum are run by a younger generation of female and male organisers while the founders Oded Grajew and Chico Whiteker have usually not intervened Communicating languages are mainly Spanish and Portuguese because of many Latin American organisers and also English and French New individuals social groups and movements are invited to co organise events in 2021 new ecological movements run by young generations for example Further reading EditJai Sen and Peter Waterman 2012 World Social Forum Critical Explorations OpenWord New Delhi Geoffrey Pleyers 2011 Alter Globalization Becoming Actors in the Global Age Cambridge Polity 2011 Richard Falk 2009 Achieving Human Rights Routledge Geoffrey Pleyers 2009 The World Social Forum challenges La vie des idees Mark Butler 2007 Re connecting the World Social Forum 2007 Jose Correa Leite 2005 The World Social Forum Strategies of Resistance Haymarket Books 43 ISBN 1931859159 Smith Jackie 2004 The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy PDF Global Networks 4 4 413 421 doi 10 1111 j 1471 0374 2004 00102 x Teivainen T 2002 The World Social Forum and global democratisation learning from Porto Alegre Third World Quarterly 23 4 621 632 doi 10 1080 0143659022000005300 S2CID 155050248 William F Fisher and Thomas Ponniah 2003 Another World is Possible Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum Boaventura de Sousa Santos 2005 O Forum Social Mundial manual de uso Cortez Editora Jai Sen Anita Anand Arturo Escobar amp Peter Waterman eds 2004 The World Social Forum Challenging Empires New Delhi The Viveka Foundation Mertes Tom ed January 2004 A Movement of Movements Is Another World Really Possible London and New York Verso paperback 288 pages Routledge Paul 2008 Transnational Political Movements In Cox Kevin Low Murray and Robinson Jennifer eds The Sage Handbook of Political Geography London SAGE Publications Leda Lu Muniz 2005 O Forum Social Mundial debate em aberto Lecture presented to Nucleo de Analise da Conjuntura Internacional NACI of PUC SP in March 2005 about the research and work since the beginning of WSF till January 2005 See also EditAnti globalization movement Category Social forums other social forums Liberty Social equalityNotes Edit Tijsterman Sebastiaan 2014 Global and cosmopolitan citizenship In Van der Heijden Hein Anton ed Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements Edward Elgar Publishing p 185 ISBN 978 1 78195 470 6 FSM 2009 Amazonia FSM 2009 Amazonia a b c Smith Jackie 2004 The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy PDF Global Networks 4 4 413 421 doi 10 1111 j 1471 0374 2004 00102 x History know the trajectory of the WSF 2018 February 18 2019 The 1999 Seattle protests gave birth to a global movement Socialistworker co uk Retrieved on 12 August 2013 Interview with Oded Grajew Initiator and Secretariat Member of the World Social Forum Global Eyes In Motion Magazine Inmotionmagazine com Retrieved on 2013 08 12 A variation on this creation story is reported by Bernard Cassen in On the Attack New Left Review 19 January February 2003 pp 48 49 Inter Press Service News and Views from the Global South UNESCO and the World Social Forum page Portal unesco org 2007 03 07 Retrieved 2009 05 10 Welcome To ZNet Archived from the original on 2007 08 07 Tyler Patrick E 2003 02 17 THREATS AND RESPONSES NEWS ANALYSIS A New Power In the Streets The New York Times Porto Alegre Manifesto Archived 2010 12 09 at the Wayback Machine OpenSpaceForum Retrieved on 2013 08 12 World Social Forums Karachi World Social Forums Karachi Archived from the original on 2006 07 18 Retrieved 2006 07 18 Netto Anil 24 March 2006 WORLD SOCIAL FORUM Polycentric and Losing Focus Inter Press Service Archived from the original on 19 January 2018 Retrieved 19 January 2018 Frank Joyce article on Alternet Retrieved 2007 02 16 PZN World Social Forum just another NGO fair Pambazuka org 2007 01 26 Retrieved 2009 05 10 Jens Glaschiot happening In the Name of God World Social Forum 2009 Inter Press Service News and Views from the Global South World Social Forum 2010 Archived 2011 01 28 at the Wayback Machine Choike Retrieved on 2013 08 12 a b US Social Forum Another World Is Possible Another US Is Necessary Ussf2010 org Retrieved on 2013 08 12 Brazil Hosts the 12th Annual World Social Forum Meeting GEG Project 24 January 2012 Maghreb Social Forum 2013 الكرامة Archived 2013 01 17 at the Wayback Machine fsm2013 org Retrieved on 2013 08 12 Forum Social Mondial FSM 2015 Archived from the original on 2015 04 03 Retrieved 2015 04 01 fsm2015 org Retrieved on 2015 09 11 Katsiaficas George The World Social Forum and the Internet Social Forum Sri Lanka Guardian Sri Lanka Guardian Archived from the original on 26 January 2017 Retrieved 3 April 2016 1 fsm2016 org Retrieved on 2015 09 11 LegalEase Radio CKUT 90 3 FM Montreal Building a Better World LegalEase Collective 2016 08 12 Retrieved 2016 10 14 Open Letter convenes World Social Forum 2018 in Salvador World Social Forum World Social Forum August 18 2017 Retrieved January 9 2018 Livro que denuncia o golpe e lancado hoje 15 h no Forum Social Mundial O Cafezinho O Cafezinho in Brazilian Portuguese 2018 03 14 World Social Forum Archived 2016 02 13 at the Wayback Machine Wsfindia org Retrieved on 2013 08 12 Americas Social Forum United States Social Forum Ussf2007 org 2007 07 01 Retrieved on 2013 08 12 Archived copy www forosocialfronterizo com Archived from the original on 22 October 2006 Retrieved 13 January 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Archived copy www socialforum ca Archived from the original on 8 December 2013 Retrieved 13 January 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Folha Online Brasil Jose Bove militante frances antiglobalizacao chega a Porto Alegre 28 January 2002 folha uol com br 2002 01 28 Retrieved 2009 05 10 1 30 2001 WORLD SOCIAL FORUM Don t Let Corporations Control Food Supply Beg Farmers Albionmonitor com 2001 01 30 Retrieved on 2013 08 12 a b Another World is Possible Reflections and Criticisms on the World Social Forum 2009 in Belem Mzonke Poni 2009 Abahlali baseMjondolo 2007 03 06 Article by David Ntseng on NGOs and grassroots movements at the forum Abahlali org Retrieved 2009 05 10 World Social Forum just another NGO fair Archived 2013 05 07 at the Wayback Machine by Firoze Manji Pambazuka News 2007 Raul Zibechi Territories in Resistance AK Press Oakland 2012 p 310 World Social Forum just another NGO fair WSF 2007 17 March 2012 Archived from the original on 17 March 2012 the Civil Engaging Critically with the Reality and Concept of Civil Society Jai Sen and Peter Waterman eds 2010 Worlds of Movement Worlds in Movement Volume 4 in the Challenging Empires series New Delhi OpenWord Haymarket Books The World Social Forum Strategies of Resistance by Jose Correa Leite Archived from the original on 2005 11 19 Retrieved 2005 11 19 External links EditOfficialHome FSM 2018 WSF Charter of PrinciplesNews reportsciranda net ipsnews 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