Está a decorrer em Bamako (Mali) o Fórum Social Mundial de 2006, que este ano se prolonga e se realizará também em Caracas a partir do dia 24, encontrei uma retrospectiva aos objectivos iniciais deste fórum global de discussão no Le Monde Diplomatique, feita pelo sr. Ignácio Ramonet:
The first World Social Forum was in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where locally elected politicians had come up with the idea of participatory budgeting. The forum’s theme was taken from its publication: Another World Is Possible. That expression produced the concept of altermondialism, a multifaceted movement encompassing the whole range of opponents to liberal globalisation.
The WSF is an innovative and visionary political project. Its aim is to bring together in one place, with associations, NGOs and trade unions as intermediaries, people who genuinely represent all the world’s citizens opposed to globalisation. The victims of catastrophes of globalisation are specifically included.
The political objective underpinning the forum is radical in its modernity. Whereas the United Nations provides a forum for states or governments - the structures of power, the WSF aims to bring together, for the first time in history, an embryonic assembly representative of all humanity. It has had a definite strategic objective: to thwart the process of liberal globalisation that is breaking up societies, ruining the most fragile economies and destroying our environment. But, over time, that objective has become blurred and some people have forgotten about it.
The WSF is an innovative and visionary political project. Its aim is to bring together in one place, with associations, NGOs and trade unions as intermediaries, people who genuinely represent all the world’s citizens opposed to globalisation. The victims of catastrophes of globalisation are specifically included.
The political objective underpinning the forum is radical in its modernity. Whereas the United Nations provides a forum for states or governments - the structures of power, the WSF aims to bring together, for the first time in history, an embryonic assembly representative of all humanity. It has had a definite strategic objective: to thwart the process of liberal globalisation that is breaking up societies, ruining the most fragile economies and destroying our environment. But, over time, that objective has become blurred and some people have forgotten about it.
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