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October, a month of international mobilisation

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  Future options for the WSF

  16 June 2011, by Pierre Beaudet,

Meeting in Paris last May, over 100 representatives of various social movements who sit on the International Committee of the World Social Forum deliberated on the future of the WSF, energized so to speak by the “Arab Spring”.

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  Tunísia: The WSF takes its steps in Northern Africa

  13 April 2011, by WSF Bulletin/Boletim FSM , Rita Freire, Fórum Social Mundial

Participants in the World Social Forum, the African Social Forum and the Tunisian Social Forum processes pay a visit in support to the uprising against the dictatorship and in solidarity to refugees.

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  WSF 2011: good surprises and many lessons for the future

  16 March 2011, by Chico Whitaker,

The World Social Forum held in February 2011 in Dakar, Senegal, with participants from 130 countries, will mark positively, in its own way, the process initiated in Porto Alegre in 2001

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  Alternative Media in Dakar

  7 March 2011, by Ciranda - Document,

First stock of GT in alternative medias of the International Council Communication Commission on the 2011 WSF - Open to contribution

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  Dakar 2011 Sound bites from the World Social Forum

  5 March 2011, by Nakama Popoh, Laboratório de Comunicação Compartilhada Pan-Amazônia, Cease Fire

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• Preliminary Notes on the World Social Forum 2011, Dakar

  1 March 2011, by Giuseppe Caruso, Giuseppecaruso’s Weblog
The latest World Social Forum took place in Dakar from the 6th to the 11th of February. It was followed by a two-day meeting of its International Council which began the assessment exercise, that will continue in the next months, and reflected on the way ahead for the next two years. The WSF had a special flavour this year. Whereas the “usual suspect” issues of world activism recurred predictably, though often articulated in new and inspiring ways as I will say below, the (...)
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  Social movements call for global actions

  12 February 2011, by Terezinha Vicente ,

The busiest of the assembliest saw campaigners from all continents and all parts of society unite in a single voice against the capitalist system, calling for global actions to build a humane civilization that exemplifies peace and solidarity.