World Social Forum 2008-2009
P r e s s C o n f e r e n c e
From Africa in 2007 to Amazonia in 2009, the World Social Forum all over the world in 2008
The World Social Forum International Council, which will meet in Belém – Pará, from October 29th to November 1st, at Sagres Hotel, invites journalists for a press conference that will be held on Thursday, November 1st, from 9am to 12pm, in Belém (Pará). The aim of this press conference is to give information about the Global Day of Mobilization and Action, which will take place in January 2008, and about the 2009 WSF edition. The press conference will take place at Tribo dos Kayapós boat, expected to leave Rio Amazonas Floating Terminal, at Estação das Docas, sailing along the margins of Guamá river and anchoring at Combú island. Differing from previous World Social Forum editions held in Brazil, which all took place in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), the 2009 edition will be held in the city of Belém,
State of Pará.
In January 2008, Global Day of Mobilization and Action
The WSF is a plural, diverse, non-government and non-party oriented open space of encounters. Its decentralized structure stimulates organizations and social movements engaged in concrete actions, from local to international level, for the construction of a more solidary, democratic and fair world. In its seven years of history, the WSF has built its trajectory in different formats, with different methodologies and preoccupations pointed out by mobilized movements, peoples and cultures. The WSF has had four editions in Porto Alegre (Brazil – South America) – in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005; one in Mumbai (Índia) – in 2004, a polycentric edition that took place in Caracas (Venezuela – South America), Karachi (Pakistan – Asia) and in Bamako (Mali – Africa) – in 2006; and its most recent edition in Nairobi (Kenya – Africa) – in 2007. For 2008, the WSF and various organizations and movements call attention for a week that will reach its peak on January 26th , the Global Day of Mobilization and Action, which will gather different activities planned by organizations, movements or networks and/or spontaneous manifestations all around the planet, articulating its national and international connections.
This joint mobilization will represent the struggle, the resistance and confrontation against neoliberal globalization, wars and oppression, in order to protect the planet and being certain that ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
WSF International Council press conference
Themes:
WSF processMobilization and Global Action Day and Week, in 2008
WSF 2009, in Belém
Place: Rio Amazonas Floating Terminal, at Estação das Docas, Tribo dos Kaiapós boat
Time: 9amHow to take part: send your name and the name of the media organization you represent to fsmci@forumsocialmundial.org.br mailto:fsmci@forumsocialmundial.org.br
Place: Estação das Docas – Bairro ComercialObs: It is necessary to confirm participation previously. ………………………………..Further information to the press:Aldalice Otterloo – ABONG and Kélem Cabral – communication advisor
E-mail: aotterloo@unipop.org.br; kelemcabral@gmail.com
Phone: (55) (91) 3224 9074, (55) (91) 9994 4974 (Aldalice) and (55) (91) 8112 2623 (Kélem), Salete Valesan and Thais Chita – Paulo Freire Institute Phone: (55) (11) 8170 –1158, (55) (11) 3021-5536 Email: salete@paulofreire.org , thais@paulofreire.org , Support to alternative media and social movements: Rita Freire, rita@ciranda.net , ciranda@ciranda.net
Translation: Márcia Macedo
