IPS TERRAVIVA LAUNCHES YEAR OF REPORTING ON THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM

Ten years ago the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre burst onto the world stage giving social movements and civil society the space to challenge the orthodoxies symbolised by the World Economic Forum. Visit the IPS TerraViva World Social Forum 2010 site for independent news, analysis and commentary on up to 35 WSF events that will take place on every continent in 2010. What are the continuing challenges that drive social movements, and will the WSF stay relevant and innovative? Read IPS TerraViva to find out.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/

WSF: Brazil ? Another Power Is Possible
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO (IPS) ? The birthplace of the World Social Forum (WSF), conceived as an alternative to international meetings pursuing free-market economics, Brazil is on its way to becoming a major economic power, analysts say. The question is, what kind of model will it adopt to avoid the behaviour it has previously criticised?
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-brazil-another-power-is-possible/

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WSF: Positive Reviews, On Balance
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON (IPS) ? Nearly a decade after its inception, and in spite of some reverses, on balance the World Social Forum (WSF) has proved a resounding success as a platform for planet-wide debate, from the point of view of the people most affected by the world?s problems.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-positive-reviews-on-balance/

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RECESSION AND RECOVERY: The Lucky Are Unemployed
By IPS Correspondents*
LONDON (IPS) ? The agreed, if dubious, solution to the financial crisis was to get people and governments ? in the richer countries ? to borrow more in order to spend more. What is not in doubt is the growing numbers of people who will be able to neither borrow nor spend.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/recession-and-recovery-the-lucky-are-unemployed/

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WSF: Another Kind of Economics Is Possible
By Mario Osava
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (IPS) ? Democratising economics as well as politics is essential for ending irrationality and discrimination as part of the struggle for social and environmental justice, said participants at one of the panels of the seminar assessing the World Social Forum?s (WSF) first 10 years.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-another-kind-of-economics-is-possible/

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WSF: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs
By Mario Osava* IPS/TerraViva
SALVADOR, Brazil (IPS) ? One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet?s population, and particularly the one billion people living ?on the brink of survival?, while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-reconciling-social-and-environmental-needs/

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WSF: Talk vs Action ? the Tug-of-War Continues
By Mario Osava
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (IPS) ? A call issued by social movements to evolve towards a more active role in generating concrete action marked the opening session of a seminar assessing the 10 years of the World Social Forum (WSF) in this southern Brazilian city, the birthplace of the annual global civil society gathering.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-talk-vs-action-the-tug-of-war-continues/

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WSF: ?Machista? but Valued by Feminists Nonetheless
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (IPS/TerraViva) ? The World Social Forum (WSF) ?changed our lives,? although it continues to be ?machista,? with men significantly outnumbering women in its organisation and almost all discussion panels, commented Nalu Farias, coordinator in Brazil of the World March of Women.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-machista-but-valued-by-feminists-nonetheless/

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WSF: Africa Continues to Draw Inspiration
Stanley Kwenda interviews DAKARAYI MATANGA, Southern Africa Social Forum
HARARE (IPS) ? The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-africa-continues-to-draw-inspiration/

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WSF: Global South?s Growing Role in Post-Crisis World
By Denise Ribeiro*
SALVADOR DA BAHIA, Brazil (IPS/TerraViva) ? ?Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world? is the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting being held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-global-souths-growing-role-in-post-crisis-world/

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WSF: Sierra Leone Sees Opportunity to Rise Up
By Mohamed Fofanah
FREETOWN (IPS) ? The World Social Forum held in Nairobi in 2007 inspired Sierra Leonean activists to organise themselves to demand things like housing, health care and greater accountability from their government. That inspiration was not sustained.
www.ips.org/TV/wsf2010/wsf-sierra-leone-sees-opportunity-to-rise-up/

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