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After Mumbai

World civil society is no longer the same following the WSF at Mumbai in India in January 2004, and whatever the case, the movement started by the first WSF at Porto Alegre has undergone radical change and become considerably stronger. Henceforth, Mumbai has its place on the civic agenda initiated at Seattle, though others may say that this agenda kicked off in South Africa with the fall of apartheid in 1994. Nelson Mandela’s speech broadcast during the closing ceremony stands out as a historic symbol. Now, when speaking of the Mumbai Social Forum, we shall recall a popular, dynamic event like no other in the short history of alternative world movements (...)

A mother world is possible - by Betsan Martin

The theme of the World Social Forum was ‘Another world is possible’. Someone muttered to me it should be ‘Another world is being created’. I reflected on the pre-eminence of women’s priorities presented there, and mused ‘A mother world is possible’. The energy is right up and dynamic. There are a million marvellous bookstands with publications galore on Gandhi, Ecology, spirituality, science, (...)

Mumbai 2004: Solidarity Economy Meets People’s Economy - by Françoise Wautiez, Philippe Amouroux

The Workgroup on a Solidarity Socio-Economy (WSSE) at the Fourth WSF, Mumbai, January 16 to 21, 2004 After the European Social Forum, we barely had a month left – December, with its illuminated streets, its end-of-year balances, all the presents to buy and all the friends and relatives to whom, at least according to tradition, we should dedicate a little more time, time that just seemed to be (...)

The challenge of moving ahead towards a new phase - by Gustavo Marin

Advances and tensions of the alternative world movement. Attempts to make the WSF genuinely global and develop it beyond its Brazilian roots have proved successful, since the quest to create truly global resistance and formulate alternative paths to capitalist globalisation aims at strengthening the combat of every actor, whether from the North, South, East or West. After Mumbai, Porto (...)

The Top Ten Keywords of the WSF and the Main Keywords by Continents - by Françoise Feugas

The following work is based on input provided by the online data base of the World Social Forum 2004. The objective is not simply to provide a research tool for searching a database, but most importantly, to show the conceptual contents stemming from the self-organized activities. These key words were grouped according to their semantic proximity and their domain. This produced “thematic (...)

THE AUTHORS

Betsan Martin

Coordinator of the Regional facilitation Committee of the Charter of Human Responsibilities for New Zealand, and more largely for Oceania.

Philippe Amouroux

Director of the program An economy for a united society, in the foundation Charles Léopold Mayer, since 1995. Co-Animator of the Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy, of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World

Françoise Wautiez

Gustavo Marin

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Director of the Forum for a New World Governance. Programme Director at the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind. PhD in Political Economics

Françoise Feugas

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Administrator of the DPH data base, Chairwoman of the NEMEA association (theatre company), dramatic author.