(P/B) ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

Παρουσίαση

In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time as a new manifestation of the global Left, a people's opposition to the World Economic Forum that stood as the first real front to global capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
While many activists and intellectuals on the left have since become deeply critical of the Forum, newer movements, such as Occupy, the Arab Spring and the indignados, have built upon its successes and innovations. Another World is Possible is the original collection of essays and demands from the heart of the 'movement of movements'.
Based on the work of the first two annual meetings of the WSF, this classic collection not only set out the initial aims of the movements that came together, it also paved the way for the theoretical study of new social movements, their multiple and participatory character.
Today, as many crises affect all our lives, it is time to revisit the original demands of a global solidarity movement, united in its determination to fight against the concentration of wealth, the proliferation of poverty and inequalities, and the destruction of our earth, and to reconstitute a global left. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Introduction: The World Social Forum and the Reinvention of Democracy - Thomas Ponniah and William F. Fisher
PART I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues - William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
1. External Debt Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development - Eric Toussaint and Arnaud Zacharie (Committee for the Annulment of Third World Debt)
2. Africa/Brazil Conference Synthesis - Jacques d'Adesky (Facilitator)
3. Financial Capital Controls on Financial Capital - ATTAC-France
4. International Trade Conference Synthesis - Bernard Cassen, ATTAC (Facilitator)
5. Transnational Corporations Issues and Proposals - Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch and Karolo Aparicio, Global Exchange
6. Labour
7. A Solidarity Economy
PART II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues - William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
8. Environment and Sustainabity
9. Water - A Common Good
10. Knowledge, Copyright and Patents
11. Medicine, Health, AIDS Conference Synthesis - Sonia Correa, IBASE and DAWN Network (Facilitator)
12. Food People's Right to Produce, Feed Themselves and Exercise their Food Sovereignty - APM World Network
13. Cities, Urban Populations Conference Synthesis - Erminia Maricato (Facilitator)
14. Indigenous Peoples
PART III: The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues - William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
15. The Media Democratization of Communications and the Media - Osvaldo Leon, Agencia Latinoamerica de Informacion
16. Education Conference Synthesis - Bernard Charlot, World Forum on Education and Paul Belanger, International Council on Adult Education (Facilitators)
17. Culture Cultural Diversity, Cultural Production and Identity - Fatma Alloo, Luiza Monteiro, Aureli Argemi, Imruh Bakari, Xavi Perez
18. Violence
19. Discrimination and Intolerance
20. Migration and the Traffic in People The Contradictions of Globalization - Lorenzo Prencipe, Centre for Documentation and Research on International Migration, Paris
21. The Global Civil Society Movement
Part IV: Political Power and Ethics in the New Society Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues - William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
22. The International Architecture of Power
23. Militarism and Globalization Conference Synthesis - Marcela Escribano, Alternatives, Canada (Facilitator)
24 Human Rights Conference Synthesis on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Maria Luisa Mendonca, Social Network for Justice and Human Rights (Facilitator)
25. Sovereignty Sovereignty, Nation, Empire - Daniel Bensaid, University of Paris (St-Denis)
26. Democracy Participatory Democracy - M. P. Parameswaran, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad
27. Values
Epilogue: Social Movements' Manifesto Resistance to Neoliberalism, War and Militarism
For Peace and Social Justice Appendices - World Social Forum Charter of Principles World Social Forum 2003: Contacts