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I am in Porto Alegre, Brasil with Blue Planet Project organizer Anil Naidoo for a Thematic Social Forum (titled ‘Capitalist Crisis, Social and Environmental Justice’), which is a primary civil society organizing moment in advance of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) – more commonly referred to as Rio+20 – set to be […]

UPDATE: Civil society issues a challenge for Rio+20

Posted by on January 28, 2012  Tagged with:
Jan 282012
 

We are in the Gasometro, the home-base of this thematic social forum (forum social tematico) in Porto Alegre, for a session on the ‘Public act towards the Peoples’ Summit at Rio+20′.
Speaker after speaker from various countries are denouncing the green economy. One speaker highlights, “The green economy wants to legitimize capitalism which is in crisis.”

Pablo […]

Jan 272012
 

It’s the end of a first day (11 pm local time) for me in Porto Alegre, Brasil at informal meetings related to the World Social Forum ‘thematic forum’, which aims to lay the groundwork for a popular response to the Rio+20 Earth Summit this June.
A very complicated picture is emerging here.
Tierramerica reports, “Large-scale social mobilization, […]

Jan 272012
 

I have just arrived in Sao Paolo, Brazil en route to Porto Alegre where a thematic social forum is now underway focused on the Rio+20 Earth Summit that will take place in June.
The upcoming United Nations summit had raised some hope that world leaders could come together in an inclusive forum that would begin to […]

 

Just as world leaders are making their yearly trek to court global corporate sanction in Davos at the World Economic Forum, social movements and activists from around the globe are concurrently gathering in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
The goal of the World Social Forum (WSF), however, is much different than that of the capitalist group hug it […]

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