WSF 7 Years

== A seminar (3 parts) organised by the wsf 7 years group on Tuesday 23 January ==

Alternative Information Center Jeruzalem-Bethelehem, Enda, Ethos, 
Centre for Civil Society (Durban), Center of Indian Trade Unions 
(Cetri), Cetri, International Press Service, Kepa, Liberdade Brasil, 
NIGD, Paolo Freire Institute, Program for Democracy and Global 
Transformation 

===WSF 7 Years (1) - the Future of the Movements ===

*Assessing Global Mobilisation 
Have global movements changed their tactics, their ways of mobilizing 
or pushing for change? 
If so, why? what happened? 
Has the phase of mass mobilization passed? If so, why? What has 
replaced it? 
In what parts of the world, and around what issues? 
What kind of tactics are they now pursuing? 

*Assessing Democratic objectives and practice 
Have protest movements based on mass mobilization turned into ‘global 
democratization movements’? Have our movements similarly become 
more democratic? In what ways? 

Date : Tuesday, January 23 

Time: 11:00 - 13.30 

Location: 12 IN lower 

Group work and synthesis 

Invited participants: 

Nicola Bullard 

Virginia Vargas 

Immanuel Wallerstein 

Mohau Pheko 

Hilary Wainwright 

Demba Dembele

Jan Aart Scholte 

Patrick Bond 

Christophe Aguiton 

Michele De Palma 

Michel Warschawski 

Edgardo Lander 

Moema Miranda 

Raffaella Bolini 


=== WSF 7 Years (2) - the Future Movements of the Forum ===

After 7 years of social fora all around the world, we find ourselves 
increasingly in a moment of self-reflection, around different questions. 
How can the Forum be made politically more useful? In how far is the 
Forum a process tie-ing together the experiences in local and regional 
process and how should we relate to other initiatives and spaces, as for 
example the autonomous spaces around the Forum? To what extent is 
the world social forum reproducing exclusions and practices of the 
neocolonial capitalist order, and how can these be overcome? 

Date: Tuesday, January 23 

Time: 14:30 - 17:00 

Location: 12 IN lower 

Group work followed by public debate; Invited participants: 

Boaventura de Sousa Santos 

Chico Whitaker 

Prabir Purkayastha 

Edward Oyugi 

Taoufik Ben Abdallah 

Amade Suca 

Dorothea Haerlin 

Sarah Longwe 

Annibal Quijano 

===WSF 7 Years (3) - Relations with Progressive Political Parties and===
 
Governments: Independence or Hypocrisy? 

Date: Tuesday January 23 

Time: 17:30 - 20:00 

Location: 12 IN lower 

Whilst political parties are specifically excluded from WSF participation, 
invited political leaders  have  contributed to, and arguably on occasion 
dominated, instances of the WSF. Direct and indirect financial support 
has also been accepted from local and national governments. Within the 
wider debate about the politicisation of the WSF itself, this session will 
focus specifically on balancing relations with “likeminded” players from 
the government sector. 

Dialogue format with two government representatives and civil society 
actors 

Vice Minister Partrizia Sentinelli, Italy 

Luis Dulci, Brazil 

Invited Respondents: 

Kumi Naidoo (South Africa) 

Sylvia Borren (Netherlands) 

Oded Grajew (Brasil) 

Vinod Raina (India) 

Rabia Abdelkrim-Chikh (Senegal) 

Moussa Demba (Senegal) 

Hilary Wainwright (Great Britain)