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== 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)

WSF 7 Years - Revision history

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