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<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> '''''Another World is Possible''''':<br /> My first participation in the WSF was in [[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]], [[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> This year's Forum in Senegal begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSFMARCH3ed2.jpg‎‎]].<br /> <br /> The following activities were organised during the forum;<br /> 2nd day : Day of Africa and Diasporas<br /> 3rd day : Self-organized activities<br /> 4th day : Self-organized activities<br /> 5th day : Assemblies of convergence for action<br /> 6th day : Assemblies of convergence for action / Assembly of Assemblies<br /> <br /> As always, the forum had a hive of activities which included panels,exhibitions, plenaries etc. I must say that I did not fully participate in all the activities because of the language barrier. Most of the activities organised were in french language and on top of that there were not interpretation facilities which made my situation worse. In other circumstances, I could not locate the venue.My health also betrayed me, I felt unwell in the middle of the Forum because of my current status and I left Dakar before the close of the Forum. Thank God I arrived safely and was able to seek medical assistance and I am now okay.<br /> <br /> All that did not stop me from enjoying myself and interacting with wonderful and dynamic librarians and activists. <br /> <br /> I left the forum, promising myself to learn french language because I dont want to be left out again.<br /> Please if you know of any content online which can help me to learn french, please pass it over to me</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T10:07:57Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> '''''Another World is Possible''''':<br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]], [[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> This year's Forum in Senegal begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSFMARCH3ed2.jpg‎‎]].<br /> <br /> The following activities were organised during the forum;<br /> 2nd day : Day of Africa and Diasporas<br /> 3rd day : Self-organized activities<br /> 4th day : Self-organized activities<br /> 5th day : Assemblies of convergence for action<br /> 6th day : Assemblies of convergence for action / Assembly of Assemblies<br /> <br /> As always, the forum had a hive of activities which included panels,exhibitions, plenaries etc. I must say that I did not fully participate in all the activities because of the language barrier. Most of the activities organised were in french language and on top of that there were not interpretation facilities which made my situation worse. In other circumstances, I could not locate the venue.My health also betrayed me, I felt unwell in the middle of the Forum because of my current status and I left Dakar before the close of the Forum. Thank God I arrived safely and was able to seek medical assistance and I am now okay.<br /> <br /> All that did not stop me from enjoying myself and interacting with wonderful and dynamic librarians and activists. <br /> <br /> I left the forum, promising myself to learn french language because I dont want to be left out again.<br /> Please if you know of any content online which can help me to learn french, please pass it over to me</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T10:06:03Z

<p>Loyce: /* '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' */</p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> ''Another World is Possible''<br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]], [[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> This year's Forum in Senegal begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSFMARCH3ed2.jpg‎‎]].<br /> <br /> The following activities were organised during the forum;<br /> 2nd day : Day of Africa and Diasporas<br /> 3rd day : Self-organized activities<br /> 4th day : Self-organized activities<br /> 5th day : Assemblies of convergence for action<br /> 6th day : Assemblies of convergence for action / Assembly of Assemblies<br /> <br /> As always, the forum had a hive of activities which included panels,exhibitions, plenaries etc. I must say that I did not fully participate in all the activities because of the language barrier. Most of the activities organised were in french language and on top of that there were not interpretation facilities which made my situation worse. In other circumstances, I could not locate the venue.My health also betrayed me, I felt unwell in the middle of the Forum because of my current status and I left Dakar before the close of the Forum. Thank God I arrived safely and was able to seek medical assistance and I am now okay.<br /> <br /> All that did not stop me from enjoying myself and interacting with wonderful and dynamic librarians and activists. <br /> <br /> I left the forum, promising myself to learn french language because I dont want to be left out again.<br /> Please if you know of any content online which can help me to learn french, please pass it over to me</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T10:01:34Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> ''Another World is Possible''<br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]], [[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> This year's Forum in Senegal begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSFMARCH3ed2.jpg‎‎]].<br /> <br /> The following activities were organised during the forum;<br /> 2nd day : Day of Africa and Diasporas<br /> 3rd day : Self-organized activities<br /> 4th day : Self-organized activities<br /> 5th day : Assemblies of convergence for action<br /> 6th day : Assemblies of convergence for action / Assembly of Assemblies<br /> <br /> As always, the forum had a hive of activities which included panels,exhibitions, plenaries etc. I must say that I did not fully participate in all the activities because of the language barrier. Most of the activities organised were in french language and on top of that there were not interpretation facilities which made my situation worse. In other circumstances, I could not locate the venue.My health also betrayed me, I felt unwell in the middle of the Forum because of my current status and I left Dakar before the close of the Forum. Thank God I arrived safely and was able to seek medical assistance and I am now okay.<br /> <br /> All that did not stop me from enjoying myself and interacting with wonderful and dynamic librarians and activists. My h<br /> <br /> I left the forum, promising myself to learn french language because I dont want to be left out again.<br /> Please if you know of any content online which can help me to learn french, please pass it over to me</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:49:26Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> ''Another World is Possible''<br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]], [[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> This year's Forum in Senegal begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSFMARCH3ed2.jpg‎‎]].<br /> <br /> The following activities were organised during the forum;<br /> 2nd day : Day of Africa and Diasporas<br /> 3rd day : Self-organized activities<br /> 4th day : Self-organized activities<br /> 5th day : Assemblies of convergence for action<br /> 6th day : Assemblies of convergence for action / Assembly of Assemblies</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:47:27Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> ''Another World is Possible''<br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]], [[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> This year's Forum in Senegal begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSF_MARCH.jpg_ed.jpg‎]],<br /> <br /> The following activities were organised during the forum;<br /> 2nd day : Day of Africa and Diasporas<br /> 3rd day : Self-organized activities<br /> 4th day : Self-organized activities<br /> 5th day : Assemblies of convergence for action<br /> 6th day : Assemblies of convergence for action / Assembly of Assemblies</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:37:07Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> <br /> <br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]][[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> The Forum begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSF_MARCH.jpg_ed.jpg‎]],[[Image:WSFMARCH2 ed3]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:35:29Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> <br /> <br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]][[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> The Forum begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSFMARC3ed2]],[[Image:WSFMARCH2 ed3]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:33:38Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> <br /> <br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]][[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> The Forum begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSFMARCH ed.jpg]], [[Image:WSFMARC3ed2]],[[Image:WSFMARCH2 ed3]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:32:29Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>== '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> <br /> <br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]][[Porto Alegre 2010]] [[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> The Forum begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:WSFMARCH ed.jpg]][[Image:WSFMARC3ed2]][[Image:WSFMARCH2 ed3]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:30:50Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div><br /> == '''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience''' ==<br /> <br /> <br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]][[Porto Alegre 2010]][[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> <br /> The Forum begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[WSFMARCH ed.jpg]][[WSFMARC3ed2]][[WSFMARCH2 ed3]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/File:WSF_MARCH_ed.jpg 2011-02-14T09:26:48Z

<p>Loyce: WSF march,2011 Dakar</p> <hr /> <div>WSF march,2011 Dakar</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/File:WSF_MARCH.jpg_ed.jpg 2011-02-14T09:25:13Z

<p>Loyce: WSF March1 2011</p> <hr /> <div>WSF March1 2011</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/File:WSFMARCH3ed2.jpg 2011-02-14T09:24:01Z

<p>Loyce: WSF march2011</p> <hr /> <div>WSF march2011</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T09:22:00Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>'''FSM 2011,Dakar:My Experience'''<br /> <br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[[Nairobi WSF 2007]]. Librarians from East Africa were involved in the first ever documentation of the WSF memory. Since then, Librarians from across the world have been involved in the documentation of the WSF [[Belem WSF 2009]][[Porto Alegre 2010]][[Dakar WSF 2011]].<br /> The Forum begun with the march on the streets of Dakar where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital marched with the banners, placards to show their solidarity. [[Image:Example.jpg]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce/BlogEntry:_2011_February_14_03:19:06_EST 2011-02-14T08:26:51Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>'''FSM 2011, Dakar:My Experience'''<br /> My first participation in the WSF was in 2007 in Nairobi[http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/File:WSF6.JPG 2011-02-07T10:22:01Z

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Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/User:Loyce 2009-09-08T13:04:18Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Loyce.JPG|thumb]]<br /> <br /> I am called [http://loycek.blogspot.com/ Loyce Kyogabirwe], a librarian by Profession, working with '''''Isis Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange''''' [http://www.isis.or.ug Isis-WICCE.]An International women's human rights organisation that exist to promote cross-cultural exchange of skills and information to contribute towards women's transformation through documenting violations of women's rights.<br /> <br /> I am a member of WKI editorial team. My section is Women and gender struggles.</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Citizen_Journalism 2009-01-22T15:09:27Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>Citizen Journalism is community news and information shared online and/or in print. The content is generated by users and readers. It can be text / blogs, digital storytelling, images, audio file, podcasting or video. Feedback and discussion on issues raised is received in the same way.</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/World_Social_Forum_at_a_Crossroad 2008-02-01T07:15:18Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>==World Social Forum at A crossroad by ''Walden Bello''==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> Walden Bello wrestles with the question: Has the WSF become simply a <br /> forum of ideas with no agenda for action?<br /> <br /> A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was <br /> reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF) in <br /> Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001.<br /> <br /> The WSF was the brainchild of social movements loosely associated <br /> with the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil. Strong support for the idea <br /> was given at an early stage by the ATTAC movement in France, key <br /> figures of which were connected with the newspaper Le Monde <br /> Diplomatique. In Asia, the Brazilian proposal, floated in June 2000, <br /> received the early enthusiastic endorsement of, among others, the <br /> research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South based in <br /> Bangkok.<br /> <br /> Porto Alegre was meant to be a counterpoint to &quot;Davos,&quot; the annual <br /> event in a resort town in the Swiss Alps where the world's most <br /> powerful business and political figures congregated annually to spot <br /> and assess the latest trends in global affairs. Indeed, the highlight <br /> of the first WSF was a televised transcontinental debate between <br /> George Soros and other figures in Davos with representatives of <br /> social movements gathered in Porto Alegre.<br /> <br /> The world of Davos was contrasted to the world of Porto Alegre, the <br /> world of the global rich with the world of the rest of humanity. It <br /> was this contrast that gave rise to the very resonant theme &quot;Another <br /> world is possible.&quot;<br /> <br /> There was another important symbolic dimension: while Seattle was the <br /> site of the first major victory of the transnational anti-corporate <br /> globalization movement -- the collapse amidst massive street protests <br /> of the third ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization -- <br /> Porto Alegre represented the transfer to the South of the center of <br /> gravity of that movement. Proclaimed as an &quot;open space,&quot; the WSF <br /> became a magnet for global networks focused on different issues, from <br /> war to globalization to communalism to racism to gender oppression to <br /> alternatives. Regional versions of the WSF were spun off, the most <br /> important being the European Social Forum and the African Social <br /> Forum; and in scores of cities throughout the world, local social <br /> fora were held and institutionalized.<br /> <br /> ====The Functions of the WSF==== <br /> Since its establishment, the WSF has performed three critical <br /> functions for global civil society:<br /> <br /> First, it represents a space -- both physical and temporal -- for <br /> this diverse movement to meet, network, and, quite simply, to feel <br /> and affirm itself.<br /> <br /> Second, it is a retreat during which the movement gathers its <br /> energies and charts the directions of its continuing drive to <br /> confront and roll back the processes, institutions, and structures of <br /> global capitalism. Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, underlined this <br /> function when she told a Porto Alegre audience in January 2002 that <br /> the need of the moment was &quot;less civil society and more civil <br /> disobedience.&quot;<br /> <br /> Third, the WSF provides a site and space for the movement to <br /> elaborate, discuss, and debate the vision, values, and institutions <br /> of an alternative world order built on a real community of interests. <br /> The WSF is, indeed, a macrocosm of so many smaller but equally <br /> significant enterprises carried out throughout the world by millions <br /> who have told the reformists, the cynics, and the &quot;realists&quot; to move <br /> aside because, indeed, another world is possible�and necessary.<br /> <br /> ====Direct Democracy in Action====<br /> The WSF and its many offspring are significant not only as sites of <br /> affirmation and debate but also as direct democracy in action. Agenda <br /> and meetings are planned with meticulous attention to democratic <br /> process. Through a combination of periodic face-to-face meetings and <br /> intense email and Internet contact in between, the WSF network was <br /> able to pull off events and arrive at consensus decisions. At times, <br /> this could be very time-consuming and also frustrating, and when you <br /> were part of an organizing effort involving hundreds of <br /> organizations, as we at Focus on the Global South were during the <br /> organizing of the 2004 WSF in Mumbai, it could be very frustrating <br /> indeed.<br /> <br /> But this was direct democracy, and direct democracy was at its best <br /> at the WSF. One might say, parenthetically, that the direct <br /> democratic experiences of Seattle, Prague, Genoa, and the other big <br /> mobilizations of the decade were institutionalized in the WSF or <br /> Porto Alegre process.<br /> <br /> The central principle of the organizing approach of the new movement <br /> is that getting to the desired objective is not worth it if the <br /> methods violate democratic process, if democratic goals are reached <br /> via authoritarian means. Perhaps Subcomandante Marcos of the <br /> Zapatistas best expressed the organizing bias of the new movements: <br /> &quot;The movement has no future if its future is military. If the EZLN <br /> [Zapatistas] perpetuates itself as an armed military structure, it is <br /> headed for failure. Failure as an alternative set of ideas, an <br /> alternative attitude to the world. The worst that could happen to it <br /> apart from that, would be for it to come to power and install itself <br /> there as a revolutionary army.&quot; The WSF shares this perspective.<br /> <br /> What is interesting is that there has hardly been an attempt by any <br /> group or network to &quot;take over&quot; the WSF process. Quite a number of <br /> &quot;old movement&quot; groups participate in the WSF, including old-line <br /> &quot;democratic centralist&quot; parties as well as traditional social <br /> democratic parties affiliated with the Socialist International. Yet <br /> none of these has put much effort into steering the WSF towards more <br /> centralized or hierarchical modes of organizing. At the same time, <br /> despite their suspicion of political parties, the &quot;new movements&quot; <br /> never sought to exclude the parties and their affiliates from playing <br /> a significant role in the Forum. Indeed, the 2004 WSF in Mumbai was <br /> organized jointly by an unlikely coalition of social movements and <br /> Marxist Leninist parties, a set of actors that are not known for <br /> harmonious relations on the domestic front.<br /> <br /> Perhaps a compelling reason for the modus vivendi of the old and new <br /> movements was the realization that they needed one another in the <br /> struggle against global capitalism and that the strength of the <br /> fledgling global movement lay in a strategy of decentralized <br /> networking that rested not on the doctrinal belief that one class was <br /> destined to lead the struggle but on the reality of the common <br /> marginalization of practically all subordinate classes, strata, and <br /> groups under the reign of global capital.<br /> <br /> What Constitutes &quot;Open Space&quot;<br /> The WSF has, however, not been exempt from criticism, even from its <br /> own ranks. One in particular appears to have merit. This is the <br /> charge that the WSF as an institution is unanchored in actual global <br /> political struggles, and this is turning it into an annual festival <br /> with limited social impact.<br /> <br /> There is, in my view, a not insignificant truth to this. Many of the <br /> founders of the WSF have interpreted the &quot;open space&quot; concept in a <br /> liberal fashion, that is, for the WSF not to explicit endorse any <br /> political position or particular struggle, though its constituent <br /> groups are free to do so.<br /> <br /> Others have disagreed, saying the idea of an &quot;open space&quot; should be <br /> interpreted in a partisan fashion, as explicitly promoting some views <br /> over others and as openly taking sides in key global struggles. In <br /> this view, the WSF is under an illusion that it can stand above the <br /> fray, and this will lead to its becoming some sort of neutral forum, <br /> where discussion will increasingly be isolated from action. The <br /> energy of civil society networks derives from their being engaged in <br /> political struggles, say proponents of this perspective. The reason <br /> that the WSF was so exciting in its early years was because of its <br /> affective impact: it provided an opportunity to recreate and reaffirm <br /> solidarity against injustice, against war, and for a world that was <br /> not subjected to the rule of empire and capital. The WSF's not taking <br /> a stand on the Iraq War, on the Palestine issue, and on the WTO is <br /> said to be making it less relevant and less inspiring to many of the <br /> networks it had brought together.<br /> <br /> ====Caracas Versus Nairobi====<br /> This is why the 6th WSF held in Caracas in January 2006 was so <br /> bracing and reinvigorating: it inserted some 50,000 delegates into <br /> the storm center of an ongoing struggle against empire, where they <br /> mingled with militant Venezuelans, mostly the poor, engaged in a <br /> process of social transformation, while observing other Venezuelans, <br /> mostly the elite and middle class, engaged in bitter opposition. <br /> Caracas was an exhilarating reality check.<br /> <br /> This is also the reason why the Seventh WSF held in Nairobi was so <br /> disappointing, since its politics was so diluted and big business <br /> interests linked to the Kenyan ruling elite were so brazen in <br /> commercializing it. Even Petrobras, the Brazilian state corporation <br /> that is a leading exploiter of the natural resource wealth of Latin <br /> America, was busy trumpeting itself as a friend of the Forum. There <br /> was a strong sense of going backward rather than forward in Nairobi.<br /> <br /> The WSF is at a crossroads. Hugo Chavez captured the essence of the <br /> conjuncture when he warned delegates in January 2006 about the danger <br /> of the WSF becoming simply a forum of ideas with no agenda for <br /> action. He told participants that they had no choice but to address <br /> the question of power: &quot;We must have a strategy of 'counter-power.' <br /> We, the social movements and political movements, must be able to <br /> move into spaces of power at the local, national, and regional level.&quot;<br /> <br /> Developing a strategy of counter-power or counter-hegemony need not <br /> mean lapsing back into the old hierarchical and centralized modes of <br /> organizing characteristic of the old left. Such a strategy can, in <br /> fact, be best advanced through the multilevel and horizontal <br /> networking that the movements and organizations represented in the <br /> WSF have excelled in advancing their particular struggles. <br /> Articulating their struggles in action will mean forging a common <br /> strategy while drawing strength from and respecting diversity.<br /> <br /> After the disappointment that was Nairobi, many long-standing <br /> participants in the Forum are asking themselves: Is the WSF still the <br /> most appropriate vehicle for the new stage in the struggle of the <br /> global justice and peace movement? Or, having fulfilled its historic <br /> function of aggregating and linking the diverse counter-movements <br /> spawned by global capitalism, is it time for the WSF to fold up its <br /> tent and give way to new modes of global organization of resistance <br /> and transformation?<br /> <br /> ''* Walden Bello is a senior analyst with Focus on the Global South, the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute, and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines. Published by Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a joint project of the International Relations Center (IRC, online at http://www.irc-online.org) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, online at http://www.ips-dc.org) Copyright © 2007, International Relations Center. All rights reserved.''<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF2007]]<br /> [[Category:Belem WSF2009]]<br /> Category:Proposals</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/World_Social_Forum_at_a_Crossroad 2008-02-01T07:08:41Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>==World Social Forum at A crossroad by ''Walden Bello''==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> Walden Bello wrestles with the question: Has the WSF become simply a <br /> forum of ideas with no agenda for action?<br /> <br /> A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was <br /> reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF) in <br /> Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001.<br /> <br /> The WSF was the brainchild of social movements loosely associated <br /> with the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil. Strong support for the idea <br /> was given at an early stage by the ATTAC movement in France, key <br /> figures of which were connected with the newspaper Le Monde <br /> Diplomatique. In Asia, the Brazilian proposal, floated in June 2000, <br /> received the early enthusiastic endorsement of, among others, the <br /> research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South based in <br /> Bangkok.<br /> <br /> Porto Alegre was meant to be a counterpoint to &quot;Davos,&quot; the annual <br /> event in a resort town in the Swiss Alps where the world's most <br /> powerful business and political figures congregated annually to spot <br /> and assess the latest trends in global affairs. Indeed, the highlight <br /> of the first WSF was a televised transcontinental debate between <br /> George Soros and other figures in Davos with representatives of <br /> social movements gathered in Porto Alegre.<br /> <br /> The world of Davos was contrasted to the world of Porto Alegre, the <br /> world of the global rich with the world of the rest of humanity. It <br /> was this contrast that gave rise to the very resonant theme &quot;Another <br /> world is possible.&quot;<br /> <br /> There was another important symbolic dimension: while Seattle was the <br /> site of the first major victory of the transnational anti-corporate <br /> globalization movement -- the collapse amidst massive street protests <br /> of the third ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization -- <br /> Porto Alegre represented the transfer to the South of the center of <br /> gravity of that movement. Proclaimed as an &quot;open space,&quot; the WSF <br /> became a magnet for global networks focused on different issues, from <br /> war to globalization to communalism to racism to gender oppression to <br /> alternatives. Regional versions of the WSF were spun off, the most <br /> important being the European Social Forum and the African Social <br /> Forum; and in scores of cities throughout the world, local social <br /> fora were held and institutionalized.<br /> <br /> ====The Functions of the WSF==== <br /> Since its establishment, the WSF has performed three critical <br /> functions for global civil society:<br /> <br /> First, it represents a space -- both physical and temporal -- for <br /> this diverse movement to meet, network, and, quite simply, to feel <br /> and affirm itself.<br /> <br /> Second, it is a retreat during which the movement gathers its <br /> energies and charts the directions of its continuing drive to <br /> confront and roll back the processes, institutions, and structures of <br /> global capitalism. Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, underlined this <br /> function when she told a Porto Alegre audience in January 2002 that <br /> the need of the moment was &quot;less civil society and more civil <br /> disobedience.&quot;<br /> <br /> Third, the WSF provides a site and space for the movement to <br /> elaborate, discuss, and debate the vision, values, and institutions <br /> of an alternative world order built on a real community of interests. <br /> The WSF is, indeed, a macrocosm of so many smaller but equally <br /> significant enterprises carried out throughout the world by millions <br /> who have told the reformists, the cynics, and the &quot;realists&quot; to move <br /> aside because, indeed, another world is possible�and necessary.<br /> <br /> ====Direct Democracy in Action====<br /> The WSF and its many offspring are significant not only as sites of <br /> affirmation and debate but also as direct democracy in action. Agenda <br /> and meetings are planned with meticulous attention to democratic <br /> process. Through a combination of periodic face-to-face meetings and <br /> intense email and Internet contact in between, the WSF network was <br /> able to pull off events and arrive at consensus decisions. At times, <br /> this could be very time-consuming and also frustrating, and when you <br /> were part of an organizing effort involving hundreds of <br /> organizations, as we at Focus on the Global South were during the <br /> organizing of the 2004 WSF in Mumbai, it could be very frustrating <br /> indeed.<br /> <br /> But this was direct democracy, and direct democracy was at its best <br /> at the WSF. One might say, parenthetically, that the direct <br /> democratic experiences of Seattle, Prague, Genoa, and the other big <br /> mobilizations of the decade were institutionalized in the WSF or <br /> Porto Alegre process.<br /> <br /> The central principle of the organizing approach of the new movement <br /> is that getting to the desired objective is not worth it if the <br /> methods violate democratic process, if democratic goals are reached <br /> via authoritarian means. Perhaps Subcomandante Marcos of the <br /> Zapatistas best expressed the organizing bias of the new movements: <br /> &quot;The movement has no future if its future is military. If the EZLN <br /> [Zapatistas] perpetuates itself as an armed military structure, it is <br /> headed for failure. Failure as an alternative set of ideas, an <br /> alternative attitude to the world. The worst that could happen to it <br /> apart from that, would be for it to come to power and install itself <br /> there as a revolutionary army.&quot; The WSF shares this perspective.<br /> <br /> What is interesting is that there has hardly been an attempt by any <br /> group or network to &quot;take over&quot; the WSF process. Quite a number of <br /> &quot;old movement&quot; groups participate in the WSF, including old-line <br /> &quot;democratic centralist&quot; parties as well as traditional social <br /> democratic parties affiliated with the Socialist International. Yet <br /> none of these has put much effort into steering the WSF towards more <br /> centralized or hierarchical modes of organizing. At the same time, <br /> despite their suspicion of political parties, the &quot;new movements&quot; <br /> never sought to exclude the parties and their affiliates from playing <br /> a significant role in the Forum. Indeed, the 2004 WSF in Mumbai was <br /> organized jointly by an unlikely coalition of social movements and <br /> Marxist Leninist parties, a set of actors that are not known for <br /> harmonious relations on the domestic front.<br /> <br /> Perhaps a compelling reason for the modus vivendi of the old and new <br /> movements was the realization that they needed one another in the <br /> struggle against global capitalism and that the strength of the <br /> fledgling global movement lay in a strategy of decentralized <br /> networking that rested not on the doctrinal belief that one class was <br /> destined to lead the struggle but on the reality of the common <br /> marginalization of practically all subordinate classes, strata, and <br /> groups under the reign of global capital.<br /> <br /> What Constitutes &quot;Open Space&quot;T CONSTITUTES &quot;OPEN SPACE&quot;<br /> The WSF has, however, not been exempt from criticism, even from its <br /> own ranks. One in particular appears to have merit. This is the <br /> charge that the WSF as an institution is unanchored in actual global <br /> political struggles, and this is turning it into an annual festival <br /> with limited social impact.<br /> <br /> There is, in my view, a not insignificant truth to this. Many of the <br /> founders of the WSF have interpreted the &quot;open space&quot; concept in a <br /> liberal fashion, that is, for the WSF not to explicit endorse any <br /> political position or particular struggle, though its constituent <br /> groups are free to do so.<br /> <br /> Others have disagreed, saying the idea of an &quot;open space&quot; should be <br /> interpreted in a partisan fashion, as explicitly promoting some views <br /> over others and as openly taking sides in key global struggles. In <br /> this view, the WSF is under an illusion that it can stand above the <br /> fray, and this will lead to its becoming some sort of neutral forum, <br /> where discussion will increasingly be isolated from action. The <br /> energy of civil society networks derives from their being engaged in <br /> political struggles, say proponents of this perspective. The reason <br /> that the WSF was so exciting in its early years was because of its <br /> affective impact: it provided an opportunity to recreate and reaffirm <br /> solidarity against injustice, against war, and for a world that was <br /> not subjected to the rule of empire and capital. The WSF's not taking <br /> a stand on the Iraq War, on the Palestine issue, and on the WTO is <br /> said to be making it less relevant and less inspiring to many of the <br /> networks it had brought together.<br /> <br /> ====Caracas Versus Nairobi====<br /> This is why the 6th WSF held in Caracas in January 2006 was so <br /> bracing and reinvigorating: it inserted some 50,000 delegates into <br /> the storm center of an ongoing struggle against empire, where they <br /> mingled with militant Venezuelans, mostly the poor, engaged in a <br /> process of social transformation, while observing other Venezuelans, <br /> mostly the elite and middle class, engaged in bitter opposition. <br /> Caracas was an exhilarating reality check.<br /> <br /> This is also the reason why the Seventh WSF held in Nairobi was so <br /> disappointing, since its politics was so diluted and big business <br /> interests linked to the Kenyan ruling elite were so brazen in <br /> commercializing it. Even Petrobras, the Brazilian state corporation <br /> that is a leading exploiter of the natural resource wealth of Latin <br /> America, was busy trumpeting itself as a friend of the Forum. There <br /> was a strong sense of going backward rather than forward in Nairobi.<br /> <br /> The WSF is at a crossroads. Hugo Chavez captured the essence of the <br /> conjuncture when he warned delegates in January 2006 about the danger <br /> of the WSF becoming simply a forum of ideas with no agenda for <br /> action. He told participants that they had no choice but to address <br /> the question of power: &quot;We must have a strategy of 'counter-power.' <br /> We, the social movements and political movements, must be able to <br /> move into spaces of power at the local, national, and regional level.&quot;<br /> <br /> Developing a strategy of counter-power or counter-hegemony need not <br /> mean lapsing back into the old hierarchical and centralized modes of <br /> organizing characteristic of the old left. Such a strategy can, in <br /> fact, be best advanced through the multilevel and horizontal <br /> networking that the movements and organizations represented in the <br /> WSF have excelled in advancing their particular struggles. <br /> Articulating their struggles in action will mean forging a common <br /> strategy while drawing strength from and respecting diversity.<br /> <br /> After the disappointment that was Nairobi, many long-standing <br /> participants in the Forum are asking themselves: Is the WSF still the <br /> most appropriate vehicle for the new stage in the struggle of the <br /> global justice and peace movement? Or, having fulfilled its historic <br /> function of aggregating and linking the diverse counter-movements <br /> spawned by global capitalism, is it time for the WSF to fold up its <br /> tent and give way to new modes of global organization of resistance <br /> and transformation?<br /> <br /> ''* Walden Bello is a senior analyst with Focus on the Global South, the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute, and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines. Published by Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a joint project of the International Relations Center (IRC, online at http://www.irc-online.org) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, online at http://www.ips-dc.org) Copyright © 2007, International Relations Center. All rights reserved.''<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF2007]]<br /> [[Category:Belem WSF2009]]<br /> Category:Proposals</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/World_Social_Forum_at_a_Crossroad 2008-02-01T07:01:07Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>===World Social Forum at A crossroad by ''Walden Bello''===<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> Walden Bello wrestles with the question: Has the WSF become simply a <br /> forum of ideas with no agenda for action?<br /> <br /> A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was <br /> reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF) in <br /> Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001.<br /> <br /> The WSF was the brainchild of social movements loosely associated <br /> with the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil. Strong support for the idea <br /> was given at an early stage by the ATTAC movement in France, key <br /> figures of which were connected with the newspaper Le Monde <br /> Diplomatique. In Asia, the Brazilian proposal, floated in June 2000, <br /> received the early enthusiastic endorsement of, among others, the <br /> research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South based in <br /> Bangkok.<br /> <br /> Porto Alegre was meant to be a counterpoint to &quot;Davos,&quot; the annual <br /> event in a resort town in the Swiss Alps where the world's most <br /> powerful business and political figures congregated annually to spot <br /> and assess the latest trends in global affairs. Indeed, the highlight <br /> of the first WSF was a televised transcontinental debate between <br /> George Soros and other figures in Davos with representatives of <br /> social movements gathered in Porto Alegre.<br /> <br /> The world of Davos was contrasted to the world of Porto Alegre, the <br /> world of the global rich with the world of the rest of humanity. It <br /> was this contrast that gave rise to the very resonant theme &quot;Another <br /> world is possible.&quot;<br /> <br /> There was another important symbolic dimension: while Seattle was the <br /> site of the first major victory of the transnational anti-corporate <br /> globalization movement -- the collapse amidst massive street protests <br /> of the third ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization -- <br /> Porto Alegre represented the transfer to the South of the center of <br /> gravity of that movement. Proclaimed as an &quot;open space,&quot; the WSF <br /> became a magnet for global networks focused on different issues, from <br /> war to globalization to communalism to racism to gender oppression to <br /> alternatives. Regional versions of the WSF were spun off, the most <br /> important being the European Social Forum and the African Social <br /> Forum; and in scores of cities throughout the world, local social <br /> fora were held and institutionalized.<br /> <br /> ===The Functions of the WSF==== <br /> Since its establishment, the WSF has performed three critical <br /> functions for global civil society:<br /> <br /> First, it represents a space -- both physical and temporal -- for <br /> this diverse movement to meet, network, and, quite simply, to feel <br /> and affirm itself.<br /> <br /> Second, it is a retreat during which the movement gathers its <br /> energies and charts the directions of its continuing drive to <br /> confront and roll back the processes, institutions, and structures of <br /> global capitalism. Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, underlined this <br /> function when she told a Porto Alegre audience in January 2002 that <br /> the need of the moment was &quot;less civil society and more civil <br /> disobedience.&quot;<br /> <br /> Third, the WSF provides a site and space for the movement to <br /> elaborate, discuss, and debate the vision, values, and institutions <br /> of an alternative world order built on a real community of interests. <br /> The WSF is, indeed, a macrocosm of so many smaller but equally <br /> significant enterprises carried out throughout the world by millions <br /> who have told the reformists, the cynics, and the &quot;realists&quot; to move <br /> aside because, indeed, another world is possible�and necessary.<br /> <br /> ====Direct Democracy in Action====<br /> The WSF and its many offspring are significant not only as sites of <br /> affirmation and debate but also as direct democracy in action. Agenda <br /> and meetings are planned with meticulous attention to democratic <br /> process. Through a combination of periodic face-to-face meetings and <br /> intense email and Internet contact in between, the WSF network was <br /> able to pull off events and arrive at consensus decisions. At times, <br /> this could be very time-consuming and also frustrating, and when you <br /> were part of an organizing effort involving hundreds of <br /> organizations, as we at Focus on the Global South were during the <br /> organizing of the 2004 WSF in Mumbai, it could be very frustrating <br /> indeed.<br /> <br /> But this was direct democracy, and direct democracy was at its best <br /> at the WSF. One might say, parenthetically, that the direct <br /> democratic experiences of Seattle, Prague, Genoa, and the other big <br /> mobilizations of the decade were institutionalized in the WSF or <br /> Porto Alegre process.<br /> <br /> The central principle of the organizing approach of the new movement <br /> is that getting to the desired objective is not worth it if the <br /> methods violate democratic process, if democratic goals are reached <br /> via authoritarian means. Perhaps Subcomandante Marcos of the <br /> Zapatistas best expressed the organizing bias of the new movements: <br /> &quot;The movement has no future if its future is military. If the EZLN <br /> [Zapatistas] perpetuates itself as an armed military structure, it is <br /> headed for failure. Failure as an alternative set of ideas, an <br /> alternative attitude to the world. The worst that could happen to it <br /> apart from that, would be for it to come to power and install itself <br /> there as a revolutionary army.&quot; The WSF shares this perspective.<br /> <br /> What is interesting is that there has hardly been an attempt by any <br /> group or network to &quot;take over&quot; the WSF process. Quite a number of <br /> &quot;old movement&quot; groups participate in the WSF, including old-line <br /> &quot;democratic centralist&quot; parties as well as traditional social <br /> democratic parties affiliated with the Socialist International. Yet <br /> none of these has put much effort into steering the WSF towards more <br /> centralized or hierarchical modes of organizing. At the same time, <br /> despite their suspicion of political parties, the &quot;new movements&quot; <br /> never sought to exclude the parties and their affiliates from playing <br /> a significant role in the Forum. Indeed, the 2004 WSF in Mumbai was <br /> organized jointly by an unlikely coalition of social movements and <br /> Marxist Leninist parties, a set of actors that are not known for <br /> harmonious relations on the domestic front.<br /> <br /> Perhaps a compelling reason for the modus vivendi of the old and new <br /> movements was the realization that they needed one another in the <br /> struggle against global capitalism and that the strength of the <br /> fledgling global movement lay in a strategy of decentralized <br /> networking that rested not on the doctrinal belief that one class was <br /> destined to lead the struggle but on the reality of the common <br /> marginalization of practically all subordinate classes, strata, and <br /> groups under the reign of global capital.<br /> <br /> What Constitutes &quot;Open Space&quot;T CONSTITUTES &quot;OPEN SPACE&quot;<br /> The WSF has, however, not been exempt from criticism, even from its <br /> own ranks. One in particular appears to have merit. This is the <br /> charge that the WSF as an institution is unanchored in actual global <br /> political struggles, and this is turning it into an annual festival <br /> with limited social impact.<br /> <br /> There is, in my view, a not insignificant truth to this. Many of the <br /> founders of the WSF have interpreted the &quot;open space&quot; concept in a <br /> liberal fashion, that is, for the WSF not to explicit endorse any <br /> political position or particular struggle, though its constituent <br /> groups are free to do so.<br /> <br /> Others have disagreed, saying the idea of an &quot;open space&quot; should be <br /> interpreted in a partisan fashion, as explicitly promoting some views <br /> over others and as openly taking sides in key global struggles. In <br /> this view, the WSF is under an illusion that it can stand above the <br /> fray, and this will lead to its becoming some sort of neutral forum, <br /> where discussion will increasingly be isolated from action. The <br /> energy of civil society networks derives from their being engaged in <br /> political struggles, say proponents of this perspective. The reason <br /> that the WSF was so exciting in its early years was because of its <br /> affective impact: it provided an opportunity to recreate and reaffirm <br /> solidarity against injustice, against war, and for a world that was <br /> not subjected to the rule of empire and capital. The WSF's not taking <br /> a stand on the Iraq War, on the Palestine issue, and on the WTO is <br /> said to be making it less relevant and less inspiring to many of the <br /> networks it had brought together.<br /> <br /> ====Caracas Versus Nairobi====<br /> This is why the 6th WSF held in Caracas in January 2006 was so <br /> bracing and reinvigorating: it inserted some 50,000 delegates into <br /> the storm center of an ongoing struggle against empire, where they <br /> mingled with militant Venezuelans, mostly the poor, engaged in a <br /> process of social transformation, while observing other Venezuelans, <br /> mostly the elite and middle class, engaged in bitter opposition. <br /> Caracas was an exhilarating reality check.<br /> <br /> This is also the reason why the Seventh WSF held in Nairobi was so <br /> disappointing, since its politics was so diluted and big business <br /> interests linked to the Kenyan ruling elite were so brazen in <br /> commercializing it. Even Petrobras, the Brazilian state corporation <br /> that is a leading exploiter of the natural resource wealth of Latin <br /> America, was busy trumpeting itself as a friend of the Forum. There <br /> was a strong sense of going backward rather than forward in Nairobi.<br /> <br /> The WSF is at a crossroads. Hugo Chavez captured the essence of the <br /> conjuncture when he warned delegates in January 2006 about the danger <br /> of the WSF becoming simply a forum of ideas with no agenda for <br /> action. He told participants that they had no choice but to address <br /> the question of power: &quot;We must have a strategy of 'counter-power.' <br /> We, the social movements and political movements, must be able to <br /> move into spaces of power at the local, national, and regional level.&quot;<br /> <br /> Developing a strategy of counter-power or counter-hegemony need not <br /> mean lapsing back into the old hierarchical and centralized modes of <br /> organizing characteristic of the old left. Such a strategy can, in <br /> fact, be best advanced through the multilevel and horizontal <br /> networking that the movements and organizations represented in the <br /> WSF have excelled in advancing their particular struggles. <br /> Articulating their struggles in action will mean forging a common <br /> strategy while drawing strength from and respecting diversity.<br /> <br /> After the disappointment that was Nairobi, many long-standing <br /> participants in the Forum are asking themselves: Is the WSF still the <br /> most appropriate vehicle for the new stage in the struggle of the <br /> global justice and peace movement? Or, having fulfilled its historic <br /> function of aggregating and linking the diverse counter-movements <br /> spawned by global capitalism, is it time for the WSF to fold up its <br /> tent and give way to new modes of global organization of resistance <br /> and transformation?<br /> <br /> ''* Walden Bello is a senior analyst with Focus on the Global South, the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute, and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines. Published by Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a joint project of the International Relations Center (IRC, online at http://www.irc-online.org) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, online at http://www.ips-dc.org) Copyright © 2007, International Relations Center. All rights reserved.''</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T08:54:24Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left| Wsflibrary WebTeam]]<br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts on post-election violence'' <br /> <br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the pressfreedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous. I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the strongest terms possible. ''Esther Obachi'' [[User:Obachi]],'' member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008'' <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Gender_issues_and_women_struggles 2008-01-29T06:48:35Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>''This page is about the activities of the Nairobi World Social Forum 2007 on Gender issues and women struggles.It also highlights some of the proposals of the Forum on Gender issues and women struggles which inlude and not limited to;''<br /> <br /> 29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.<br /> <br /> We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within. <br /> <br /> 32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.<br /> A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy. <br /> <br /> 33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.<br /> Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Actionable themes]]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Gender_issues_and_women_struggles 2008-01-29T06:46:17Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>''This page is about the activities of the Nairobi World Social Forum 2007 on Gender issues and women struggles.It also highlights some of the proposals of the Forum on Gender issues and women struggles which inlude and not limited to;''<br /> 29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.<br /> <br /> We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within. <br /> <br /> 32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.<br /> A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy. <br /> <br /> 33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.<br /> Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Actionable themes]]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Gender_issues_and_women_struggles 2008-01-29T06:45:26Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>''====This page is about the activities of the Nairobi World Social Forum 2007 on Gender issues and women struggles.It also highlights some of the proposals of the Forum on Gender issues and women struggles which inlude and not limited to;''===<br /> 29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.<br /> <br /> We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within. <br /> <br /> 32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.<br /> A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy. <br /> <br /> 33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.<br /> Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Actionable themes]]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Gender_issues_and_women_struggles 2008-01-29T06:40:06Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>This page is about the activities of the Nairobi World Social Forum 2007 on Gender issues and women struggles.<br /> It has highlights some of the proposals of the Forum on Gender issues and women struggles which inlude and not limited to;<br /> <br /> 29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.<br /> <br /> We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within. <br /> <br /> 32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.<br /> A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy. <br /> <br /> 33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.<br /> Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Actionable themes]]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:33:49Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left| Wsflibrary WebTeam]]<br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' <br /> <br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the pressfreedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous. I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the strongest terms possible. ''Esther Obachi'' [[User:Obachi]],'' member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008'' <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:33:13Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left| Wsflibrary WebTeam]]<br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' <br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the pressfreedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous. I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the strongest terms possible. ''Esther Obachi'' [[User:Obachi]],'' member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008'' <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:32:16Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left| Wsflibrary WebTeam]]<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' <br /> <br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the pressfreedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous. I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the strongest terms possible. ''Esther Obachi'' [[User:Obachi]],'' member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008'' <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:31:21Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left| Wsflibrary WebTeam]]<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' <br /> <br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the pressfreedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous. I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. ''Esther Obachi'' [[User:Obachi]],'' member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008'' <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:29:54Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left| Wsflibrary WebTeam]]<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' <br /> <br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the pressfreedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous. I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. <br /> <br /> Esther Obachi [[User:Obachi]], member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:28:35Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left Wsflibrary WebTeam]]<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' <br /> <br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the press<br /> freedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous.<br /> I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it<br /> is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the<br /> way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As<br /> information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. <br /> <br /> Esther Obachi [[User:Obachi]], member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:27:11Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left]]<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the press<br /> freedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous.<br /> I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it<br /> is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the<br /> way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As<br /> information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. <br /> <br /> Esther Obachi [[User:Obachi]], member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:23:33Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left|Wsflibrary webteam]]<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence'' At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the press<br /> freedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous.<br /> I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it<br /> is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the<br /> way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As<br /> information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. <br /> <br /> Esther Obachi [[User:Obachi]], member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:21:53Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left|Wsflibrary webteam]]<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence''<br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the press<br /> freedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous.<br /> I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it<br /> is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the<br /> way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As<br /> information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. <br /> <br /> Esther Obachi [[User:Obachi]], member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:19:45Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|Wsflibrary webteam]]<br /> ''Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence''<br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the press<br /> freedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous.<br /> I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it<br /> is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the<br /> way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As<br /> information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. <br /> <br /> Esther Obachi [[User:Obachi]], member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Wsflibrary.org 2008-01-29T06:18:35Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>----<br /> <br /> [[Image:OpeningCeremony.jpg|thumb|right|Opening Ceremony of the Nairobi WSF, 20 January 2007]]<br /> <br /> {| align=left<br /> |-<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''Logo: [[&quot;Asile&quot;]], by [[Franck Na]].''&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> : &lt;i&gt;Our goal is to create a permanent link between the Social Forum and the Library.&lt;/i&gt; [[Quotations]]. <br /> <br /> <br /> This site about the activities of the World Social Forum is part of the pilot project of [http://www.klas.or.ke Kenya Library Association (KLA)] <br /> and the [http://www.nigd.org/libraries Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)]. <br /> <br /> Wsflibrary.org was started in January 2007 at the time of the the WSF in Nairobi. <br /> Click [http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/Category:Nairobi_WSF_2007 Nairobi WSF 2007] for an overview of information collected by seventy East African librarians during the Nairobi WSF.<br /> <br /> American librarians got involved in the first [[USSF]] in Atlanta in June-July 2007. Activities for and by librarians are in preparation for the [[European Social Forum]] in Malmö, Sweden, in September 2008. Let's make the [[WSF 2009]] (to be held in Bel&amp;eacute;m, Brazil) more library-related than any previous WSF!<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Image:Wsflibrary-team.jpg|thumb|left|Wsflibrary webteam]]<br /> ===Kenya bans live broacasts of post-election violence===<br /> At the moment, my biggest problem is the interference with the press<br /> freedom. Kenya established the Media Council which ought to be autonomous.<br /> I would want it to act as such. This is the time to get information as it<br /> is. This is the time we need analysts to come out and show the country the<br /> way forward. The banning of live broadcasts should be condemned by all. As<br /> information managers we must condemn this action by the government in the<br /> strongest terms possible. <br /> <br /> Esther Obachi [[User:Obachi]], member of the webteam, 21 Jan 2008 <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> '''Pomoja tunaweza - Together we can!'''. We cooperate with the [[Memory Project]] of the WSF. <br /> <br /> Each page on this site has an own '''discussion page''' (linked via the upper bar). Use the discussions pages in case a controversy arises about content or expression on <br /> the information pages. <br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;''' More about [[The Pilot Project of Kenya Library Association]]<br /> &lt;/small&gt;</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-25T07:28:57Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.'''<br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.'''<br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ====37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found====<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> Adapted from [http://www.wsfprocess.net WSF]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-25T07:26:53Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.'''<br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.'''<br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ====37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found====<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> Adapted from [http://www.wsfprocess.net WSF]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-25T07:24:58Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.'''<br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.'''<br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ====37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found====<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> Adapted from [http://www.wsfprocess.net WSF]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-25T07:20:51Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.'''<br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.'''====<br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''====<br /> <br /> ====37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''====<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found====<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> Adapted from [http://www.wsfprocess.net WSF]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T08:22:18Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.'''----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.'''====<br /> <br /> 36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''====<br /> <br /> 37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''====<br /> <br /> 39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found====<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> Adapted from [http://www.wsfprocess.net WSF]<br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T08:13:49Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> ''''''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.''''''<br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> <br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ====37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found====<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> <br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T08:06:55Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> ''''''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.''''''----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> <br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ====37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found====<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> <br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T08:02:57Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's.'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival.'''<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> <br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ===37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found===<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> <br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T07:51:56Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women's movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival'''.<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women's income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women's relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women's Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF's and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship's will be advanced to connect younger women's struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> <br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ===37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ====400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found===<br /> <br /> ====218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ====229 Train women on computers and value their skills====<br /> <br /> [[Category:Gender issues and women struggles]]<br /> [[Category:Nairobi WSF 2007]]<br /> [[Category:Proposals 2007]]</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T07:41:42Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> <br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women�s movement will hold two festivals====<br /> <br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival'''.<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> <br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> <br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women�s income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women�s relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women�s Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> <br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF�s and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship�s will be advanced to connect younger women�s struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> <br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ===37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ===39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ===400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found===<br /> <br /> ===218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ===229 Train women on computers and value their skills===</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T07:36:32Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> <br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women�s movement will hold two festivals====<br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central platform in the festival'''.<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> <br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> <br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women�s income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> <br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women�s relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women�s Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> <br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF�s and other women's spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> <br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship�s will be advanced to connect younger women�s struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> <br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> <br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> <br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> <br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> <br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ===37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> <br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''<br /> <br /> ===39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''<br /> <br /> ===400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be found===<br /> <br /> ===218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ====<br /> <br /> ===229 Train women on computers and value their skills===</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T07:29:14Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women�s movement will hold two festivals====<br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central''' platform in the festival.<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women�s income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women�s relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women�s Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF�s and other women�s spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship�s will be advanced to connect younger women�s struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''<br /> <br /> ===37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''====<br /> <br /> 39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''==<br /> ===400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be foung===<br /> ===218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ===ibum ngo <br /> ===229 Train women on computers and value their skills===</div>

Loyce http://41.204.161.15/index.php/Proposals_on_Women_from_WSF2007 2008-01-24T07:25:24Z

<p>Loyce: </p> <hr /> <div>====21. We will continue to support women and men living in oil regions call to get TNC oil companies out of their countries.====<br /> '''We will make a demand for petroleum and uranium to be left in the ground. We will take direct action, coordinated and simultaneous action to shut down oil TNC's'''<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Free Mother Earth from the Market==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====22. We will argue for a post hydrocarbon world that is one of subsistence and greater regional autonomy and self-sufficiency.====<br /> <br /> ====23. The Feminist Dialogues will organise an international conference on fundamentalism of all religions to free the world from fundamentalism. ====<br /> '''March 8 2007 has bee declared as a global day of action. Women for a World Free from Fundamentalism. A website will be created for women's experiences of anti-fundamentalist struggles.'''<br /> ====24. African women will plan a Dignity Forum in Africa, a space that will bring together indigenous people of the world, the Dalits, Khoi and others.==== <br /> <br /> ====25. The concept of dignity will be expanded integrated into the Anti-trafficking activities.==== <br /> <br /> ====26. A visibility campaign will be launched to expose trafficking of humans as a crime against humanity. Women will engage police agencies in the struggle again human trafficking.====<br /> <br /> ====27. The trade networks in the African women�s movement will hold two festivals====<br /> '''One in Uganda June 2007 the other in March 2008 that explores alternatives to trade that enable rural women to trade their goods, finance their production and exchange seeds to support peasant farmers and rural livelihoods. Food Sovereignty the right to land and natural resources will be a central''' platform in the festival.<br /> <br /> ====28. The Courts of Women will redefine poverty as a deliberate form of slavery new apartheid that deepens structural violence and poverty.====<br /> '''African women will use this analysis to confront created scarcity and challenge the dominant concepts and categories that are unable to grasp the fact that poverty is genocide.'''==Slogan: Another Political Imaginary is Possible==<br /> <br /> ====29. Women of the world will support the self determination and political participation of women emerging out of conflict such as the DRC, Iraq in the democratisation processes of their countries.====<br /> '''We will support political literacy to enable women to take positions of decision-making to assist them transform institutions from within.'''<br /> ====30. The Right to Work and Decent Work====<br /> '''Campaign will be launched through a common day of action in support of women working in the formal and informal sectors. An international conference on women�s income, right to work, and reproductive work will be held.'''<br /> ====31. The World March for Women will be intensified by fermenting a feminist revolution from grassroots levels, reconstruct women�s relationship with the environment. Women�s mobilisation will be launched against G8 June 2007.====<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ==Slogan: Mobilise, Organise and Unite Women�s Struggles==<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ====32. The women's movement will challenge constructs and concepts around media, technologies that perpetuate neoliberalism and advance fundamentalism and militarism.====<br /> '''A campaign will be launched to ensure that information and communication are public goods that should promote citizenship, participation, democracy not profit. It will affirm and centre indigenous and women's knowledge as a value and wisdom that contributes to humanity. Work with women's media networks on a multimedia strategy.'''<br /> ====33. The women's movement will ensure that future WSF�s and other women�s spaces provide an intergenerational way of movement building that embraces and harnesses the participation of young women.====<br /> '''Young women will claim space for leadership. Mentorship�s will be advanced to connect younger women�s struggles wit other struggles around the world. Young women will organise a forum to protect them from violence.'''<br /> ====34. A writing, thinking and action series around the ethics of discomfort will be launched to raise urgent and new questions about reality and the actions taken, and about the practices of actors.====<br /> '''In essence, this will force us to invent new approaches modelled on impertinent knowledge, which questions the legitimacy of the traditional discourse. Uncertainty will become a powerful engine for change and action.'''<br /> ====35. Our use of the ethics of discomfort will allow us to disassociate ourselves from gender visions that de-politicise the transgressive content of existing social relations and make them sheer objects of technical analysis;====<br /> '''In rejecting poverty as the main object of analysis and the shift of focus on to the inequity in the distribution of wealth, as the only option of moving towards social justice rather than charity.''' <br /> ====36. In the Multilateral such as the UN, WTO, IMF and BANK institutions, regional and national policies,====<br /> '''We will deconstruct and depoliticise the economy and shift to reconstruct and politicise politics, displacing the hegemony of the market over citizens while articulating social change. We will recover transgressive proposals at the level of the private sphere; imbue them with new political meaning to reveal the interrelationship between production and social reproduction. The national budget will be used as an entry point to challenge hegemonic market power in 2007 in various countries in Africa.'''====37. The Women's movements will work to transform the WSF space to ensure that women of the South from Africa, Asia, Latin America, play central roles in the IC, content and all working committees and space.==== <br /> '''It will demand the end of the ghettoisation of women who can not attend many forums because of lack of translation, high price of attendance and inadequate representation of women in the majority of the convergence space.'''<br /> ====38. Women of the world need the WSF as a space to learn to listen and to speak with plurality that we call the women's movement. We the women of the world will reformulate the question of power.==== <br /> '''We will repeat the formula to change the world we need to seize power, as we regain power we are organising it in the best way for the world.'''====39. For Women of the World, Hope is the very essence of popular movements. Nonconformity and discontent are not enough. Neither is critical awareness enough.==== <br /> '''People mobilise themselves when they think that their action may bring about a change, whey they have hope!'''==<br /> ===400 Launch a global campaign on women resource right agenda originals to be foung===<br /> ===218 Act to open up conversation on sex issues especially in Kenya rural areas ===ibum ngo <br /> ===229 Train women on computers and value their skills===</div>

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