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User:Sharon

2010-02-08T07:19:59Z

Sharon:

[[Image:sharonalison.a.bmp]]
My name is Sharon Alison Nabitotto from Uganda,I work with [http://www.ucu.ac.ug. Uganda Christian University mukono] '''''A centre of excellence in the heart of Africa '''''as an Assistant Librarian.
I am a LIS proffessional.I obtained my degree in library and information science from Makerere University[http://easlis.mak.ac.ug. EASLIS].I mainly deal with classification,cataloguing,online searching,bookmarking,accessioning,issuing materials to library users hence charge of circulation

[[Image:sharonalberto.2.1.bmp|thumb]]

Check my photograph and son George.
My main concern at wsf activities is on the following:

[[Peace and War]]

[[Land issue:sharon's blog]]

User:Sharon

2007-12-05T16:10:56Z

Sharon:

[[Image:sharonalison.a.bmp]]
My name is Sharon Alison Nabitotto from Uganda,I work with [http://www.ucu.ac.ug. Uganda Christian University mukono] '''''A centre of excellence in the heart of Africa '''''as an Assistant Librarian.
I am a LIS proffessional.I obtained my degree in library and information science from Makerere University[http://easlis.mak.ac.ug. EASLIS].I mainly deal with classification,online search,bookmarking,accessioning,issuing materials to library users hence charge of circulation

[[Image:sharonalberto.2.1.bmp|thumb]]

Check my photograph and son George.
My main concern at wsf activities is on the following:

[[Peace and War]]

[[Land issue:sharon's blog]]

User:Sharon

2007-12-05T16:02:39Z

Sharon:

[[Image:sharonalison.a.bmp]]
My name is Sharon Alison Nabitotto from Uganda,I work with [http://www.ucu.ac.ug. Uganda Christian University mukono] '''''A centre of excellence in the heart of Africa '''''as an Assistant Librarian.
I am a LIS proffessional.I obtained my degree in library and information science from Makerere University[http://easlis.mak.ac.ug. EASLIS].I mainly deal with classification,online search,bookmarking,accessioning,issuing materials to library users hence charge of circulation

[[Image:sharonalberto.2.1.bmp|thumb]]

Check my photograph and son George.
My main concern at wsf activities is on the following:
[[Peace and War]]

[[Land issue:sharon's blog]]

User:Sharon

2007-12-05T16:01:46Z

Sharon:

[[Image:sharonalison.a.bmp]]
My name is Sharon Alison Nabitotto from Uganda,I work with [http://www.ucu.ac.ug. Uganda Christian University mukono] '''''A centre of excellence in the heart of Africa '''''as an Assistant Librarian.
I am a LIS proffessional.I obtained my degree in library and information science from Makerere University[http://easlis.mak.ac.ug. EASLIS].I mainly deal with classification,online search,bookmaking,accessioning,issuing materials to library users hence change of circulation

[[Image:sharonalberto.2.1.bmp|thumb]]

Check my photograph and son George.
My main concern at wsf activities is on the following:
[[Peace and War]]

[[Land issue:sharon's blog]]

Category:Peace and war

2007-12-05T12:36:43Z

Sharon:

This is the page that shows world social forum activities on peace and war.
[[Category:Peace and war]]
Peace and War

Category:Peace and war

2007-12-05T12:34:05Z

Sharon:

This is the page that shows world social forum activities on peace and war.
[[Category:Peace and war]]
Peace and War

�When Bush comes to shove –�resist!’

[Author: Susan Webb.google search]

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/31/04 00:00

MUMBAI, India – “Imagine all the people living life in peace ...”

The voices of many continents mingled in a song that has become an anthem of the worldwide peace movement, as Brazilian singer and minister of culture Gilberto Gil sang John Lennon�s �Imagine”�to thousands gathered in this vast Indian metropolis for the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum, Jan. 21.

Voicing a dominant theme of the global event, which brought 100,000 participants here under the banner �Another World Is Possible,”�Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir delivered an emotional, stinging indictment of George W. Bush�s war policies. Like many others, she called for the U.S. to end its occupation of Iraq and to dismantle its military bases around the world.

Winding up the Forum�s five days of meetings, parades and performances, peace, labor, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout India and 130 other countries headed home pledging to build a more powerful united global movement against the Bush administration�s policies of militarism and aggression.

First on their �to-do”�list will be mobilizing for mass demonstrations around the globe on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq.

Danielle Aurol, a French Green Party member of the European parliament, said, �I will be out there demonstrating in Paris, because we don�t accept the way Bush is acting.”�Gulbadan Azam, a Pakistani women�s rights activist, carried a poster throughout the Forum that said, �When Bush comes to shove –�resist!”�Azam said, �The planned demonstrations on March 20 are very important for peace. We have to challenge the U.S. agenda in so many ways, through dance, art and powerful protests.”

American Friends Service Committee representative Joe Gerson told a reporter at the Forum that he was not surprised by the unanimous anti-Bush sentiments expressed at the World Social Forum. �But these people are our allies,”�said Gerson, who also represented the national U.S. peace coalition United for Peace and Justice, which initiated the call for global antiwar actions on March 20. �The plans under way for March 20 will add to the pressure Bush is under since Iraq was invaded,”�he said, adding, �You cannot let this first anniversary of the war go unmarked. It will demonstrate that there is a moral and political force opposed to the [U.S.] government.”

Also coming up is a heightened international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. At a session on the threat of nuclear war, participants mapped plans for a May 1 demonstration in New York City as the United Nations meets on the issue of nuclear proliferation. This campaign has been initiated by Mayors for Peace representing some 560 cities around the world, spearheaded by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Another well-attended strategy meeting including representatives from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Asian-Pacific region and other areas projected an international campaign against the 702 U.S. military bases and facilities circling the globe.

The planning for these international campaigns marks a significant new phase for the four-year-old World Social Forum phenomenon. WSF activists say the Forum, which has now become a recognized global people�s gathering point, is ready to expand from meeting place to mobilizer. At a panel titled �Neoliberalism and war and the significance of the World Social Forum,”�WSF international council members agreed that, while the Forum should continue its open, pluralistic character, it�s also time to build a movement.

Michael Warshawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, said last year�s massive Feb. 15 worldwide antiwar protests showed the WSF has the power to build global campaigns involving major social forces such as unions, farmers, and church activists. The World Social Forum, he said, must be �not only a place of discussion but action oriented.”

“We need to keep maximum unity and diversity, but at the same time give expression to the most important social forces,”�he said. �We can�t ignore the politics of power and simply be a love-in.”

Simon Bushielo, national secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said, �We need a solid program of action,”�carried out by national movements in their own countries.

At the WSF closing ceremony, in a huge field in the center of Mumbai, former president of India K.R. Narayanan hailed the World Social Forum�s �struggle against imperialism and globalization.”�Noting that the site of the Forum�s closing ceremony was the spot where the last battle of Indian independence was launched, Narayanan said, �Now, we are seeing a new struggle against the power of corporations and militarism.”

Inaddition,PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil –�Under the banner �No to militarization and war: another world is possible,”�the World Social Forum, a gigantic meeting of the world�s progressive movements, opened Jan. 23 with a march of up to 100,000 people from more than 100 countries, with flags and banners flying, through this lively port city.

With the threat of a U.S. attack on Iraq looming as the Forum opened, this gathering is expressing the overwhelming world opposition to the Bush administration�s drive for war and domination of the planet.

The World Social Forum (WSF) is organized around five thematic areas: democratic sustainable development; principles and values, human rights, diversity and equality; media, culture and counter-hegemony; political power, civil society and democracy; and democratic world order, fight against militarism and promoting peace. Over five days, thousands of people from the four corners of the globe, in a rainbow of colors and languages, are participating in an overwhelming array of conferences, panel debates, testimonies, �dialogue and controversy round tables,”�seminars and workshops.

From the United States, the AFL-CIO is represented by a delegation led by its Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. Jobs with Justice also has a sizable delegation, and there are progressive activists present from numerous other U.S. groups. U.S. participation is estimated at close to 1,000, more than double that of last year�s Forum, making it the second-largest country delegation after the host, Brazil.

The AFL-CIO is one of 50 members of the WSF International Council, which also includes the labor federations of Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea and others, and groups concerned with poverty, hunger, trade, the environment, indigenous peoples, and other humanitarian, social and economic issues. Other U.S. council members include 50 Years is Enough!, Global Exchange, Global Policy Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Public Citizen.

The World Social Forum is not an organization, and does not include political parties. It describes itself as �an open meeting place where social movements, networks, non-governmental organizations and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.”�The common goal: building �another world”�where the economy serves the people rather than corporate greed –�a more egalitarian, democratic, human-centered society.

The WSF arose out of the growing international anti-globalization movement that emerged in the late 1990s, most notably in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and those in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The movement�s theme was a refusal to accept the scenario of a world wholly controlled by the interests of transnational corporations and the super-rich.

The first World Social Forum met in Porto Alegre in January 2001. Symbolically, the Forum was held in a �third world”�country, at the same time as advocates of the �neo-liberal”�policies of capitalist globalization were meeting at their annual World Economic Forum in Davos, a luxury ski resort in Switzerland. Approximately 20,000 people from 117 countries participated in WSF 2001.

Since then, the WSF has been held each year in Porto Alegre, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum in Davos. WSF 2002 drew about 50,000 people from 123 countries. Next year�s WSF will be in India. In addition, there are Regional Forums every year.

The WSF Secretariat, which coordinates the planning and international outreach of the Forum, is made up of the organizations that initiated the first WSF: Brazilian Association of Non-Government Organizations (Abong), Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (Attac), Brazilian Justice and Peace Commission (CBJP), Brazilian Business Association for Citizenship (Cives), Central Workers Federation (CUT), Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Studies (Ibase), Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights.

The author can be reached at suewebb@pww.org. posted by sharon

User:Sharon/BlogEntry: 2007 December 04 12:19:10 EAT

2007-12-05T12:27:16Z

Sharon:

[[peace and war]]

Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of
violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across.
No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote
source :Monitor /through gooogle
so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

posted by sharon

User:Sharon/BlogEntry: 2007 December 04 12:19:10 EAT

2007-12-05T12:26:14Z

Sharon:

[[land issue]]

Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of
violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across.
No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote
source :Monitor /through gooogle
so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

posted by sharon

User talk:Sharon/BlogEntry: 2007 December 04 12:19:10 EAT

2007-12-05T12:23:54Z

Sharon:

Land disputes in uganda

2007-12-05T12:14:39Z

Sharon:

''Land is becoming aserious problem in Uganda''

Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across. No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote source :Monitor /through gooogle so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

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Land disputes in uganda

2007-12-05T12:14:15Z

Sharon:

''Land is becoming aserious problem in Uganda''
Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across. No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote source :Monitor /through gooogle so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

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Land disputes in uganda

2007-12-05T12:13:51Z

Sharon:

== ''Land is becoming aserious problem in Uganda'' ==
Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across. No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote source :Monitor /through gooogle so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

Retrieved from "http://www.wsflibrary.org/index.php/User_talk:Sharon/BlogEntry:_2007_December_04_12:19:10_EAT"

Land disputes in uganda

2007-12-05T12:13:23Z

Sharon:

Land disputes in uganda

2007-12-05T12:11:56Z

Sharon:

[[Land is becoming aserious problem in Uganda]]

Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across. No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote source :Monitor /through gooogle so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

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Food sovereignty,peasants and land reform

2007-12-05T07:32:41Z

Sharon:

This is the page for world social forum activies on food sovereignty,peasants and land reform.

[[Category:Actionable themes]]
[[Category:Food sovereignty, peasants and land reform]]

Category:Food sovereignty,peasants and land reform

2007-12-05T07:29:48Z

Sharon:

This category is for actvities on food sovereignity, peasants and land reform.

Food sovereignty,peasants and land reform

2007-12-05T07:29:13Z

Sharon:

This is the page for world social forum activies on food sovereignty,peasants and land reform.

[[Category:Actionable themes]]
[[Category:Food sovereignty,peasants and land reform]]

Food sovereignty,peasants and land reform

2007-12-05T07:27:25Z

Sharon:

This is the page for world social forum activies on food sovereignty,peasants and land reform.

[[Category:Actionable themes]]
[[Category:Food sovereignty,peasants and land reform.]]

Category:Food sovereignty, peasants and land reform

2007-12-05T07:26:45Z

Sharon:

This category is for WSF activities on Food sovereignty, peasants and land reform.

"LAND RIGHTS"

2007-12-05T07:17:31Z

Sharon:

== THE STRUGGLE FOR LAND RIGHTS AND LIVELIHOODS IN INDIA, ETHIOPIA, KENYA AND TANZANIA ==

'''REPORTED BY PETER GICHIRI'''

'''ORGANIZERS: ALLIANCE 2015 LIVELIHOODS WORKSHOP

'''PARTICIPANTS:

MALE 70

FEMALE 80

TOTAL 150'''

'''SPEAKERS:'''

1.KENNY MATAMPASH- KENYA-NEIHGBOURS INITIATIVE ALLIANCE

2.GIRMA AMENTIE-ETHIOPIA-CHILDREN AID ETHIOPIA

3.FOSIL-TSEGAYE-MULTIPURPOSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT- ETHIOPIA

4.HANNA ABANTE-WOMEN IN SELF-EMPLOYMENT -ETHIOPIA

5.MR. MAKABURI PHIL- TANZANIA- UNITED PEASANTS OF TANZANIA (UPT)

6.AJOY CHOWDHURI AND JULINA P. CHOWDHONO-INDIA'''

'''ISSUES COVERED'''

In Kenya, the problem of land ownership started with the scramble foe Africa when the white settlers forcibly took away the land from the locals. The pastrolists communities were the most affected

With time, even after the country became a republic, lands law continue serving those who have making the poor even poorer. To the Maasai, the land belonged to he cdommunity thus they do not believe in suvdividing it for individual use. The changing economies have really affected reaming about with their livestock as they used to do therefore, they feel marginalized. The neighbors Initiative Alliance is working with other civil societies and NGOs to mobilize their communities on the challenges they are facing. The pastoral communities in Kenya form about 58% of the population and therefore with good strategies they can change laws so that their cases are also addressed.

In Ethiopia and Tanzania, land belong to the government and therefoere civil societies have little say on matters to do with land. In Ethiopia the government can give the community based organization but then this land is enough to accommodate the poor and give them a source of livelihood.

Form the discussion it is clear that there is need to have the poor and marginalized access to land so that thy can earn a living.

In the four countries, women ad youth do not have the right to own land. Such laws need to be reviewed.

In Tanzania, the president is the custodian of the public land(land is owned by the state), that means he can make any decision on land without consulting. Such laws need to be changed.

Participants in this forum agreed to network and find lasting solutions to the land issue. this will be done through mobilizing local communities and other stake holders.
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Asserting People's food sovereignty

2007-12-05T07:15:44Z

Sharon:

'''Event'''

Asserting People's food sovereignty

Organizers Pellum Kenya ,Pellum Zambia

Farmers are the majority all over the world,2002 an organisation working with small scale farmers and they formed the WSF small scale farmers forum,
Farmers are very important because if they decide not to grow anything for even only a week,there will be a lot of crisis in the world,

'''Number of participants'''

Male 60

Female 70

Total 130

Majority were of Asian origin and Africans

'''Points raised'''

Farmers have to spear head poverty alleviation campaign.we need to eat our own food,we have to say no to foreign food

Farmers have and own the resources yet they do not control them
Ruth Msyoka are farmer in Machakos Vice chairperson of KESSFF in Arid areas,they are faced by many challenges

She advocates for use of our original and indigineous seeds,not the genetically modified ones
The genertically modified ones need chemicals,fertilizers e.t.c for them to do well yet the small scale farmers ave no money nor time,

The infracstructure is so bad and even if there is good harvest,there is no road to facilitate taking the produce to the market

In kenya 70% of small scale farmers are women.The same women have to do farming,taking care of childrenn including those orphaned by aids,collect fireowod e.t.c
The chairperson of the small scale farmers association of Uganda.She says the small demarcation of land makes farmers waste a lot of time moving from one place to another.it
Most farmers have been advised to stop growing their local food like sorghum and sweet potatoes.Instead they are told to plant things likes prrethrum,athenesia(malaria drug related plant.yet these are not edibles.At the end of it all they have no food.T

There are also price fluctations of these cash crops which make the farmers loose a lot.Most of these cash crops are also exported in raw form and this earns the farmer and the country very little.

Instead members should be encouraged to be educated to plant and grow and process their own idigenous crops.

God created human beings and gave them regions with different climatic factors that favour different parts of the world should enjoy the kind of food that does well there.
[[Category:Food sovereignty, peasants and land reform]]

Food sovereignty,peasants and land reform

2007-12-05T07:11:17Z

Sharon:

This is the page for worldm social forum activies on food sovereignty,peasants and land reform.

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2007-12-05T06:19:19Z

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My name is Sharon Alison Nabitotto from Uganda,I work with [http://www.ucu.ac.ug. Uganda Christian University mukono] '''''A centre of excellence in the heart of Africa '''''as an Assistant Librarian.
I am a LIS proffessional.I obtained my degree in library and information science from Makerere University[http://easlis.mak.ac.ug. EASLIS].

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2007-12-05T05:56:16Z

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I am a LIS proffessional.I obtained my degree in library and information science from Makerere University[http://easlis.mak.ac.ug. EASLIS].

[[Image:sharonalberto.2.1.bmp|thumb]]

Check my photograph and son George.

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2007-12-05T05:54:56Z

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Land issue:sharon's blog

2007-12-05T05:41:25Z

Sharon:

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Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squatters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recently by the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Buruli,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularise this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of
violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across.
No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote
source :Monitor /through gooogle
so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

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User:Sharon/BlogEntry: 2007 December 04 15:04:45 EAT

2007-12-04T12:23:33Z

Sharon:

''Northern Uganda gets ever closer to lasting peace after twenty years insurgency''

Tangibly,all it took was a stroke of apen to halt the restlessness that defined life in Northern Uganda.But it was more clearly more than just fine ink on white sheets of paper that gave Uganda's troubled Northern region it's longest era of peace in twenty years yet.

To be contd.

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2007-12-04T11:49:31Z

Sharon:

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2007-12-04T10:22:35Z

Sharon:

User:Sharon/BlogEntry: 2007 December 04 13:17:15 EAT

2007-12-04T10:21:45Z

Sharon:

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This is the second group managing the WSF website.

User talk:Sharon/BlogEntry: 2007 December 04 12:19:10 EAT

2007-12-04T10:04:45Z

Sharon:

[[Peace and War]]

Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of
violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across.
No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote
source :Monitor /through gooogle
so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

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2007-12-04T09:51:46Z

Sharon:

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�When Bush comes to shove –�resist!’

[Author: Susan Webb.google search]

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/31/04 00:00

MUMBAI, India – “Imagine all the people living life in peace ...”

The voices of many continents mingled in a song that has become an anthem of the worldwide peace movement, as Brazilian singer and minister of culture Gilberto Gil sang John Lennon�s �Imagine”�to thousands gathered in this vast Indian metropolis for the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum, Jan. 21.

Voicing a dominant theme of the global event, which brought 100,000 participants here under the banner �Another World Is Possible,”�Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir delivered an emotional, stinging indictment of George W. Bush�s war policies. Like many others, she called for the U.S. to end its occupation of Iraq and to dismantle its military bases around the world.

Winding up the Forum�s five days of meetings, parades and performances, peace, labor, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout India and 130 other countries headed home pledging to build a more powerful united global movement against the Bush administration�s policies of militarism and aggression.

First on their �to-do”�list will be mobilizing for mass demonstrations around the globe on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq.

Danielle Aurol, a French Green Party member of the European parliament, said, �I will be out there demonstrating in Paris, because we don�t accept the way Bush is acting.”�Gulbadan Azam, a Pakistani women�s rights activist, carried a poster throughout the Forum that said, �When Bush comes to shove –�resist!”�Azam said, �The planned demonstrations on March 20 are very important for peace. We have to challenge the U.S. agenda in so many ways, through dance, art and powerful protests.”

American Friends Service Committee representative Joe Gerson told a reporter at the Forum that he was not surprised by the unanimous anti-Bush sentiments expressed at the World Social Forum. �But these people are our allies,”�said Gerson, who also represented the national U.S. peace coalition United for Peace and Justice, which initiated the call for global antiwar actions on March 20. �The plans under way for March 20 will add to the pressure Bush is under since Iraq was invaded,”�he said, adding, �You cannot let this first anniversary of the war go unmarked. It will demonstrate that there is a moral and political force opposed to the [U.S.] government.”

Also coming up is a heightened international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. At a session on the threat of nuclear war, participants mapped plans for a May 1 demonstration in New York City as the United Nations meets on the issue of nuclear proliferation. This campaign has been initiated by Mayors for Peace representing some 560 cities around the world, spearheaded by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Another well-attended strategy meeting including representatives from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Asian-Pacific region and other areas projected an international campaign against the 702 U.S. military bases and facilities circling the globe.

The planning for these international campaigns marks a significant new phase for the four-year-old World Social Forum phenomenon. WSF activists say the Forum, which has now become a recognized global people�s gathering point, is ready to expand from meeting place to mobilizer. At a panel titled �Neoliberalism and war and the significance of the World Social Forum,”�WSF international council members agreed that, while the Forum should continue its open, pluralistic character, it�s also time to build a movement.

Michael Warshawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, said last year�s massive Feb. 15 worldwide antiwar protests showed the WSF has the power to build global campaigns involving major social forces such as unions, farmers, and church activists. The World Social Forum, he said, must be �not only a place of discussion but action oriented.”

“We need to keep maximum unity and diversity, but at the same time give expression to the most important social forces,”�he said. �We can�t ignore the politics of power and simply be a love-in.”

Simon Bushielo, national secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said, �We need a solid program of action,”�carried out by national movements in their own countries.

At the WSF closing ceremony, in a huge field in the center of Mumbai, former president of India K.R. Narayanan hailed the World Social Forum�s �struggle against imperialism and globalization.”�Noting that the site of the Forum�s closing ceremony was the spot where the last battle of Indian independence was launched, Narayanan said, �Now, we are seeing a new struggle against the power of corporations and militarism.”

Inaddition,'''PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil –�Under the banner �No to militarization and war: another world is possible,”''' the World Social Forum, a gigantic meeting of the world�s progressive movements, opened Jan. 23 with a march of up to 100,000 people from more than 100 countries, with flags and banners flying, through this lively port city.

With the threat of a U.S. attack on Iraq looming as the Forum opened, this gathering is expressing the overwhelming world opposition to the Bush administration�s drive for war and domination of the planet.

The World Social Forum (WSF) is organized around five thematic areas: democratic sustainable development; principles and values, human rights, diversity and equality; media, culture and counter-hegemony; political power, civil society and democracy; and democratic world order, fight against militarism and promoting peace. Over five days, thousands of people from the four corners of the globe, in a rainbow of colors and languages, are participating in an overwhelming array of conferences, panel debates, testimonies, �dialogue and controversy round tables,”�seminars and workshops.

From the United States, the AFL-CIO is represented by a delegation led by its Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. Jobs with Justice also has a sizable delegation, and there are progressive activists present from numerous other U.S. groups. U.S. participation is estimated at close to 1,000, more than double that of last year�s Forum, making it the second-largest country delegation after the host, Brazil.

The AFL-CIO is one of 50 members of the WSF International Council, which also includes the labor federations of Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea and others, and groups concerned with poverty, hunger, trade, the environment, indigenous peoples, and other humanitarian, social and economic issues. Other U.S. council members include 50 Years is Enough!, Global Exchange, Global Policy Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Public Citizen.

The World Social Forum is not an organization, and does not include political parties. It describes itself as �an open meeting place where social movements, networks, non-governmental organizations and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.”�The common goal: building �another world”�where the economy serves the people rather than corporate greed –�a more egalitarian, democratic, human-centered society.

The WSF arose out of the growing international anti-globalization movement that emerged in the late 1990s, most notably in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and those in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The movement�s theme was a refusal to accept the scenario of a world wholly controlled by the interests of transnational corporations and the super-rich.

The first World Social Forum met in Porto Alegre in January 2001. Symbolically, the Forum was held in a �third world”�country, at the same time as advocates of the �neo-liberal”�policies of capitalist globalization were meeting at their annual World Economic Forum in Davos, a luxury ski resort in Switzerland. Approximately 20,000 people from 117 countries participated in WSF 2001.

Since then, the WSF has been held each year in Porto Alegre, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum in Davos. WSF 2002 drew about 50,000 people from 123 countries. Next year�s WSF will be in India. In addition, there are Regional Forums every year.

The WSF Secretariat, which coordinates the planning and international outreach of the Forum, is made up of the organizations that initiated the first WSF: Brazilian Association of Non-Government Organizations (Abong), Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (Attac), Brazilian Justice and Peace Commission (CBJP), Brazilian Business Association for Citizenship (Cives), Central Workers Federation (CUT), Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Studies (Ibase), Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights.

The author can be reached at suewebb@pww.org.
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�When Bush comes to shove –�resist!’

[Author: Susan Webb.google search]

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/31/04 00:00

MUMBAI, India – “Imagine all the people living life in peace ...”

The voices of many continents mingled in a song that has become an anthem of the worldwide peace movement, as Brazilian singer and minister of culture Gilberto Gil sang John Lennon�s �Imagine”�to thousands gathered in this vast Indian metropolis for the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum, Jan. 21.

Voicing a dominant theme of the global event, which brought 100,000 participants here under the banner �Another World Is Possible,”�Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir delivered an emotional, stinging indictment of George W. Bush�s war policies. Like many others, she called for the U.S. to end its occupation of Iraq and to dismantle its military bases around the world.

Winding up the Forum�s five days of meetings, parades and performances, peace, labor, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout India and 130 other countries headed home pledging to build a more powerful united global movement against the Bush administration�s policies of militarism and aggression.

First on their �to-do”�list will be mobilizing for mass demonstrations around the globe on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq.

Danielle Aurol, a French Green Party member of the European parliament, said, �I will be out there demonstrating in Paris, because we don�t accept the way Bush is acting.”�Gulbadan Azam, a Pakistani women�s rights activist, carried a poster throughout the Forum that said, �When Bush comes to shove –�resist!”�Azam said, �The planned demonstrations on March 20 are very important for peace. We have to challenge the U.S. agenda in so many ways, through dance, art and powerful protests.”

American Friends Service Committee representative Joe Gerson told a reporter at the Forum that he was not surprised by the unanimous anti-Bush sentiments expressed at the World Social Forum. �But these people are our allies,”�said Gerson, who also represented the national U.S. peace coalition United for Peace and Justice, which initiated the call for global antiwar actions on March 20. �The plans under way for March 20 will add to the pressure Bush is under since Iraq was invaded,”�he said, adding, �You cannot let this first anniversary of the war go unmarked. It will demonstrate that there is a moral and political force opposed to the [U.S.] government.”

Also coming up is a heightened international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. At a session on the threat of nuclear war, participants mapped plans for a May 1 demonstration in New York City as the United Nations meets on the issue of nuclear proliferation. This campaign has been initiated by Mayors for Peace representing some 560 cities around the world, spearheaded by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Another well-attended strategy meeting including representatives from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Asian-Pacific region and other areas projected an international campaign against the 702 U.S. military bases and facilities circling the globe.

The planning for these international campaigns marks a significant new phase for the four-year-old World Social Forum phenomenon. WSF activists say the Forum, which has now become a recognized global people�s gathering point, is ready to expand from meeting place to mobilizer. At a panel titled �Neoliberalism and war and the significance of the World Social Forum,”�WSF international council members agreed that, while the Forum should continue its open, pluralistic character, it�s also time to build a movement.

Michael Warshawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, said last year�s massive Feb. 15 worldwide antiwar protests showed the WSF has the power to build global campaigns involving major social forces such as unions, farmers, and church activists. The World Social Forum, he said, must be �not only a place of discussion but action oriented.”

“We need to keep maximum unity and diversity, but at the same time give expression to the most important social forces,”�he said. �We can�t ignore the politics of power and simply be a love-in.”

Simon Bushielo, national secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said, �We need a solid program of action,”�carried out by national movements in their own countries.

At the WSF closing ceremony, in a huge field in the center of Mumbai, former president of India K.R. Narayanan hailed the World Social Forum�s �struggle against imperialism and globalization.”�Noting that the site of the Forum�s closing ceremony was the spot where the last battle of Indian independence was launched, Narayanan said, �Now, we are seeing a new struggle against the power of corporations and militarism.”

Inaddition,'''PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil –�Under the banner �No to militarization and war: another world is possible,”''' the World Social Forum, a gigantic meeting of the world�s progressive movements, opened Jan. 23 with a march of up to 100,000 people from more than 100 countries, with flags and banners flying, through this lively port city.

With the threat of a U.S. attack on Iraq looming as the Forum opened, this gathering is expressing the overwhelming world opposition to the Bush administration�s drive for war and domination of the planet.

The World Social Forum (WSF) is organized around five thematic areas: democratic sustainable development; principles and values, human rights, diversity and equality; media, culture and counter-hegemony; political power, civil society and democracy; and democratic world order, fight against militarism and promoting peace. Over five days, thousands of people from the four corners of the globe, in a rainbow of colors and languages, are participating in an overwhelming array of conferences, panel debates, testimonies, �dialogue and controversy round tables,”�seminars and workshops.

From the United States, the AFL-CIO is represented by a delegation led by its Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. Jobs with Justice also has a sizable delegation, and there are progressive activists present from numerous other U.S. groups. U.S. participation is estimated at close to 1,000, more than double that of last year�s Forum, making it the second-largest country delegation after the host, Brazil.

The AFL-CIO is one of 50 members of the WSF International Council, which also includes the labor federations of Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea and others, and groups concerned with poverty, hunger, trade, the environment, indigenous peoples, and other humanitarian, social and economic issues. Other U.S. council members include 50 Years is Enough!, Global Exchange, Global Policy Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Public Citizen.

The World Social Forum is not an organization, and does not include political parties. It describes itself as �an open meeting place where social movements, networks, non-governmental organizations and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.”�The common goal: building �another world”�where the economy serves the people rather than corporate greed –�a more egalitarian, democratic, human-centered society.

The WSF arose out of the growing international anti-globalization movement that emerged in the late 1990s, most notably in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and those in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The movement�s theme was a refusal to accept the scenario of a world wholly controlled by the interests of transnational corporations and the super-rich.

The first World Social Forum met in Porto Alegre in January 2001. Symbolically, the Forum was held in a �third world”�country, at the same time as advocates of the �neo-liberal”�policies of capitalist globalization were meeting at their annual World Economic Forum in Davos, a luxury ski resort in Switzerland. Approximately 20,000 people from 117 countries participated in WSF 2001.

Since then, the WSF has been held each year in Porto Alegre, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum in Davos. WSF 2002 drew about 50,000 people from 123 countries. Next year�s WSF will be in India. In addition, there are Regional Forums every year.

The WSF Secretariat, which coordinates the planning and international outreach of the Forum, is made up of the organizations that initiated the first WSF: Brazilian Association of Non-Government Organizations (Abong), Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (Attac), Brazilian Justice and Peace Commission (CBJP), Brazilian Business Association for Citizenship (Cives), Central Workers Federation (CUT), Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Studies (Ibase), Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights.

The author can be reached at suewebb@pww.org.
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�When Bush comes to shove –�resist!’

[Author: Susan Webb.google search]

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/31/04 00:00

MUMBAI, India – “Imagine all the people living life in peace ...”

The voices of many continents mingled in a song that has become an anthem of the worldwide peace movement, as Brazilian singer and minister of culture Gilberto Gil sang John Lennon�s �Imagine”�to thousands gathered in this vast Indian metropolis for the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum, Jan. 21.

Voicing a dominant theme of the global event, which brought 100,000 participants here under the banner �Another World Is Possible,”�Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir delivered an emotional, stinging indictment of George W. Bush�s war policies. Like many others, she called for the U.S. to end its occupation of Iraq and to dismantle its military bases around the world.

Winding up the Forum�s five days of meetings, parades and performances, peace, labor, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout India and 130 other countries headed home pledging to build a more powerful united global movement against the Bush administration�s policies of militarism and aggression.

First on their �to-do”�list will be mobilizing for mass demonstrations around the globe on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq.

Danielle Aurol, a French Green Party member of the European parliament, said, �I will be out there demonstrating in Paris, because we don�t accept the way Bush is acting.”�Gulbadan Azam, a Pakistani women�s rights activist, carried a poster throughout the Forum that said, �When Bush comes to shove –�resist!”�Azam said, �The planned demonstrations on March 20 are very important for peace. We have to challenge the U.S. agenda in so many ways, through dance, art and powerful protests.”

American Friends Service Committee representative Joe Gerson told a reporter at the Forum that he was not surprised by the unanimous anti-Bush sentiments expressed at the World Social Forum. �But these people are our allies,”�said Gerson, who also represented the national U.S. peace coalition United for Peace and Justice, which initiated the call for global antiwar actions on March 20. �The plans under way for March 20 will add to the pressure Bush is under since Iraq was invaded,”�he said, adding, �You cannot let this first anniversary of the war go unmarked. It will demonstrate that there is a moral and political force opposed to the [U.S.] government.”

Also coming up is a heightened international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. At a session on the threat of nuclear war, participants mapped plans for a May 1 demonstration in New York City as the United Nations meets on the issue of nuclear proliferation. This campaign has been initiated by Mayors for Peace representing some 560 cities around the world, spearheaded by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Another well-attended strategy meeting including representatives from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Asian-Pacific region and other areas projected an international campaign against the 702 U.S. military bases and facilities circling the globe.

The planning for these international campaigns marks a significant new phase for the four-year-old World Social Forum phenomenon. WSF activists say the Forum, which has now become a recognized global people�s gathering point, is ready to expand from meeting place to mobilizer. At a panel titled �Neoliberalism and war and the significance of the World Social Forum,”�WSF international council members agreed that, while the Forum should continue its open, pluralistic character, it�s also time to build a movement.

Michael Warshawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, said last year�s massive Feb. 15 worldwide antiwar protests showed the WSF has the power to build global campaigns involving major social forces such as unions, farmers, and church activists. The World Social Forum, he said, must be �not only a place of discussion but action oriented.”

“We need to keep maximum unity and diversity, but at the same time give expression to the most important social forces,”�he said. �We can�t ignore the politics of power and simply be a love-in.”

Simon Bushielo, national secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said, �We need a solid program of action,”�carried out by national movements in their own countries.

At the WSF closing ceremony, in a huge field in the center of Mumbai, former president of India K.R. Narayanan hailed the World Social Forum�s �struggle against imperialism and globalization.”�Noting that the site of the Forum�s closing ceremony was the spot where the last battle of Indian independence was launched, Narayanan said, �Now, we are seeing a new struggle against the power of corporations and militarism.”

Inaddition,'''PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil –�Under the banner �No to militarization and war: another world is possible,”''' the World Social Forum, a gigantic meeting of the world�s progressive movements, opened Jan. 23 with a march of up to 100,000 people from more than 100 countries, with flags and banners flying, through this lively port city.

With the threat of a U.S. attack on Iraq looming as the Forum opened, this gathering is expressing the overwhelming world opposition to the Bush administration�s drive for war and domination of the planet.

The World Social Forum (WSF) is organized around five thematic areas: democratic sustainable development; principles and values, human rights, diversity and equality; media, culture and counter-hegemony; political power, civil society and democracy; and democratic world order, fight against militarism and promoting peace. Over five days, thousands of people from the four corners of the globe, in a rainbow of colors and languages, are participating in an overwhelming array of conferences, panel debates, testimonies, �dialogue and controversy round tables,”�seminars and workshops.

From the United States, the AFL-CIO is represented by a delegation led by its Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. Jobs with Justice also has a sizable delegation, and there are progressive activists present from numerous other U.S. groups. U.S. participation is estimated at close to 1,000, more than double that of last year�s Forum, making it the second-largest country delegation after the host, Brazil.

The AFL-CIO is one of 50 members of the WSF International Council, which also includes the labor federations of Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea and others, and groups concerned with poverty, hunger, trade, the environment, indigenous peoples, and other humanitarian, social and economic issues. Other U.S. council members include 50 Years is Enough!, Global Exchange, Global Policy Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Public Citizen.

The World Social Forum is not an organization, and does not include political parties. It describes itself as �an open meeting place where social movements, networks, non-governmental organizations and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.”�The common goal: building �another world”�where the economy serves the people rather than corporate greed –�a more egalitarian, democratic, human-centered society.

The WSF arose out of the growing international anti-globalization movement that emerged in the late 1990s, most notably in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and those in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The movement�s theme was a refusal to accept the scenario of a world wholly controlled by the interests of transnational corporations and the super-rich.

The first World Social Forum met in Porto Alegre in January 2001. Symbolically, the Forum was held in a �third world”�country, at the same time as advocates of the �neo-liberal”�policies of capitalist globalization were meeting at their annual World Economic Forum in Davos, a luxury ski resort in Switzerland. Approximately 20,000 people from 117 countries participated in WSF 2001.

Since then, the WSF has been held each year in Porto Alegre, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum in Davos. WSF 2002 drew about 50,000 people from 123 countries. Next year�s WSF will be in India. In addition, there are Regional Forums every year.

The WSF Secretariat, which coordinates the planning and international outreach of the Forum, is made up of the organizations that initiated the first WSF: Brazilian Association of Non-Government Organizations (Abong), Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (Attac), Brazilian Justice and Peace Commission (CBJP), Brazilian Business Association for Citizenship (Cives), Central Workers Federation (CUT), Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Studies (Ibase), Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights.

The author can be reached at suewebb@pww.org.
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Peace and War

2007-12-04T09:28:46Z

Sharon:

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�When Bush comes to shove –�resist!’

[Author: Susan Webb.google search]

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/31/04 00:00

MUMBAI, India – “Imagine all the people living life in peace ...”

The voices of many continents mingled in a song that has become an anthem of the worldwide peace movement, as Brazilian singer and minister of culture Gilberto Gil sang John Lennon�s �Imagine”�to thousands gathered in this vast Indian metropolis for the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum, Jan. 21.

Voicing a dominant theme of the global event, which brought 100,000 participants here under the banner �Another World Is Possible,”�Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir delivered an emotional, stinging indictment of George W. Bush�s war policies. Like many others, she called for the U.S. to end its occupation of Iraq and to dismantle its military bases around the world.

Winding up the Forum�s five days of meetings, parades and performances, peace, labor, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout India and 130 other countries headed home pledging to build a more powerful united global movement against the Bush administration�s policies of militarism and aggression.

First on their �to-do”�list will be mobilizing for mass demonstrations around the globe on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq.

Danielle Aurol, a French Green Party member of the European parliament, said, �I will be out there demonstrating in Paris, because we don�t accept the way Bush is acting.”�Gulbadan Azam, a Pakistani women�s rights activist, carried a poster throughout the Forum that said, �When Bush comes to shove –�resist!”�Azam said, �The planned demonstrations on March 20 are very important for peace. We have to challenge the U.S. agenda in so many ways, through dance, art and powerful protests.”

American Friends Service Committee representative Joe Gerson told a reporter at the Forum that he was not surprised by the unanimous anti-Bush sentiments expressed at the World Social Forum. �But these people are our allies,”�said Gerson, who also represented the national U.S. peace coalition United for Peace and Justice, which initiated the call for global antiwar actions on March 20. �The plans under way for March 20 will add to the pressure Bush is under since Iraq was invaded,”�he said, adding, �You cannot let this first anniversary of the war go unmarked. It will demonstrate that there is a moral and political force opposed to the [U.S.] government.”

Also coming up is a heightened international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. At a session on the threat of nuclear war, participants mapped plans for a May 1 demonstration in New York City as the United Nations meets on the issue of nuclear proliferation. This campaign has been initiated by Mayors for Peace representing some 560 cities around the world, spearheaded by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Another well-attended strategy meeting including representatives from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Asian-Pacific region and other areas projected an international campaign against the 702 U.S. military bases and facilities circling the globe.

The planning for these international campaigns marks a significant new phase for the four-year-old World Social Forum phenomenon. WSF activists say the Forum, which has now become a recognized global people�s gathering point, is ready to expand from meeting place to mobilizer. At a panel titled �Neoliberalism and war and the significance of the World Social Forum,”�WSF international council members agreed that, while the Forum should continue its open, pluralistic character, it�s also time to build a movement.

Michael Warshawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, said last year�s massive Feb. 15 worldwide antiwar protests showed the WSF has the power to build global campaigns involving major social forces such as unions, farmers, and church activists. The World Social Forum, he said, must be �not only a place of discussion but action oriented.”

“We need to keep maximum unity and diversity, but at the same time give expression to the most important social forces,”�he said. �We can�t ignore the politics of power and simply be a love-in.”

Simon Bushielo, national secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said, �We need a solid program of action,”�carried out by national movements in their own countries.

At the WSF closing ceremony, in a huge field in the center of Mumbai, former president of India K.R. Narayanan hailed the World Social Forum�s �struggle against imperialism and globalization.”�Noting that the site of the Forum�s closing ceremony was the spot where the last battle of Indian independence was launched, Narayanan said, �Now, we are seeing a new struggle against the power of corporations and militarism.”

Inaddition,'''PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil –�Under the banner �No to militarization and war: another world is possible,”''' the World Social Forum, a gigantic meeting of the world�s progressive movements, opened Jan. 23 with a march of up to 100,000 people from more than 100 countries, with flags and banners flying, through this lively port city.

With the threat of a U.S. attack on Iraq looming as the Forum opened, this gathering is expressing the overwhelming world opposition to the Bush administration�s drive for war and domination of the planet.

The World Social Forum (WSF) is organized around five thematic areas: democratic sustainable development; principles and values, human rights, diversity and equality; media, culture and counter-hegemony; political power, civil society and democracy; and democratic world order, fight against militarism and promoting peace. Over five days, thousands of people from the four corners of the globe, in a rainbow of colors and languages, are participating in an overwhelming array of conferences, panel debates, testimonies, �dialogue and controversy round tables,”�seminars and workshops.

From the United States, the AFL-CIO is represented by a delegation led by its Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. Jobs with Justice also has a sizable delegation, and there are progressive activists present from numerous other U.S. groups. U.S. participation is estimated at close to 1,000, more than double that of last year�s Forum, making it the second-largest country delegation after the host, Brazil.

The AFL-CIO is one of 50 members of the WSF International Council, which also includes the labor federations of Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea and others, and groups concerned with poverty, hunger, trade, the environment, indigenous peoples, and other humanitarian, social and economic issues. Other U.S. council members include 50 Years is Enough!, Global Exchange, Global Policy Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Public Citizen.

The World Social Forum is not an organization, and does not include political parties. It describes itself as �an open meeting place where social movements, networks, non-governmental organizations and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.”�The common goal: building �another world”�where the economy serves the people rather than corporate greed –�a more egalitarian, democratic, human-centered society.

The WSF arose out of the growing international anti-globalization movement that emerged in the late 1990s, most notably in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and those in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The movement�s theme was a refusal to accept the scenario of a world wholly controlled by the interests of transnational corporations and the super-rich.

The first World Social Forum met in Porto Alegre in January 2001. Symbolically, the Forum was held in a �third world”�country, at the same time as advocates of the �neo-liberal”�policies of capitalist globalization were meeting at their annual World Economic Forum in Davos, a luxury ski resort in Switzerland. Approximately 20,000 people from 117 countries participated in WSF 2001.

Since then, the WSF has been held each year in Porto Alegre, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum in Davos. WSF 2002 drew about 50,000 people from 123 countries. Next year�s WSF will be in India. In addition, there are Regional Forums every year.

The WSF Secretariat, which coordinates the planning and international outreach of the Forum, is made up of the organizations that initiated the first WSF: Brazilian Association of Non-Government Organizations (Abong), Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (Attac), Brazilian Justice and Peace Commission (CBJP), Brazilian Business Association for Citizenship (Cives), Central Workers Federation (CUT), Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Studies (Ibase), Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights.

The author can be reached at suewebb@pww.org.
posted by sharon

Peace and War

2007-12-04T09:27:47Z

Sharon:

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�When Bush comes to shove –�resist!’

[Author: Susan Webb.google search]

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/31/04 00:00

MUMBAI, India – “Imagine all the people living life in peace ...”

The voices of many continents mingled in a song that has become an anthem of the worldwide peace movement, as Brazilian singer and minister of culture Gilberto Gil sang John Lennon�s �Imagine”�to thousands gathered in this vast Indian metropolis for the closing ceremony of the World Social Forum, Jan. 21.

Voicing a dominant theme of the global event, which brought 100,000 participants here under the banner �Another World Is Possible,”�Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir delivered an emotional, stinging indictment of George W. Bush�s war policies. Like many others, she called for the U.S. to end its occupation of Iraq and to dismantle its military bases around the world.

Winding up the Forum�s five days of meetings, parades and performances, peace, labor, social justice, and environmental activists from throughout India and 130 other countries headed home pledging to build a more powerful united global movement against the Bush administration�s policies of militarism and aggression.

First on their �to-do”�list will be mobilizing for mass demonstrations around the globe on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq.

Danielle Aurol, a French Green Party member of the European parliament, said, �I will be out there demonstrating in Paris, because we don�t accept the way Bush is acting.”�Gulbadan Azam, a Pakistani women�s rights activist, carried a poster throughout the Forum that said, �When Bush comes to shove –�resist!”�Azam said, �The planned demonstrations on March 20 are very important for peace. We have to challenge the U.S. agenda in so many ways, through dance, art and powerful protests.”

American Friends Service Committee representative Joe Gerson told a reporter at the Forum that he was not surprised by the unanimous anti-Bush sentiments expressed at the World Social Forum. �But these people are our allies,”�said Gerson, who also represented the national U.S. peace coalition United for Peace and Justice, which initiated the call for global antiwar actions on March 20. �The plans under way for March 20 will add to the pressure Bush is under since Iraq was invaded,”�he said, adding, �You cannot let this first anniversary of the war go unmarked. It will demonstrate that there is a moral and political force opposed to the [U.S.] government.”

Also coming up is a heightened international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. At a session on the threat of nuclear war, participants mapped plans for a May 1 demonstration in New York City as the United Nations meets on the issue of nuclear proliferation. This campaign has been initiated by Mayors for Peace representing some 560 cities around the world, spearheaded by the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Another well-attended strategy meeting including representatives from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Asian-Pacific region and other areas projected an international campaign against the 702 U.S. military bases and facilities circling the globe.

The planning for these international campaigns marks a significant new phase for the four-year-old World Social Forum phenomenon. WSF activists say the Forum, which has now become a recognized global people�s gathering point, is ready to expand from meeting place to mobilizer. At a panel titled �Neoliberalism and war and the significance of the World Social Forum,”�WSF international council members agreed that, while the Forum should continue its open, pluralistic character, it�s also time to build a movement.

Michael Warshawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, said last year�s massive Feb. 15 worldwide antiwar protests showed the WSF has the power to build global campaigns involving major social forces such as unions, farmers, and church activists. The World Social Forum, he said, must be �not only a place of discussion but action oriented.”

“We need to keep maximum unity and diversity, but at the same time give expression to the most important social forces,”�he said. �We can�t ignore the politics of power and simply be a love-in.”

Simon Bushielo, national secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said, �We need a solid program of action,”�carried out by national movements in their own countries.

At the WSF closing ceremony, in a huge field in the center of Mumbai, former president of India K.R. Narayanan hailed the World Social Forum�s �struggle against imperialism and globalization.”�Noting that the site of the Forum�s closing ceremony was the spot where the last battle of Indian independence was launched, Narayanan said, �Now, we are seeing a new struggle against the power of corporations and militarism.”

Inaddition,'''PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil –�Under the banner �No to militarization and war: another world is possible,”''' the World Social Forum, a gigantic meeting of the world�s progressive movements, opened Jan. 23 with a march of up to 100,000 people from more than 100 countries, with flags and banners flying, through this lively port city.

With the threat of a U.S. attack on Iraq looming as the Forum opened, this gathering is expressing the overwhelming world opposition to the Bush administration�s drive for war and domination of the planet.

The World Social Forum (WSF) is organized around five thematic areas: democratic sustainable development; principles and values, human rights, diversity and equality; media, culture and counter-hegemony; political power, civil society and democracy; and democratic world order, fight against militarism and promoting peace. Over five days, thousands of people from the four corners of the globe, in a rainbow of colors and languages, are participating in an overwhelming array of conferences, panel debates, testimonies, �dialogue and controversy round tables,”�seminars and workshops.

From the United States, the AFL-CIO is represented by a delegation led by its Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson. Jobs with Justice also has a sizable delegation, and there are progressive activists present from numerous other U.S. groups. U.S. participation is estimated at close to 1,000, more than double that of last year�s Forum, making it the second-largest country delegation after the host, Brazil.

The AFL-CIO is one of 50 members of the WSF International Council, which also includes the labor federations of Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea and others, and groups concerned with poverty, hunger, trade, the environment, indigenous peoples, and other humanitarian, social and economic issues. Other U.S. council members include 50 Years is Enough!, Global Exchange, Global Policy Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Public Citizen.

The World Social Forum is not an organization, and does not include political parties. It describes itself as �an open meeting place where social movements, networks, non-governmental organizations and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.”�The common goal: building �another world”�where the economy serves the people rather than corporate greed –�a more egalitarian, democratic, human-centered society.

The WSF arose out of the growing international anti-globalization movement that emerged in the late 1990s, most notably in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and those in Washington, D.C., against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The movement�s theme was a refusal to accept the scenario of a world wholly controlled by the interests of transnational corporations and the super-rich.

The first World Social Forum met in Porto Alegre in January 2001. Symbolically, the Forum was held in a �third world”�country, at the same time as advocates of the �neo-liberal”�policies of capitalist globalization were meeting at their annual World Economic Forum in Davos, a luxury ski resort in Switzerland. Approximately 20,000 people from 117 countries participated in WSF 2001.

Since then, the WSF has been held each year in Porto Alegre, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum in Davos. WSF 2002 drew about 50,000 people from 123 countries. Next year�s WSF will be in India. In addition, there are Regional Forums every year.

The WSF Secretariat, which coordinates the planning and international outreach of the Forum, is made up of the organizations that initiated the first WSF: Brazilian Association of Non-Government Organizations (Abong), Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (Attac), Brazilian Justice and Peace Commission (CBJP), Brazilian Business Association for Citizenship (Cives), Central Workers Federation (CUT), Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Studies (Ibase), Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights.

The author can be reached at suewebb@pww.org.
posted by sharon

Land issue:sharon's blog

2007-12-04T09:26:13Z

Sharon:

[[Peace and War]]

Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of
violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across.
No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote
source :Monitor /through gooogle
so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

posted by sharon

User:Sharon

2007-12-04T09:25:35Z

Sharon:

User:Sharon

2007-12-04T09:23:05Z

Sharon:

User:Sharon/BlogEntry: 2007 December 04 12:19:10 EAT

2007-12-04T09:20:07Z

Sharon:

[[Peace and War]]

Uganda: The land issue will cause war.

The Uganda peoples congress has on several occasions warned against the NRM's policy of land grabbing .It has in some instances been done directly by the Government while in most instances it has been done through government sponsored squtters,occupants,"purchasers" and more recentlyb the marauding Balaalo.

This land grabbing has taken the form of squatters being armed to take over the UPC-built public ranches in Birundi,Singo,Masaka and Ankole.Later the Government moved in to regularies this grand theft and despoliation through the Ranches restructuring scheme.Later public land which was part of Lake Mburo National park was grabbed to form an exclusive settlement for some privileged Ugandans of a known ethnicity.

The government then subsequently sponsored Balaaalo of unknown origin who have hundreds of cattle to forcibly settle on land in queen Elizabeth national park,Busongora,Buliisa,Kiboga,Masind,Apac,Arua,Pallisa,Kumi and other areas.

All these Balaalo land takeovers have been accompanied by ugly incidents of violence against the owners of the land.Government has never prosecuted any of the Balaalo for their acts of
violence.

Instead ,the government,like it did for the hooligans who invaded and destroyed people's ranches,has moved to amend the law to make it difficult for courts of law to make orders of eviction against illegal occupants,the new land bill is in the offing.

UPC has received information that huge chunks of land in Amuru District are being forcibly surveyed by men and women in military uniform.Apparently this is the land slated to be given out free of charge to the famous sugarcane growers "investors." part of the scheme to grab both private and public land is the systematic destruction of survey and land administration registration records

This has enable the frudulent creation of new "certificates of titles" while the gunuine ones are being destroyed.Even public institutions that were previously jeolously protected,like Makerere University,Mulago Hospital,BUtabikaHospital,public schools and protected reserves have not been spared.

Faced with lack of protection from the government and apparent encouragement of the illegal land seizures,people have been left with no alternative but to resort to self help.This self help is fast degenerating into violence.Only a few days ago the press reported an incident in Apac where a community was forced to resort to cutting into pieces the herds of the Balaalo,The Government response was to beat up whiever they came across.
No amount pf state violence will stop land owners from challenging this illegality.Government's violent response will simply aggravate the problem,which may eventually engulf the country and all of us will be losers.

Writer :Maria Obote
source :Monitor /through gooogle
so to create peace the Government should not sideline with the Balaalo but to allocate them in other places say government land,this will help to prevent war in Uganda.

posted by sharon

User:Sharon

2007-12-04T09:13:16Z

Sharon: