Monday, January 22, 2007

World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi. Another World is Possible


Que mejor manera de empezar la nueva etapa que hablando del evento social por excelencia, el Foro Social Mundial.
El Foro Social Mundial se viene realizando desde hace el año 2000. Durante tres ediciones se celebro en la localidad brasileña de Porto Alegre, para moverse en 2004 a Mumbay, India. Despues volvio a Porto Alegre y el año pasado se probo una variante multicentrica, con tres diferentes localizaciones, Caracas, Venezuela; Bamako, Mali; e Islamabad, Pakistan. Finalmente este año se ha vuelto a la modalidad de centro unico en Nairobi, Kenia. Este año se celebran entre el 20 y el 25 de Enero, asi que, en el momento de escribir esto, estamos en plena efervescencia!!!!.

¿Qué es esto del Foro Social Mundial?. Basicamente, es la reunion de agentes sociales mas grande del mundo. En el evento se discuten alternativas al crecimiento actual del mundo y al modelo de gestion neoliberal. Tal y como pone en la Carta de Porto Alegre el FSM es un lugar abierto de reunión donde grupos y movimientos de la sociedad civil opuestos al neo-liberalismo y a un mundo dominado por el capital o por cualquier forma del imperialismo, que a su vez están comprometidos con la construcción de una sociedad planetaria concentrada en la persona humana, se juntan para conjugar su pensamiento, para debatir las ideas democráticamente, para formular propuestas, para compartir sus experiencias libremente y para crear redes de acción efectivas.

Mi experiencia personal en el Foro se limita a mi asistencia el año anterior a la edicion en Caracas. Y realmente a primera vista puede parecer una reunion de un monton de rojos hippies y titiriteros con ganas de pasarselo bien. Basicamente algo de eso hay, pero tambie es un lugar donde se crean y se debaten experiencias e ideas novedosas y sobre todo es la muestra de que el mundo es una miriada de opciones que merecen todo nuestra atencion. Describiros aqui lo que es el foro social puede llevarme cienes y cienes de post, asi que os dejo el siguiente link:
Foro Social Mundial Nairobi 2007 "Las Luchas de las personas, las alternativas de las personas."

Como todo, tiene sus contras. Y una de ellas es su falta de direccion concreta y su todavia, en muchos sectores, su falta de una ideologia de accion alternativa. Pero es un foro donde voces que no se pueden hacer oir salen y chillan y os puedo decir que hay voces que no se les oye, pero que deberian de poder hablar alto, muy alto.

How best to start the new course talking about the World Social Forum, the social event of the year.
The World Social Forum it's been celebrated since year 2000. It started in Porto Alegre, Brazil and was happening there for three years, after that it moved to Mumbay, India, then back to Porto Alegre, then was split between three diferent cities in 2006, Caracas in Venezuela, Bamako in Mali and Islamabad in Pakistan. Finally, this year, it came back to the single city, being in Nairobi, Kenya. This year the WSF is between the 20th and the 25th of January so, while I'm writing this it's happening!!!!

What's this of the WSF? Is the biggest social agents meeting of the year. There, they disscuss alternatives to development and advancing outside the neoliberalist paradigm. As we can read in the Porto Alegre Charter the WSF is an open meeting place where groups and movements of civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human person, come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.

Mi personal experience in the WSF its limited to my assistance to Caracas last year. At first glance it can be confused with a meeting of a bunch of hippie, reddish, tumblers with the aim of having a good time. Probably it's something of this, but it's a place where is possible to hear and discuss alternatives to the actual way of develoment and growth. Some of this ideas are really important and brilliant initiatives. But, most important, is the proof that the world is vastly complex, with a miriad of different ways, different ideas. To explain what the WSF is can use a hundred of posts, instead of that, I give you the link I posted above, in the spanish part.

As everything, it has its hindrances. One of them is the lack of direction or the excesive relying in, yet, old ideologies of action. But it's a place where voices that cannot be heard can shout and sing and I can tell you that some of this voices, silent voices, need to be heard loud, very loud.

15 comments:

Rïzer said...

Estan bien esas reuniones mirando a un mercado liberal, a ideologias nuevas y consumiendo indiscrinadamente y bebiendo bebidas alternativas. Coca Cola promociona este evento?

Egoitz said...

El FSM no. Pero curiosamente, el Foro Social Europeo si. Y por eso reciben muchisimas criticas.

Jake said...

entré desde lo de RÏZER...
me puedo pasear un poco por tu blog?
te dejo un saludo y leo.


:)

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