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1/20/2004

World Social Forum (WSF) - Another World Is Possible
The forth WSF is towards its end in Mumbai, India. The first WSF was organized in Brazil in 2001 as an antipode to the World Economic Forum: a meeting of the rich and powerful. This is the first year the forum is held outside of Porto Alegre.The WSF promotes human rights, social justice and sustainable development (WSF charter).
Since 2001, each year the forum is attended by thousands, even hundreds of thousands opposing globalization, imperialism, neo-liberalism, and powerful multinational corporations. The WSF participants state that there is something wrong with the world today, that globalization is not solving the world problems but it is intensifying economic inequality, poverty, environmental degradation and exploitation. But another world is possible...

Click here for proceedings of the WSF in Mumbai, Jan 19-21, 2004.

Previous WSF:
Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 23-28, 2003
Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 31 - February 5, 2002
Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 30, 2001

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