Keyword: WSF
FSM 2009: Le levier unitaire des habitants pour sortir de la crise globale
Key question: Are the inhabitants ready to face the crisis?
The crisis is the source of all sorts of drastic change, but are we ready to face it with unified proposals that are capable of combining resistance with alternatives? As Marxist geographer David Harvey highlighted during his presentation at the seminar on the right to the city, this is the most serious crisis and the most structurally rooted crisis in urban areas in modern history. Consequently, could the social movements attack the roots on the premise of the right to housing and to the city? How? With whom? When?
WSF 2006 Caracas UPU
The workshop organized at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, Caracas, on the third day of the VI World Social Forum for the International Alliance of Inhabitants, has allowed the work developed over the last two years on the Urban Popular University to be opened up to a large, varied audience. The UPU is an initiative created by the International Alliance of Inhabitants, an international network of organizations and residents that fight for the right to housing, established in the framework of the 2004 Mumbay Social Forum.
CONVOCATORIA - Foro Social Temático
Capitalist Crisis, Social and Environmental Justice
24 to 29 January 2012 - Porto Alegre and Metropolitan Area
Preparation of the People's Summit Rio +20
Porto Alegre and Metropolitan Area may in 2012 be the meeting point indignant the expressions of indigenous peoples and the anti-systemic movements from all sides, able to claim a solution to the crisis, building guidelines and global campaigns, may also be presented at the Rio plus 20 (Rio+20), in May and June 2012, will draw crowds to the Rio de Janeiro.
Shared memories for the future of the housing right with no boundaries
The WSF’s Day of Global Mobilisation which took place on January 26th 2008 was a success.In fact, some fifty marches, squatts, debates and assemblies simultaneously brought together, for the first time in history, tens of thousands of people in demanding the housing right with no boundaries, in rich countries as well as poor ones, north and south, east and west.The topic at hand was the suitable conclusion to the global campaign “Act together - housing for all!” launched by the IAI, HIC and FAL, which began with the World Day for the Right to Housing and the World Zero Evictions Days in October 2007. It was a mobilization that lasted four months, which saw the emergence of struggles, proposals and international solidarity, showing the commitment of the assembly of convergencyat the end of the WSF in Nairobi, as well as the signing of the Call for unity of urban social movements.