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Gendering the WSF 2007 Process
This paper was first presented at a public forum on “Gendering the WSF
Process” held at Ufungamano House in Nairobi on Thursday, May 25, 2006
Despite making some progress towards developing an inclusive process for
women within the World Social Forum (WSF) movement, profound problems remain
that are likely to manifest themselves in the lead up to the WSF meeting in
Nairobi in 2007, says Onyango Oloo (National Coordinator for Kenya Social
Forum), in this paper presented at a public forum on May 25, 2006 on
“Gendering the WSF Process”. It’s not a lost battle, however. Oloo suggests
that action can still be taken through which men can show solidarity with
their women comrades.
You can download the full paper in a Word document here.
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What is the World Social Forum?
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements,
networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations 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, to formulate proposals, to share their experiences freely
and to network for effective action.
The World Social Forum is characterised by plurality and diversity, is
non-confessional, non-governmental and non-party. It proposes to facilitate
decentralised coordination and networking among organizations engaged in
concrete action towards building another world, at any level from the local
to the international, but it does not intend to be a body representing world
civil society.
The World Social Forum is neither a group nor an organisation. It is a space
as well as a process where actors in civil society worldwide express
solidarity, benefit from collective action and develop initiative. For more
information see WSF Charter of principles.
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Karibu to WSF Nairobi 2007! - World Social Forum
The 7th edition of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa
as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive
forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America,
Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Nairobi, Kenya
for five days of cultural resistance and celebration; panels, workshops,
symposia, processions, film nights and much much more; beginning on the 20th
of January and wrapping up on the 25th of January 2007.
From its modest origins in Porto Alegre in the year 2001, the World
Social Forum has mushroomed into a global counter-force challenging the
assumptions and diktats of imperialism and its associated neo-liberal
policies that have over the decades, imposed colonialism and
neo-colonialism; devastated Southern economies; bolstered the disastrous and
repressive reigns of assorted tin pot dictatorships; marginalized women;
disenfranchised youth; intensified the destruction of the environment;
unleashed bloody, inhuman and needless military conflicts in nation after
nation, region after region and deepened the exploitation of poor peoples
around the world.
Rallying around the clarion call of Another World Is Possible, the
World Social Forum has placed social justice, international solidarity,
gender equality, peace and defence of the environment on the agenda of the
world’s peoples. From Porto Alegre to Mumbai to Bamako to Caracas, Karachi
and now Nairobi, the forces and the contingents of the World Social Forum
have collectively expanded the democratic spaces of those seeking concrete,
sustainable and progressive alternatives to imperialist globalization.
Yet the World Social Forum process is NOT the latest attempt to create
a monolithic “world revolutionary vanguard movement” nor is it a
reincarnation of an international “united front” seeking to overthrow, one
by one, governments around the world. Such a notion would be a complete
negation of the very essence and concept of the World Social Forum as
outlined in its Charter of Principles. Nay, the World Social Forum is not
that at all, far from it.
Rather, the World Social Forum is, to use a Kiswahili word, a global
Jukwaa, in other words, an international PLATFORM, to quote from the Porto
Alegre Charter “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.”
WSF Nairobi 2007 will be an opportunity to showcase Africa and her
social movements; Africa and her unbroken history of struggle against
foreign domination, colonialism and neo-colonialism; Africa and her rich
heritage of natural wealth, cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity;
Africa and her reputation for embracing communities from around the world;
Africa and her contributions to world civilization; Africa and her role in
the quest for another possible, more progressive global human society.
The theme for the 7th edition of the World Social Forum is “People’s
Struggles, People’s Alternatives”.
Words alone can not capture the vibrancy, the potency, the promise and
the excitement of a World Social Forum event. There is no alternative to
being there, amidst it all, participating, congregating, conversing,
marching, singing, laughing, dancing, dreaming, networking and strategizing
with sisters and brothers, friends and neighbours, comrades and colleagues
from five continents, across oceans, mountains, deserts and rivers and over
one hundred and forty countries.
So please come on over and be with us here in Nairobi, Africa, from
January 20th to the 25th, 2007 as we recreate the magic of the World Social
Forum.
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