WSF India : Indian Social Forum in Delhi, in November
2006
Meeting of Delhi Organisations: 4th March, GPF- Delhi
2.30 PM
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Dear All,
People's movements across the world are working to
identify and
demonstrate that the path to sustainable development
and social and economic
justice does not lie in neo-liberal globalisation but
in alternative
models for people-centred and self-reliant progress.
As the economic space of nation states is invaded by
predatory
multi-national corporations, it is accompanied not
only by mounting disparities
and loss of livelihoods, but by growing sectarian and
ethnic strife.
The rapid flow of capital in and out of countries is
leaving in its wake
fractured communities. It is redefining nations in
narrow and
exclusionary terms, distorting the validity and worth
of sovereignty and
self-reliance, and sharpening racial, ethnic,
religious and caste divides.
The neo-liberal assault is not restricted to the
agricultural,
industrial and financial sectors of the third world
countries, but is also
damaging the traditional artisan sector – the mainstay
of so many people in
these countries. Indigenous people and tribal
communities and others
outside the development process are losing all control
over their natural
resources and their own small economies and are being
completely
pauperised.
There is need for an alternative vision of hope,
different to this
barren neo-liberal landscape of greed and profit built
on the destruction
of people, communities and nations. These are the
concerns that the
World Social Forum process seeks to foreground.
The World Social Forum developed as a response of the
growing
international movement questioning the neo-liberal
economic policies being
pursued in most countries and capitalist-led
globalisation. Since 2001 --
through the organisation of the hugely successful WSF
events in Porto
Alegre, Brazil and Mumbai, India and numerous regional
and continental
events --- the World Social Forum process has explored
and proposed such
alternatives, and questioned the rules of governance
being by countries
of the global North and their pliant followers in the
global South. The
people's argument is that Another World IS Possible.
The World Social Forum process has struck roots in
India since the
organisation of the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in
January, 2003 and
the World Social Forum in Mumbai in January, 2004. It
is now proposed
that WSF India shall organise the Indian Social Forum
in Delhi, in
November 2006. The Forum shall be designed to
facilitate participation of
movements and organisations from across the country,
who believe in an
alternate vision to the present corporate led
globalisation. The Forum,
while focusing on Indian movements and their struggles
and experiences,
shall also be a platform where movements from across
the World will find
a space to share, interact and forge linkages with
Indian movements and
groups.
The organisation of the Social Forum in Delhi is both
a challenge and
an opportunity for mass organisations, people's
movements, citizens'
bodies and groups in Delhi. In addition to the massive
organisational
effort required, only an inclusive process can ensure
that the Social
Forum in Delhi will be able to mount a challenge
against imperialist
globalisation in the country and globally.
To start the process of jointly conceiving the
structure and format of
the Forum, a meeting is being organised at the Gandhi
Peace Foundation,
Deen Dayal Upadhaya Marg on 4th March at 2.30 PM Ph;
23237491. We
apologise for the short notice, but do hope that you
will be able to come.
We also request you to kindly circulate this mail
widely.
In Solidarity,
Amit Chakraborty
for WSF India
14/187 LGF Malviya Nagar
New Delhi
Ph: 2674123
Mobile No: - 9818159302
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"I may disagree of what you say, but I will defend to
the death your right to say it."
-Voltaire
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SAVAD RAHMAN
subeditor,MADHYAMAM daily,
pooppalam, perinthalmanna,kerala,
india
cell:(91)-9846085873
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