SOMMARIO RASSEGNA STAMPA
Al via il World Social Forum 2009 in Amazzonia, per cambiare il mondo.

(Unità 28 Gennaio 2009)

Ha preso il via con una grande celebrazione indigena e una marcia per le strade della città di Belem la nona edizione del World Social Forum (Fsm), in Amazzonia.

aafL'evento si è aperto con un 'pasto sacro' in omaggio ai popoli africani che hanno ospitato l'ultima edizione del Forum a Nairobi (Kenya). Gli indigeni hanno preso la testa del corteo invitando gli almeno 100mila partecipanti al Forum, e insieme a essi tutta la città di Belem, a camminare insieme portando bandiere, striscioni e simboli delle proprie lotte. Un colorato corteo ha percorso Avenida Presidente Vargas, Avenida Nazarè, Admirante Barroso, Praca do Operario dove un palco ha ospitato altre cerimonie dei popoli indigeni provenienti da ogni parte del pianeta. La giornata di mercoledì sarà dedicata ai 500 anni di resistenza, conquiste e prospettive delle popolazioni indigene. Gli eventi principali si svolgeranno su tre palchi distribuiti tra i campus che verteranno principalmente su: cambiamenti climatici e giustizia ambientale, diritti umani, lavoro, migrazioni, fine della criminalizzazione dei movimenti sociali, terra, territorio, identità, sovranità alimentare. Centomila persone e 5.680 organizzazioni partecipano al Fsm 2009, che andrà avanti fino al primo febbraio a Belem, nello stato brasiliano di Parà. La società civile organizzata, movimenti sociali, popoli indigeni, ong, sindacati e gruppi religiosi provenienti da più di 150 Paesi si incontrano per celebrare la nona edizione del più importante appuntamento 'altermondialistà, che torna in Brasile dopo tre anni. Tra i principali temi dei dibattiti ci saranno la crisi economica mondiale, i cambiamenti climatici e le alternative al modello di sviluppo.

« Un altro mondo è possibile. » 

Il Forum Sociale Mondiale (FSM, World Social Forum in inglese) è l' incontro annuale dei membri dei diversi Social Forum dei 5 continenti che si battono per una gestione non liberista della Nuova Globalizzazione : si incontrano per coordinare le campagne mondiali, condividere e raffinare le strategie organizzative, per informarsi vicendevolmente sui diversi movimenti sparsi per il mondo e sulle loro tematiche. Tende a incontrarsi in gennaio, quando il suo "grande rivale capitalista", l'Economic World Forum si riunisce a Davos in Svizzera.
Il primo FSM venne organizzato da Oded Grajew per il periodo il 25 -30 Gennaio 2001 a Porto Alegre in Brasile . La città stava sperimentando un modello di governo locale molto innovativo, che combinava le tradizionali rappresentanze istituzionali con la partecipazione popolare ad assemblee aperte. 12.000 persone provenienti da tutto il mondo parteciparono alla prima edizione.
Il secondo FSM si tenne anch'esso a Porto Alegre dal 25/1 al 5/2 del 2002 con la partecipazione di oltre 12.000 delegati ufficiali in rappresentanza di 123 paesi,per un totale di 60.000 partecipanti,che hanno animato 652 laboratori e 27 dibattiti.
Il terzo FSM si tenne anch'esso a Porto Alegre nel gennaio 2003.. Ci furono molti laboratori paralleli, tra cui ad esempio quello intitolato Vita dopo il capitalismo, animato da Noam Chomsky. che dibatteva su aspetti differenti delle strutture sociali, politiche, economiche e di comunicazione.
Il quarto FSM si tenne Mumbai ( ex Bombay) in India, dal 16 al  21 Gennaio 2004. Parteciparono più di 75.000 persone . Joseph Stiglitz fu uno dei protagonisti .
Il quinto FSM si tenne ancora a Porto Alegre, tra il 26 e il 31 Gennaio 2005 con 155.000 partecipanti registrati.
Il sesto World Social Forum si tenne nel Gennaio 2006 a Caracas (Venezuela) ed a Bamako (Mali), e nel Marzo 2006 a Karachi (Pakistan).
Tutti i social forums del mondo aderiscono allo Statuto dei princìpi (Charter of Principles) stilato dal World Social Forum :

aalThe committee of Brazilian organizations that conceived of, and organized, the first World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre from January 25th to 30th, 2001, after evaluating the results of that Forum and the expectations it raised, consider it necessary and legitimate to draw up a Charter of Principles to guide the continued pursuit of that initiative. While the principles contained in this Charter - to be respected by all those who wish to take part in the process and to organize new editions of the World Social Forum - are a consolidation of the decisions that presided over the holding of the Porto Alegre Forum and ensured its success, they extend the reach of those decisions and define orientations that flow from their logic.

1. The World Social Forum is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a planetary society directed towards fruitful relationships among Humankind and between it and the Earth.

2. The World Social Forum at Porto Alegre was an event localized in time and place. From now on, in the certainty proclaimed at Porto Alegre that "another world is possible", it becomes a permanent process of seeking and building alternatives, which cannot be reduced to the events supporting it.

3. The World Social Forum is a world process. All the meetings that are held as part of this process have an international dimension.

4. The alternatives proposed at the World Social Forum stand in opposition to a process of globalization commanded by the large multinational corporations and by the governments and international institutions at the service of those corporations interests, with the complicity of national governments. They are designed to ensure that globalization in solidarity will prevail as a new stage in world history. This will respect universal human rights, and those of all citizens - men and women - of all nations and the environment and will rest on democratic international systems and institutions at the service of social justice, equality and the sovereignty of peoples.

5. The World Social Forum brings together and interlinks only organizations and movements of civil society from all the countries in the world, but it does not intend to be a body representing world civil society.

6. The meetings of the World Social Forum do not deliberate on behalf of the World Social Forum as a body. No-one, therefore, will be authorized, on behalf of any of the editions of the Forum, to express positions claiming to be those of all its participants. The participants in the Forum shall not be called on to take decisions as a body, whether by vote or acclamation, on declarations or proposals for action that would commit all, or the majority, of them and that propose to be taken as establishing positions of the Forum as a body. It thus does not constitute a locus of power to be disputed by the participants in its meetings, nor does it intend to constitute the only option for interrelation and action by the organizations and movements that participate in it.

7. Nonetheless, organizations or groups of organizations that participate in the Forums meetings must be assured the right, during such meetings, to deliberate on declarations or actions they may decide on, whether singly or in coordination with other participants. The World Social Forum undertakes to circulate such decisions widely by the means at its disposal, without directing, hierarchizing, censuring or restricting them, but as deliberations of the organizations or groups of organizations that made the decisions.

8. The World Social Forum is a plural, diversified, non-confessional, non-governmental and non-party context that, in a decentralized fashion, interrelates organizations and movements engaged in concrete action at levels from the local to the international to build another world.

9. The World Social Forum will always be a forum open to pluralism and to the diversity of activities and ways of engaging of the organizations and movements that decide to participate in it, as well as the diversity of genders, ethnicities, cultures, generations and physical capacities, providing they abide by this Charter of Principles. Neither party representations nor military organizations shall participate in the Forum. Government leaders and members of legislatures who accept the commitments of this Charter may be invited to participate in a personal capacity.

10. The World Social Forum is opposed to all totalitarian and reductionist views of economy, development and history and to the use of violence as a means of social control by the State. It upholds respect for Human Rights, the practices of real democracy, participatory democracy, peaceful relations, in equality and solidarity, among people, ethnicities, genders and peoples, and condemns all forms of domination and all subjection of one person by another.

11. As a forum for debate, the World Social Forum is a movement of ideas that prompts reflection, and the transparent circulation of the results of that reflection, on the mechanisms and instruments of domination by capital, on means and actions to resist and overcome that domination, and on the alternatives proposed to solve the problems of exclusion and social inequality that the process of capitalist globalization with its racist, sexist and environmentally destructive dimensions is creating internationally and within countries.

12. As a framework for the exchange of experiences, the World Social Forum encourages understanding and mutual recognition among its participant organizations and movements, and places special value on the exchange among them, particularly on all that society is building to centre economic activity and political action on meeting the needs of people and respecting nature, in the present and for future generations.

13. As a context for interrelations, the World Social Forum seeks to strengthen and create new national and international links among organizations and movements of society, that - in both public and private life - will increase the capacity for non-violent social resistance to the process of dehumanization the world is undergoing and to the violence used by the State, and reinforce the humanizing measures being taken by the action of these movements and organizations.

14. The World Social Forum is a process that encourages its participant organizations and movements to situate their actions, from the local level to the national level and seeking active participation in international contexts, as issues of planetary citizenship, and to introduce onto the global agenda the change-inducing practices that they are experimenting in building a new world in solidarity.

Approved and adopted in São Paulo, on April 9, 2001, by the organizations that make up the World Social Forum Organizing Committee, approved with modifications by the World Social Forum International Council on June 10, 2001.

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