Title: Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum
Abstract: * Editors' Preface * Acknowledgements * Foreword - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri * Introduction: The World Social Forum and the Reinvention of Democracy * Thomas Ponniah and William F. Fisher * PART I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction * Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues * William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah * 1. External Debt * Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development * Eric Toussaint and Arnaud Zacharie (Committee for the Annulment of Third World Debt) * 2. Africa/Brazil * Conference Synthesis * Jacques d'Adesky (Facilitator) * 3. Financial Capital * Controls on Financial Capital * ATTAC-France * 4. International Trade * Conference Synthesis * Bernard Cassen, ATTAC (Facilitator) * 5. Transnational Corporations * Issues and Proposals * Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch and Karolo Aparicio, Global Exchange * 6. Labour * A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the 21st Century * Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) * A Global Strategy for Labour * Jeff Faux (Economic Policy Institute) * 7. A Solidarity Economy: * Resist and Build * Economic Solidarity Group of Quebec * Conference Synthesis * Sandra Quintela (Institute of Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone) (Facilitator) * PART II: Access to Wealth and Sustainability * Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues * William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah * 8. Environment and Sustainabity * The Living Democracy Movement: Alternatives to the Bankruptcy of Globalization * Vandana Shiva, Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology * Conference Synthesis * Sara Larrain, International Forum on Globalization, Chile (Facilitator) * 9. Water - A Common Good * Conference Synthesis * Glenn Switkes, International Rivers Network, USA, and Elias Diaz Pena, Rios Vivos/Amigos de la Tierra, Paraguay (Facilitators) * 10. Knowledge, Copyright and Patents * Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap * OXFAM, UK * Conference Synthesis * Francois Houtart, Tricontinental Centre (Facilitator) * 11. Medicine, Health, AIDS * Conference Synthesis * Sonia Correa, IBASE and DAWN Network (Facilitator) * 12. Food * People's Right to Produce, Feed Themselves and Exercise their Food Sovereignty * APM World Network * 13. Cities, Urban Populations * Conference Synthesis * Erminia Maricato (Facilitator) * 14. Indigenous Peoples * Indigenous Commission Statement * Dionito Makuxi, Pina Tembe, Simiao Wapixana, Joel Pataxo, Lurdes Tapajos, Luiz Titia Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae * Conference Synthesis * Paulo Maldos, Centre for Popular Education, Brazil (Facilitator) * PART III: The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space * Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues * William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah * 15. The Media * Democratization of Communications and the Media * Osvaldo Leon, Agencia Latinoamerica de Informacion * 16. Education * Conference Synthesis * Bernard Charlot, World Forum on Education and Paul Belanger, International Council on Adult Education (Facilitators) * 17. Culture * Cultural Diversity, Cultural Production and Identity * Fatma Alloo, Luiza Monteiro, Aureli Argemi, Imruh Bakari, Xavi Perez * 18. Violence * Violence Against Women: The 'other world' must act * World March of Women * Conference Synthesis on the Culture of Violence and Domestic Violence * Fatima Mello, ABONG, Brazil (Facilitator) * 19. Discrimination and Intolerance * Combating Discrimination and Intolerance * National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, India * Conference Synthesis * Lilian Celiberti, Articulacion Feminista Marcosur (Facilitator) * 20. Migration and the Traffic in People * The Contradictions of Globalization * Lorenzo Prencipe, Centre for Documentation and Research on International Migration, Paris * 21. The Global Civil Society Movement * Discussion Document * Latin American Social Observatory (OSAL), Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO) * Conference Synthesis * Vittorio Agnoletto, Genoa Social Forum (Facilitator) * Part IV: Political Power and Ethics in the New Society * Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues * William F. Fisher and Thomas Ponniah * 22. The International Architecture of Power * International Organizations and the Architecture of World Power * Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South * Conference Synthesis * Teivo Teivainen, Network Institute for Global Democratization (Facilitator) * 23. Militarism and Globalization * Conference Synthesis * Marcela Escribano, Alternatives, Canada (Facilitator) * 24 Human Rights * Conference Synthesis on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights * Maria Luisa Mendonca, Social Network for Justice and Human Rights (Facilitator) * 25. Sovereignty * Sovereignty, Nation, Empire * Daniel Bensaid, University of Paris (St-Denis) * 26. Democracy * Participatory Democracy * M. P. Parameswaran, Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad * 27. Values * Values of a New Civilization * Mi
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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