Brazil Hosts World
Social Forum
BRASILIA - The 10th edition of the World
Social Forum (WSF) is to start Monday in
Porto Alegre, capital of the Brazilian state
of Rio Grande do Sul, with the attendance of
some 30,000 delegates.
The same Brazilian city that celebrated the
first and other three more editions during
this decade is ready for the meeting,
starting Tuesday through Friday, under the
slogan "10 years later: challenges and
proposals for another possible world."
About 130 delegates, as well as presidents
from Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo
Morales, and Ecuador's Rafael Correa
attended the last edition, held in 2009 in
Belem, capital of the Brazilian state of
Para.
All statesmen jointly criticized
international financial institutions, market
and wealthy nations.
Participants in the Porto Alegre event, in
addition to discussions about the courses of
world economy and policy, will also debates
issues as environment, and attend workshops,
exhibitions, shows and a solidary economy
fair.
The Porto Alegre Prefecture aims to organize
a donation collection for the victims of an
earthquake that devastated Haiti on January
12.
In statement to state Agencia Brasil,
businessman Oded Grajew, founder of the WSF,
said that the proposal of another possible
world is valid, created in comparison to the
advance of neoliberalism, represented in the
Economic Forum, held in Davos, Switzerland. |
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