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World Social Forum Global Day of Action - Jan 26, 2008
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26 Jan WSF day of action
http://www.wsf2008.net
Act locally to change globally!
A week of Mobilization on Campaigns, culminating in a
Global Day of Action on January 26th 2008.
Why a Global Day of Action?
Movements around the world have been holding actions in response
to the emerging issues of neo-liberal globalization, war, patriarchy,
racism, colonialism and environmental. These movements such as the
Zapatistas uprising in 1995 and, the Seattle demonstrations in 1999
were perhaps the best known defining actions of our times.
In this initial phase, movements focused their action at the
international level such as such the ones in Genoa against the G8
or Cancun against the WTO. The coordinated international demonstration
against the war on Iraq on February 15th 2003 was the apogee of
this phase. In recent years the movement grown in strength and have
continued to root their struggles within national and local realities.
Everywhere in the world, mobilizations on action has been taking
different forms and addressing different issues: student movements,
workers rights, poverty, violence against the women, environment
and climate change, indigenous people and migrants' rights etc.
The main challenge of these actions, perhaps to date, has been to
begin link local and national struggles within an international
framework and global movement of solidarity so as to give more
strength to our struggles, alternatives and campaigns and to enlarge
our alliances. The purpose, therefore, of the WSF2008 Global Day
of Action is to fulfill the objective of acting locally to change
globally. The day of action will give visibility to our local
struggles through a common day of solidarity on our actions and
struggles.
Why now, and why January 26th?
Previously, there have been several attempts for the emerging
movements to set up a unique day for action, inline with its
predecessors, e.g.
May 1 for the labour movement or March 8th for the Women's Day. The
World Social Forum as a movement of movements has continued to be
a space where social movements converge for joint actions and as a
methodology for WSF2008, the International Council decided to focus
on people's struggles and actions at the local and national level.
This is in recognition of the WSF as a process, which lives through
the local, national, regional and thematic Forums, in the many and
plural struggles, campaigns, alternatives for another world as they
unfold all over the planet.
January 26th as a preferred date therefore emerged as a day that
coincides with the period of the World Economic Forum meeting in
Davos.
The evaluation of the impact of the Global Day of Action 2008 will
determine follow-up actions and further specific or thematic
mobilization actions.
Get Involved!
The Global Day of Action will be promoted by all the organizations
and movements at the global, national and local level. Each network,
movement or organization will decide the methodology, forms or
issues their actions will take. They will also be free to connect
with other regional or global social movements for solidarity at
international level. All organizations or individuals who wish to
take part in the Global Day of Action Can:
Sign the Global Call to Action at http://www.wsf2008.net
Organize campaigns, events and activities towards this date.
Give visibility to their planned actions and campaigns in any form.
Engage with other groups at the international level and propose issues
and campaigns for solidarity;
The World Social Forum Secretariat has prepared an online tool at
the WSF2008 website to enable you register your campaign/action,
connect with other groups and propose joint campaigns and also give
visibility to these joint actions.
Kenya: For more information, please contact: The Kenya Social Forum at
socialfo...@sodnet.or.ke [sic; This might really be
socialfo...@sodnet.org.ke -NYTr] (Tel. 020 3860475).
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