Venezuela : The World Social Forum Americas Chapter/2nd Social Forum of the Americas
January 23, 2006 - February 04, 2006
At the World Social Forum, five years of uniting the world's peoples' movements, indigenous communities, women's movements, human rights organizations, environmentalists, intellectuals, students, activists, and citizens of the North and South have led to the beginning of true alternative economic structures which prove that Another World is not only Possible, it is happening.
Nowhere is it happening more profoundly than Venezuela.
Venezuela, home to a peaceful revolutionary process that has brought education and healthcare to millions through the redistribution of oil profits, will act as the simultaneous host of the World Social Forum Americas Chapter and the 2nd Social Forum of the Americas in January, 2006.
Drawing on the model of regional integration and from the hope and lessons that may be learned from the process of grassroots social change in Venezuela, the World Social Forum will occur in simultaneous regional forums in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The regional focus initiates a profound attempt at strengthening local participation and regional ties between movements for social justice before moving the Forum to Africa in 2007.
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