Caracas--In January, the Sixth World Social Forum will take place on three continents: Africa (in Mali), Asia (in Pakistan) and Latin America (in Venezuela). The Caracas forum is scheduled for January 24-29 on the theme "Another world is necessary, with you it is possible."
Parque Central in Caracas has become one of many hives of activity in preparation for the Latin American forum. There, Ernesto Che Mercado (El Che), a member of the WSF youth camp national coordinating committee in Venezuela, told Green Left Weekly about how plans for the forum are shaping up. El Che is also a spokesperson for the organisation Revolutionary Youth for Popular Power.
"If you are familiar with the WSF principles, you will be aware that the forum is organised very much along the lines of horizontalism and popular power. The range of social organisations participating is very large and broad. Our role at the WSF will be to host the youth camp ... Already we are advertising the WSF on radio and television and will be launching a dossier about the event next week.
"We are expecting a record turnout of up to 200,000 participants at the WSF ... It has come to our attention that many of the African WSF participants want to move their forum forward so that they can also come to the Caracas event. We think that this is very much related to the developments in Venezuela."
