World Social Forum

World Social Forum: Building a "Revolution for Dignity"

The Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia has the largest collection of ancient mosaics in the world. Most of the mosaics, depicting Roman, Greek Phoenician and Nubian life, gods and royalty, are incomplete.

Globalization Revisted

Business Line | By S. Venkitaramanan | January 26, 2004

World""s Biggest Anti-Globalization Conference Opens In India

Associated Press Worldstream | By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM | January 16, 2004 Activists clanged cymbals, beat drums and yelled anti-war and anti-globalization slogans Friday, as they geared up for the opening of the World Social Forum.

Anti-Globalisation Activists Head To First Post-Iraq War Strategy Forum

Agence France Presse | By SHAUN TANDON | January 16, 2004 Low-caste Hindus who marched across India and Japanese pacifists sailing a "peace boat" converged on Bombay Friday for a six-day anti-globalisation convention where opposition to the US occupation of Iraq was topping a litany of causes.

Dissenters Shun Bush, Pepsi, Coke, Microsoft, Globalization And Much Else

Associated Press Worldstream | By NEELESH MISRA | January 16, 2004 Activists from around the world who have gathered to protest big business and big government at the World Social Forum have put their beliefs into practice, from food and drinks to computer operating systems.

World Social Meet To Cost Rs 8.5 Cr

The Times of India | By S. Balakrishnan | January 16, 2004 MUMBAI: Nearly 60 per cent of the funding for the World Social Forum (WSF) beginning here on January 16 is coming from abroad. The sixday event is estimated to cost a whopping Rs 8.5 crore and does not include the expenses being incurred by the organisers on travel and telecom.

Little Excitement In Indian Officialdom For Anti-Globalisation Extravaganza

Agence France Presse | By SHAUN TANDON | January 7, 2004 India has for decades been a self-proclaimed champion of the developing world, but next week the tens of thousands of anti-globalisation activists meeting in Bombay will find a country increasingly embracing capitalism.

Whispers of ""FTAA Lite""

Miami Herald | By Douglas Hanks III | Nov. 20, 2003 Today is the deadline for cities to join the hemispheric contest for the headquarters of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. But the prize itself is getting fuzzier and fuzzier.

NGOs For Global Free Trade

Financial Post | November 20, 2003 'The poor have nothing to lose but their poverty," say pro-trade NGOs NGOs are urging the business, civil society and political leaders from the western hemisphere that have gathered in Miami for the Free Trade Areas of America Ministerial to promote real free trade.

Miami Police Suit Up As Antiglobalisation Protesters Arrive For Americas Trade Summit

Agence France Presse | By CARLOS HAMANN | November 18, 2003 Miami police are suiting up to square off against tens of thousands of antiglobalisation protesters here Tuesday, ahead of a key summit of Americas trade ministers who are vying to establish the world's largest free trade area by 2005.