Dakar World Social Forum
We plan to provide regular information about mobilisation for the Dakar World Social Forum in February 2011. Watch out for more, and in the meantime check out the World Social Forum website -...
View ArticleAfrica: From Davos to Dakar
Days after the global elite's jamboree at the Swiss resort of Davos, a week-long carnival of the oppressed and the marginalised, and those speaking for them, has begun in the capital of this western...
View ArticleSenegal: Same old system can only produce new crisis
The world is in financial crisis thanks to the reckless behaviour of bankers, say campaigners, yet ordinary people are picking up the tab. Debt activists fear the recession will provide cover for a...
View ArticleSenegal: ‘Signs of Change’ Says Bolivia’s Morales as World Social Forum Opens
Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Dakar on Sunday to mark the start of the annual World Social Forum. Activists carried colorful banners denouncing land grabs, restrictive...
View ArticleD2D – World Social Forum Dakar 2011
'Despite the many challenges, the chaos, the gathering of some 70,000 (WSF estimates) in one location with constant motion, sounds, music and drumming, talk and laughter is such joy.' Follow Priority...
View ArticleChina in Africa: Colonisation or co-operation?
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Hu.jpgIn the following presentation, Abdoul Guarmo Lo talks about the role of China in Africa - http://bit.ly/hB4ljt [mp3] – is China’s involvement a...
View ArticleChina and the South
- https://picasaweb.google.com/Gary.Story/Misc1#5522006132046877746In the following presentation, Wen Tiejun talks about the global economy and China’s place in the context of South-South cooperation...
View ArticleChina, Africa and the people
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbamueller/4970321694/In an interview with Zahra Moloo, Beijing-based Professor Wen Tiejun - http://bit.ly/i2lPRW [mp3], who teaches sustainable development and...
View ArticleBring back Bamako
- https://picasaweb.google.com/Sustainlabour/WSFJan2007NairobiKenya#5221378985633136594In the following presentation, Professor Aziz Fall - http://bit.ly/eh5LiD [mp3], member of the Group for Research...
View ArticleSelf-reliance and the revival of Pan-Africanism
- http://picasaweb.google.com/guled.seattle/Pictures#5411171019575378642In an interview with Zahra Moloo - http://bit.ly/eDhciv [mp3], Aziz Fall, member of the Group for Research and Initiative for...
View ArticlePhilippines: The price of democracy
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/verzo/2729888961/In the following presentation, Antonio Tujan describes the current situation in the Philippines - http://bit.ly/gD9UAD [mp3] and the price that people...
View ArticleLet Ivorians shape their own destiny
In the following presentation, Maurice Fahe - http://bit.ly/hwtPUV attempts to answer the question, how do Ivorians understand what is happening in their country today? [mp3] The media and other...
View ArticleIvory Coast: Fighting for a more just society
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/59216236@N07/5425335856/Zahra Moloo talks to Maurice Fahe, an independent researcher from Ivory Coast - http://bit.ly/fdbRcc [mp3] and a member of the World Forum for...
View ArticleEgypt: Who will take the movement forwards?
- https://picasaweb.google.com/lorensoarriaza/AGATON#5570174869799628914Mamdouh Habashi explains the recent popular uprising in Egypt - http://bit.ly/hFLPdr[mp3] and the historical factors that led to...
View ArticleHouses for men, slums for women
In Morocco, women from a number of different ethnic groups experience great difficulties accessing collective land. Rkia Bllot, an activist from the Hededa group in Morocco - http://bit.ly/dNWgPF...
View ArticleCapitalism deepens underdevelopment
- http://picasaweb.google.com/Gary.Story/Scenery2#5522392359017423410Renowned Egyptian economist Samir Amin talks about reinforcing cooperation between countries of the global South -...
View ArticleWho benefitted from Zimbabwe's land reform?
Zahra Moloo speaks to Sam Moyo, director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AISA) - http://bit.ly/fEn7o8 [mp3]. Moyo talks about the successes and contradictions of Zimbabwe’s land...
View ArticleWill we need a second earth?
Below are excerpts from a World Social Forum workshop on the agrarian question. Ritu Devani from the University of Mumbai talks about 'agrarian distress' or the agrarian crisis in India -...
View ArticleEgypt: The movement with no leader
Zahra Moloo speaks with Mamdouh Habashi - http://bit.ly/eUXD5Z [mp3], vice-president of the World Forum for Alternatives and board member of the Arab and African Research Centre in Cairo. Habashi...
View ArticleEgyptian activists talk about the state of the revolution
- https://picasaweb.google.com/2xidios/GxHAoI10#5564358902309628002On February 4, Pambazuka News editor Firoze Manji walked in on Egyptian theorist Samir Amin and Mamdou Habashi, a well-known Egyptian...
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