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News and reports from Porto Alegre 2005
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Reports and news on the fifth edition of the WSF, held from January 26 to 31 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Part of the Choike team covered the Forum's activities directly from Porto Alegre. For NGOs from the South, the Forum has become a place to make their voices heard and exchange experiences and ideas. This was the main focus of Choike's coverage, in line with its aim of giving visibility to Southern civil societies. See also the Choike in-depth report "World Social Forum (WSF) 2005" or subscribe to our free bulletin. See bellow workshops information and reports

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The tyranny of empty bellies
Fifty thousand people die every day of poverty-related causes in this world of plenty. Eight hundred million go to bed hungry. What are we doing about it, asks the following article, a keynote address at the World Social Forum 2005.
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 Is there an equal space for women's rights discussions at the Forum?
Women have been participating in the WSF since it was first held in 2001. Has there been an improvement in our representation? Have we really integrated our issues in other Forum discussions? By Christina Haralanova.
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 WSF 2007 in Africa
"We should use the build-up to the WSF 2007 to build and strengthen the social movements in Africa. We need a programme of action for this momentous task. We should broaden and strengthen the ASF as the tool to co-ordinate this work. Maximum internal democracy, accountability, collective leadership and mass participation are crucial in building the ASF". By Trevor Ngwane.
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News Reports
The tyranny of empty bellies
 Penelopes' coverage on WSF 2005
 Reports from the WSF, by Mandisa Mbali
 A divisive consensus
 The Fifth WSF in in the balance
 Chavez: "The WSF should have a strategy of power"
 Trade unions and civil society outline basis for fair globalisation
 Evaluation and cultural manifestations close the fifth edition
 Laicist forum, abortion, sexual rights, radical democracy and others: 31 january
 IMF and World Bank face the WSF: Agree to disagree
 The consensus of Porto Alegre?
 March for Employment goes through the World Social Terrain
 Africa's human map construction will be on Sunday
 Re-claiming "our" UN - and changing it
 The youth of WSF
 Workshop on ESCR and public policies: 30 January
 WSF-WEF: a tale of two forums in worlds apart
 The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) at the WSF 2005
 UNESCO at World Social Forum 2005
 Fifth intercontinental youth camp of the World Social Forum: 21-31 January 2005
 Launching ceremony at FSM: white band to strangle poverty
 WSF2006 will be spread out
 WSF: fighting for the right to information
 The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre is on the move
 Press conference: Debt cancellation in the face of tsunami disaster
 IFI WatchNet participating
 Daily newspaper TerraViva
 Caracol Intergalactika
 Foodfirst Information & Action Network (FIAN) activities
 Feminist Dialogues - FD
 Communication: counter-hegemonic practices, rights and alternatives
 Activities of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
 V International Ciranda of Independent Information
 Activities organized by the WRM
 Beijing +10 Review: 28 January 2005
 AMARC actively participates in 5th World Social Forum
 Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration at the WSF2005
 Governments and IFIs: 30 January
 Social justice and land regularization for afro-descendent communities: January 27
 Transnational Institute (TNI) activities - Preliminary programme
 1st. World 1st. World Social Forum on Health - January 23-25
 Feminist Dialogues (FD)
 A global anti-war assembly
 Assembly of south Peoples creditors of the social, ecological and historical debt
 Women, housing and land
 Human Rights and corporate accountability events (ESCR-Net)
 The Arab NGO Network for Development participation in the WSF 2005
 		Global call for U.S. boycott at World Social Forum
 Is there an equal space for women's rights discussions at the Forum?
 WSF 2007 in Africa
 African debt campaigners demand firm action for Africa
 WSF: the colonisation of resistence? By Andile Mngxitama
 Colombia: massacres, privatisations and Free Trade Agreement
 CRIS Campaign statement for the Social Movements Assembly
 WSF2005: the risks posed by success
 Innovation, information technology and the culture of freedom
 ESCR and public policies
 Saramago the critic
 Being an open space is not enough
 North-South meets, more reforms needed for MDGs
 Where dreams are shattered in a garbage heap
 To defend water is to defend life
 Global call to action against poverty is launched at the WSF2005
 The right to land and housing of Afro-descendant communities
 Forming the 5th International Independent Information Exchange
 Another communication is also possible
 Fighting for the right to information
 The challenges of the WSF and the responsibilities of communicators
 Open Systems for Open Politics
 "The struggle for agrarian reform is a political struggle"
 The World Social Forum in pictures
 Less euphoric, the World Social Forum returns to Brazil
 Workshop: Explorations of open space
 Porto Alegre puts Mumbai's lessons to the test
 Beyond the World Social Forum: the need for new institutions
 Workshop and document: "World Charter of the Rights to the City": January 28
 IFIs: background document for the WSF 2005
 WSF 2005: in the U.S., polls and bullets blot out upcoming summit
 Social movements and political power, an essential debate
 New book: "Are Other Worlds Possible?"

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