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  WSF ends with political resolutions and plan of action
  The World Social Forum ended its ninth edition Sunday in Belém with its "Assembly of assemblies" adopting dozens of resolutions and proposals to be the subjects of a program of mobilizations around the world in 2009.
   
    
 
Selling spiritualism at the WSF
  Spiritual and socio-religious organisations with their roots based in Hindu philosophy are promoting yoga, meditation, vegetarianism and an alternative economic model as a solution to the economic and environmental ills.  
 

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Makers and Shakers of the Post-Crisis World
  Of all the questions raised by the global economic crisis, one that is by no means insignificant may be answered this week: How will the pressure groups that influenced the policies that led to the present chaos adapt to the new world situation?  
 

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De-linking discrimination from research
  Researchers and academics cutting across countries and cultures decried rampant racism and discrimination that prevails in institutions of learning which does not allow people from indigenous and marginalised communities to grow and acquire knowledge.  
 

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Palestine and Colombia: Two conflicts, one solution
Zoltan Dujisin/IPS-TerraViva
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Davos looking insecure this year
Ravi Kanth Devarakonda/IPS-TerraViva
Unlike the last 15 years, everyone has questions, but few seem to have the answers at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Still searching for another world
Rahul Kumar/IPS-TerraViva
The Reds were there and so were the Greens along with the Amazonian Indians and Indians from the Asian continent. People with masks on their faces, others wearing paint and feathers on their bodies and a lot of the women wearing next to nothing also made their presence felt.
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Amazon Rainforest: There are people living under those trees
Rachel Amon/IPS-TerraViva
There is a need right now to prove to the Brazilian government that there are and communities living within the rainforests of West Pará.
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"Wake Up, World!" - SOS from the Amazon
Mario Osava/IPS-TerraViva
A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message "SOS Amazon" to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF).
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“Right time to develop free media,” say campaigners
By Rahul Kumar
Activists are looking at the constructive side of the global economic meltdown. Media activists at the World Social Forum (WSF-2009) taking place at Belem, Brazil, say the crisis has provided a historic opportunity to strengthen the free media movement because the mainstream media has colluded with the corporate world in bringing the worldwide financial chaos upon everyone.
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For a People's Fight Against Organised Crime
Sabina Zaccaro/IPS TerraViva
Civil society groups are looking to the World Social Forum this year to strengthen their campaign for justice in the face of organised crime.
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Crisis as Opportunity for "Another World"
Mario Osava/IPS TerraViva
A World Social Forum (WSF) revitalised by a global crisis that has awakened new interest in the proposition that "another world is possible" - now perceived as either less utopian or more urgently needed - will take place from Jan. 27 to Feb. 1 in Belém, in northern Brazil.
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Walden Bello: ‘It is time to aim beyond capitalism’
Alejandro Kirk/IPS TerraViva
The World Social Forum has an urgent and crucial task: battling the social democratic response to the global crisis of capitalism now under way, and push for a democratic control of economy and state, worldwide, Filipino academic, author and activist Walden Bello tells TerraViva’s Alejandro Kirk at an interview.
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Cándido Grzybowski: “The crisis has proved us right”
Roberto Fuentealba/Radio Tierra-Amarc
Thanks to the crisis, capitalism will never be the same again, so unrestrained and omnipotent, according to the director of the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (IBase) and one of the main organisers of the World Social Forum (WSF), in an interview with Radio Tierra of Chile (member of Amarc).
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Analysts Question Its Limits
Diego Cevallos/IPS-TerraViva
Prominent Mexico-based German political analyst Heinz Dieterich said he believes the World Social Forum, which is meeting this week in the northern Brazilian Amazon jungle city of Belem, falls short in the innovation department and fails to generate real change.
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Lilian Celiberti: Hard on Fundamentalism
Roberto Fuentealba/Radio Tierra-Amarc
The WSF feminist movements will focus this year’s main debate on the fight against religious fundamentalism, which has been gaining ground. Radio Tierra interviews the director of the Mercosur Network of Feminist Organizations.
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos: “The WSF should privilege alternative media.”
Alejandro Kirk/IPS-TerraViva
The Portuguese sociologist argues that community radios and alternative media are the formula for bringing down the fence of corporate media. In an interview with TerraViva’s Alejandro Kirk, he also announces that he now believes that the current crisis requires that the Forum to take a defined political stance.
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'Crisis Could Lead to 'Revolutionary Change'
As the economic crisis bites deeper, a revolutionary outcome may be possible, in the view of French academic Alain Bihr. An interview by Gustavo Capdevila in Zurich.
'We Have to be Good at Proposing, Not Just Opposing'
Aye Aye Win director of Dignity International was interviewed by IPS Editor-in-Chief about the role of the WSF today.
Not a Static Platform
The WSF's relevance lies on its capacity to "suggest clear socialist alternatives to defeat the imperialist monster" says Onyango Oloo, organizer of the Forum in Kenya. An interview by IPS' Terna Guyse
Irfan Mufti: 'NGOs are part of the problem'
In Pakistan, NGOs are taking people away from politics, says Irfan Mufti, interviewed by IPS' Zofeen Ibrahim in Karachi.
'The Forum must come up with answers to the crisis'
The WSF must evolve to avoid repeating itself, especially in this when capitalism is crmbling, says French agronomist and activist Henri Rouillé d'Orfeuil, interviewed in Chile by Daniela Estrada.
   
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Historical challenge
The capitalist crisis and five presidents gathering in Belem, attest to the big challenge before this Forum: become an effective global force for change, says TerraViva editor Alejandro Kirk.
Story of An Indian Lost in Brazil
Journalist Rahul Kumar travelled all the way from India to find out that he looks local in the Amazonian region, where heat and mangoes resemble home.
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