[WSF-Discuss] IS THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM ALREADY OLD NEWS?

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IS THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM ALREADY OLD NEWS?
Mario Lubetkin

Source: IPS @ http://ipsnews.net/columns.asp?idnews=36579

*FEBRUARY 2007 (IPS) - Despite the success of the seventh World Social Forum
(WSF) held last month in Nairobi, media coverage of the massive event
continues to wane, in sharp contrast to the prominence the event was given
in its first few years, writes Mario Lubetkin, director-general of the IPS
news agency.*

The decision to hold the next central forum in 2009 and leave 2008 for
protest actions in various parts of the planet effectively postpones the
work of building an image of a World Forum that generates serious, realistic
alternative proposals in response to the major, dangerous problems that
affect humanity.

The silence that may fall over the forum for such a long period, despite the
local and regional forums set for coming months and years, could aggravate
this tendency and, as a result, generate even more disillusionment for many
of those who are betting on the forum and its defiant motto: ''Another world
is possible.''

/NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CZECH REPUBLIC,
IRELAND, POLAND, UNITED STATES, OR THE UNITED KINGDOM/ (END/2007)
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