[WSF-Discuss] Defined the list of 10 action objectives for WSF 2009 participants

[CACIM]

29.07.2008
*Defined the list of 10 action objectives for WSF 2009 participants*

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The local Facilitation Group and members of Methodology Commission met in
Belem from July 10th to 12th to evaluate the answers to the consultation
process and define the action objectives for WSF 2009 participants.

The Consultation about the WSF objectives was called by the WSF
International Council in order to expand or adjust the current action
objectives for 2009 event. All the activities (conferences, panels,
seminars, workshops and others) will be organized related to those
objectives. See bellow the list of 10 action objectives for activities that
will happen in Belem 2009 territory. In bold characters there are the
additions made to the objectives defined to WSF 2007 in Nairobi (Kenya):

1. For the construction of a world of peace, justice, ethics and respect for
different spiritualities, free of weapons, especially nuclear ones;

2. For the release of the world domain *by capital*, multinationals
corporations, imperialist, *patriarchal, colonial and
neo-colonial*domination and unequal systems of commerce,
*by canceling the impoverish countries debt*;

3. For universal and sustainable access to the common property of mankind
and nature, for the preservation of our planet and its resources,
particularly water, forests *and renewable energy sources*;

4. For the democratization *and independence*of knowledge, *culture and
communication* and for the creation of a system of shared knowledge *and
acquirement* with the dismantling of Intellectual Property Rights;

5. For the dignity, diversity, ensuring the equality of gender, race,
*ethnicity,
generation, sexual orientation* and elimination of all forms of
discrimination and caste (discrimination based on descent);

6. For ensurance (during the lifetime use of all people) of the economic,
social, human, cultural and environmental rights, particularly the rights to
food, health, education, housing, employment and decent work, *communication
and food security and sovereignty*;

7. For the construction of a world order based on sovereignty,
self-determination and on people's rights, *including minorities and
migrants*;

8. For the construction of a democratic, emancipator, sustainable and
solidary economy, focused on *every *people and *based on ethical and fair
trade*.

9. For the construction and expansion of truly *local, national and
global*democratic political
*and economic* structures and institutions, with the participation of people
in decisions and control of public affairs and resources.

10. *For the defense of the environment (amazonic and others ecosystems) as
source of life for the planet Earth and for the originary peoples of the
world (indigenous, afro-descendent, tribal and riverine), that demand their
territories, languages, cultures, identities, environmental justice,
spiritually and right to live*.
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