[WSF-Discuss] WSF Bulletin: June 10 2008

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WSF Bulletin

June 10th 2008

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    1) Belem 2009 Consultation – deadline extended
    2) Errata<http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/download/2008-06-10-WSF_newsletter_EN.htm#b>


1) Belem 2009 Consultation – deadline extended

In order to ensure a broader participation of social movements and
organizations in the building of World Social Forum 2009 objectives, the
Belem's Organizing Committee and the IC Methodology Commission has agreed to
extend the consultation period to June 25th.

Civil society organizations and social movements are invited to visit the
website www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br and make their comments about the 9 goals
established for 2007 WSF in Nairobi, as well as make suggestions of new
objectives to the World Social Forum 2009.

Please send this newsletter to your contacts and networks and help making
the consultation process as most participative as possible.

The nine objectives listed for Nairobi 2007 WSF that are being submitted for
Consultation

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

2. For the release of the world domain by multinationals, financial capital,
the imperialist domination and unequal systems of commerce;
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 and forests;
4. For the democratization of knowledge and information and for the creation
of a system of shared knowledge with the dismantling of Intellectual
Property Rights;
5. For the dignity, diversity, ensuring the equality of gender and race and
elimination of all forms of discrimination and caste (discrimination based
on descent);
6. For ensurance (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;
7. For the construction of a world order based on sovereignty,
self-determination and on people's rights;
8. For the construction of an economy centred on people and sustainability;
9. For the construction and expansion of truely democratic political
structures and institutions with the participation of people in decisions
and control of public affairs and resources.

Visit and contribute: www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br



2) Errata - IC meeting dates

Instead of what has been written in previous WSF Newsletter, the IC meeting
in Copenhangen (Denmark) won't happen from September 17th to 21st. These are
the dates of European Social Forum, that will happen in Malmö (Sweden). The
IC meeting in Copenhagen will happen just after ESF (dates to be confirmed
soon).



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