MILLENNIUM PRESSURES MOUNT AMID BROKEN PROMISES By Gavin Yates The Global Campaign Against Poverty (GCAP) on Monday promised an escalation of efforts to pressure governments around the world to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are met. In September 2000, 189 government leaders committed their countries to eight goals to be met by 2015. However, campaigners from GCAP told the WSF that civil society pressure would have to increase if MDGs had any chance of being met. They accused Western governments of being short on substance and announced a series of days of action culminating on the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October this year. Hellen Tombo, who is a Kenyan Youth Movement Leader and the African Representative of GCAP, said that promises have been broken: "Our leaders have not been accountable; our leaders have not been transparent and they have taken us for granted."
COMMUNICATION NOT A WSF PRIORITY By Alejandro Kirk PULLOUT QUOTE "Community-level media is a step towards democratisation, but it's not enough ... If 93 percent of the audience is still captive of the monopolistic structure of corporate media, we will make little progress in enhancing democracy".
A TALE OF TWO FORUMS By Hilmi Toros Nairobi and the Swiss resort of Davos are set apart not only physically – ideologically too the Davos economic forum’s belief in conventional Trickle Down is a world apart from the WSF’s faith in building Another World.
‘WE HAVE PROVED THAT WE ARE UP TO THE TASK’ By Joyce Mulama Organising the WSF at Nairobi presented a daunting logistical challenge, not least because 2007 marks the first year in which Africa is serving as sole host of the event. TerraViva spoke to Onyango Oloo, national co-ordinator of the Kenya Social Forum, which is part of the 2007 WSF organising committee.
FROM SLUMS TO ANOTHER WORLD By Joyce MulamaNAIROBI - They marched from the region’s largest slum to Uhuru Park to proclaim that "Another World is Possible" and launch the seventh World Social Forum (WSF) on Saturday.
THE CHALLENGE OF NAIROBI By Mario LubetkinNAIROBI - We have arrived at the seventh World Social Forum, the first full WSF to be held on African soil. We have experienced these successful, massive events four times in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and once in Mumbai, India, while in 2006 we participated in the first-ever polycentric version of the Forum, held in Bamako, Caracas and Karachi.
WHITHER OR WITHER WSF? By Hilmi TorosNAIROBI - Beyond the ‘yes’, ‘no’ and ‘how to’ of civic protest, an air of uncertainty hangs over the World Social Forum. But the spirit and energy of the event is unmistakable and unique.
LEFT, RIGHT, OLD & NEW: TIME TO GET REAL? By Alejandro KirkNAIROBI - There are nine governments in Latin America that are thought to mark a new resurgence of Left-wing politics in the region. But panelists at a well-attended discussion on the relevance of socialism didn’t want to know.
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