HIV/AID related issues in World Social Forum 2004- Mumbai

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends

I would like to get in touch with organisations/groups participating in

World Social Forum (WSF) in January 16- 21; 2004 in Mumbai.

I am specifically interested in knowing the events being planned for WSF

2004 with the theme of HIV/AIDS.

Thanks

Nidhi

E-mail: <nidhi@...>

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World Social FORUM

Peoples' movements around the world are working to demonstrate that the path to

sustainable development, social and economic justice lies in alternative models

for people-centred and self-reliant progress, rather than in neo-liberal

globalisation.

The World Social Forum (WSF) was created to provide an open platform to discuss

strategies of resistance to the model for globalisation formulated at the annual

World Economic Forum at Davos by large multinational corporations, national

governments, IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, which are the foot soldiers of

these corporations.

Firmly committed to the belief that Another World Is Possible the WSF is an open

space for discussing alternatives to the dominant neo-liberal processes, for

exchanging experiences and for strengthening alliances among mass organisations,

peoples' movements and civil society organisations.

The first WSF was held in 2001 in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.

It was here that the WSF's Charter of Principles was adopted to provide a

framework for the forum. The annual forums in 2002 and 2003 saw the movement

grow rapidly, as the WSF came to symbolise the strength of the

anti-globalisation movement and became a rallying point for worldwide protest

against the American invasion of Iraq.

At WSF 2002, it was proposed that the next forum be held outside Brazil. This

shift represents the need that the WSF process must reach out in a larger way to

the African-Asian region, where two-thirds of the world's population lives.

The Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in January 2003 was a demonstration of

India's commitment to the WSF process, prompting suggestions that the next be

held in the subcontinent. A preparatory meeting at Bhopal in April 2002 framed

the Bhopal Declaration,which governs the WSF process in India. The

organisational outline of the process was also formulated.

The WSF India process will reach a crescendo in Mumbai between January 16 and

January 21, 2004, when 75,000 delegates are expected to express their belief

that Another World Is Possible.

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