Summary
With special focus on this year's forum in Caracas, Venezuela, Becker discusses the impact of the annual World Social Forum (WSF). He points out that for Venezuela, hosting the forum was an excellent opportunity both to exchange experiences with others and to build international understanding of and solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution, as the movement associated with Hugo Chavez is called.
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Report From the World Social Forum Vi
Every year in late January, the world's corporate and government elites gather under tight police security in the Swiss resort town of Davos to plot the future of corporate-led globalization. In 2000, community organizers, trade unionists, young people, academics, and others began to meet to rethink and recreate globalization so that it would benefit ordinary people. This alternative annual meeting is called the World Social Forum (WSF), a take-off on Wo...
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