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feminists, pacifists, environmentalists, farmers, intellectuals, citizens of every color who claim to social justice and want to change the way of making governments, businesses and institutions. Their motto: "Another world is possible." About 70,000 gathered in Dakar (Senegal) in the 11 th World Social Forum. This is a chronicle of the meeting.

"There will be two dates for global mobilization, March 20 and October 12 "

activists Do you recognize each other? Is there a manual anti?

" We must colonize heads and knowledge, solve problems with humility

"There is no example of a country where there is a socio-political front capable of dealing with the crisis"

"The passivity of the people? No, people want to do. Revolutions are made by minorities

raises a number of ideas: That's the philosophy. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world," said a man called Gandhi. And in 2001, following this indication (and other) was born of French and Brazilian labor (journalists and Ignacio Ramonet, Bernard Cassen, the businessman Oded Grajew, the Catholic activist Chico Whitaker ...) a meeting place, the WSF in Porto Alegre (Brazil). And he began to gel around an anticapitalist movement, which was dispersed, and was doing one, and crowded, under a slogan "Another world is possible." Initially 15,000 people attended. Four years later there were 150,000. In Dakar, the 11 th edition, will be 70,002

With 10 years of history, this event is considered the forum of the forums, the meeting of the world's largest social movements from that pioneer who took up the echo of the 1999 Seattle protests against international organizations like the IMF and WTO. What is the Davos meeting for the powerful is the FSM-that was the idea, a sound counterpoint, has Cassen in Dakar, for those who, having voice, no one listens to (or want to hear): millions of people or less radical, more or less concrete goals, universal or local, away from political parties or large organizations. That was then.

What now? Diversity. Divergence. Well, and what have today on the anti crisis involved and the citizens in African revolutions topple dictatorships? Do you have any suggestions? We do not know. But they are grown. After warning of the excesses of capitalism fierce, many of his predictions have come true. Road to Dakar. . A total of 1,200 associations in 132 countries (almost a hundred of Spain) have been recorded this year, the third, after Bamako (Mali) and Nairobi (Kenya) in Africa. It is, above all, civil society groups, NGOs, large and small, trade unions, parties ...

there are many types of

Forero. Any age, origin and condition. One essential is the intellectual leader established or emerging. The feeding. From celebrities such as Susan George, Aminata Traoré, Naomi Klein, Éric Toussaint Gus Massiah or to other less known as Esther Vivas, Fatma Alloo, Olivier Bonfond, Phumi Mtetwa, Christophe Ventura ... They offer a delicious feast alternative that tastes like pacifism, human rights, equality, food sovereignty, environment, children, indigenous, debt relief, poverty reduction, sustainability, health, feminism, immigration, democratic quality ... But most are neither famous nor group. Anonymous people (who have shown their weight repeatedly, particularly against the Iraq war, 15 million on the street) willing to share desires more or less radical change. Another type : colleagues tanned in these forums that come with colleagues because they believe in change. Twentysomethings. Cool. Yarn with a speech as many would like. No one escapes them on the politics of this world. Prototypes. Is that why you left each time the value most? Designed to abstention, to go or not to vote, they can overthrow elections.

Here's the top ten the most dressed in the WSF held at the University of Dakar: the deep green of La Via Campesina (an organization powerful and very feminine which represents 200 million people), the varied Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions to Aid Citizens (ATTAC), the dark of the Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt (CADTM), Jubilee South

other,

Movement for Peace. .. Hundreds the World March of Women, identical or not, depending on location and their country of origin, who come to burn their slogans and even their candidates (in elections) in their own fabrics. now match in Dakar Forum Theology of Liberation, People's stateless Migration, Democracy and Sciences, Debt and Poverty, Local Government, World Forum for Alternatives .. . And twenty assemblies that do choose. And much: most of them is the social movements (AMS). all fit in the FSM. is assembly-free. He has his rules: 1. The rejection of the current economic, political and environmental consequences of their exploitation, racism, sexism and the destruction of the planet, and the search and implementation of processes, actions and alternative lifestyles. 2. The horizontality of operation. 3. The conviction of the need to combine forces and converge on the action from respect for diversity ...

and its Charter of Principles (see www.fsm2011.org) indicates that it is an open, democratic debate ... What alternatives are opposed "to a process of globalization led by large multinationals and governments and institutions that serve their interests ...".