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About this report

The Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) believes that the growing profile of citizen-based agendas in global affairs represents one of the most promising developments in the international arena. The most prominent example of such a transboundary network of citizen groups working on both the local and global levels is what is commonly referred to as the “global justice movement.”

Since 2001 this movement and other networks working on issues related to economic justice, human and gender rights, sustainable development and the environment, and peace and militarization have gathered annually in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to participate in the World Social Forum (WSF).

This international gathering gives activists from across the planet an opportunity to discuss shared challenges, evaluate strategies, assess progress, articulate alternatives, and coordinate efforts. In effort to help citizen-based agendas succeed on a global scale and capture some of the outcomes of the 2001 WSF, the IRC asked a group of activists in the United States to share their thoughts on the Port Alegre summit and to talk about how this global forum has impacted their own local activism.

This work was partially funded by a grant from the Solidago Foundation and reflects the IRC’s 23-year commitment to internationalism and crossborder cooperation.

Appendix A: List of organizations contacted for this survey

Center on Policy Initiatives
Community Voices Heard
Council of Canadians
Economic Policy Institute
ENLACE
Environmental Health Coalition
Funders Network on Trade and Globalization
Global Policy Network
Institute for Policy Studies
International Forum on Globalization
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Multinationals Resource Center
North American Alliance for Fair Employment
Pacific Environment
Polaris Institute
Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Southern Echo
Southwest Organizing Project
Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
United Farm Workers
U.S. Student Association

Appendix B: Survey questions

1. What is the greatest benefit you see resulting from the World Social Forum, whether in terms of your own work or in terms of the larger global justice movement?

2. What is the main lesson or conclusion you brought home with you from Porto Alegre?

3. In your own work, do you and your constituents believe that there are clear links between their own local problems and concerns and globalization issues? What is the main global/local link in your own work?

4. How can social forums like that held in Brazil advance the movement of global economy activists, either at the international or local level?

5. Would you recommend anything that globalization activists or organizations like the IRC can do to forge better local/global links—either in terms of policy advocacy, citizen action, or popular education?

6. Was there a non-U.S. group(s) or organization(s) present at the Porto Alegre summit that would you like to continue networking and dialoguing with?

7. Is there anything else you would like to share about local/global links or the World Social Forum?

Notes on survey methodology:

The IRC survey “Following Up on the World Social Forum” was conducted during the summer and fall of 2002. The survey was targeted via email to individuals based at nonprofit organizations and community groups who had participated in the 2002 World Social Forum. Emailed surveys were followed up with phone calls. In some cases, respondents filled out their own questionnaires and returned them via email or fax. In other instances, an IRC staff member interviewed the respondent by phone. In total, 31 individuals responded to the questionnaire.

Appendix C: Directory of groups involved in organizing the World Social Forum

WSF Secretariat

Associação Brasileira de Organizações Não Governamentais (ABONG)
Email: abong@uol.com.br
Web: www.abong.org.br

Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC)
Email: attacsaopaulo@attac.org
Web: www.attac.org

Comissão Brasileira Justiça e Paz, da CNBB (CBJP)
Email: cbjp@cbjp.org.br
Web: www.cbjp.org.br

Associação Brasileira de Empresários pela Cidadania (CIVES)
Email: cives@uol.com.br / cives@cives.com.br
Web: www.cives.com.br

Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT)
Email: cut@cut.org.br
Web: www.cut.org.br

Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas (IBASE)
Email: ibase@ibase.br
Web: www.ibase.br

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
Email: scgeral@uol.com.br
Web: www.mst.org.br

Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
Email: rede@social.org.br
Web: www.social.org.br

WSF International Council

Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
http://www.actu.asn.au/

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
http://www.aflcio.org/

Africa Trade Network
http://www.twnafrica.org/

Alternative Information on Development Center (AIDC)
http://www.aidc.org.za/

Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion (ALAI)
http://www.alainet.org/

Associação Latino-Americana de Pequenos e Médios Empresários (ALAMPYME)
http://www.apyme.com.ar/

Alianza por um Mundo Responsable, Plural y Solidario
gustavo@alliance21.org

Associação Latino-Americana de Organismos de Promoção (ALOP)
http://www.alop.or.cr/index.htm

Alternative Information Center
http://www.alternativenews.org/

Alternatives
http://www.alternatives.ca/

Amigos da Terra / Friends of the Earth
http://www.foei.org/

Association of World Council of Churches related Development Organisations in Europe (APRODEV)
http://www.aprodev.net/

Arab NGO Network for Development
http://www.annd.org/

Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA)
http://www.asianexchange.org/

Articulación Feminista Marco Sur
http://www.mujeresdelsur.org.uy/

Aliança Social Continental (ASC)
http://www.ascahsa.org/

Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones (APC)
http://www.apc.org/

Assemblée Européenne des Citoyens
http://www.cedetim.org/AEC/

Assembléia das Nações Unidas dos Povos
flavio@perlapace.it

Ação pela Tributação das Transações financeiras em Apoio aos Cidadãos (ATTAC)—Brasil
http://www.attac.org/brasil/

ATTAC –France
http://www.attac.org/

Bankwatch Network
http://www.bankwatch.org/

Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde (CADTM)
http://users.skynet.be/cadtm/

Canadian Council
Jdunn@canadians.org

Cáritas Internacionalis
http://www.caritasbrasileira.org/

Comissão Brasileira de Justiça e Paz (CBJP)
http://www.cbjp.org.br/

Consejo de Educación de Adultos de América Latina (CEAAL)
http://www.ceaal.org/

CEDAR Internacional
http://www.cedarinternational.net/

Centre d’Êtudes et d’Initiatives de Solidarité Internationale (CEDETIM)
http://www.cedetim.org/

Central de Trabajadores Argentinos
http://www.cta.org.ar/

European Trade Union Confederation (CES)
http://www.etuc.org/

CETRI
houtart@espo.ucl.ac.be;
cetri@cetri.be

Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité (CIDSE)
http://www.cidse.org/

Confederação Internacional de Organizações Sindicais Livres (CIOSL)
http://www.cioslorit.org/

Associação Brasileira de Empresários pela Cidadania (CIVES)
http://www.cives.com.br/

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
http://www.clacso.org/
http://www.clacso.edu.ar/

Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)
http://www.clc-ctc.ca/

Confederação Mundial do Trabalho (CMT)
http://www.cmt-wcl.org/

Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE)
http://www.conaie.org/

Congresso Nacional Indígena do México
ceatl@laneta.apc.org

Conselho Mundial de Igrejas
info@wcc-coe.org

Coordenación del Foro “El Otro Davos”
Page2@fastnet.ch

Coordenadora de Centrais Sindicais do Cone Sul
eduardof@aebu.org.uy

Corpwatch
http://www.corpwatch.org/

Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
http://www.cosatu.org.za/

Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT)
http://www.cut.org.br/

Encuentros Hemisféricos contra el ALCA
america@ctc.co.cu;
leonelgonzalez@ctc.co.cu;
joel@mlking.sld.cu

Environnement et Développement du Tiers-Monde (ENDA)
http://www.enda.sn/

FAMES (Senegal/África)
rabia@enda.sn

Frente Continental de Organizações Comunitárias (FECOC)
mlongoria@laneta.apc.org

Food First International Action Network (FIAN)
http://www.fian.org/

Federação Internacional Direitos Humanos (FIDH)
http://www.fidh.org/

Funders Network on Trade & Globalization (FNTG)
http://www.fntg.org/

Focus on the Global South
http://focusweb.org/

Foro de Cooperacion entre Sociedades Civiles de América Latina, El Caribe y Europa (Foro ALCE)
carles.riera@upcnet.es;
CRiera@aepdc.org;
aep00001@saranet.et

Fórum Dakar
Residel.kaolack@sentoo.sn

Forum Mondial des Alternatives
http://www.alternatives-action.org/fma/

Forum of the Poors
fopthai@asiaaccess.net.th;
fopthai@hotmail.com;
C.Bamford@focusweb.org

Fórum Social Italiano
info@genoa-g8.org

Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/

Global Policy Network
http://www.globalpolicynetwork.org/

Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/

Grito dos Excluídos
http://www.movimientos.org/

Habitat International Coalition
http://www.hic-mena.org/

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
http://www.iatp.org/

Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas (IBASE)
http://www.ibase.br/

Consejo Internacional de Educacion de Adultos (ICAE)
http://www.web.net/icae/

International Federation of Alternative Trade (IFAT)
http://www.ifat.org/dwr/index.html

International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
http://www.ifg.org/

International Gender and Trade Network
http://www.genderandtrade.net/

International Rivers Network
http://www.irn.org/

Inter Press Service (IPS)
http://www.ips.org/

Jubilee South—Asia
vinod.raina@vsnl.com

Jubileo South—Africa
http://www.jubileesouth.net/

Jubileu 2000
kitazawa@jca.apc.org

Jubileu Sul América Latina
http://www.jubileusul.hpg.com.br/

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)
http://www.kctu.org/

KOPA
kopa@jinbo.net

Land Research Action Network
wellington@nlc.co.za

Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
http://www.mst.org.br/

Narmada
http://www.narmada.org/

Network Institute for Global Democratization (NIGD)
http://www.nigd.u-net.com/

North-South Centre
info@nsc.coe.int;
Fifi.BENABOUD@coe.int

Continental Organization of Latin America and Caribbean Students (OCLAE)
oclae@jcce.org.cu

Oneworld
http://www.unimondo.org/

Organization of African Trade Unions Unity

Org. Regional Interamericana de Trabalhadores (ORIT)
http://www.orit-ciosl.org/

OXFAM Internacional
http://www.oxfam.org/

Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo
http://www.pidhdd.org/

Public Citizen
http://www.citizen.org/

Red Latinoamericana Mulheres Transformando a Economia
mleon@interactive.net.ec

Rede APM—Agricultura Camponesa e Modernização
pvuarin@fph.fr

Rede Dawn de Mulheres
http://www.dawn.org.fj/

Rede de Solidariedade Ásia Pacífico
intl@dsp.org.au

Rede Latino Americana e Caribenha de Mulheres Negras
criola@alternex.com.br

Rede Mulher e Habitat (Women and Shelter Network)
http://www.ibam.org.br/remulher/remulher.htm

Rede Mundial de Mulheres pelos Direitos Reprodutivos
http://www.wgnrr.org/

Rede Palestina de ONGs (PNGO)
http://www.pngo.net/

Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
http://www.social.org.br/

Rede Transforme!
elgauthi@internatif.org

Red de Educación Popular Entre Mujeres (REPEM)
http://www.repem.org.uy/

Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR)
rlambert@ecel.uwa.edu.au

Social Watch
http://www.socialwatch.org/

Solidar
http://www.solidar.org/

Transnational Institute (TNI)
http://www.tni.org/

Third World Network (TWN)
http://www.twnside.org.sg/

União Geral de Camponeses e Coop. Árabes

Via Campesina
http://www.ns.rds.org.hn/via/

World March of Women
http://www.ffq.qc.ca/marche2000/en/index.html

Znet
http://www.zmag.org/

Internet Resources

Porto Alegre 2002
http://www.portoalegre2003.org/publique/
Information specific to the upcoming 2003 WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil

WSF information from ATTAC
http://attac.org/fsm2002/indexen.html
Collection of articles and information, including interviews with activists who attended

WSF information from Grassroots International
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/wsf.html

World Economic Forum (WEF)
http://www.weforum.org/

World Social Forum (WSF)
http://www.worldsocialforum.org/
Institutional website of the WSF

Terra Viva
http://www.ipsnews.net/terraviva/index.shtml
The daily online journal of WSF 2002

Regional and country-specific WSFs

WSF—Pan America
October 2003—Quito, Ecuador
Email: secretaria@fsmecuador.org

WSF—India/Asia
December 2002-January 2003—Hyderabad, India
Email: wsfindia@vsnl.net
Web: http://www.wsfindia.org/

WSF—Oceania
April 21-24, 2003—Nelson, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Email: info@oceaniasocialforum.org.nz
Web: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/dinamic.asp?pagina=fs_oceania_ing

WSF—Pan Amazonia
January 2003, Belem, Brazil
Email: pepvalenzuela@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.fspanamazonico.com.br/

WSF—Uppsala
January 18-19, 2003—Uppsala, Sweden
Email: uppsalasocialforum@yahoogroups.com

WSF—New York
January 11, 2003—New York
Email: info@nycsocialforum.org
Web: http://www.nycsocialforum.org/

WSF—Mediterranean
Barcelona, Spain, 2003 month TBA

WSF—Morocco
December 20-22, 2002—Marocco
Email: hamidelkam@yahoo.fr
Web: http://www.forumsocialmaroc.cjb.net/

WSF—Africa
December 15-19, 2002
Addis Ababa, Ethopia
Email: taoufik@enda.sn

WSF—Norway
November 28-December 1, 2002—Oslo, Norway
Email: aksel@u-fondet.no, konferanse@attac.no
Web: http://www.globalisering.no/

WSF—Colombia
November 22-23, 2002—Bogota, Colombia
Email: forumcolombia2002@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.geocities.com/forumcolombia2002/

WSF—Uruguay
November 15-17, 2002— Montevideo, Uruguay
Email: adriana@tips.org.uy
Web: http://www.fsm-uruguay.cjb.net/

Small WSF—Canada
November, 16-18, 2002— University of Victoria, Canada
Email: bbcf@islandnet.com
Web: http://www.vipirg.ca/swsf/swsf.htm

WSF—Cameroon
November 2-3, 2002—Cameroon, Yaoundé
Email: gkengne@hotmail.com

WSF—Europe
November 6-10, 2002—Florence, Italy
Web: http://www.fse-esf.org/

WSF—Maldonado, Uruguay
October 26-27, 2002—Maldonado, Uruguay
Email: silru@adinet.com.uy
Web: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/noticias_01.asp?cd_news=264

WSF—Skåne
October 18-20, 2002—Lund, Sweden
Email: skanesocial@hotmail.com
Web: http://www.skanesocialforum.org/

WSF—Correintes, Argentina
October 11-12, 2002—Corrientes, Argentina
Web: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/noticias_01.asp?cd_news=211

WSF—Quebec
September 27-29, 2002—Quebec, Canada
Web: http://www.oqp2001.org/forumsocial/

WSF—Belgium
September 21, 2002— Brussels, Belgium
Email: paola.peebles@cncd.be
Web: http://www.wsf.be/

WSF—Palestine
Cyprus, September 2002

WSF—Argentina
August 2002—Buenos Aires, Argentina
Web: http://www.forosocialargentino.org/

WSF—Venezuela
July 4-7, 2002— Caracas, Venezuela
Email: jocvenezuela@cantv.net,
efip@reacciun.ve, juliofermin@cantv.net

WSF—Basque Country
Bayonne, France—June 22-23, 2002

WSF—Portugal
June 2003—Lisbon, Portugal
Email: portugal@attac.org

WSF—Transatlantic
May 18-19, 2002—Madrid, Spain
Web: http://www.nodo50.org/forosocial/

Thematic Social Forums

World Education Forum
January, 19-22, 2003—Porto Alegre, Brazil
Email: organizacao@forummundialdeeducacao.com.br
Web: http://www.forummundialdeeducacao.com.br/

Email Lists

WSF Bulletin
Email request to: fsm2003imprensa@uol.com.br

Online Reading

“A Fete for the End of the End of History”
Naomi Klein, The Nation, March 19, 2001 issue.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010319&s=klein&c=1

“After the 2nd World Social Forum in Porto Alegre: What’s Left Internationally and What is to Be Done about It?”
Peter Waterman, LaborNet Germany, April 23, 2002.
http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/seattle/WhatsLeft.html

“Beyond Civil Society: The Left after Porto Alegre“
Emir Sader, New Left Review 17, September-October 2002.
http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25105.shtml

“Dissent Rumble in the WSF Jungle”
Satya Sivaraman, Terra Viva, ND.
http://www.ipsnews.net/terraviva/01_dissent.shtml

“From Protest to Politics”
Marc Cooper, The Nation, March 11, 2002.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020311&s=cooper&c=1

“From Protest to Program”
Michael Massing, The American Prospect, vol. 12 no. 12, July 2, 2001-July 16, 2001.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/12/massing-m.html

“Grass-Roots Globalism”
Tom Mertes, New Left Review 17, September-October 2002.
http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25106.shtml

“Letter from Porto Alegre”
Marc Cooper, The Nation, January 31, 2002.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020211&s=cooper20020130

“Porto Alegre: Today’s Bandung?”
Michael Hardt, New Left Review 14, March–April 2002.
http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR24806.shtml

“Report On The World Social Forum”
Rodney Bobiwash, Indigenous BioDiversity Information Network (IBIN).
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/brazil/news/ibin020601.html

“Something new was born in Porto Alegre”/“Is Another World Possible?”
Cándido Grzybowski and Virginia Vargas, Social Watch, ND.
http://www.socialwatch.org/2001/eng/Thematic_reports/wsf_2001.htm

“The Anti-globalization Movement Changes Its Tune”
Walter Truett Anderson, Pacific News Service, February 15, 2002.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12423

“The Still Unconsummated Marriage Of International Unionism And The Global Justice Movement: A Labor Report on the World Social Forum”
Peter Waterman, The Commoner, ND.
http://www.commoner.org.uk/01-5groundzero.htm

“WSF2002: Hopes for a True International”
Jason Adams, Z Magazine, February 13, 2002.
http://www.zmag.org/content/VisionStrategy/AdamsWSF.cfm

Select bibliography of additional reading

Jeremy Brecher et. al, Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity (Boston: South End Press, 2002).

Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy, Robin Broad, ed. (Lanham, MD and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002).

Global Citizen Action, Michael Edwards and John Gaventa, eds. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2001).

Global Social Movements, Robin Cohen and Shirin M Rai, eds. (London and New Burnswick, NJ: Athalone Press, 2000).

Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1998).

Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 2000).

Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms, Sanjeev Khagram et. al., eds. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Social Movements, Protest, and Contention series, v. 14 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Amory Starr, Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization (London: Zed Books, 2001).

The Other Davos. The Globalization of Resistance to the World Economic System, François Houtart and François Polet, eds. (London: Zed Books Ltd., 2001).

The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society, Ann M. Florini, ed. (Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange/Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).

Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State, Jackie Smith et. al., eds., Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1977).

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