by LA-bot
Monday, Jan. 28, 2002 at 2:20 PM
The list below, from the World Social Forum Website is a break-down of the four topics of conversation to be addressed at the WSF
This list, taken from the World Social Forum Web-page has the name of the existing symposiums occuring at the WSF. There are four main topics: Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction, Access to Wealth and Sustainability, Bolstering Civil Society and the Public Realm, and Political Power and Ethics in the New Society. Below each topic are the particular subheading. Each subheading has a myriad (from five to fifty) seminars hosted by different attending NGOs, Movement Groups, Unions or Parties.
1 Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction
a-world trade
b-multinational corporations
c-oversight of capital
d-debt
f-solidarity economy
g-social responsibility
h- models of development for another world
g-social responsibility
h-models for development for another world
i-free proposals
2 Access to Wealth and Sustainability
a-strategies to counter poverty and social exclusion
b-knoweledge and intelectual property
c- how to preserve common assets and ensure environmental sustainability
d-cities and organizations
e-agrarian reforms
f-indigenous territories and nations
g-free proposals
3 Bolstering Civil Society and the Public Realm
a-equality and diversity
b-how to achieve democracy in the media
c-prospects for a global civil society movement
d- cultural production and preserving cultural identity
e-migration
f-culture of violence
g-free proposals
4 Political Power and Ethics in the New Society
a-participatory democracy, nation-states and local power
b-participatory democracy, architecture of world power and international organizations
c-conflict resolution/struggle for peace/militarization
d-human rights
e-universal principal and valurs
f-free proposals
www.inscicoes.forumsocialmundal.or/br/content/index.php?p...