Document Actions
Sustainability
Up one levelChannel for Sustainability on World Social Forum TV
FSM10: Intervencion de Pablo Solón, embajador de Bolivia ante la ONU
Tras el fracaso de la Cumbre sobre el Clima en Copenhague, el presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, ha convocado una nueva Cumbre de los Pueblos para el Cambio Climático y la Madre Tierra, a ser celebrada en Cochabamba, Bolivia, en abril. Pablo Solón, durante un encuentro organisado para la red Climate Justice Now en Porto Alegre, explica las razones y las expectativas del gobierno boliviano y hace un llamamiento a los movimientos sociales y al Foro Social mundial a participar en masa. ABSRACT TRANSLATION BELOW by Tony Phillips
COP15 Miriam Nobre from World March of Women.
Miriam Nobre coordinatrice internazionale della Marcia Mondiale delle Donne, storico movimento internazionale femminista ci racconta delle campagne e delle prossime lotte per fermare il cambio climatico. Miriam Nobre International Coordinator of the World March of Women, International Movement feminist historian, tells us about the next campaign and struggles to stop climate change.
Copenhagen Cop 15: farmers position on climate change
Georges Baroni from La Confederacion Paysanne and Renaldo Chingore Joao from Unac Mozambique explain their position about the COP15 conferance at the Bella Center In Copenhagen.
Highlight COP15 Copenhagen 11 December
preparing for the next day demonstration... with Badrul Alam (La Via Campesina Bangladesh), Christian Oebond (friends of the earth europe), Saila-Marie Persson (Saminuorra people), Georges Baroni (Confederation Paysanne)
COP15 Copenhagen-Candle light vigil in solidarity with the victims of climate change and the UNFCCC's false solutions
The International Peasant's Movement La Via Campesina invites the media to a candle light vigil and symbolic action. Farmers from around the world are affected by climate change – droughts and floods are destroying their land and crops . But these farmers are also extremely seriously affected by the false solutions currently negotiated at the UNFCCC: carbon trading, land evictions in the name of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), agrofuels, climate-ready genetically modified seeds...
Farmer's sit-in at FAO World Summit, Rome 16 Nov 2009
Land Grabbing, Food Sovereignty and Cimate Change are the issues expressed in front of FAO summit in Rome. Interviews with Nettie Wiebe - NFU - Canada ( english), Fausto Torres ATC - Nicaragua (Spanish), Devlin Kuyek GRAIN (english), Philippines activist on hunger strike ( english), Tonino Mancino - Fondazione Mancino - Italy (italian), Hortense Kinkodila-Tombo - Congo Brazzaville (french)
People's Food Sovereignty Forum, Rome 13-17 novembre 2009
Antonio Jacanamjay - Fundacion Indigen -Colombia
People's Food Sovereignty Forum, Rome 13-17 novembre 2009
Introduction to the Civil Society's parallel Forum to the FAO summit in Rome. Interview of Andrea Ferrante AIAB-La Via Campesina, and public statement of the FAO Director General Jacques Diouf.
Francois Houtart comments and evaluates about WSF 2009 process in Belem
talks about the relation between social movements and the political world
Gsott8 - G8underground Sardinia
[EN] Introduction to the first day of the G8Underground on Energy and Natural resources. [IT] Introduzione al primo giorno dei lavori del Gsotto sul tema dell'energia e delle risorse naturali.
Social Movements gather in Treviso against G8 meeting on Agricolture
interviews with two members of La Via Campesina Renaldo Chingore UNAC Mozambique and Ibrahim Coulibaly from CNDP Mali
Miguel Esteban Martin, Diputado de Medio Ambiente y Articulación Territorial, Malaga-Espana, at FAL, Forum of Local Authorities in Belem WSF2009
habla de Medio Ambiente, Agua, soberanía alimentaria y la participación ciudadana speaks of the Environment, Water, Food Sovereignty and citizen participation
FAL-FALA Forum des Autoridade Locale Belem 2009
Nazaré Imbiriba Mitschein, Chief Secretary of International Cooperation Gov.Pará- Brasil tells us about the Forum of Local Authorities, meeting that was held in conjunction with the World Social Forum 2009 in Belem, Brasil.
Sociólogo Boaventura de Sousa Santos explica as suas opiniões
sobre os movimentos sociais no Fórum Social Mundial e do seu futuro Sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos explains his views on social movements in the world social forum and its future
Francois Houtart en la última sesión plenaria sobre la crisis financiera
Francoise Houtart at the last plenary on financial crisis
PRESS CONFERENCE AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT refuses health assistance in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, where there is a hepatitis epidemia, it affects six indigenous peoples plus many isolated peoples (autonomous)
WSF 2009 Peaceful McDonalds Demonstration
This clip shows a peaceful demonstration at the local McDonalds in Belem. Participants in the ceremonial march stopped here to show that imperialistic corporations such as McDonalds and Coca-Cola are in opposition to the anti-globalization ideals of the World Social Forum. The demonstration took place peacefully, with many of the participants singing, dancing, and even blowing kisses at the American fast-food franchise.
Visible Voices, Changing Lives
Working with participatory video, photography to support social change in the remote mountain villages of Kokjar and Tolok, Kyrgyzstan.
2 December Singur people's struggle against Tata- West Bengal-India
On Dec. 2 are 2 years since the struggle of the peasants of Singur against the construction of the Tata industrial motors for the production of cars in Nano on their land. After two years of intense clashes with Tata that finaly has decided to desist and leave the land. But the fields are not yet in the hands of the peasants of Singur, which for Dec. 2 called the mobilization and international solidarity. Swapan Ganguli vice president of the Paschim Banga Khete Majoor Samity (Association of Agricultural Workers of West Bengal) tell us the main reason of the struggle and next step of the movement of the Bengali's Farmers.
MST: Landless farmers and the biggest march in brazilian history
Trailer of documentary. 69m. 2008. Contact xufilmes@gmail.com English. Portuguese. Spanish. For 17 days, 12,000 members of the Movimento Sem Terra, the Brazilian landless movement, rose before dawn and hit the motorway, creating a red column stretching four kilometers as they bore down on the capital Brasília in their bid for land reform. Demonised as dangerous outlaws - even terrorists - by the media in their own country, the movement of over a million and a half people has won international support and has been called the most dynamic social movement in the world. The film accompanies the long march for freedom over 238 kilometres, an epic vision of humanity on the move.
FORUM SOCIAL MUNDIAL 2010 GRANDE PORTO ALEGRE 25-29 JANEIRO "http://www.fsm10.org/"
2010 WSF Events List of WSF actions and events for 2010
