6th World Social Forum Expects 80,000 to Come to Venezuela

6th World Social Forum Expects 80,000 to Come to Venezuela

Thursday, Sep 29, 2005

Caracas, Venezuela, September 29, 2005—The “polycentric” 6th World Social Forum, one of whose centers will be in Venezuela, expects over 80,000 participants from around the world to come to Caracas from January 24 to 29. The 2006 World Social Forum (WSF) is scheduled to take place in three locations simultaneously: in Venezuela, Pakistan, and Mali.

A representative of the WSF Hemispheric Council, the Venezuelan sociologist Edgardo Lander, presented the plans for this year’s WSF to the Venezuelan Vice-President, José Vicente Rangel, Tuesday, where he requested the government’s help with the organization of the event. According to Lander, “this will be the largest international event held in the history of the country and requires an organizational effort of infrastructure, of tents for meetings, of internet access, which obviously requires public support.”

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Events for the 6th WSF in Caracas will be grouped into six themes or “terrains”:
1. Power, politics and struggle for social emancipation
2. Imperial strategies and peoples' resistance
3. Resources and rights for life: alternatives to the predatory civilization model
4. Moving diversities, identities and cosmovisions
5. Work, exploitation and reproduction of life
6. Communication, culture and education: democratizing dynamics and alternatives

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