MobilizationThe presentations of citizen actions and mobilizations are offered by partner sites and working groups. They help highlight engaged mobilizations and those to come. They show the strategies and action programs adopted and implemented by the social movements.
The 8th World Social Forum on Migration will take place on November 2018 in Mexico.
This Forum embraces an active and leading conception of migration.
We call on all migrants to mobilize locally and regionally for the Mexico Forum.
From 13th to the 17th of March, 2018 there will be a meeting of the World Social Forum in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
With this meeting serving as a preamble, the World Social Forum of Migrations will take place in Mexico City from 2nd to 4th of November, 2018. As part of the process of building the Forum, we launch this Call in order to create together the motto of #FSMM2018México
The World Congress of Philosophy is organized every five years by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) in collaboration with one of its member societies. The XXIV World Congress will be held in Beijing, China, from August 13 to August 20, 2018, under the auspices of (...)
An Appeal for a Pledge of Solidarity with Brazilian University Professors and Researchers.
On 3-5rd September this year the BRICS will hold a summit in Xiamen. Both domestically and regionally the BRICS regimes do not offer good examples of alternatives which put people first. Instead, the BRICS actually offer a continuation to neo-liberalism.
A coalition of local organizations have decided to make this meeting happen, and we would like to invite you and your organizations to join us in Hong Kong in early September.
UCLG Africa invites you to join the campaign for free movement in Africa. The aim of this campaign is to achieve the adoption of a protocol on the free movement of people in the continent at the next summit of Heads of State of the African Union (AU).
This campaign is coordinated by the West African Observatory on Migration.
Spread the voice of the local authorities in favour of this legitimate aspiration of the people of Africa by sending the enclosed letter to the Presidents of your respective states
He who fights can lose, but he who does not fight has already lost.
Bertolt Brecht
Last January, a Social Forum of Resistances took place in Porto Alegre at the instigation of Brazilian popular movements. Within the framework of this Forum, a two-day-long seminar was organised by Açao (...)
I suggest that you will conclude this account with a few personal reflections on the way of the new cycle of alter-globalization that calls for the world social forums and their come-ups.
The definition that we retain of alter-globalization is one of an historic movement of the emancipation (...)
A series of activities were held at Porto Alegre during the week of 16‑21 January 2017. These activities were held on the occasion of the Social Forum on Resistance organised by Brazilian social movements on 17-21 January and which concluded with the WSF International Council which met on 20 and 21 January 2017.
Last August, the IC decided to set up five working groups to prepare the Porto Alegre meeting in January. One of these groups was mandated to produce a global overview of the challenges currently facing popular movements in different parts of the world. The report is coordinated by Pierre Beaudet (Intercoll) with the participation of more than thirty compañeros and compañeras from all over the world.
