January 26: Global Day of Action
Each January since 2001, the World Social Forum (WSF) has assembled NGO’s and activists in a “developing” nation under the banner, “another world is possible.” The WSF hopes to counterbalance the World Economic Forum (WEF), which attracts the world’s rich and famous to Davos, Switzerland each year. The WEF motto: “entrepreneurship in the global public interest.”
I attended the WSF in Venezuela and was awe-inspired by the level of intense, multi-lingual dialogue. There were workshops on everything from equitable resource distribution to organic farming in Brazil.
This year, the WSF is trying something different. Instead of meeting in one, two, or even three cities around the world, they have organized a Global Day of Action on January 26.
