World Social Forum
(see also Anti-Globalization Movement)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Rendezvous at Mumbai. Achin Vanaik, New Left Review (3-4/04).
Anti-Semitism at the World Social Forum? Cecilie Surasky, Common Dreams (2/19/04).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
World Social Forum 2002: ZNet Coverage & Content.
World Social Forum (Porto Alegre 2003).
World Social Forum (Mumbai 2004).
In the Library: Articles
Cooper, Marc. “From protest to politics: a report from Porto Alegre,” Nation (3/11/02): 11-16.
__________. "Optimism & anti-war fervor: a report from Porto Alegre," Nation (3/10/03):17-19.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Fisher, William F. & Thomas Ponniah (eds.) Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum (NY: Zed, 2003).
Mertes, Tom (ed.) A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible? (London: Verso, 2004).
Notes from Everywhere (eds.) We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism (London: Verso, 2003).
Schalit, Joel (ed.) The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition (NY: Akashic, 2002).
Shepard, Benjamin & Ronald Hayduk (eds.) From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest & Community Building in the Era of Globalization (London: Verso, 2002).
Solnit, David (ed.) Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System & Build a Better World (San Francisco: City Lights, 2004).
Welton, Neva & Linda Wolf (eds.) Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st C. Stories from a New Generation of Activists (Gabriola Island BC: New Society, 2001).
Yuen, Eddie; George Katsiaficas & Daniel Burton Rose (eds.) The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization (NY: Soft Skull, 2002).
__________; George Katsiaficas & Daniel Burton Rose (eds.) Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement (NY: Soft Skull, 2004).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Another World is Possible: Impressions of the World Social Forum" [2002], dir. Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young, 25m. From Bullfrog Films.
"Voices from the Edge: The Favela Goes to the World Social Forum" [2003?], dir. Daniela Broitman & Fernando Salis, ?m.