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<!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:red">Announcing : Publication in September 2008 of the definitive Second Edition of WORLD SOCIAL FORUM : CHALLENGING EMPIRES<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">August 2008</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i>Please buy, and please send on</i></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><i> – and support this non-profit initiative by sending this message on especially to people, libraries, and institutions who you think will place advance orders for this book !<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><b><i>WORLD SOCIAL FORUM : CHALLENGING EMPIRES</i></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><b>is going to be available again next month – September !<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><b>PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW !<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Even today</b></span><span lang="EN-GB">, many people say that <span style="color:black"><i>World Social Forum : Challenging Empires</i></span><span style="color:black"> – published back in 2004 – is </span>still the classic on the WSF.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>And now</b></span><span lang="EN-GB">, a second, updated edition of this book <span style="color:black">is going to be available - <b>as of September 2008</b></span><span style="color:black">, and <b>for sale at the European Social Forum at </b></span><b>Malmö</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With </span><span lang="EN-GB">eight great new, cutting edge essays giving both the big picture and also intense critically reflective detail, including by organisers of the two most recent Fora – the US Social Forum Atlanta and the Québec Social Forum :<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.4pt;tab-stops:dotted 286.1pt;background: white"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1A171B"><i><br></i></font></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1A171B"><i> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Pierre Beaudet</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> - Asterix on the St. Lawrence<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Dorval Brunelle</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> - Citizen Mobilisation in the Americas and the Birth of the WSF<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Emma Dowling</i></span><span lang="EN-GB">, interviewed by Rebecca Shah - The World Social Forum, Beyond Critique and Deconstruction<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Michael Leon Guerrero, Tammy Bang Luu, </i></span><span lang="EN-GB">and<i> Cindy Wiesner</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> - The Road to Atlanta: Reflections on the Organising History of the U.S. Social Forum<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Irene León</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> and <i>Sally Burch</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> - The World Social Forum: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Jean Nanga</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> - The World Social Forum in Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Judy Rebick</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> - Another U.S. Is Happening!<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Achin Vanaik</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> - Globalising the WSF: Ironies, Contrasts, Challenges<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </i></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Edited by Jai Sen and Peter Waterman; published by <b>Black Rose Books</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">, Montréal, Canada</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><b>Four key sections :</b><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">PART 1 Antecedents: Critical Perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">PART 2 Critical Engagement: The World Social Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">PART 3 Globalising the Forum: The Forum in the World<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">PART 4 Looking Beyond: Possible Futures, Possible Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Plus, as in the First Edition, all the basic WSF documents and also most of the key independent documents that have appeared over recent years.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><b>For more information on the book and to place advance orders</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">, see : </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm">http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm</a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">From the Black Rose website :<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><b><i>Experimenting with a politics that can cope with uncertainty</i></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color:black">This comprehensive volume provides a glimpse into the wide-ranging discussions, debates, and arguments which have gone into making the World Social Forum (WSF) one of the more prominent platforms of alternative ideas and practices in the present world. Building on the First Edition (published in India by The Viveka Foundation, New Delhi, in 2004), this Second Edition has been revised and updated to include coverage of Social Forums that took place as recently as the summer of 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Here is what some critics had to say about the First Edition:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"If you want to know how the World Social Forum was formed and what the opinion of some of the main actors in it is on issues such as globalization, transnational feminism, justice and peace among others, this is the book to read." --VirtualActivism.org<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"A useful array of writings on the entire WSF process--the global context in which it emerged, the manner in which different movements and ideologies have interacted and shaped this process and the manner in which it has itself grown in the past years." --Aniket Alam, The Hindu<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"An excellent effort at combining both information and critical reflection on the World Social Forum phenomenon." --Massimo De Angelis<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"World Social Forum: Challenging Empires is a stupendous collection of essays, documents and statements, a critical self-consideration of the WSF process by a variety of people." --Milan Rai, The New Standard<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"A stellar collection of essays. Indispensable reading." --Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Contributors include</b></span><span lang="EN-GB">: Michael Albert, Sonia E. Alvarez, Samir Amin, Pierre Beaudet, Walden F Bello, Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith, Johanna Brenner, Dorval Brunelle, Sally Burch and Irene León, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Emma Dowling, Nawal El Saadawi, Arturo Escobar, Linden Farrer, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, Michael Leon Guerrero, Tammy Bang Luu, and Cindy Wiesner, P.J. James, Michael Löwy, Muto Ichiyo, Michal Osterweil, Judy Rebick, Teivo Teivainen, Achin Vanaik, Gina Vargas, and Chico Whitaker, as well as Jai Sen and Peter Waterman<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><b>Editors :<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">JAI SEN, an architect by training and a housing-rights activist during the 1970s and 80s, is an independent researcher living in New Delhi who has contributed to a number of works documenting the World Social Forum. Editor also of <i>Are Other Worlds Possible ?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Talking New Politics</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> (Zubaan, New Delhi, 2005), he is now associated with CACIM (</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">India Institute for Critical Action - Centre in Movement; <a href="http://www.cacim.net">www.cacim.net</a></span><span lang="EN-GB">) in New Delhi, which among other things maintains OpenSpaceForum, one of the more comprehensive sites for information on the WSF (<a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net">www.openspaceforum.net</a>) and WSFDiscuss, an open and unmoderated forum on the World Social Forum and on related social and political movements and issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">PETER WATERMAN, who taught at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, for nearly thirty years, has specialised in labour and social movements and has been active in international organisations all his life. He is the author <i>of Globalisation, Social Movements, and the New Internationalisms</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> and of </span><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Recovering Internationalism, Creating the New Global Solidarity : Labour, Social Movements and Emancipation in the 21st Century</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> (First Edition on the Choike website: <a href="http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6439.html">http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6439.html</a>)<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">400 pages, 7x10, resources, bibliography, index<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Paperback $28.99<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">13 digit ISBN: 978-1-55164-308-3<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-308-1<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Hardcover $57.99<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">13 digit ISBN: 978-1-55164-309-0<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-309-X</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">______________________________</span></span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jai Sen<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><a href="mailto:jai.sen@cacim.ne">jai.sen@cacim.ne</a></span></font></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">t<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">CACIM, A-3 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">www.cacim.net</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ph : +91-11-4155 1521, 4155 0963 - PLEASE NOTE NEW SECOND NUMBER !<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Check out</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the OpenSpaceForum @ <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">www.openspaceforum.net</span></font></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Subscribe to WSFDiscuss</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB">, an open and unmoderated forum on the World Social Forum and on related social and political movements and issues. 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