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<!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thursday, November 20, 2008<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" style="color:red">(Note to people on this list from us at CACIM : Although this is a response to a specific letter, there are some points made in it that might be of interest to other readers as well…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please therefore feel free to respond to / comment on any of the points, and of course, to also add in any requests you might have to us tht are triggered by this response.)<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">Marie-Josée, and Dom, and others in the Uni-Alter group, greetings !<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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Thanks for this very welcome message, and congratulations to all of you for this initiative of organising such a big contingent to the Belem Forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is a formidable achievement – and a formidable contribution to the Forum.<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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>We from CACIM are of course very happy to get this response from you / all of you, and look forward very much to having as many of you as possible taking part in our various events.<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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Thanks too for your personal response, and expression of probable preference. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have noted this and welcome you to either or both of the meetings, and we have also noted your comments about not having access to the various documents referred to in the ‘organising principles’ meeting document and your anyway not having time to study them before coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Not that we are insisting that you should, but as far as possible, we have tried everywhere to refer to documents that are available on the web, and have given the links !<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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>If this is not asking too much, from our side we’d like to request / propose / invite the possibility of members of your group critically – and maybe collectively - engaging with and reviewing one or more of the discussion documents we have prepared, and reaching us your comments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It would be great for us to get this feedback, and we are hoping that members of your group might also find it interesting to critically engage with one or more of the documents and events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">Having this engaged feedback will help us a lot with our planning. Let us know if this makes any sense to you all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">We were anyway going to be translating all four of them into some other languages, to make it easier for interested people to have and study them in their own languages, and so this is to say that we are happy to also send you tomorrow two of the documents in French (for the sessions on ‘The Politics, Potentials, and Meanings of the Belem Forum : The Significance of the Forum for the Indigenous Peoples of the World’ and ‘Facing the Future : The World Social Forum, the Global Justice Movement, and Beyond’), and the other two on Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>We are also going to soon be posting all these draft documents on OpenSpaceForum and, we expect, in a space on Open FSM.<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" style="color:red">(NOTE : If anyone else on this list is interested in similarly receiving copies of our draft documents, either – for the moment – in Portuguese and French and soon also in Hindi, please let us know.)<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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>One point, though : As things stand, the deadline for modifying the titles, blurbs, and speakers is November 30 (though I am sure we can always add to or subtract from the speakers later, but that won’t get on the official programme).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So we would need to have any feedback at these levels by that date !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Unless this gets extended, as did the event registration date.)<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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>In solidarity,<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"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>For CACIM <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Jai<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div><div>On Nov 19 08, at 7:52 PM, Marie-Josee Massicotte wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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; "><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="metricconverter"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">As some of you know, we a group called Uni-Alter, including Dominique Caouette and Raphael Canet and others that you may also know—are organising a 50 or so people delegation from Canada (Quebec ++ and Ontario) to Belem including civil society participants, students and prof-researchers-activists.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">I am pretty sure that some of us are interested in joining and/or publicizing at least some of the initiatives with CACIM.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">For my part, I could probably contribute in some ways to this one on underlying principles of the WSF, or probably more on the one on the future of the WSF… as I do not know most of those documents that the description refers to and will NOT be able to read and prepare adequately around those.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Let me know how the planning goes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Salutations,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><st1:personname productid="Marie-Josée Massicotte" w:st="on"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; ">Marie-Josée Massicotte</span></font></st1:personname><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; ">, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; ">Directrice/Director, Études internationales et langues modernes/International Studies and Modern Languages<br>Professeure adjointe, École d’études politiques, Université d'Ottawa<br>Assistant Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa<br><br>DMS 9160, 55 Laurier E.<br>Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5<br>Canada<br><br>Tel.: 613-562-5800 (2732)<br>Fax: 613-562-5371<br>Courriel/email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:massicot@uottawa.ca">massicot@uottawa.ca</a></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; "><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" tabindex="-1"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; ">De :</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>worldsocialforum-discuss-bounces@openspaceforum.net [<a href="mailto:worldsocialforum-discuss-bounces@openspaceforum.net">mailto:worldsocialforum-discuss-bounces@openspaceforum.net</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">De la part de</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jai Sen<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Envoyé :</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>19 novembre 2008 03:36<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">À :</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Post WSFDiscuss<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Cc :</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jai Sen<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Objet :</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[WSF-Discuss] Invitation to help CACIM plan events at the BelemForum,(2) : Critically engaging with the principles underlying the WorldSocial Forum</span></font><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" color="red" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; font-weight: bold; ">Invitation to help CACIM plan events at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belem</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Forum, (2) : Critically engaging with the principles underlying the World Social Forum</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></div></div><u1:p></u1:p><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Wednesday, November 19, 2008<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Dear friends on WSFDiscuss, greetings – once again<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> Further to our posting yesterday, we from CACIM are planning to also organise – again, hopefully together with others – the following event at the Belem Forum :<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">v</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">Critically engaging with the principles underlying the World Social Forum.</span><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">This posting is again both to give you advance notice of this event – and to invite you to join us there then ! –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">but also to invite you to help us plan for it</span></b>.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; ">Specifically, and just as yesterday, we are both attaching and pasting on below a brief write-up that we have prepared for the event, and we would be very happy if you would :<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="text-indent: -36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; ">1.</span></font><font size="1" color="black"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><font color="black"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; ">Let us know whether you are coming to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belem</st1:place></st1:city></span></font></b><font color="black"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; ">, and if so,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">whether you would like to take part in this event</span></b>. (Apologies to those with whom we have already been in preliminary touch about our events at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belem</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and from whom we have already heard in this regard. But now that we have finalised our four events,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">please do write in again and let us know !<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b> Thanks.)<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-indent: -36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="red" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: red; ">2.</span></font><font size="1" color="red"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; color: red; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><font color="black"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; ">Comment on the draft outline for the event</span></font></b><font color="black"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; ">. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font color="red"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; ">Please either respond here, on this list, or send us your comments in TRACKED CHANGES on the attached version. Thanks !<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-indent: -36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">3.</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">Make suggestions for key speakers for the event,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="red"><span style="color: red; ">with the following details</span></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>:<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Name :<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Name of organisation or institution or movement, if any :<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Full contact details (email id, country and preferably city / town / village location, and phone contacts) :<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Languages spoken :<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">and also :<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">A 50-100 word blurb on each person so that we know a little WHY you think the person is relevant to the event.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: -36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">4.</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">Suggest appropriate organisations who might like to co-organise the events</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">with us</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="red"><span style="color: red; ">(again, FULL DETAILS, please, as above, with reasons as to why these organisations).<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: -36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">5.</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">Suggest possible sources of funds for this event</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– and in general, the set of four events we are proposing to organise at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belem</st1:place></st1:city>.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">Finally :</span></font></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">PLEASE DO REPLY ALL</span></b>, so that my colleagues also remain in the loop. Thanks !<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">One more point : Just so that there is no confusion, please do note that we are proposing to organise four events in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belem</st1:place></st1:city>, in all; as follows. We are going to be also posting similar letters for each, inviting you to help us with them :<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">v</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">The Politics, Potentials, and Meanings of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belem</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Forum : The Significance of the Forum for the Indigenous Peoples of the World<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">(as per the message posted yesterday (Tuesday, November 18, 2008)<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">v</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">Critically engaging with the principles underlying the World Social Forum</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> (this message)<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">v</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">Facing the Future : The World Social Forum, the Global Justice Movement, and Beyond</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> (coming tomorrow)</span><o:p></o:p></div><u1:p></u1:p><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: -18pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Wingdings"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">v</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: bold; ">A Global Labour Charter for Humanity : If Not Now, When ? .</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><u1:p></u1:p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">We look forward very much to hearing back from you ! And perhaps also to meeting you there in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belem</st1:place></st1:city>, and to your taking part in one or more of these events.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">With warm greetings<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">for CACIM<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> Jai Sen<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">att<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Critically engaging with the principles underlying the WSF - Discussion Note d3 js151108 TC 191108 for comments.doc<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; ">Critically engaging with the principles underlying the World Social Forum</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; ">A discussion note towards a Workshop at the WSF at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Belem</st1:city>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region></st1:place>, in January 2009</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">CACIM, November 15 2008 – third draft<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[i]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[i]</font></span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="red"><span style="color: red; ">COMMENTS WELCOME !<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> The WSF (World Social Forum)’s Charter of Principles<a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[ii]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[ii]</font></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has come to be quite widely celebrated as an unusual and very creative constitutional document that promotes horizontality, diversity, non-linearity, autonomy, and multi-polarity. In many ways, it is one of the strongest expressions of the core principle<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; ">S</span></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the Forum, of being an open-ended open space.<a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[iii]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[iii]</font></span> Although perhaps none has actually said this, some have come close to suggesting that it is a remarkable and perhaps even historic document, making manifest many of these quite new organisational principles of emerging movements across the world.</span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> On the other hand, both the concept and the practice of the Forum have also come to be quite widely contested since its formation in 2001, and where most recently there has been a prominent suggestion that it is perhaps time for it to pack up,<a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[iv]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[iv]</font></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and an extensive debate that followed. This proposal was also preceded by a low intensity but extensive debate about – and struggle over - the future of the Forum, and in particular that it needs to be given a more articulated political programme.<a href="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[v]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[v]</font></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> And this is also aside from an even longer debate about the exclusions of fellow-travellers from the WSF that the Charter has brought about, such as the Zapatistas – who many believe were an inspiration for the global justice movement in general and for the WSF in particular.<a href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[vi]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[vi]</font></span></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> Aside from (and notwithstanding) the controversies, there is much evidence however to suggest that the organisers of the Forum have also struggled over these past seven years since its formation to interpret and make manifest the Forum as envisioned in its Charter, not only in the evolution of the design and the globalisation of the Forum but also in the form and content of the series of rules and procedures they have progressively formulated over these years, and also perhaps of the organisational and policy decisions and resolutions that they – primarily in the form of the WSF’s International Council – have taken.<a href="#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[vii]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[vii]</font></span></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">One of the responses of the organisers of the Forum to the intense criticisms that it faced following the Nairobi Forum in January 2007 was, for instance, to suggest that what the Forum does indeed need is more clearly defined<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">organising principles</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the Forum – significantly, a set of principles<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">aside<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>from (but complementing) those articulated in its Charter of Principles. It has accordingly taken steps to constitute a commission on this, which has been working over the past year and has published a certain number of documents in this direction, and with which we have already taken some steps to critically engage.<a href="#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[viii]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[viii]</font></span></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> The objective of this project within our larger project of critically engaging with the Forum (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=WSF">http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=WSF</a>) is to engage with the WSF’s Charter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">and</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>also of all the rules, procedures, statements of principles,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">and</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>practices that it has formulated and practised over these years. </span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">The idea is to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">bring together</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>all the documents that have been generated by the WSF’s IC and by all its various commissions and committees – thereby addressing one objective of our larger project, to chronicle the Forum; to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">make these systematically and publicly available</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(as has been our practice right from the beginning; see OpenSpaceForum -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net">www.openspaceforum.net</a>); to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">study</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>all the documents to, in particular – in this project -, see the degree of manifestation, consistency, and/or contradiction with the Forum’s Charter; and to use all of this to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">promote debate</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about all this, within the body of the Forum, on the specialised listserve that we run (WSFDiscuss), and given the significance of the WSF as a world experiment – also, as far as we can, in wider social and political circles.</span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">In particular, we plan to organise<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">a Workshop on this subject at the upcoming world meeting of the WSF in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Belem</st1:city>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region></st1:place>, in January 2009</span></b>; either independently or in collaboration with one or more of the several organisations in different parts of the world with whom we work on such matters; and/or other taking similar initiatives there. We have already taken the initiative of registering an event of this title, but where the details of the event registered – the title, the names of the organisers, and the introductory blurb - can all be modified until November 30 2008.</span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">We hope to mobilise the participation and leadership in this project of members of the EIOS (Explorations in/of Open Space) Collective that formed at the WSF in Porto Alegre in 2005 (of young scholar-activists from several parts of the world; see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=EIOSCollective">http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=EIOSCollective</a>); of all those who volunteered to be part of the CEOS (Critical Engagement with Open Space) process at the Nairobi Forum in 2007; of the several institutions with whom we have collaborated over the past some years (such as the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa;<a href="#_edn9" name="_ednref9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[ix]</span></font></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman">[ix]</font></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Programa de Estudios sobre Democracia y Transformación Global at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru; Fronesis, in Malmö, Sweden,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="############################">http://fronesis.nu/english/<span title=""><span title=""><sup><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><sup><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; ">[x]</span></font></sup></span></sup></span><sup>[x</sup><sup>]</sup></span></a></font></span>); of organisations such as ARCI (Italy), who have taken similar or related initiatives, at and about the Forum; and of the several other individuals in many parts of the world who have expressed in this subject over these years, including several members of the WSF’s International Council.</span><o:p></o:p></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">We would be very glad</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to hear from others who are interested in and/or already working in this area, and/or to be informed of documents and/or websites that we could and should consult in this work; and, of course, to receive copies – in hard copy or soft – of any and all relevant documents.</span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "> <u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; 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Just send an empty mail to </span></font><span class="apple-style-span"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: blue; "><a href="mailto:CEOS-subscribe@openspaceforum.net"><u>CEOS-subscribe@openspaceforum.net</u></a><u1:p></u1:p></span></font></span><font size="1" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="1" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; "><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><o:p> </o:p></span></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-weight: bold; ">Note :</span></font></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><font size="1" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; "> </span></font></span><font size="1" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; ">In case you are having problems opening any Word attachments I have sent you here, you could try one of the following : (a)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; ">Put your cursor on the icon, do a right click, see ‘Open With’, and open with Word…; or (b), try saving the document onto your desktop or hard disc, and then opening it. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>With apologies in advance if this advice seems to question your technological literacy…<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div><div><br clear="all"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"><div id="edn1"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[i]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[i]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This note, prepared by Jai Sen for CACIM, supersedes a first and second draft, dated May 10 2008 and November 6 2008. For details on CACIM, see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cacim.net">www.cacim.net</a>.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn2"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[ii]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[ii]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>World Social Forum Organising Committee and World Social Forum International Council, June 2001 – ‘World Social Forum Charter of Principles’; dt June 10 2001. Revised and approved version of original April 2001 Charter. Available at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.asp?id_menu=4&cd_language=2">http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.asp?id_menu=4&cd_language=2</a>. The process of formation of the Charter is also of some interest, including some controversies and confusions that existed at the early stages. See : Jai Sen, December 2003d – ‘A Tale of Two Charters (Or : ‘Another Charter Is (Im)Possible !’). 8 pp. Available at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.choike.org/documentos/Two_Charters.pdf">http://www.choike.org/documentos/Two_Charters.pdf</a>; and : Jai Sen, December 2003c – ‘Two Charters of Principles : A Comparison’. Comparison of Original April 2001 WSF Charter of Principles with Revised Charter of Principles issued in June 2001, as found on the WSF website in October 2003. December 19 2003, 7 pp. Available at <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.choike.org/documentos/Two_charters_compared.pdf">http://www.choike.org/documentos/Two_charters_compared.pdf</a>.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn3"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[iii]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[iii]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>See, for instance : Teivo Teivainen, forthcoming [2006] - ‘Whose Civil Society ? The Charter of Principles and Boundaries of an Open Space’, Chapter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:metricconverter productid="5 in" w:st="on">5 in</st1:metricconverter><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Democracy in Movement : The World Social Forum as a Process of Political Learning</u>. Unfinished draft, 18 March 2006, for book to be published in late 2006 by Routledge, London; but even more : Boaventura de Sousa Santos, 2004b – ‘The World Social Forum and the Future : The Future of the World Social Forum’, in Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman, eds, 2004 –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>World Social Forum : Challenging Empires</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(New Delhi : Viveka). Available at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html">http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html</a>. Based on latter part of paper presented at the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Dallas</st1:city>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>, March 27-29 2003. First draft, 35 pp. Can be consulted at and cited from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/bss/fsm.php=A9">http://www.ces.fe.uc.pt/bss/fsm.php=A9</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Boaventura de Sousa<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Santos</st1:place></st1:city>.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn4"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[iv]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[iv]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Walden Bello, May 2007 – ‘World Social Forum at the Crossroads’,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Foreign Policy in Focus</u>, May 4 2007. Source : Transnational Institute @<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=16771">http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=16771</a>.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn5"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[v]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[v]</span></font></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar, compilers, with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman, January 2007 – A Political Programme for the World Social Forum ? Democracy, Substance, and Debate in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bamako</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Appeal and the Global Justice Movements - A Reader. Published by CACIM (Critical Action : Centre in Movement),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on">New Delhi</st1:city>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">KwaZulu-Natal</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Centre for Civil Society (CCS),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durban</st1:city>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Soft copy available @<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cacim.net">www.cacim.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nu.ac.za/ccs">www.nu.ac.za/ccs</a>; and : ATTAC Germany, nd, c.2008 – ‘The debate on the future of the World Social Forum - from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bamako</st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to Bélem’. Reader for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">European</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Attac</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on">Summer</st1:placename><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(2008) Workshop with Francine Mestrum (Member of the WSF’s IC) and with Peter Strotmann and Marie-D. Vernhes (<i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Sand im Getriebe</span></i>). Compilers : Peter Strotmann and Marie-Dominique Vernhes, ATTAC Germany, editors of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Sand im Getriebe</span></i>.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div id="edn6"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[vi]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[vi]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For one discussion, see : Jai Sen, 2004 – ‘A Tale of Two Charters’, in Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman, eds, 2004 –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>World Social Forum : Challenging Empires</u>, New Delhi : Viveka, pp 72-75. Available at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html">http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=WSFChallengingEmpires2004"><font color="black"><span style="color: windowtext; ">http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=WSFChallengingEmpires2004</span></font></a>.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn7"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref7" name="_edn7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[vii]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[vii]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For a discussion of how ‘the Forum’ has been drawing lessons from its experience and repeatedly reinventing itself, see : Jai Sen, January 2007 (February 2006) - ‘The World Social Forum as an emergent learning process’, in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Futures</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>vol 39 (2007), pp 505-522. Available through subscription @<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="1" color="#071bd7"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(7, 27, 215); "><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2006.10.006"><font color="black"><span style="color: windowtext; ">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2006.10.006</span></font></a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; ">Unedited original available @</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><u><font size="1" color="blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; color: blue; "><a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=34"><font color="black"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=34</span></font></a></span></font></u><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn8"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref8" name="_edn8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[viii]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[viii]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One of the first documents in this area was : Vinod Raina, October 2007 – ‘Guiding Principles for Holding WSF Events’, draft 1, 26.10.2007; @<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><font color="blue" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: blue; "><a href="http://openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=501"><u>http://openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=501</u></a></span></font></span>. As is our practice, we at CACIM attempted to critically engage with the proposals contained in this first document : Jai Sen, November 2007a – ‘Some Hard Questions, 2 : A Source Of Considerable Worry; Some Suggestions For The Forum’. As posted on WSFDiscuss on November 1 2007 10:44:45 PM GMT+05:30. Available @<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><font color="blue" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: blue; "><a href="http://openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=502"><u>http://openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=502</u></a></span></font></span>.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn9"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref9" name="_edn9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[ix]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[ix]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With whom we collaborated during 2006-<st1:metricconverter productid="7 in" w:st="on">7 in</st1:metricconverter><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the organisation of two ajor events at the WSF in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nairobi</st1:place></st1:city>, in January 2007 (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=CACIMEvents"><u><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; ">http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=CACIMEvents</span></font></u></a>) and in the preparation and publication of a major Reader; see note 4 above.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="edn10"><p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="#_ednref10" name="_edn10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[x]</span></font></span></span></font></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; ">[x]</span></font></span><font size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>With whom we collaborated in the organisation of two events at the European Social Forum at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Malmö</st1:city>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>, in September 2008 (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=CACIMEvents"><u><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; ">http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=CACIMEvents</span></font></u></a>).<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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