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DESCRIPTION:The World Social Forum:   San Francisco Bay Area Participants  Report Back 
 from India     Wednesday, March 3rd, 7 PM  New College Cultural Center  766 
 Valencia Street @19th St., San Francisco  Free!     Join Local Activists 
 for a Report Back from the Recent World Social Forum.       One-hundred 
 thousand people from 120 countries gathered in Mumbai\Bombai, India for the 
 fourth annual World Social Forum (WSF), January 16-21.  Hosted by a South 
 Asian nation where poverty afflicts millions, the forum stood face to face 
 with devastating inequality and people struggling for change. The Mumbai 
 forum marks an important turning point for the WSF, which began in 2001 in 
 Porto Allegre, Brazil.     What was accomplished at the WSF in Mumbai, 
 India?  What questions and challenges face the WSF?  Where is the WSF 
 heading?  And what is the significance of the WSF for social movements in 
 the US and around the world?     Join us for an evening of first-hand 
 reports, video and dialogue.       Speakers include:     Jeff Conant, 
 Coordinator of a popular education project on environmental health with the 
 Hesperian Foundation and a member of the People's Health Movement 
 environmental health and justice working group. He was also involved in 
 anti-war and anti-bush networking at the WSF.     Nadia Khastagir, 
 representative of Global Resistance based in El Cerrito, California, she 
 will report on the Peoples' Forum Against Coca Cola - the launch of the  
 internationalization of the campaign in support of the struggles in India 
 and Colombia.     Ali Tonak, photographer and video producer with 
 indymedia, he traveled to Mumbai to help with IMC and Turkish independent 
 radio coverage of the forum.  He will present a video of the forum.     
 Martha Wallner (moderator), a media activist, she participated in a panel 
 on media and globalization at the WSF.     Sponsored by the Activism and 
 Social Change Emphasis and the Media Studies MA Program at New College of 
 California.  For more information: Jon Garfield, 415-437-3425 or 
 jon@newcollege.edu .     \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/29/32223.php
SUMMARY:World Social Forum: Report Back from India
LOCATION:New College Cultural Center  766 Valencia Street @19th St., San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/29/32223.php
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