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Global citizens movement: A new actor for a new politics. (Resistance).

Publication: New Internationalist
Publication Date: 01-MAR-02 		Format: Online - approximately 767 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Global citizens movement: A new actor for a new politics. (Resistance).(Brief Article)

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THE global citizens movement as made a momentous discovery and revealed a dangerous truth: the corporate coup d'etal, the triumph of rich over poor, market over society, rapacity over nature is not inevitable.

It put this lesson to good use at the World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 31 January to 5 February 2002, held at the same time as the World Economic Forum (WEF) -- fleeing its usual venue in Davos -- met in New York.

In Porto Alegre, the emphasis was not merely on stopping the adversary from committing ever more egregious horrors, but also on developing consensus around a more forceful agenda of proposals and devising strategies for...

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