I attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in Dakar, Senegal, from February 6-11, 2011 with the Network Institute for Global
Democratization. Writings from previous forums are available on my Trip Reports page.
The World Social Forum returns to Africa (February 14; also posted to Portside and reprinted in The Monitor (Truman State University) 18, no. 1 (March 2011): 3; and Z Magazine 24, no. 4 (April 2011): 15-16.
My photos (Feel free to use these photos, but please credit Marc Becker as photographer and notify me of use. I can provide higher resolution images for print purposes, and I have many more images than I have posted here.)
- cacim_forum1.mp3 and cacim_forum2.mp3 (CACIM panel on the future of the forum, February 8)
- cacim_axis12.mp3(CACIM panel on Axis 12, February 8)
- PabloPaezEcua.mp3 (Pedro Paez, former finance minister from Ecuador, on WTO panel, February 8)
- ambient.mp3 (ambient street noise)
- GeoffreyPleyers1.mp3 and GeoffreyPleyers2.mp3 (launch of Geoffrey Pleyers' book Alter-Globalization, February 9)
- FutureForum.mp3 (NIGD panel on the future of the forum (February 9)
Play / download interview with Immanuel Wallerstein, Teivo Teivainen, and Thomas Ponniah on WORT's Third World View (February 13)
For additional material from my comrades at the forum, see http://dakarhouse.wordpress.com.
