The Global Opening Panel of the World Social Forum
23 de January de 2021
He will debate about the other world we want and will say no to the world of Davos, neoliberal, generator of deep crises, harmful to the vast majority of humanity. There are alternatives. Global social and political leadership. Participate: 01/23/2021, Saturday, 2 pm GMT / UTC
Considering the global pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of the World Social Forum will be virtual. The proposal here is an assembly of several ideas and part of the experience of face-to-face forums, mixed with the potentialities of the virtual one.
The program with a chronological presentation:
- Day of the virtual march, January 23 (with videos ) and Opening Panel (14-17h UTC)
- Days of the great thematic conferences and self-organized activities :
Day 23 – Day 24 – Day 25 – Day 26 – Day 27 – Day 28 – Day 29 – Day 30 - Assemblies Day, January 30 – Assemblies – Assemblies
- Agora Day, January 31st with TVAgora (15h-17h UTC)
- Closing Session (18h UTC)
More information:
The virtual march consists of a 24-hour live Internet broadcast throughout the 23rd in which the struggles, visions and experiences of movements from all over the world will be highlighted. Contains an Opening Panel (14-17h UTC) In our diversity throughout the world in our rural and urban communities we walk hand in hand with an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal vision.
The announcements of self-organized activities by the participating organizations and the large thematic conferences (organized by the Facilitator Group of the Virtual WSF) that are on the event dates, arranged by days and hours, constitute the ” event program ” that can be filtered by themes
There is an information kiosk where you can ask for guidance to participate
The Assemblies are co-prepared by at least 5 organizations already registered in the WSF, there may be more. They are self-managed activities like the others scheduled between January 23 and 29. They are privileged occasions to achieve articulated political expression among many organizations.
The Agora is a time to share, as a fair or popular market, the actions (initiatives) to be carried out during 2021: struggles, campaigns, declarations, agendas, processes, organization of events, etc., to build a Calendar of Action Glocal, heading to the face-to-face WSF in Mexico. The Agora of January 31 becomes the center of the forum and lasts from 2pm to 6pm utc. It is accompanied by a TVAgora station from 15 to 17 UTC. It is followed by a Closing Session (18h UTC)
In virtual mode – https://wsf2021.net/programa-evento/
- Each self-organized activity is logistically organized entirely by its proposing organizations (who provide the link to the interactive platform used, interpretation, etc.)
- Each major thematic conference is logistically organized entirely by the Facilitating Group
SEE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US
Over these 50 years, we have received the gift of CESE’s presence in our communities. We are witness to how much companionship and solidarity it has invested in our territories. And this has been essential for us to carry on the struggle and defence of our people.
In the name of historical and structural racism, many people look at us, black women, and think that we aren’t competent, intelligent, committed or have no identity. Our experience with CESE is different. We are a diverse group of black women. We are in varied places and have varied stories! It’s important to know this and to believe in us. Thank you CESE, for believing in us. For seeing our plurality and investing in us.
CESE was set up during the most violent year of the Military Dictatorship, when torture had been institutionalized, when arbitrary imprisonment, killings and the disappearance of political prisoners had intensified. The churches had the courage to come together and create an institution that could be a living witness of the Christian faith in the service of the Brazilian people. I’m so happy that CESE has reached its 50th anniversary, improving as it matures.
You have to praise CESE’s capacity to find answers so as to extend support to projects from traditional peoples and communities, from family farming, from women; its recognition of the multiple meanings of the right to land, to water and to territory; the importance of citizenship and democracy, including environmental racism and the right to identity in diversity in its discussion agenda, and its support for the struggles and assertion of the values of solidarity and difference.
I am a macumba devotee, but I love being with partners whose thinking is different from ours and who respect our form of organization. CESE is one such partner: it helps to build bridges, which are so necessary to ensure that freedom, diversity, respect and solidarity can flow. These 50 years have involved a lot of struggles and the construction of a new world.
When we hear talk of the struggles of the peoples of the waters, of the forests, of the semi-arid region, of the city peripheries and of the most varied organizations, we see and hear that CESE is there, at their side, without replacing the subjects of the struggle. Supporting, creating the conditions so that they can follow their own path. It is this spirit that we, at ASA, want you to maintain. We wish you long life in this work to support transformation.