Friends,
Only in January this year I finished a long text at the request of Globalizations magazine, Finland, about the WSF future, with the title “Reflections: Brazil and the World Social Forum”. I had started it in September 2018, when the tensions in the electoral campaign for the Presidency of the Republic in my country were at the highest level, with Lula arrested, and I could not ignore it. I decided then to present our situation and the sad results we all know as an introduction to the text I had to write about the WSF.
Globalizations published this text now, retaining however only its second part, specifically on the WSF. I therefore send it to you as rapidly as possible, as several mailing lists had been launched on the WSF future, and I tried in my text to identify the genesis of the decisions of the first WSF Organization Committee, presented, after it, in the WSF Charter of Principles. This text could then be useful, as the reflection and articulations we wanted the WSF could facilitate became now even more necessary, given the current advances of the far right in the world and considering what is experienced today especially in Latin America.
This second part of my text, with the title “Perspectives of the World Social Forum”, can be read in English through the link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ETPT3PJAVUMNEMKB2DUM/full?target=10.1080/14747731.2019.1670957
It is Portuguese in the blog https://senospermitemsonhar.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/forum-social-mundial-perspectivas-possiveis-chico-whitaker/
In this blog, I put also the first part of the text “Reflections: Brazil and World Social Forum”, only in Portuguese, with the title “The experience lived in Brazil in 2018”: https://senospermitemsonhar.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/i-a-experiencia-politica-vivida-no-brasil-em-2018-1a-parte-do-texto-reflexoes-brasil-e-forum-social-mundial-chico-whitaker/
