{"id":57372,"date":"2015-05-04T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=57372"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:24:42","slug":"closing-of-the-world-social-forum-citizens-of-the-world-versus-terrorism-and-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/05\/closing-of-the-world-social-forum-citizens-of-the-world-versus-terrorism-and-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing of the World Social Forum: Citizens of the World versus Terrorism and Oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"

6 Apr 2015 – <\/em>The 13th edition of the World Social Forum (FMS) 2015, which took place over four days in the Tunisian capital, completed its work under the slogan of \u201call-out solidarity with all oppressed peoples.\u201d The WSF 2015 was marked by a series of activities of participants at the Farhat Hachad campus in El- Manar Tunis.<\/p>\n

\"moudjahid<\/a><\/p>\n

I must say that this 13th edition was difficult to organize by the Tunisians since since it came barely a week after the terrorist attack on the Bardo Museum. In response, the WSF organizing committee reaffirmed that \u201cterrorism can not win, and will not stop us in Tunisia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, we can say that the 2015 WSF is a success.<\/p>\n

We must also say that the WSF 2015 was marked by strong Algerian participation with no less than 1,200 participants. No less than 200 associations are involved in the WSF-2015 in Tunis, including the UGTA (General Union of Algerian Workers), student organizations, the Nada network for the defense of children\u2019s rights, and the National Association of youth exchanges (ANEJ). \u201cThis is a mosaic, and that\u2019s a first,\u201d according to Ali Sahel, coordinator of the delegation and chairman of the ANEJ. Workshops were programmed by them. This is the promotion of youth activities in Algeria and lectures on the \u201cright to self-determination of the Saharawi and Palestinian people\u201d, \u201cInterventions versus the right to national sovereignty\u201d or \u201cstopping the exploitation of shale gas\u201d .<\/p>\n

In the WSF work program, many different events were held, including debates between politicians and international cultural and musical events. Participants in the demonstration of the Youth Committee of the World Social Forum, which began last Tuesday with the slogan \u201cA youth movement that works for change\u201d, called for constitution of a front of young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2015 edition of the WSF is an important step towards universal activism advocating socio-economic change through the participation of more than 50,000 people representing 5,800 organizations including 270 related to youth,\u201d according to the coordinator of the Youth Committee of the WSF, Mr Makhlouf Zied. He welcomed the increase in the number of participants after the Bardo attack\u201d which illustrates the great solidarity shown towards Tunisia by the international community.\u201d In a statement to El Mujahid, on the sidelines of the closing of the 13th edition of the WSF, Makhlouf said that \u201cthe WSF will continue its commitment to this goal with began in Porto Alegre in Brazil.\u201d The Forum has \u201chelped accomplish a perceptible socio-economic change in Latin America, including Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For his part, Dr. Louay Aoudi, representative of the Association Forum of Palestinian youth in the diaspora, said that \u201cthe Palestinian cause is limited now to geography, but concerns the whole of humanity, being a struggle against Zionism, the fascist capitalism and a spearhead for freedom. \u201d He also estimated that the WSF 2015 Tunis is \u201ca tool for the unification of the world\u2019s youth forces\u201d \u201cto get free from the clutches of Zionism and marginalization.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Mac Caraminda Lorin, representative of the WSF organizing committee in Montreal in 2016, \u201cThe record participation in the 2015 WSF in Tunis reflects the great sympathy of the world\u2019s youth in Tunisia after the latest attacks.\u201d \u201cWe are also here to express the concerns of young Canadians with the strike by nearly 50,000 students in protest against the austerity policy. This space is a good opportunity to exchange experiences and views on these common problems of young pending the 2016 edition in Canada, \u201cshe said.<\/p>\n

According to the organizers, considering the context of the WSF 2015, \u201cthe demand for climate justice, and beyond, an environmental justice, is the expression of a questioning of a system of production and consumption which has no future and an environmentally predatory relationship by man. Increasingly social movements and intellectuals worldwide, interpret this crisis not only as a financial crisis or as a failure of capitalism, but more deeply as a true crisis of civilization. The very foundations of the system, economic, social, environmental, cultural and political, are challenged by a large part of humanity who see them as the source of economic, social and political injustice in the world, and as the source of damage to the earth \u201c.<\/p>\n

Finally, it should be noted that the Assembly of Social Movements of the WSF 2015 called for strengthening solidarity with the peoples of the world who struggle daily against imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, patriarchy, racism and injustice.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2013 those who edited the World Civil Society Report for the United Nations Decade on the Culture of Peace
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\n\u2013 as well as other youth who have worked as reporters on CPNN and\/or worked on the Youth Solidarity Fund of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.<\/em>
\nThe founder and president of the Corporation is David Adams<\/a>, who initiated CPNN at UNESCO during the 1990s (see his blog<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

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