[Imc-uk-features] feature proposal: Opposition to WEF and WSF

[anarchobabe at fempages.org]

>From 20th till 25th of January 2007 the <a
href="http://wsf2007.org/">World Social Forum (WSF)</a> took place in
Nairobi, Kenya. It is the seventh Forum which takes place in opposition to
the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland.
On Monday evening, the <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2007/01/360309.html">Indymedia
Radio</a> station was <a
href="http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2007/01/36514.shtml">robbed</a> by armed
gunmen, who were taking as much eqiupment as they could carry (<a
href="http://www.phillyimc.org/media/2007/01//36515.mp3">audio</a>.
<br />
Up to a 100 000 participants were reported at the WSF though criticism of
exclusivity because of high entrance fees was raised from the local
population. ( <a
href="http://kenya.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/534.php">The impact of the
WSF on the people of Kibera: "a Failure"</a> | <a
href="http://kenya.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/528.php">Kibera fails
poor</a>.  This lead to the local population <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360782.html">storming</a>
tthe entrance and the overpriced catering:
 <a href="http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/167151.shtml"> What happened in
Nairobi </a>. <br /> On Monday evening, the <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2007/01/360309.html">Indymedia
Radio</a> station was <a
href="http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2007/01/36514.shtml">robbed</a> by
armed gunmen taking as much eqiupment as they could carry (<a
href="http://www.phillyimc.org/media/2007/01//36515.mp3">audio</a>.
<br /><br />
<b>Newswire Reports:</b><br />
[ <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360602.html"> The Wider
SF movement </a> | <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361421.html"> What's hot and
What's Not</a> | <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360623.html"> WSF A Rolling
Carnival of Resistance </a> | <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2007/01/360309.html"> 
WSF marches against EPA</a> | <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360715.html">March through
Nairobi </a> ]
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<b>Reports about the WSF on other Indymedia sites:</b><br />
[ <a href="http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/878667.shtml">
Indymedia.org </a> | <a
href="https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/5951/index.php">
Israel Indy</a> |  <a
href="http://de.indymedia.org/2007/01/166550.shtml">Germany Indymedia </a>
| <a href="http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2007/01/18288.shtml"> Ecuador
Indymedia</a> | <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org/es/2007/01/878797.shtml">Argentina IMC </a>
| <a href="http://athens.indymedia.org/features.php3?id=442">Athens
Indy</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.be/nl/node/6751">Belgium </a> |
<a href="http://www.indymedia.no/feature/display/18529/index.php">Norway
IMC</a> | <a href="http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2007/01/36514.shtml">IMC
Philadelphia</a> | <a
href="http://barcelona.indymedia.org/feature/display/290885/index.php">Barcelona
Indy</a> | <a
href="http://la.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1374&category_id=3">LA
Indymedia</a> | <a
href="http://houston.indymedia.org/archives/archive_week_redirect.php?category_id=1&day=31&month=1&year=2007">Houston
Independent Media Centre</a> | Marseille Indymedia (<a
href="http://marseille.indymedia.org/redactioncollective/wiki.php/Espacezapatiste%202007">1</a>
| <a
href="http://marseille.indymedia.org/redactioncollective/wiki.php/WSF">2</a>)
]

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Meanwhile in the Northern Hemisphere, activists were marching and
mobilising against the WEF in Davos, Switzerland. [<a
href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360801.html"> Report</a>]

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Reports about the opposition to and actions against the WEF:<br />
Switzerland IMC (<a
href="http://switzerland.indymedia.org/demix/2006/12/45382.shtml">German</a>
| <a
href="http://switzerland.indymedia.org/demix/2007/01/45934.shtml">Italian</a>
), <a href="http://indymedia.nl/nl/2007/01/42073.shtml">Imc
Netherlands</a>