Related events :
>Talk with Evelyne Jouanno
and the artists at CCA Playspace Gallery on Friday February
8th,
6pm
>The World Social Forum: Past Achievements,
Present Dilemmas, and Future Hopes
Discussion organized and sponsored by The Global Commons
Foundation
Saturday, January 26, New College of California, 9 am - 1 pm
777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Community forum on the WSF, global coalition
movements, and local activisms. The event will begin with a
keynote address by leading world-systems and anti-systemic
movements scholar Immanuel Wallerstein on
the World Social Forum in historical perspective, and will
be followed by a dozen respondents from the Bay Area representing
a range of social justice movements who can speak strongly
to the question of local and transnational challenges and possibilities
for organizing global coalition networks. Respondents
include Walter Turner , Global Exchange; tammy
ko Robinson , San Francisco Art Institute; Annie
Fukushima , Women for Peace and Genuine Security; Andrej
Grubacic , Z Magazine and Global Balkans; Ramón
Grosfoguel , UC-Berkeley; Iain Boal ,
Retort Collective; Evelyne Jouanno , Emergency
Biennale in Chechnya; Marina Sitrin , New
College of California. Following the respondents the conversation
will open up to the whole room. In addition to being
a discussion on the role of the WSF and alter-globalization
movements, this gathering will serve as a first encounter among
individuals interested in forming a Bay Area Social Forum.
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya/ World
Tour/ Stop 10: San Francisco was made possible by the
support of The Global Commons Foundation, CCA Playspace
gallery & Wattis Institute, haudenschildGarage and Walter & McBean
Galleries of San Francisco Art Institute .
More information:
2008 World Social Forum : www.wsf2008.net / www.forumsocialmundial.org.br
Global Commons Foundation : www.globalcommonsfoundation.org
CCA Playspace Gallery : www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/gradgallery.php
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