At the World Forum of Alternatives, Roberto Savio, Argentine founder of alternative media Inter Press Service and Othernews and activist fighting for the right to information insisted on the need to stand up for the values of social justice and solidarity to face the capitalist economic system and neoliberal ideologies.
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Susan George, alter-globalist activist and co-founder of ATTAC shared her expertise on the workings of the global economy in a talk to grassroots activists who took part in Emmaus’ World Forum of Alternatives led with the most excluded on September in Geneva.
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At the World Forum of Alternatives, Ferdinand Ayité (Togo), Mônica Benício (Brazil) and Gustave Massiah (France) shared their perspectives on the role of social movements to build societies based on human rights and equality. Based on their experiences as activists and their national contexts, they demonstrated the importance of social movements for reinventing democracy and putting alternatives into place.
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Organized by activists fighting multinationals' impunity, the toxic tour gave about sixty participants the chance to discover the hidden side of some of the big chains based in Geneva: H&M, Engie, BNP Paribas as well as Apple, and their impacts on socio-environmental rights.
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A guest at the World Forum of Alternatives, Mônica Benício, Brazilian human rights activist and partner of Marielle Franco, shared with us the role that social movements can play in the face of increasing criminalisation and rising fascism, especially in her country where the far right is leading voting intention for the presidential elections next October 28th 2018.
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Rasmane Zinaba, member of the national coordination committee of Balai Citoyen (The Citizen’s Broom) tells us about the history and current objectives of this grassroots social movement, created in Burkina Faso in 2013 amid a very difficult political situation.
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Participants from groups in the four Emmaus regions tell us how they experienced the World Forum of Alternatives.
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Yvonne Toba, spokesperson for the No Vox movement in Côte d'Ivoire, was at the first edition of the Forum of Alternatives. She explains the ongoing fight in her country against the monopolisation of natural resources.
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