World Social Forum on Mallorca

A group of five Mallorcans participated in the World Social Forum that was held last January in Porto Alegre (Brazil), as an alternative to the World Economic Forum of Davos (Switzerland), arranged by the FMI and the World Bank. Now, following the recommendations of the international meeting at Porto Alegre, ESPAI OBERT has been created to present and meditate in the Balearics about the proposals carried out. As a first activity, a conference has been arranged for March 6 at 8 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the Banca March, calle Nuredduna in Palma, to present the proposals adopted at the World Social Forum and to unite different island sensibilities near to these proposals.

The World Economical Forum at Davos has become over the years the most important global business congress in the world, and the World Social Forum aims to become the alternative event that will gather together progressive groups of the planet who believe that social progress must not be separate from economic progress.

The participants in the first world meeting decided that the year 2002 the World Social Forum should be held in Porto Alegre again, coinciding with the World Economic Forum of Davos, that reunites annually the principal business people and financial leaders of the whole world.

Related news:
- World Economic Forum: Annual Meeting in Davos (25/1/2001)

Date of publication: 05/03/2001

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