During the year when it celebrates the 10th anniversary of its process, the World Social Forum will not have a single global centralized event. In 2010, the WSF will happen in a permanent way all year-round, with events and activities being held throughout the world. Check below the list of events and actions.
To know more about the WSF process and its development, click here.
List of WSF actions and events for 2010: To correct information or include any event or action in the list, send email to: fsmsite @ forumsocialmundial.org.br
1.Event: I Solidarity Economy Social Forum and I Solidarity Economy World Fair
Location: Santa Maria and Canoas (Greater Porto Alegre), Brazil.
Date: January 22-24th (Santa Maria), 25-29th (Canoas)
Contact info: ecosol@fsmecosol.org.br
Website: http://www.fsmecosol.org.br
2. Event: 6th World Forum of Judges
Location: Porto Alegre - RS
Date: 22 a 24 de janeiro
Contact info: empresarialt@marprom.com.br
Website: http://www.marprom.com.br
3. Event: Serra Gaúcha World Social Forum
Location: Bento Gonçalves - RS - Brasil
Date: January 22-24
Contact info: fsmserra@yahoo.com.br
4. Event: Intercontinental Youth Camp 10 years - Movements in movement
Location: Lomba Grande - Novo Hamburgo, RS
Date: January 23-29
Contact info: comunicacaofsm2010@acampamentofsm.org.br
Website: www.acampamentofsm.org.br
5. Event: Tokyo Social Forum - "Get together, Talk, and Go! - Another World is Possible!"
Location: Tokyo Korean YMCA
Date: January, 24.
Contact info: Yamaura@nishoren.org, ppsg@jca.apc.org,
allies@crux.ocn.ne.jp, attac-jp@jca.apc.org
Website: http://tokyo.socialforum.jp/
6. Event: Greater Porto Alegre 10 Years Social Forum / 10 Years World Social Forum Seminar
Location: Greater Porto Alegre, Brazil
Date: January 25-29
Contact info: fsm2010@yahoo.com.br
Webite: www.fsm10.org
7. Event: Right and Justice - World Forum Theology and Liberation / Preparatory Seminar towards Dakar (Greater Porto Alegre 10 Years Social Forum)
Location: São Leopoldo, RS (Brazil)
Date: January, 26th-28th
Contact: permanentsecretariat@wftl.org (FMTL Permanent Secretariat)
8. Event: II Atlantic Local Social Forum
Location: Kpomassé, Benin
Date: January 28-31
Contact info: Yoro Bi Ta Raymond: forumsocialbenin@yahoo.fr / fosoloa@yahoo.fr
9. Event: Madrid World Social Forum 2010
Location: Madrid, Spain
Date: January 28-31
Contact info: comunicacion@fsmmadrid.org
Website: http://www.fsmmadrid.org
10. Event: Czech Social Forum
Location: Prague, Brno, Usti nad Labem - Czech Republic
Date: Januray 29-30
Contact info: Marek Hrubec - marek.hrubec@gmail.com
11. Event: Bahia Thematic Social Forum
Location: Salvador, Brazil
Date: January 29-31
Contact info: fsmt.foco@gmail.com
Website: http://www.fsmtbahia.com.br
12. Event: 5th Stuttgart-Open-Fair, large Civil Society Festival/Platform
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Date: January 29 - 31st
Contact info: johanneslauterbach@gmx.net
Website: http://www.stuttgart-open-fair.de
13. Event: El Salvador World Social Forum
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador
Date: January-30th
Contact info: Marta Benavides, museoajacommunity@gmail.com
Website: http://fsmelsalvador2010.wordpress.com/
14. Event: Catalan Social Forum
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Date: January, 30-31
Contact info: info@forumsocialcatala.cat
Website: http://www.forumsocialcatala.cat
15. Event: Expanded Social Forum of Peripheries
Date: February, 3rd-6th
Location: Loteamento Dunas, Pelotas - RS - Brazil.
Contacts: floris@vetorial.net , florisot@hotmail.com, ploc70@gmail.com, amiz.ong@gmail.com
16. Event: World Forum on Early Childhood and Youth Education
Location: Osasco- SP - Brazil
Date: February 26-27
Contact info: secretaria@forummundialeducacao.org
Website: http://www.forummundialeducacao.org
17. Osaka Social Forum
Date: March 21-22
Location: Osaka
Contact info: osaka@socialforum.jp
Website: http://osaka.socialforum.jp/
18. Event: Actions for the Right to City, apart from the World Urban Forum (WUF 5)
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date: March 22-26
Contact info: forumreformaurbana@fase.org.br / gs@hic-net.org / info@habitants.org
19. Event: 2nd Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Action Day during the Palestinian Land Day
Location: multiple countries
Date: March 30th
Contact info: Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC): hind.awwad@bdsmovement.net
20. Event: World Forum of the Collective Rights of Peoples
Location: Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Date: April 22-25
Contact info: activitats@ciemen.cat
21. Event: Thematic Forum on Alternatives to Financial Crisis
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Date: May 2-4
Contact info: Rocío Lombera: copevi@prodigy.net.mx / Hector de la Cueva: correohdc@yahoo.com.mx
22. Event: US Social Forum
Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Date: June 22-26
Contact info: Cindy: cindy@ggjalliance.org / Michael Leon Guerrero: michael@ggjalliance.org / Jennifer Cox: jenkwru@yahoo.com / USSF 2010 Community list: communityweb@ussf2010.org
Website: http://ussf2010.org
23. Event: European Social Forum
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Date: Not scheduled yet
Contact info: tsf@sosyalforum.org
Website: http://www.sosyalforum.org
24. Event: 4th edition of the event “Étrange Rencontre”
Location: Guinea
Date: July
Contact info: Zoul: zoul@no-log.org / zoul@mytronunya.info
Website: http://www.etrangerencontre.org
25. Event: 1st World Forum for Culture and Education for Transformation
Location: Belém, Brazil
Date: July 21-26
Contact info: Dan Baron: danbaronmst@hotmail.com
26. Event: 1st meeting “Hegemonic Civilization Crisis and Alternative Paradigms”
Location: Bolivia
Date: second semester
Contact info: Facilitation Group, Roberto Espinoza - ayamtai08@gmail.com
27. Event: 2010 Americas Social Forum
Location: Assuncion, Paraguay
Date: August 11-15
Contact info: Magdalena León: consejo@forosocialamericas.org / José Miguel Hernandes: jmamerica@yahoo.com.mx
28. Event: Thematic Forum on Environment, Migration, and Food Security
Location: Niamey, Niger
Date: October 15-19
Contact info: Moussa Tchangari: tchangari@yahoo.fr / tchangari@cooperation.net
29. Event: World Education Forum
Location: Palestine
Date: October 28-31 (to be confirmed)
Contact info: Kathia Dudyk: kathia@paulofreire.org / cifme@forummundialeducacao.org
Refaat Sabbah: refat@teachercc.org
Marjon Goetinck: marjon@wef-palestine.org
30. Event: Thematic Forum on Labor issues
Location: Algeria
Date: November
Contact info: Hamouda: hsoubhi@alternatives.ca / Kamal: lahbib_2006@menara.ma
31. Event: Community Radio Forum
Location: La Plata, Argentina
Date: November 08-13
Contact info:
32. Event: 5th Pan-amazonian Social Forum
Location: Santarem, Pará, Brasil
Date: Last week of November
Contact info: Aldalice Otterloo: aotterloo@unipop.org.br / Vanessa: vanzinga@riseup.net
Website: http://www.forumsocialpanamazonico.org/
33. Event: Nigerian Social Forum
Location: Lagos, Niageria
Date: December
Contact info: Oluwole Oshota: ooshota@hotmail.com / metarch@hotmail.com
34. Event: Thematic Forum on democracy
Location: Dacca, Bangladesh
Date: December
Contact info:
35. Event: World Education Forum, thematic on Education, Research and Culture of Peace
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.
Date: December 9-13
Contact info: Kathia Dudyk: kathia@paulofreire.org / cifme@forummundialeducacao.org
36. Event: 9th Forum of the Peoples – theme: crisis and poverty
Location: Mali
Date: Not scheduled yet (it happens during the G8 meeting)
Contact info:
37. Event: Thematic Forum on Gender Issues
Location: Jordan
Date: Not scheduled yet
Contact info: Hamouda: hsoubhi@alternatives.ca / Kamal: lahbib_2006@menara.ma
38. Event: Thematic Forum On Agricultural workers, Peasants and Health
Location: Egypt
Date: Not scheduled yet
Contact info: Hamouda: hsoubhi@alternatives.ca / Kamal: lahbib_2006@menara.ma
39. Event: Thematic Forum on Social Movements
Location: Morocco
Date: Not scheduled yet
Contact info: Hamouda: hsoubhi@alternatives.ca / Kamal: lahbib_2006@menara.ma
40. Event: Iraq Social Forum
Location: Iraq
Date :Not scheduled yet
Contact info: Salam Ali
41. Event: International Seminar on the Political Islam
Location: Not defined yet
Date: Not scheduled yet
Contact info: Alternatives International: feroz@alternatives-international.net
updated on 02/09/2010
