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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Different Paths Emerge
Analysis - By Stefania Milan
LONDON - The third European Social Forum appears to mark the end of the "love story" between grassroots social movements and the international gatherings that are now in vogue. In any case, discontent in both camps - the activists and the official organisers - will leave a mark on future events.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Public Urged to Act on Trade Agreements
By Stefania Bianchi
BRUSSELS - African and European civil society groups are urging European citizens to put pressure on their governments to halt regional trade agreements between the European Union and developing countries.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
NGOs Face a Constitutional Test
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - The European constitution emerged as a less emotive but more immediate issue than Iraq during the three-day European Social Forum that concluded in London last weekend.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Another World, But How?
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - Under as brave a banner as ''Another world is possible'', the third European Social Forum that concluded in London Sunday was always open to the question-but just how?
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
'Resistance' Call at Anti-War Rally
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - Several thousands joined an anti-war rally Sunday to mark the end of the three-day European Social Forum.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Public Service form Cradle to Grave
By Stefania Milan
LONDON - "We still believe in the welfare state. The challenge for us here today is to defend and promote public services," Dave Prentis from the British union UNISON said at a meeting on public services and the welfare state at the European Social Forum.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Civil Society Shot Finds a Mark
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - Several civil society groups have come together at the European Social Forum to support a review of British development aid.
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RIGHTS
Indymedia Seizure Signals Clampdown on Dissent
By Katherine Stapp
NEW YORK - Free speech advocates say the six-day shutdown of nearly two-dozen websites belonging to Indymedia is a severe blow to democratic principles and, perhaps, an ominous sign of things to come.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Fighting 'Cyberlords'
By Stefania Milan
LONDON - An information rights activist has warned against the growing power of the "landlords" of cyberspace.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Faultline Becomes a Frontline
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - The meeting on 'The Faultline in British Politics' at the opening of the European Social Forum in London Friday came to resemble at least a little the frontline in Iraq. Civil society seemed at civil war.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
A Weekend for Another World
By Stefania Milan
LONDON - London is preparing to host the third European Social Forum (ESF) after meetings in Florence in 2002 and Paris in 2003.
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM
Together Under an Iraqi Shadow
Analysis by Sanjay Suri
LONDON - 'People Power' had become another of those slogans until the rallies Feb. 15 last year against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Those rallies were not only the biggest Europe has ever seen, but everything since then proves that people were marching on the right path.
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SOUTH AMERICA
Indymedia Seizure Hits Two Nations
By Annalena Oeffner*
MONTEVIDEO - Freedom of expression worldwide has been under threat since agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week seized two Internet servers hosting websites of the Independent Media Centres. In Latin America, Indymedia Brazil and Uruguay are directly affected.
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MEDIA
Alternative Network's Internet Servers Confiscated
By Stefania Milan
LONDON - Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday seized two Internet servers in Britain that host the web sites of the global news network Indymedia. Two days later there was still no clarification of why the computers were confiscated or who is holding them.
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COMMUNICATIONS
Foreign Firms Penetrate Venezuela's Telecoms Market
By Andrés Cañizález
CARACAS - Five foreign companies have been granted concessions in the first phase of the opening of Venezuela's telecommunications sector, an area in which competition is set to grow, service is expected to improve, and major investments are in the pipeline.
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London hosts the third European Social Forum 15 - 17 October 2004. Europeans debating, organising and networking against war, racism and corporate power, and for global justice, worker's rights and a sustainable society.

IPS reporting from the last World Social Forum - Mumbai 2004

IPS reporting (in Spanish) from the Americas Forum 2004 in Quito

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