See here for some
photographs of the
street protests that have taken place at the
World Social Forum and the
World Economic Forum.
The
European protests (and policing!) seem to have been rather
uptight + aggressive whereas the
Brazilian approach seems much more
uplifting, unifying + artistic...
Other observations I have include that there are
very few "alternative" websites reporting on the the WSF (the tiny number that do exist are also mostly in Spanish/Portugese),
hardly any NGO press releases/websites have been produced compared to the blizzard of emails the WEF people have been issuing + most of the
anti-WEF websites seem to have been produced by anarchic Germanics...
Still it's good to see that
Oxfam's
Barbara Stocking has been
keeping up the pressure on US + EU farm subsidies... as well as the general strengthening of participation by
NGOs at the WEF + the
Public Eye on Davos - even if the activities of the NGOs haven't been reported on very much by most of the mainstream media!
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