Occupy the WSF

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Reblogged from Spanish Revolution:Dear people,
In 1999 the counter-globalisation movement burst onto the streets at the WTO conference in Seattle. Two years later, in Porto Alegre, the movement began to organize its own alternative summits.
Since then, every year, representatives of NGOs and social movements gather in a Third World location to discuss, to connect, to teach, to learn, to share.
The mainstream press generally ignores these summits, or makes only a brief mention of their existence.
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