KARACHI - Call it a jamboree, or a carnival of people, call it an NGO bazaar or a ‘mela’ (fair) if you will. After five days of debate, dialogue and discourse, amidst fun and music, just when the momentum was built, the forum comes to a grinding halt. Yet, for times to come, it leaves a lasting taste of how civil society in Pakistan, together, took its first step into the world of social movements.
Climbing up the steps leading to the amphitheatre at the KMC Sports Complex where the closing was being held, the sudden emptiness of the wall where life-size photographs of street children (an uncomfortable reminder of the grim life that exists for our future generation outside the venue) had been mounted for the past five days glares back at participants.
http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/karachi/viewstory.asp?idnews=609
World Social Forum 2006 - Karachi
http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/karachi/default.asp
World Social Forum
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/dinamic.php?pagina=foruns_poli_2006_ing
Tariq Ali: The Karachi Social Forum
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=032906214251
Climbing up the steps leading to the amphitheatre at the KMC Sports Complex where the closing was being held, the sudden emptiness of the wall where life-size photographs of street children (an uncomfortable reminder of the grim life that exists for our future generation outside the venue) had been mounted for the past five days glares back at participants.
http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/karachi/viewstory.asp?idnews=609
World Social Forum 2006 - Karachi
http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/karachi/default.asp
World Social Forum
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/dinamic.php?pagina=foruns_poli_2006_ing
Tariq Ali: The Karachi Social Forum
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=032906214251