World Social Forum: Building Alternative Forms Of Globalization
The greatest progressive innovation of our century -- to this point -- has been theWorld Social Forum (WSF). In the book Another World is Possible: popular alternatives to globalization at the World Social Forum,William Fisher and I first contended that the World Social Forum represented the beginning of building a new left and a new global civilization, grounded by a desire for participatory, radical democracy. There have been a number of insightful interpretations of the World Social Forum process: it embodies resistance to globalization, it represents the latest struggle against imperialism, it manifests the power of identity, it is an insurgency against patriarchy and other forms of hierarchical discrimination, and it represents the "movement of the multitude."