TO ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS

WHO HAVE REGISTERED ACTIVITIES

TO WORLD SOCIAL FORUM IN BELEM

FIRST REGISTRATION PERIOD WAS OVER ON NOVEMBER 21st

NOW IT IS TIME FOR VOLUNTARY MERGING!

LET’S WORK TOGETHER TO PRODUCE CONVERGENCES FOR DEBATING, STRENGHENING SOCIAL ALLIANCES, ACTING AND MOBILISING!

Dear friends,

all of you have registered activities to be organized during WSF in Belem.

First registration period was over on November 21st.

Then, You will have until December 18th to edit your registered activities and to pay the registration fee correspondent to your organisation.

Before confirming, we strongly suggest you to check the list of all the other registered activities inside the same objective of yours.

To do it is very easy: in the webpages

http://inscricoes.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/content/index.php?page=consulta_pub#

or

http://openfsm.net/projects/fsm2009-facilitadores/project-home

you can find the list of objectives with the complete list of registered activities related to each one.

Probably, you will discover that similar activities to yours have been proposed by other organizations.

You have the possibility to get in touch with them, using the e-mail address and phone numbers you will find in the activities information.

You can decide to unify the activities you have already registered by editing/modifying one of them, incorporating the changes you agreed in the fields like title, description and, specially, partners in the activity, and deleting the extra activities registered.

You can decide also to make a “block” with these other activities, to be realized near to each other and in direct sequence, so that you all can reinforce the participation in the activity of each one, deepening the analysis, propositions and identification of possible convergences to build new alliances.

This merging process, of course, is made on voluntary bases. If you are not interested to merge or combine your activity with others, you can do it separately as in your initial proposition.

But merging activities is a wonderful way to enrich the debate, to strengthen social alliances, to create new conditions for acting and mobilizing.

WSF aim is to help as much as possible new global convergences: don’t lose Belem occasion!

You'll probably be contacted by one of the merging facilitators, who are voluntary trying to help this process.

Facilitators can help you in order to find partners for your activities. But please, don’t wait for them:

you can work in an easy way by yourself!

In the next days you will receive another new letter, explaining procedures and details for the organization of the WSF final day (the so-called 6th Day).

Basically, the morning of the 1st of February will be devoted to finalize concrete proposals for global campaigns, mobilizations and any type of actions and practices. This will be done through assemblies.

This kind of assembly is the one where merging and combining with similar activities are very important for the success of your action!

In the afternoon, a sort of "assembly of assemblies" will take place, aiming to present the result of the morning assemblies, before the WSF closing ceremony.

So, let’s stay in touch, and let’s start together the merging process!

All the best, in solidarity

WSF International Council Liaison Group