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The Norwegian Social Forum
The Norwegian Social Forum is part of a broad international movement working for a just world and against the neo-liberal economy and politics that dominate the world today. NSF is the Norwegian branch of the World Social Forum. The NSF consists of a board responsible for organising the activities of the forum, along with the 70 organizations associated with the alliance. Our biggest event is the biannual "Globalisation Conference". The Globalisation Conference is held every second year in Oslo, and is the Norwegian equivalent of the World Social Forum. The next conference will take place from October 2 -3rd 2022.
More information here: http://www.globalisering.no
Activities:
- Globalization Conference 2022 (Norway Social Forum):
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Globalization Conference 2018 (Norway Social Forum): "Power" (12-14th October 2018)
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Norway Social Forum + Iraq Social Forum: Event series on 15th Anniversary of Iraq War in Oslo (14, 19-22nd February 2018)
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Globalization Conference 2016 (Norway Social Forum): "Without borders" (27-30th October, 2016)
norway and wsf extension welcome
WSF is a process started en 2000, 22 years old, regulated by a charter of principles that some of you may knowhttp://openfsm.net/projects/ic-methodology/charter-fsm-wsf-en
- First article reads" The world social forum process is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a planetary society directed towards fruitful relationships among Humankind and between it and the Earth".
So there is a clear and broad ideological positionning of this forum
Social forum process as defined in this charter can take the form of :
- 1/ "events" gathering of CSOs in a certain time and place - here is a calendar of such events : http://openfsm.net/projects/wsf2012-support/wsf2017-calendar
- 2/ a network of cross remote participation of local partiicpants in activities/meetings taking place in other local places - nobody travelling this is the WSF extension dynamics format with a first occurence Dynex1WSF : http://openfsm.net/projects/dynex1-fsmwsf
This Norway & Dynex1WSF welcome circle (on skype and whatsapp room) and this Norway and WSF editing space in www.openfsm.net are a place where to have mutual info about those two ways of participation
Welcome cricle is not a discussion forum
Focused thematic /topic discussions can take place in numbered chat rooms that are associated to local meetings taking place in Norway ( placed as activities in Dynex1WSF by Norwegian CSOs feeling they are part of this WSFprocess) or anywhere else
- for example recently there was a citizen a forum in abidjan, placed as activity 414 in the wsf extension dynamics and there is a remote participation anglohone room 414EN which you can join through a link that you find here :http://openfsm.net/projects/cotedivoire-et-fsm/cotedivoireetfsm-act414-accompagnement-en-ligne-du-sommet-citoyen-afrique-ue-abidjan/#ENGLISH
- also there has been recently a zambia social forum placed as actvity 409: http://openfsm.net/projects/zambia-and-wsf/zambiaandwsf-act409-10th-zamsof-online-accompanimentT
- list of placed activities so far http://openfsm.net/projects/dynex1-fsmwsf/dynex1fsmwsf-chrono-list-activ
Why participate? it is not about "selling" anything , nor are you committing to anything coming in this welcome circle, it is just relevant, if you are truly interested by this world social forum process interlinking CSOs
- 1/ there is the benefit of meeting like minded persons who think another world is possible and act accordingly
- 2/ extension dynamics is a zero budget form of implementation of wsf , if you want to go to the face to face event you need to find the corresponding ressources , if you want to participate remotely it is costless ( except internet connection)
- 3/ the gains are networking , new ideas , new contacts, new alliances and cooperation between organizations towards actions projects struggles etc directed to transition towards another possible world