In her visit to the Themed Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazilian president, Dilma Roussef anticipated the stance of her Government during the coming Rio + 20 Conference.

So declared the director of the ETC group, Pat Mooney, during a debate on eco-socialism in the Themed Social Forum (TSF). In this way, he warned that Rio + 20 would make room for the appropriation of the biodiversity to generate more profits.

So stated Manuel Manonelles, in the World Forum of Civil Society Networks, UBUNTU. It was during his analysis of the interference of financial activity in the food ambit.

The Themed Social Forum made room for a debate over the so-called Arab Spring. During the presentations about the subject, the panellists highlighted the internet as an important tool for social movement.

The National Coordination of the Popular Committees of the Brazilian Cup and Olympic Games announced this Tuesday the start of a day of fighting against the approval of the so-called General Law of the Football World Cup.

An extensive mobilisation ran through the centre of Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Tuesday afternoon. It was to open the Themed Social Forum 2012, with the central theme of "Capitalist crisis, social and environmental justice�.

For the Portuguese sociologist, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the Themed Social Forum (TSF) 2012 is right in debating the capitalist crisis and the destruction of nature. However, he assures that it is necessary to go further than "green capitalism�.

Another World is Possible. The affirmation has accompanied the World Social Forum since is very beginning.

The UN special mission is investigating a possible coup organised by Ecuadorian opposition parties in the chaotic events that happened on the 30th of September 2010 in the capital city of Quito.

The president, Mauricio Funes, has apologised to the victims of the El Mozote slaughter�s families as part of the 20th anniversary memorial of the peace agreements which ended the armed conflict in the country.