<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">World Social Forum Report Back, Thursday, 2/12/09 @ 6:30 p.m.<br><br>Last week, on the banks of the Amazon, in Belem do Para, Brasil, more<br>than a 130,000 social movement activists from all over the world<br>contributed to the most dramatic and inspiring of the World Social<br>Fora. Urged by Paraguay's new leftist president to "be impatient!" the<br>WSF "adopted" an expansive social change agenda that relates to the<br>concrete alternatives being build across Latin America today.<br>Boston-based activists who attended the forum will be presenting their<br>impressions of the forum at this round table conversation. It will be<br>followed by a wine-and-cheese-style reception.<br><br>For more background on this forum, see:<br>Article -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/20390">http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/20390</a><br>Photos -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/writesuren">http://picasaweb.google.com/writesuren</a><br>Video -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7iFioUrJtY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7iFioUrJtY</a><br>Main Website -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/">http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/</a><br></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>