Social Movements Assembly at the World Social
Forum - Nairobi, January the 24th, 2007
AFRICAN STRUGGLES, GLOBAL STRUGGLES
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We, social movements from across Africa and
across the world, have come
together here in Nairobi at the 2007 World
Social Forum to highlight and
celebrate Africa and her social movements;
Africa and her unbroken history
of struggle against foreign domination,
colonialism and neo-colonialism;
Africa and her contributions to humanity;
Africa and her role in the quest
for another world.
We are here to celebrate and reaffirm the
spirit of the World Social Forum
as a space of struggle and solidarity which
is open to all people and
social movements regardless of their ability
to pay.
We denounce tendencies towards
commercialisation, privatisation and
militarisation of the WSF space. Hundreds of
our sisters and brothers who
welcomed us to Nairobi have been excluded
because of high costs of
participation.
We are also deeply concerned about the
presence of organisations working
against the rights of women, marginalised
people, and against sexual
rights and diversity, in contradiction to the
WSF Charter of Principles.
The social movements assembly has created a
platform for Kenyans and
other Africans from different backgrounds and
communities to present their
struggles, alternatives, cultures, talents
and skills. It is also a space
for civil society organisations and social
movements to interact and share
the issues and problems affecting them.
Since the first assembly in 2001, we have
contributed to building and
strengthening successful international
networks of civil societies and
social movements and reinforced our spirit of
solidarity and our struggles
against all forms of oppression and
domination.
We recognise that the diversity of movements
and popular initiatives
against neo-liberalism, world hegemony of
capitalism and imperial wars, is
an expression of a world resistance.
We have now to move towards a phase of
effective alternatives. Many local
initiatives are already existing and should
be expanded: what is happening
in Latin America and other parts of the world
-- thanks to the joint
action of social movements -- shows the way
to establish concrete
alternatives to world capitalist domination.
As social movements from all five continents
gathering in Nairobi, we
express our solidarity with the social
movements in Latin America whose
persistent and continuing struggle has led to
electoral victories for the
Left in several countries.
ACTIONS
We are calling for a broad international
mobilisation against the G8 in
Rostock and Heiligendamm (Germany) 2-8 June
2007.
We will mobilise in our communities and
movements for an International
Day of Action in 2008.
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