PORTO ALEGRE.

PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- Jesuit stranges Service, reporting live from Brazil in succession Jan. 26, said that "The irruption upon the international scene of a pluralistic and multiform emotion opposed to neo-liberal globalization and in favour of a society centr upon the human person, is individual of the most striking phenomena to have characterized the stop up of the 20th century."

At an informal inaugural gathering onward Jan. 25, Fr. Paolo Sergio Vaillant invited the participants to gather at Arrupe Hall and celebrate life. The hall was filled with the beatification of friends meeting each other after the same or more years. The programme began with a typical "samba." Participants joined in couple or three concentric rings, with arms intertwined and feet moving slowly The arranges from various countries came to the middle point and made a formal presentation, still with the sound of the samba always in the background. undivided minute's silence was observed for the victims of the tsunami.

Four thousand organizations from 112 countries were existing Organizers expected more than 100000 family to attend, the vast majority from Brazil and the stop of Latin America, but also from the United States and Europe

Eleven thematic areas around which the Forum was organized included human rights, environment, the arts, belonging to all good, democratic alternatives and resistance culture

These themes springed from open thematic consultations carried gone out through the internet in the summer of 2004 with the aim of increasing the participatory character of the WSF

It derive pleasure fromed the participation of almost 2000 organizations.

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