[Bulgaria] Preparing the next European Social Forum

In the weekend of April 16-18 2004, more than 300 delegates from various social movements from all Europe met in Istanbul (Turkey) for a preparatory assembly to build the next European Social Forum that will be held in London (UK), October 14-17 2004.

The European Social Forum (ESF) is a regional initiative which supports the Charter of Principles from the World Social Forum (WSF), held in Porto Alegre from January 25th to 30th, 2001. It was then decided that the WSF should be "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 neo-liberalism 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 Mankind and between it and the Earth."

..... for full article, see Preparing the next European Social Forum, published on Social Rights Bulgaria.