Abstract
I had the opportunity to both attend the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States and to participate in the World Social Forum hosted in Belém, Brazil. The Inaugural was attended by 1.8 million citizens, which included a notably large percentage of African-Americans, from all over the country. The World Social Forum had over 133,000 participants from around the world with a substantial number of Pan-Amazonic social movements. In both cases I witnessed a mobilized, dynamic civil sphere aspiring to a new, better society. The key to achieving another world is to bring these spheres together.
DOI
101163/187219109X447511
Recommended Citation
Ponniah.
2010.
"World Social Forum 2009: Time to Bring the WSF to the USA."
Societies Without Borders
4 (2):
254-260.
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol4/iss2/11