2009年2月2日星期一

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil

Cool vibes, muddy results at social Brazil forum (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 08:47 PM CST

Vegetarians perform a symbolic capturing and cooking of animals as a protest during the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.  The World Social Forum is an annual counter cultural gathering to protest the simultaneous World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - The world's biggest counterculture political gathering ended Sunday with a flurry of photo-snapping, tent folding and farewell embraces — as well as uncertainty about what concrete results were accomplished in the stifling heat of this jungle city.


Leftist forum ends in Amazon; capitalism seen dying (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST

Reuters - The world's biggest gathering of leftist activists ended on Sunday, after six days of discussions and protests that participants said showed there was an alternative to a crumbling global capitalist system.

Pro-Palestinian groups call boycott on Israel (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:59 PM CST

Participants of the World Social Forum (WSF) are seen leaving the campus of the Federal Rural University of Para in Belem, Para, in northern Brazil on the last day of the World Social Forum (WSF). Pro-Palestinian groups meeting at the World Social Forum that ended Sunday launched a call for a worldwide boycott of Israel and a day of action on March 30.(AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)AFP - Pro-Palestinian groups meeting at the World Social Forum that ended Sunday launched a call for a worldwide boycott of Israel and a day of action on March 30.


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