Strategic thinking, eco-social transformation, planetary citizen action – Candido Grzybowski
An initial outburst
I decided to share some of my reflections on the WSF after having had an intense participation in the first 10 years and having been frustrated and withdrawn, becoming more of an observer than a real participant in the process, since Dakar, 2011. I was on the Organizing Committee in the preparation of the first forum, in 2001, until the WSF of Belém, in 2009. Then I stayed a short time as a member of GRAP – Group of Reflection and Support to the WSF (Brazilian). I was in Tunis II, in 2015, when I fully felt my dream of the WSF becoming something on the way to another of the defeats that we all suffer in life. However, it could have been different, perhaps. After all, life is an adventure from day to day, with a future that takes place before it really becomes reality and then history. That is where the group for a New WSF appears.
It has been reflecting, proposing and acting to resume the vigor of the WSF as a reference symbol of citizen resistance and confronting this capitalism that is leading us to barbarism or even to planetary destruction. In the middle of a pandemic and in physical isolation on a site, the invitation that was made to me to participate and contribute to the reflections of the group was inspiring and an injection of courage to not give up, rather, to turn the corner and believe that “another world, yes , it’s possible”. It is up to us, citizens of the world, to say if and how we want it and to fight for it.
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