Activists Gather for World Social Forum
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Cheering Che Guevara and bashing President Bush, anti-globalization activists converged on southern Brazil Wednesday for an annual ritual of opposition to corporate-sponsored capitalism and the divide between rich and poor nations.
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ROSTOCK, Germany  - Anti-globalization protesters converged on the Baltic port of Rostock on Saturday to demonstrate against the policies of the world's leading industrial countries ahead of a Group of Eight summit next week.
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People around the world are coming together to celebrate the world wide web and its impact on people.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 1 (IPS) - An international conference next week will debate  the creation of a new world trade union organisation.
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Non-governmental organizations are discussing a boycott of the IMF and World Bank meetings in Singapore to protest the city-state's hardline stand against activists, organizers have said.
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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez heads to the World Social Forum, sure to get a sympathetic reception for his push to redistribute wealth from Latin America's elite to its poor.
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GENEVA - From Armenia to Zambia activists turned out by the thousands for World AIDS Day on Wednesday, singing in mighty cathedrals, lighting candles in city squares and playing sports.
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Delegates from the world's top polluting nations are meeting in Washington to discuss tackling climate change.
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The search for new strategies to confront global warming takes center stage in Buenos Aires on Monday as thousands of environmentalists and government policy-makers gather for an international conference on climate change.
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Computer gamers from around the planet are gathering in San Francisco for the World Cyber Games.
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LONDON, Oct 17  (IPS) - Several civil society groups have come together at   the European Social Forum to support a review of British  development aid.
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Anti-poverty and anti-globalisation campaigners meeting at a parallel forum to counter the G8 summit on Wednesday took industrialised nations to task over unfulfilled pledges made two years ago to the world&#39;s poorest.
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Protesters in the UK  march to highlight the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement on emissions.
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Activists and police are preparing for  a tense standoff and possible violence on New York streets when  hundreds of thousands gather to decry the Iraq war and Bush  administration polices during the Republican convention.
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The World Economic Forum in Davos kicks off amid transatlantic tensions with a focus on Aids and climate change.
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GLASGOW, May 26 (IPS) - On the face of it, nothing really  'happened'   at the Civicus world assembly, other than  the announcement that   secretary-general Kumi Naidoo would quit.  But that announcement did   not need a world assembly. Perhaps  the symbolic locking up in a cage   to draw attention to civil  society activists was something supplied by   way of a  'happening'. The rest was, and was expected to be, no  more   than talk.
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Campaigners and celebrities highlight inequality in world trade by holding a rally at the UK Labour Party conference.