[IMC Bombay] IMC Meeting on WEDNESDAY!

[PUKAR @ IndyMedia]

Dear IndyMedia and Youth Social Forum:

The World Social Forum is a well-known global meeting of tens of 
thousands of people from social movements, progressive groups, 
scholars and activists from across the world in the city of Porto 
Allegre, Brazil, which has been been happening for the past three 
years. It is annually held as a progressive alternative to the World 
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In January 2003, the regional 
version of the WSF, called the Asian Social Forum, will be organised 
for the first time, in Hyderabad.

As part of the ASF in Hyderabad, a Youth Social Forum has been 
specifically organised to voice the concerns, issues, and 
consciousness of younger people from across India and South Asia. The 
YSF has agreed to help bring young people, students and media makers 
together to have an IndyMedia presence at the meeting. Some of us in 
PUKAR, Open Circle Arts Trust, YUVA, and several software 
programmers, media professionals, and others have met informally to 
discuss some kind of event, workshop, or stall on independent media, 
the politics of information, and media activism. We hope that 
everyone in the Bombay IMC, and hopefully other media groups in other 
parts of India and South Asia, can join in and help out. We are also 
writing to the global IndyMedia network for their support and to send 
people from IMCs in other countries, specifically the new ones in 
Asia.

Anyone is free to join us to discuss how to participate and help out 
in the Asian Social Forum. We hope that everyone connected to what is 
happening in the Bombay IndyMedia Centre will also come to this 
meeting to learn more about the ASF. For more information, check out 
these links:

World Social Forum http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/eng/index.asp

Asian Social Forum http://www.wsfindia.org/

Youth Social Forum India http://www.youth4wsf.org/

The meeting will be on Wednesday 25 September at 6.00 p.m. at the 
PUKAR office. PUKAR is located on the 4th Floor, Kitab Mahal, Dr D.N. 
Road, next to New Excelsior Cinema, near VT Station, Phone 2077779. 
This meeting is in lieue of the monthly Bombay IMC meeting which was 
to be held on Friday in the PUKAR office.

Best


Shekhar Krishnan and Rahul Srivastava
PUKAR

Sanjay Bhangar
IMC Bombay

Lysa John
YUVA/Youth Social Forum

Meena Menon
Focus on the Global South/World Social Forum India
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