A European Social Forum took place in Florence, Italy the week of 6/10th November billed as “an open meeting space for in-depth reflection, democratic debate, free exchange of experiences and planning of effective action among entities and movements of civil society engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human being.” It is an offshoot of the World Social Forum that took place in Porto Alegre, Brasil a where ‘civil society’, Unions, NGO’s and activists converged to give a positive counter to the World Economic Forum of business leaders in Davos and later New York.

The official event ran concurrently with a number of other initiatives including: The Euro@ction Hub project [pics | report] and the Disobedienti No Work No Shop space. Additionally the Cobas union and MAT held separate events showing the breadth and limits of such a European social justice movement. On Saturday 9th Nov up to 1 million people took the streets of Florence to demonstrate their opposition to the War.

Full ESF coverage, reports and photos in IMC-UK World page.

[ESF site | Euro@ction Hub | IMC-Italy]