No doubt the European Social Forum will be another usless talking shop that will achieve absolutly nothing! What is needed is action not pointless endless debates!

We need action on the streets and action in our towns and cities not forums where so called self appointed leaders will discuss what to do amongst themselves in the interests of the working class. We need direct action similar to the direct action that took place back in 1968 when tttens of thousands of people took to the streets and fought back big time!

behave, we know u are Special Branch, and as such a coward so don't pretend to be an anti-capatalist or up for confrontation against riot filth

arlequin the gathering of the european social forum in firenze is first of all a sign of unity between anarchists around europe... and how do you think to get a revolutiuon if you first dont invlove as much people from all cultures...
yes i want a revolution
to stop the way globalisation is working right now, stop multinational workers fucking companies...
but first we MUST ORGANIZE!
www.movimentgraffitti.org

They can't organise anything properly like organising Mayday protests on Mayday itself a week day when if those protests were organised on Saturday there would have been a really decent turnout and no just a couple of thousand people on thec streets who got intimidated by the police. The same goes for the anti-war protests a week ago which were held on Thursday and so only got a patheticly small turnout which were again intimidated by the police!

The European Social Forum wont discuss any reall ways of changing the system it will just be a talking shop like all the other so called radical gatherings. Take for example the Earth First gatherings in the UK they have achieved fuck all! And why did Earth First groups boycott the countryside march. That would have been an excellent opportunity for environmentalists and eco warriers to put their case for defending the environment!

If you are down here, then you will no doubt appreciate the sheer scale and size, organisation, passion, intricacy, determination and creative enterprise. This event is unparalleled by anything of the kind in recent European history. There are currently, 35,000 attendees with the numbers growing exponentially each day. The air is crackling with an electricity unfelt and perhaps considered by some to be extinct...

THIS IS THE FUTURE, EARTH...now!

It sounds like many folks participated in this first forum in Europe. In the United States history is nothing but a series of stories that got lived through one after another. All connected. Our culture has been taught that we as individuals are only a very small piece of something very large.

From what I have read and learned through particiapation in similiar forums is that a person is not a small piece. A person is a whole world of experiences, lessons, ideas.

Most of us here do one very narrow focussed job. These forums will enable folks to live less narrow lives. Conversations will lead to ideas, ideas will lead into dreams, dreams will lead into projects, projects will lead into a new set of experiences/realities that will enable a person to grow in a vaster way having many different life experiences. While sustaining and nourishing themselves and the earth.

Really think it was a good idea to invite journalists to participate in the process. Would really be interested in reading what was thought about and explainied through the media to those not participating.

Globalization is definitely a beautiful thing if it has local controls and varies on the culture. Thanks so much for publishing stories through indymedia.

In Peace,
Pete