During the World Social Forum 2005 the 5th Intercontinental Youth Camp (IYC will take place in Parque Harmonia, Porto Alegre. Situated in at the heart of the WSF landscape, the camp will map the alternatives throughout the camp focusing on self-management, horizontality, diversity and creative resistance, experimenting and proposing alternatives that oppose capitalist and neoliberal hegemony. The Youth Camp opens its doors on the 24th January to around 25,000 people from around the world. One challenge of IYC 2005 is to enable the building of new networks of different struggles seeking articulation from local to global levels with the capacity to influence the consequences and causes of global political spheres and Also it will be crucial to collect information on all the different practices experimented in the camp for exchange on an international level and to spread the ideas.
Full Report Call for activities at the IYC World Social Forum
Intergalactic Caracol The Caracol is a Youth Camp initiative, from 26th-31st january, that aims to bring together struggles that radicalise the resistance to capitalism and reclaim the world social forum, but also to think beyond the WSF facilitating groups with similar or different projects to find their overlaps and ways of cooperating.
Mosaic of Books The Mosaic of Books - World Social Library campaign has already gathered almost 4,000 titiles since Porto Alegre 2001. From mometum gathered from the World Social Forums since they include titles in literature, education, philosophy and a library of alternatives for the construction of another world. All participants coming to the World Social Forum are encouraged to contribute a book to this expanding mosaic.
Global Scanning Day As part of the youth camp and mosaic of books, the 30th January sees a day of Global Scanning to propagate the ideas of sharing free knowledge and horizontal distribution methods. Everyone is encouraged to scan periodicals, books, poems, pictures and stories of resistance. Report in Spanish and English coming soon.
International Youth Camp
Since the first World Social Forum in 2001 the youth camp has rapidly developed its dynamics and concepts- setting it apart from the World Social Forum by bringing togehter political discourse alongside pratical, ecological approaches to covivencia ( living together). The political processes used throughout the camp focus on self-management, horizontality, diversity and creative resistance, experimenting and proposing alternatives that oppose capitalist and neoliberal hegemony. The camp will be a huge space of exchange, networking, debate and convergence of the most diverse forms of social, political and cultural activism.
The camp will consist of seven centres of action (capacity up to 500 people,) besides various other smaller spaces to host the activities, spread out over all of the camp area. The centres represent different main topics and struggles (Cultural Resistance, Health and Culture, Communication and Free Knowledge, Social and Student Movements, Human Rights and Sexual Diversity, Environment, Global Struggle and Direct Action), as well as three spaces of free occupation (ELOs) for spontaneous activities.
Self-managed camp life:
Beyond this the poli-centric spatial set-up of the camp-territory in opposition to the centralist logics of most of the cities in the world will create many spaces of spontaneous and free encounter of the camps inhabitants. Sixty small neighbourhood centres (barrios) will be the main unit for the campers to self-manage co-existence in the camp. The building of the camps structures is realised based on the contribution and knowledge of different social movements.
Financially the camp is dependant on the World Social Forum, which does not impede a high degree of political autonomy and will not undermine its critical position in relation to the forum, which will be spread out just north and south of the camp area � a great difference from 2003, when the forum was located far more distant in other city areas.
After the all resistances-camp in Quito, Ecuador during the first Social Forum of the Americas the fifth Intercontinental Youth Camp will be another important landmark bringing together and strengthening the diverse forms of global resistance struggle. Once more over 20.000 people will opt to live together in the camp, creatively and powerfully showing face to the dominant powers of our neoliberal world.
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