{"id":543,"date":"2005-01-26T21:17:31","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=543"},"modified":"2005-01-26T21:18:02","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T03:18:02","slug":"activists-gather-for-world-social-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Activists Gather for World Social Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how one says &#8220;pepper spray&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/feeds\/ap\/2005\/01\/26\/ap1784820.html\">Portuguese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tens of thousands of anti-globalization activists converged on southern Brazil Wednesday for what has become an annual ritual of opposition to corporate-sponsored capitalism and the divide between the rich and poor nations.<\/p>\n<p>The annual World Social Forum &#8211; a lively gathering of protesters where many sleep in tents or modest guest houses &#8211; is held simultaneously with the World Economic Forum, a staid gathering of finance ministers and CEOs of major corporations in the exclusive Swiss ski resort of Davos.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil, nearly 6,000 groups will plug their causes at the six-day protest, ranging from debt relief for developing countries to distribution of idle land for impoverished Latin American farmers.<\/p>\n<p>In a new rallying cry this year, some protesters compared unfettered capitalism and the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to the tsunami that struck Indian Ocean shores last month, saying the deaths caused in poor countries by First World greed are uncountable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is even more than the numbers killed by the tsunami,&#8221; said forum organizer Meena Menon, an activist from India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how one says &#8220;pepper spray&#8221; in Portuguese. Tens of thousands of anti-globalization activists converged on southern Brazil Wednesday for what has become an annual ritual of opposition to corporate-sponsored capitalism and the divide between the rich and poor nations. The annual World Social Forum &#8211; a lively gathering of protesters where many sleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}