Millions of people all over the world will march, speak, celebrate, and dialogue in villages, rural zones, and urban centres. They will mobilize on the date of the 26th of January to coincide the Global Day of Mobilization and Action with the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland to confront this important neo-liberal gathering of the elites.

In these same days the "old" world, represented by the World Economic Forum complete with its economists, experts, and ideologies that produce violence, exploitation, exclusion, poverty, hunger and ecological disaster and deprive people of human rights, will meet in Davos as usual. In contrast, the people's movement of movements will raise their collective voices and take action all around the globe for the World Social Forum 2008.

The World Social Forum is an open space where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations come together to lift up issues, debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share experiences, and network for effective action. These movements are opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital and all forms of imperialism. Since the first worldwide encounter in 2001, the World Social Forum has become a permanent global process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies.

World Social Forums have taken place at the end of January at different sites throughout the world each year for the past seven years, and their spirit will continue to be reflected in the activities planned at those same sites and worldwide in 2008.

Peoples' movements everywhere have received a fillip from the World Social Forum process since 2001 in Porto Alegre, through London, Florence, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Karachi, Caracas, Delhi, Nairobi and many other places all over the globe. The WSF 2004, which was held in Mumbai, India, became a rallying point for Indian movements and has been a landmark in the history of the World Social Forum.

The Global Week of Action and Mobilisation 2008 would consist of small decentralised and simultaneous activities conducted regionally and/or locally all across the world. A website will have a map on which organisations across the world will announce their various actions (www.wsf2008.net).

All over the world people across nations and boundaries will rise up on January in a coordinated actions and mobilisations against the war, militarisation, violence, corporate onslaught of the capitalist forces to convey ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. In Asia one month of action is organised in Japan as part of the protest against the coming G 8 meeting to be held in Hokaido. In the Philippines, different organizations have come together for a week of "peoples camp", where workshops, forums, film showing, trade fair, concerts, etc will be held. In South Korea there will be a week of action involving various social movements in which each day will focus on one major theme. In Indonesia, farmer groups are responding to the call from Via Campesina and various events will be held in Thailand. In South Asia a meeting will be held in Kathmandu on January 12th and 13th to have a regional look at activities to be organised in the region, as Pakistan has given a call and Sri Lanka has already sent a program.

India and Mumbai are also part of this huge global action.

In India, Women's groups are planning a conference and a march in Chennai. In Maharashtra there will be various activities in different districts, which will focus on farmers' suicide and agriculture policies. Letters will also be sent to the Prime Minister on cotton and agriculture policy, seminars will be organised and protests will be held. In Mumbai, there will be movie screening, conference, meeting, demonstration and a parade of theme floats on issues related to Mumbai. Which will be from Shivaji Park, Dadar to Girgaon Chowpatty with music and street plays from 2 to 6 pm.
A rotating World Press Conference will be organised on January 22nd 2008 in every part of the world: Atlanta, USA; Zurich, Switzerland; Rome, Italy; Brussels, Belgium; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Erbil, Iraq; Seoul, Korea and Mumbai! among others…

There is no end to imagination and you can think of your own ways to express and be a part of this Global Actions in January 2008 - posters, leaflets, local mobilisations, songs, dance, theatre, kala jathas, films, press conferences, radio, television, internet and anything else. We also invite all interested organisations and individuals to take part to the joint activities organised in Mumbai

Mumbai and Pune Program

January 22nd:    World Press Conference, at 2 PM at Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Mumbai;
                        Screening of the movie "Palestine is still the issue", from John Pilger, at 3 PM at
                         Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Mumbai;

January 23rd     Meeting on Pakistan Today, with Husain Naqi, Kumar Ketkar, at 6 PM at Bharat
                       Itihas Sansodhak Mandal, Pune;

January 24th:    Meeting on Pakistan Today, with Husain Naqi, Kumar Ketkar, at 5:30 PM at
                       Asiatic Society;

January 25th:    Palestine Solidarity Get-together from 5 PM to 6 PM at Churchgate East,
                       Mumbai;
                       Kites flying by working class women at 3:30 PM at Jogeshwari East, Mumbai

January 26th:    Float Parade on issues related to Mumbai and Maharashtra going from Shivaji
                        Park, Dadar, to Girgaon Chowpatty, from 2 PM to 6 PM