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The revolution may be televised: Pamela M. Lee on the World Social Forum.

Artforum International,  April, 2006  by Lee, Pamela M.

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> "ANOTHER WORLD is possible": Since 2001, the World Social Forum, an international summit of social movements, NGOs, and activists, has rallied behind this slogan in its efforts to combat the advance of neoliberalism and its welter of geopolitical ills. Envisioned as a grassroots/populist counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the WSF describes itself as an "open meeting place" and a "permanent world process," an antidote to "dominion of the world by capital and any form of imperialism." Such unbridled utopianism is ...

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