700 College Students from Brazil Going to Venezuela's World Social Forum
Written by Aline Beckestein
Friday, 20 January 2006
At least 700 Brazilian university students are expected to participate in the World Social Forum in Venezuela, according to the International Relations director of the National Students' Union (UNE), Lúcia Stumpf.
The American edition of the 6th World Social Forum will take place between Monday, January 23, and Sunday, January 29 in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
One of the main topics the UNE intends to debate at the forum is student involvement in the campaign against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
According to Stumpf, the matter will be discussed with representatives of the various countries that make up the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Organization of Students.
Another item prominent on the agenda will be the attempt to "revitalize" the International Students' Union.
The UNE director also informed that representatives of various youth movements, such as the Brazilian Hip Hop Nation, the Union of Socialist Youth, and groups linked to feminist issues, have been invited to participate in all of the debates.
And who is going to pay... written by Guest,
January 20, 2006
...for their travels ?
The government or just another hidden Caxa 2, 3, 4 or 5 ?
Or may be an NGO, totally financed by the government anyway ?
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The Observer written by Guest,
January 20, 2006
Lets not knock the Government and give them a chance to prove themselves.
Of late they have come up with some really good proposals so you will just have to wait and see if they put their money were there mouth is and come up with the goods.
Wait and see if these proposals manifest into something productive? If it doesn't then you can knock them all you like.
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700 !!!! written by Guest,
January 20, 2006
Hey, you said 700 students.
Why 700 and 699 or 701 ? What are these critters supposed to learn? Read and write? Perhaps a bit of ADVANCED ARTITHMETIC ? Oh, they are going Social, so what these idiots will be doing there? Learning how to finish off the slums? The importance of the carnival when a plane crashes in Nepal? How to drink SOCIALLY and get socially piss drunk? Perhaps how the socialist read the Bible?
On the other hand... It seems that Brazil will marry Venezuela pretty soon. They just can't stop holding each other fingers. Fingers, Huuuummmm I wonder what will be the baby's name.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
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The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
...for their travels ?
The government or just another hidden Caxa 2, 3, 4 or 5 ?
Or may be an NGO, totally financed by the government anyway ?