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Foro Digest: World Social Forum Ripe with Hope
NAM contributor Roberto Lovato is attending the World Social Forum in Caracas, where more than 60,000 people, half of them from outside Venezuela, have gathered for the annual event. His impressions will be posted throughout the week.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Josefina Lema is the first member of Ecuador’s indigenous Utabalo people I’ve ever met. The rowdy lobby of the Caracas Hilton, with radical political protests barricading down the streets outside, is not the place I expect to encounter her. But here she is.
I listen intently to the five-foot tall Indian woman in the colorful skirt as she describes why she came to the 6th annual World Social Forum here in Caracas, which began today.
“I’m here to share experiences, strategies and ideas about how to preserve our seeds and traditional medicines,” says the leader of Yachac Mama, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting “the knowledge of the Indian people.”
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I listen intently to the five-foot tall Indian woman in the colorful skirt as she describes why she came to the 6th annual World Social Forum here in Caracas, which began today.
“I’m here to share experiences, strategies and ideas about how to preserve our seeds and traditional medicines,” says the leader of Yachac Mama, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting “the knowledge of the Indian people.”
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http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=8186833685553bbfcc643a15a2e47f56
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