Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 14:02:20 +1100
From: "-AT-ndy" <andy-AT-xchange.anarki.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: Porto Alegre - sectarianism and the left


Thiago Oppermann wrote:

[snip]

> That's a very wonky view of things, if only because the WSF itself became the
> lightning rod for anarchists in the southern cone to have their own little
> conferences... Critics of the WSF never pause to think why Jornadas Anarquistas,
> the parallel anarchist forum, took place in Porto Alegre.

According to Jason Adams:

"I learned shortly that the only thing that had kept the anarchist section from
being part of the WSF was the fact that the local organizing committee was
dominated by the Workers Party and had refused local anarchists participation in
its planning and execution. But no matter, as anarchists have often done
throughout history, the FAG simply picked up the pieces and went ahead and
organized it’s own contingent regardless, publicizing the meetings through small
photocopied leaflets which were distributed to WSF participants at the PUC
campus."



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