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Forum des Plateformes nationales d’ONG<br />
<strong>Press</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>Europe</strong> <strong>WSF</strong> <strong>2009</strong><br />
A l’occasion du FSM de Belem, elles se réuniront avec pour objectif de renforcer leur coopération au niveau mondial. Par<br />
ailleurs ,les thèmes "Agriculture/Alimentation/Agrocarburants/Changement climatique : quels impacts sociaux et<br />
environnementaux ? Quelle cohérence des politiques ? Vers un modèle amazonien durable ?" seront au coeur des<br />
réflexions.<br />
Plus d’infos sur le site de Coordination Sud : www.coordinationsud.org<br />
http://mdh.limoges.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article=293<br />
GREAT BRITAIN<br />
World's leftists agree it's hard to hate Obama (Reuters UK)<br />
Wed Jan 28, <strong>2009</strong> 8:10pm GMT<br />
By Stuart Grudgings<br />
BELEM, Brazil, Jan 28 (Reuters) - With a disparate cast ranging from Roman Catholic nuns to anarchists, there is one<br />
thing the 100,000 leftist activists at the World Social Forum in Brazil can agree on -- it's hard to hate Barack Obama.<br />
Former President George W. Bush was a favorite target of vitriolic anti-U.S. protests at previous editions of one of the<br />
world's biggest gathering of grassroots groups, whose inaugural meeting coincided with the start of Bush's first term in<br />
January 2001. A week after Democrat Obama's inauguration as U.S. president, the sentiment against Washington at this<br />
year's forum in the sweltering Amazon city of Belem was markedly more subdued.<br />
"People just come up and say 'Oh my God, thank you so much' or give you the thumbs up, stuff like that," said Chad<br />
Gray, a 28-year-old graduate student from the United States.<br />
Bush's war in Iraq and policies at home made him an intensely unifying figure for the world's left-wingers.<br />
Effigies of Bush were often burned at leftist rallies but that particular form of protest is now much more unlikely with<br />
Obama, the United States' first black president.<br />
Many are grappling with the loss of Bush, who was so unpopular in much of the world that he helped radical groups<br />
recruit members and get protesters onto the streets.<br />
"Certainly this will present a difficulty for the movement," said Altenir Santos of Brazil's Revolutionary Communist Party,<br />
who was handing out leaflets and selling hammer-and-sickle T-shirts on the first full day of the forum on Wednesday.<br />
With a disparate cast ranging from Roman Catholic nuns to anarchists, there is one thing the 100,000 leftist activists at<br />
the World Social Forum in Brazil can agree on -- it's hard to hate Barack Obama.<br />
Former President George W. Bush was a favorite target of vitriolic anti-U.S. protests at previous editions of one of the<br />
world's biggest gathering of grassroots groups, whose inaugural meeting coincided with the start of Bush's first term in<br />
January 2001.<br />
A week after Democrat Obama's inauguration as U.S. president, the sentiment against Washington at this year's forum in<br />
the sweltering Amazon city of Belem was markedly more subdued.<br />
"People just come up and say 'Oh my God, thank you so much' or give you the thumbs up, stuff like that," said Chad<br />
Gray, a 28-year-old graduate student from the United States.<br />
Bush's war in Iraq and policies at home made him an intensely unifying figure for the world's left-wingers.<br />
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