Dear friends, Kerala Social Forum happening at Thrissur in this December. It is the State level event before World Social forum. Free Software Foundation is decided to participate in World Social Forum 2004 held at mumbai. http://gnu.org.in/fsfiwsf.html according to the charter of principles social forums are " ... an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and inter-linking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neo- liberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a society centred on the human person". http://wsfindia.org/charter.php stallman is visited in asian social forum held at hyderabaad. the kerala Social forum process is facing the problem of hijacking from the left parties. but as being who is egar about the freedom of the each and every activities from a particular group or organization can?t avoid the situation which is need for action . the present condition is that the KSSP ,whom they are working for left are ready to share the space in the democratic manner . but we should be vigil about our space . if we are not using our space it will go to their account . so we should participate actively to protect our space for pluralism and democratic processes of the noble concept of swathantra I think we must participate in the kerala social forum.We can conduct seminars, work shops, open forums and exhibitions there.they will provide the space. This is a good opportunity to an active participation and widen our Free Software politics to the common people for more information about KSF and programme registration contact at their mail address: ksf2003@xxxxxxxxxx for informations about socialforum process visit http://www.wsfindia.org/ -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze --------------------------------------------- FSUG-Kozhikode Home Page : http://www.freelists.org/webpage/fsug-calicut ---------------------------------------------