The World Social Forum is being held these days in Senegal, but not the English press reflects a news like this. Is it, perhaps, because if not talking about it is that it does not exist? Is there interest in making us believe that this way of life and economic management in which the rich get richer every day, and the poor poorer is the only way of life possible? Is it not desirable that the public knows the truth about the oppression and the courage of those who suffer to defend what is theirs? Will that continue in their quest to make us believe that there is only rational people found in Western countries and the rest are "nobody"? Or is it that so many reality shows there is a place available to report the event? What is it?
Rosa R. Professor of Philosophy
The World Social Forum to be held between 6 and 11 February in Dakar, Senegal is an open space where social movements, networks, NGOs and other organizations civil society will address, among other contemporary challenges, bio-diversity, climate change, ethnic and cultural diversity, colonialism, militarism and the relations between labor and production (from the extraction of minerals to keep up high-tech industry). For more information on the WSF, visit 
