Article: The Porto Alegre experiment; learning lessons for better democracy.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Porto Alegre :Planet of the poor, THE INDEPENDENT
The Independent (Bangladesh);  February 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... lives of people like those of us here in Porto Alegre?" That was going to be my opening ... producers as a "Dialogue between Davos and Porto Alegre." The ambitious, one-million dollar ... southern Brazilian city. I am here in Porto Alegre this year, and let me say that Porto ...

Article: WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: PORTO ALEGRE SENDS A MESSAGE TO ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  January 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jan. 27 (IPS) -- The ... proclaimed that after two years, Porto Alegre is no longer an event but a process ... Switzerland, meant that the message from Porto Alegre is now direct and clear. One global ...

Article: This Is What Democracy Looks Like.(Porto Alegre, ...
Earth Island Journal;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- "Um outro mundo e possivel ... is what democracy looks like." In Porto Alegre, this is what democracy looks like ... activists, and banned marches, in Porto Alegre, the Governor of the State of Rio Grande ...

Article: Lula's message for two worlds; Brazil's president.(Lula between ...
The Economist (US);  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... s president continue to appeal to Porto Alegre as well as Davos? PERHAPS no other ... he listened to Lula at the forum in Porto Alegre, a tidy state capital in southern Brazil ... bankers who symbolise everything that the Porto Alegre event was set up two years ago to oppose ...

Article: COLUMN: Porto Alegre and Davos
University Wire;  February 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the Atlantic, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre has emerged as an icon of active resistance against the global corporate order. Porto Alegre, located on the border with Argentina ... practical success, this year the people of Porto Alegre hosted the first annual "counter ...

Article: Environmental monitoring of the North Porto Alegre ...
Water Environment Research;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... ABSTRACT: In 1990, the administration of Porto Alegre, Brazil, declared a state of public ... hospital wastes were being sent to the Porto Alegre landfill. Potential hazards to the ... some decades ago the administration of Porto Alegre made use of final disposal of the solid ...

Article: La olla de grillos de Porto Alegre.(TT: The pot of ...
Epoca;  March 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... amparo, con el denominado Foro Social de Porto Alegre, coincidiendo con los mismos das de ... al hacer el balance de lo sucedido en Porto Alegre todos perciben que de reunin tan heterclita ... proteccionistas agrarios- la reunin de Porto Alegre a la que despach, para orientar las ...