The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is set to provide a wide coverage of the World Social Forum (WSF), slated from 27 January to 1 February 2008 in Belem do para in Brazil.

Through the “Radio Forum”, AMARC members and partners especially from Latin America will perform documentary work and provide commentaries on activities that will take place at WSF 2009. Designed to enhance information exchange, the Radio Forum is open for community, free, citizen, independent, alternative and popular radio stations, networks, associations and collectives. Radio broadcasts and podcasts will be available in English, French, Spanish and other languages and may be downloaded from the Radio Forum website, http://www.foroderadios.org

“The Radio Forum is horizontally organized; it offers and demands the participation of everyone,” as AMARC described it.

Expected to contribute to the Radio Forum are Pulsar, AMARC's information agency, AMARC-Europe, AMARC Africa, AMARC Asia Pacific Intervozes (Brasil), Ciranda (Brasil), Noticias (The Netherlands), Willanakuy Radio (Peru), Radio Matraconda (Germany), Radio Mundo Real (Uruguay), Radio Tierra (Chile), Conacami (Peru), Programa Democracia y Transformación Global (Perú), Red con Voz (Spain), AMISNET (Italia), and the Inter Press Service (IPS).

The Radio Forum forms part of the Alternative Press Centre of the WSF 2009, along with the TV Forum, Ciranda, the Free Knowledge Laboratort, and Belem Exopandida. For more information, please visit this webpage: http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=nouvelle_wsf_2009_en_1 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

AMARC is an international network of community media practitioners and advocates, consisting of more than 4,000 community radios, associations and individuals in more115 countries.

Began in 2001, the WSF is an annual gathering of civil society stakeholders that takes place in the developing South. It is a democratic space where social movements promote their advocacies and nurture solidarity around issues such as neoliberalism, militarism, and other forms of fundamentalism. Its mantra, “Another world is possible,” comes from the fact that WSF is a counterpoint of the exclusive World Economic Forum, that is attended by government and private sector leaders every January in Davos, Switzerland.

For more information, please visit the WSF 2009 website, http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/forum-social-mundial?set_language=en