"Otro Mundo Es Posible": Women power in the VI Caracas World Social Forum and the Bolivarian revolution

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2007-04

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Journal of International Women's Studies

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This is an insider’s account of the participation of a Boston delegate at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela in January 2006. She relates the stories of women who attended the WSF and those women who through their leadership in their communities create a new world order based on the major themes of the WSF. The health and welfare missions created by the Bolivarian revolution of Hugo Chávez are testimony to the theme of the forum that through the process of participatory democracy “Otro Mundo Es Posible”.

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Renée Kasinsky is a Professor Emeritas in the Department of Criminal Justice and an educational consultant at UMass Lowell

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Kasinsky, Renée (2007). “Otro Mundo Es Posible”: Women Power In the VI Caracas World Social Forum and the Bolivarian Revolution. Journal of International Women's Studies, 8(3), 184-198. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol8/iss3/13

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12517/197

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