15.01.2009: Walden Bello: "It is time to aim beyond capitalism"
The World Social Forum has an urgent and crucial task: battling the social democratic response to the global crisis of capitalism now under way, and push for a democratic control of economy and state, worldwide (Roh-Übersetzung siehe Text-Ende)

15.01.2009: Boaventura de Sousa Santos: “The WSF should privilege alternative media.”
The Portuguese sociologist argues that community radios and alternative media are the formula for bringing down the fence of corporate media. In an interview with TerraViva’s Alejandro Kirk, he also announces that he now believes that the current crisis requires that the Forum to take a defined political stance

01.01.1970: "Wake Up, World!" - SOS from the Amazon
A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message "SOS Amazon" to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF)