Towards the Urban Social Forum at Naples
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Propose an initiative for the USF before 20 August 2012!
The Urban Social Forum Organinizing Committee (Naples, Italy, 3 – 7 September 2012) invites all those who share the
Call“The Right to City for the Defense of Common Goods” to propose a workshop, an assembly, a cultural activity, etc. to
fill the common area of inhabitants’ organisations and international networks for housing rights with content and
participation.
Call to the Urban Social Forum (Naples, September 3-7, 2012)
The Right to City for the Defense of Common Goods
We invite local, national, and international inhabitants’ organisations, networks, and citizens, who are involved in the
livability of the city and are struggling for rights related to habitat, to participate in the second Urban Social Forum
(USF) in Naples, Italy, September 3-7, 2012, which will be held as an alternative to UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum
(WUF) 6.
Let's build an open space for all those struggling for a City of Common Goods as an alternative to the market-city of
UN-Habitat's WUF
With the participation of some thirty associations making up the Organising Committee, and in particular, with
interventions by: Father Alex Zanotelli, Combonian Missionary; Consiglia Salvio, Movement for Water; Cesare Ottolini,
Global Coordinator of IAI and member of the International Council of the WSF; and Mauro Forte, urbanist, the University
of Naples Faculty of Architecture has hosted the public presentation of the Urban Social Forum (USF).
Naples, the institutions should defend the right to the city of common goods, not the UNO-Habitat's WUF, which is eating
up public spaces
40 days before the inauguration of the Urban Social Forum (USF) dedicated to the “right to the city of common goods ” as an alternative to UNO-Habitat's World Urban Forum (WUF), the International Committee of the World Social Forum (IC
WSF) has sent the institutions involved a strongly critical letter expressing its concern at the complete closure of
spaces and the lack of collaboration with the USF.
Send your video-postcards to the Urban Social Forum!
We're inviting everyone, from all over the world, to send us a video-postcard they've made , so we can compile them into a living mosaic to motivate our invitations to participate in the USF in
Naples, Italy, on 3-7 September 2012.
ENDS