Social Forum

Know and learn. Flee from simplicities and static visions. Address the complexity of the whole. To debate. Discuss. Reflect. Visualize. Build. These are the pillars that of the Rototom Sunsplash Social Forum. It is a space for listening and speaking, free of thematic boundaries, about culture, environment, economy, human rights, peace and social movements; about conflict and, political and humanitarian crises, but also about their solutions and alternatives. Both present and future. About realities that coexist on the same planet, and that are sometimes unknown. And all this from expert voices, anonymous or not. Of first-line protagonists. Of those who bet on a turnaround, and change the course. The promoters of these other possible worlds.

Many are those who have passed through the different editions of the Social Forum. Such as the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Rigoberta Menchu and Shirin Ebadi, as well as the most recent person to be recognised by the Swedish Academy and to come to the festival: Mohamed Ben Cheikhin the 2017 edition, the ideologue of modernity and sociologist Zygmunt Baumanenvironmental activist Vandana Shivathe Egyptian economist and political scientist Samir Amin, Christian Felber (Austrian economist and ideologue of the Economy of the Common Good), together with a wide range of journalists such as the Egyptian Mona Eltahawythe Israeli Amira Hass the Spaniards Ignacio Ramonet (director of Le Monde Diplomatique) and former RTVE correspondent Rosa María Calafi Rosa María Calaf, the Italian Giulietto Chiesa y Sami Al-Ajj, journalist for Al-Jazeera.

Their voices have been joined by many others, representatives of different social movements, groups, professions and ideologies, which have added diversity, plurality, to this space for debate.

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