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Sunday, January 26, 2003 |
Independent Media Center
WSF Opens with Lula Speech, Optimism
Friday, January 24 was the first full day of the third World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. While the beginning workshops were marred by some confusion over locations and start-times, in general things flowed well. This is especially noteworthy since the forum has doubled in size each successive year, and prior to 2001, the city of Porto Alegre was not a regular haven for foreign visitors.
Read: entire article | special report from Tallahassee-Red Hills IMC | From Asia Social Forum to World Social Forum
Further coverage includes IPS TerraViva reports [ 24 Jan | 25 Jan ], and ongoing reports sent to numerous IMC websites, including Portland [ 3 | 4 ], Michigan [ 1 ], Houston [ 3 ], Washington DC [ 1 ], and Thunder Bay [ 1 | 2 ]. Feature coverage includes World Social Forum 3 (nl/fr), Foro Sociale Mondiale (it), Porto Alegre 2003 (es), WEF in Davos and WSF in Porto Alegre 2003 (de), and previous global features [ Jan 22 | Jan 24 ].
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milieu: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. milieu [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Sunday January 26, 2003
milieu meel-YUH; meel-YOO, noun;
plural milieus or milieux -(z):
Environment; setting.
These were agricultural areas, populated with prosperous farming families and rural artisans -- a completely different milieu from the Monferrands', which was more closed, more cultured, but less affluent.
--Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana, Truffaut
Half a century later, Zacarías still remembers . . . how they all played together without distinctions or hierarchy, and how easily Ernesto related to people from different social and cultural milieux.
--Jorge G. Castaneda, Compañero
They write about their milieux, about where they live and work, and it can be fabulous.
--Leslie Schenk, "Celebrating Mavis Gallant," World Literature Today, Winter 1998
Milieu is from French, from Old French, from mi, "middle" (from Latin medius) + lieu, "place" (from Latin locus).
Synonyms: environment, scene, setting, sphere, surroundings. Find more at Thesaurus.com.
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January 26, 1897
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America was born when it received a charter from the American Federation of Labor to organize "every wage earner from the man who takes the bullock at the house until it goes into the hands of the consumer." The Meat Cutters merged with the Retail Clerks International Union in 1979 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers.
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