As proposed by the Mexican organizing committee, which brings more than 120 social organizations, the next World Social Forum (WSF) will be in Mexico the first week of May 2022. The proposed date was discussed and validated with the enlarged meeting of the WSF International Council on November 27. Over 100 organizations and social movements from all regions (Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America. Canada, US, Europe) have participated. The meeting agreed on the importance of relaunching the alter-globalization movement in the face of the new challenges created by the rise of the right-wing, the climate crisis, and the global pandemic.
The organizing committee confirmed an agreement with the Mexican government for the WSF to be held in the city center of the capital, more precisely in the Zócalo. This is the central square in front of the Presidential Palace, also a historic and symbolic site, site of the former capital of the Aztec Empire that the Spanish conquerors destroyed in their genocidal operation.
The WSF 2022 will be primarily in person, but also in hybrid mode. One of the main challenges will be to attract the new social movements that play a central role in the fight about climate change. The mobilization of organizations from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East is another challenge as well as the resumption of contact with social movements that have moved away in recent years from the WSF (Via Campesina, World March of Women, and others) (Ronald Cameron, ICAE Executive Committe Member)
