Many proposals from Davos, unfortunately including Mbeki 's African Millenial Development Plan, are kites which will never fly, at least from the point of view of the millions of people suffering under the yoke of capitalist neoliberal globalisation. The 30 plenary sessions and more than 300 workshops which formed the core activities of the World Social Forum debated and attempted to forumulate concrete alternative for people-centred world social and economic policies. No one pretended that there will be easy solutions given the centuries of capitalist destruction, from slavery, colonialism, apartheid and neoliberal globalisation. But unlike Davos, Porto Allegre has a heart and is willing to try to do the right thing. Judging from the array of alternative proposals made in Porto Allegre, the warmth and solidarity which characterised the World Social Forum despite all the shortcomings, I can testify that a new world is possible.
Imagination can become reality.
All we need is love.