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Date: 3 May 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
World Social Forum founding figure visits Australia
Leading social activist and thinker Francisco ('Chico') Whitaker
will visit Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from 11-19 May 2005,
his first tour to Australia. Mr Whitaker will give a series
of public lectures and will also meet union leaders, and church
and community groups.
Mr Whitaker is a prominent international activist from Brazil
and one of the founding figures of the World Social Forum
(WSF), a civil society gathering against economic rationalism
that is rapidly spreading and consolidating around the globe.
He has also been active in Brazil's Workers Party (Partido
dos Trabalhadores - PT) and is currently a member of
the Executive Secretariat of the Brazilian Catholic Bishops'
Justice and Peace Commission (CBJP).
Mr Whitaker's visit is being facilitated by the New Pentecost
Forum but is organised independently by a network of many
civil society groups.
Visit http://www.newpentecost.info
to download media information packs.
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