Dear Friends:
South African activist and writer Breyten Breytenbach
is part of the international delegation of poets and
writers going to the World Social Forum (WSF) to fight
for social justice and progressive change. The group
will be working with Oxfam's Control Arms campaign and
participating in several readings. In addition,
Rattapallax magazine will be filming indigenous people
at the WSF reading and performing their poetry for an
online library and future film on endangered
languages. The World Social Forum is a major assembly
of progressive organizations and will be held in Porto
Alegre, Brasil from 26 to 31, January 2005. The trip
is organized by Rattapallax and Prof. Lorenz.
A committed opponent of apartheid, Breyten Breytenbach
was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary
confinement in South African prisons. He is the author
of "The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist" and
other collections. Other participants include
Palestine poet Nathalie Handal, editor of the
anthology, "The Poetry of Arab Women" (PEN Oakland
award winner); and Rattapallax editor Ram Devineni.
They will be joined by Brasilian poets Fabrício
Carpinejar, author of "Cinco Marias" and "Biografia de
uma árvore"; Johnny Lorenz, Professor of English at
Montclair State University and a Fulbright Scholar;
Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, editor of "Coyote" magazine;
Flávia Rocha, co-founder of Acedemia Internacional de
Cinema in Curitiba and an editor at Rattapallax; and
Marlon de Almeida.
Oxfam, Amnesty International, and IANS' Control Arms
campaign educates the public and lobbies governments
to take action against the illicit trade of small
arms, which fuel violent conflict, state repression,
crime, and domestic abuse. More info at
http://www.rattapallax.com/wsf.htm
Cheers
Ram Devineni
Rattapallax
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