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  6. March 2011 Cuban Social Forum

    March 26, 2011, kicked off the first day of the 5th Cuban Social Forum, in the working class Havana neighborhood of Cocosolo. The forum was convened by the Critical Observatory Activist Network.

    In the headquarters of the self-managed community project Cocosolo Social Club, 60 social activists, writers, artists, cultural promoters, professors, researchers, journalists, bloggers and community leaders met to dialogue about the Cuban and global reality, from revolutionary and critical perspectives. They also worked to formulate proposals about emanicpatory social change. The forum also hosted The International Anti-Capitalist and Emerging Social Trends Working Group, a part of the Latin American Social Sciences Council (CLACSO) and the Living The Revolution Workshop.

    Topics discussed on the first day included the political agenda around gender and LGBT issues, local development, changes in the economic model of Cuba, institutional responsibilities and procedures vs. self-organization and liberty, self-management and cooperatives, social use of the internet in Cuba and the impact of new technology in the culture, blogs, audiovisual and media space, the culture of violence and competition, mental health, education and the use of genetically modified organisms.

    For the first time this annual meeting, previously organized by Critical Observatory, was self-managed. The conference transcended the narrow framework of an academic event on critical and socio-cultural research (at that time, under the auspices of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz). Organizers have worked intensely to meet with the objectives layed out in the first Critical Observatory in 2006, which included the creation of a activist network supportive of autonomist projects and the gradual transformation of the annual convention into a real Social Forum.

    The first day of the forum culminated with a Hip Hop concert by the Eskuadrón Patriota project.

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