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He is also a member of both the secretariat and the organizing committee of the International Council of the World Social Forum. The WSF is attended by representatives of more than , organizations and social movements.

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In he became a founder and one of the first general coordinators of Thoughts of the National Thinking of the Business Community PNBE , a movement to put concerns about democracy, social justice, and improving the relationship between capital and labor onto the agendas of business leaders. Today, more than 2, companies from various economic sectors and geographic regions in Brazil participate in the ABRINQ Foundation , supporting a variety of programs that reach more than one million children.

The foundation also seeks to influence public policies at the municipal and federal level so that children? He has since returned to Ethos and remains actively engaged in WSF organizing work and service to the various organizations on whose boards he serves. They live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He'd say: "Look at the Argentinean situation and Cavallo and Menem, look at how they've transformed Argentina.

The market will take care of it. He held great events with great media exposure in the world, preaching this "world view" that the market would lead to the well-being of society and spreading all of these free market ideas that you are all very familiar with. Things started to bother me, and things always start happening when you're bothered by something.

I was in Paris with my wife in one of those periods of doing nothing and during the World Economic Forum I came up with the idea of the World Social Forum. We are capable of doing things and we have so many choices, which we sometimes don't stop to think about, or we are influenced by others' expectations instead of our own expectations.

We must recognize that there are opposite sides to every situation—this recognition led me to the idea of the World Social Forum. It is important to have a partner like I do—my wife—in order to exchange ideas and ask opinions. This is fundamental.