{"id":320,"date":"2009-02-06T03:24:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T10:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-03-28T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:07:13","slug":"wsf-dear-capitalists-admit-you-got-it-wrong-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"WSF | Dear capitalists, admit you got it wrong | The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Possibly the best mainstream media coverage to date on the WSF, though somewhat snarky:<\/p>\n

‘OFTEN mocked for an endless ability to disagree with itself, the World Social Forum\u2014an annual jamboree for NGOs, anti-capitalists, leftish intellectuals, bohemians and bishops\u2014was unusually united this year. More united, in some ways, than the recent World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos, a gathering of political and corporate bigwigs to which the social forum supposedly responds.’<\/p>\n

via A gathering of the global counter-culture | Dear capitalists, admit you got it wrong | The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Possibly the best mainstream media coverage to date on the WSF, though somewhat snarky: ‘OFTEN mocked for an endless ability to disagree with itself, the World Social Forum\u2014an annual jamboree for NGOs, anti-capitalists, leftish intellectuals, bohemians and bishops\u2014was unusually united this year. More united, in some ways, than the recent World Economic Forum in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}