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Twenty years ago, the inaugural World Social Forum was convened in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Jackie Smith [1] describes some of the networking processes and movement-building dynamics fostered by that gathering and its successors. She also discusses three strands of organizing directly influenced by the Forum: the Right to the City movement, Via Campesina, and indigenous people’s movements. (Encore presentation.) Jackie Smith, “Making Other Worlds Possible: The Battle in Seattle in World-Historical Context” [2] Socialism and Democracy Jackie Smith, Social Movements for Global Democracy [3] John Hopkins University Press, 2008 (Photo on main page by Kasuga Sho.) [1] https://www.sociology.pitt.edu/people/ant-3 [2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2019.1676030 [3] https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/social-movements-global-democracy