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Thousands of people from more than 95 countries are expected to gather in Montreal next week for the World Social Forum (WSF). Participants will spend a week attending a great variety of workshops, lectures and cultural events — more than 1,200 in total.

Author Naomi Klein will be giving two talks that promise to be among the highlights of this unique event, which provides an opportunity for social activists and scholars to grapple with a host of economic, social, environmental and cultural questions facing the contemporary world. And Klein is just one of a raft of influential speakers who will be engaging audiences at the WSF. The forum will unfold throughout downtown Montreal at UQAM, Concordia and McGill, as well as in many parks and other venues.

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An annual event usually hosted in the developing world, the WSF is being held in Montreal following a decision made last year in Tunis to bring the Forum north, to a city which has recently been the site of striking social and political creativity, with such movements as Quebec’s Maple Spring in 2012.