World Social Forum Focuses Anger On U.S.

PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL - JANUARY 27: Fifteen thousand people pack a stadium to hear American linguist and social activist Noam Chomsky and Indian activist Arundhati Roy speak at the World Social Forum January 27, 2003 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The anti-globalization event is offering 1,700 sessions and workshops on topics like corporate misdeeds and Third World debt. Participants in the six-day forum, which ends January 28, are united in their anger at perceived U.S. control of the world through a breakdown of trade and national barriers like what they say is being proposed in the U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA. (Photo by Andre Felipe/Getty Images)