Jorge Osorio Chilean educator, former Secretary General and President of CEAAL. Professor of Educational Projects, Education for Citizenship and Research - Action at the University of Valparaiso (Chile) and CREFAL (Mexico) Our friend and colleague Alessio presents an inspiring article about how anti-globalization social networks and movements are developing a critical education oriented to build capacities for new ways of life. Although Alessio elaborates his text based on the experience of the World Social Forum, what we live in Latin America through practices and programs of youth and adults' popular education within the framework of social movements in the last decade confirms that we are facing an important "pedagogy of capacity building". The paradigm of "lifelong learning" shows that new areas of educational socialization are being as relevant as the school itself. Social networks, community experiences, citizen movements, fair trade