It's much more chaotic and less well-organised than Porto Alegré 2005. The Forum is a more dense, built-up site and UPRA a huge sprawling tract of land that seems to take an hour to walk across. Combine that with 30-degree heat, the afternoon paper-eating rain, lots of shouting people with a stage and a loudspeaker, apparently far fewer international and English-speaking exhibitors, and 100,000 visitors, and it's a recipe for exhaustion. The collection of groups we've encountered so far seems very disappointing. Several banks - which is very odd at an anti-capitalist event - governmental agencies, political parties (of the loud red-flag-waving type... come to think of it, I thought one of the Forum ground rules was ‘no political parties or armed struggle groups')...  so nothing like the vast international spectrum of causes and activists present in 2005. I think the main reason behind this is because it's much harder to get to.