FLORENCE 2002- Speakers and main meetings at the ESF

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday October 17, 2002 11:59 by From Ireland to Florence - Irish to ESF

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SPEAKERS DRAFT In the meeting of 22 september (the small programme groupe) in Rome we have decided to mix the country criterium with the competence for the speakers. We have also decided to create a mix presidence (one italian and one european, one man and one woman) on the base of the rapresentant of networks organizer the event. More, we have decided to fix 5 speaker for each conference 8but we have yet some conference with 6 speakers). The various speaker was indicated by the different national delegations, excepted some names indicated by others. This is a final list to discuss at Barcelona for the final approval.

LIBERISM

1. From the European Union shaped by neoliberal globalisation to the

a) Europe and the global institutions: Wto, Gatts, Imf; Wb, G8
b) Control over financial markets and economy and unrestricted
investments.
c) Economy and solidarity.
d) Budgetary and Fiscal polices in Europe.

Speakers:
Christian Marazzi (Univ. Svizzera),
Emiliano Brancaccio (Attac Italy )
Christian Boulais (Snui, Fr G10 Solidaires.)
Barry Coates (England)
Denise Cormann (Cadtm Belgium)
Bernard Thibault (Segr. Gen. CGT Fr.) CES

Coordination: Antonio Tricarico (Crbm), Susan George (Attac Fr.)

2. Water, air and earth: Europe opposing unsustainable development.

a) Living standards and consumer patterns.
b) Privatisation of public goods and ecological debt.
c) Alternatives: right to quality life, health and well being
d) Energy question.

Speakers:
Wolfgang Sachs
Riccardo Petrella (Water campaign, Italy)
Gustave Messiah (Crid, fr)
Zoltan Endreffy (Pax romana, Hungray)
Tony Juniper (Vice presid, Friend of Earth)
Michalis Tremopoulos (Ecological mouvement Thessaloniki, Greece)
Luigi Mara (Medicina Democratica, Cub, Italy)?

Coordination: Claire Person (Oxfam Belgium), Maurizio Gubbiotti
(Legambiente)

3. Central and East Europe into the globalised world: alternatives to
neoliberalism

a) Results of privatisation and liberalisations
b) Enlarging the European Union to the East.
c) Social problems and common alternatives

Speakers:
Jacek Kuron (former dissident, Solidarity membership and Labour
minister
in Œ91-¹92) Andrej Grubacic (Yu)
Karoly Lorant (Attac Hungray)
Alexander Buzgalin (Russia Alternatives)
Other/Germany?

Coordination: Giulio Marcon (Ics Italy), Elena Putivtseva (Defense of
Labour Russia)

4. Europe is not for sale: new rights for a new social system.

a) Decline and renewal of the welfare state in Europe: health care,
school
and pension systems.
b) No to privatisation and liberalisation: preserving and changing of
the
public service.
c) Family centred policies and rights for men and women.

Speakers:
Rossana Rossanda (journalist)
Christa Wichterich (Gemany)
Manuel Carvalho da Silva (Cgtp Portugal)
Pierre Kalfha (Attac Fr.) French del.
Bettina Shwarzmayer (student) Austria

Coordination: Catherine Varin (Reseau S.P. Fr.) + Pino Giampietro
(Cobas
Italy)

5. Europe of workers between global production and social
fragmentation.

a) Impact of finance driven economy on the corporate system and
precarization.
b) Labour, jobs and fights for rights.
c) Women and the youth facing the changes in work organization and
labour
market.
d) Education, training and work..

Speakers:
Gianni Rinaldini (General secretary Fiom-Cgil)
Paolo Sabbatini (Sin.Cobas Italy)
Gerard Aschieri (Segr. Gen. Fsu, fr)
Frank Bsirske (Ver.Di) - Ces proposal
Giorgios Orfanos (General Confederation of workers Greece)

Coordination: Mario Agostinelli (Forum mondiale alternative), Angela
Klein
(Euromarch)

6. Europe and Food Sovereignty

a) For a joint Agriculture Policy: social and labour based,
agro-ecological
opposing Wto¹s policies.
b) A society serving science: patents, GM and research free of
multinational
power against the market exploitation of life
c) Limited cycle, consumerism and North-South trade: an equal pattern.

Speakers:
José Bové (Confederation paysanne, French)
Luigi Marelli (Pres. Ong Italy)
Hector Mondragon (Colombia, economist)
Juan Sanchéz Gordillo (Movimiento campesino andaluz, Spanish state)
Mamadou Cissoko (Peasent Senegal)?

Coordina: Gianni Fabbris (Altragricoltura Italy), Nerland (... Nerland,
Norvegy)

WAR AND PEACE
1.Europe in the new world (dis) order..

a) UN and international law.
b) Europe, Nato and joint European defence policies (euroarmy).
c) Subordination or antagonism towards the USA: any alternative?

Speaker
Alex Callinicos (Univ. Gb)
Norman Peach (Univ.Hamburg)
Flavio Lotti (Peace table italy)
Johana Ruziczkova (Ceka republic)
Dolores Juliano (Univ. Barcelona, Spanish state)

Coordination: Piero Maestri (Bastaguerra), + Greece sf

2. People¹s Europe against the never ending war.

a) September 11th: the Bush doctrine, the Afghan War and the war on
terrorism.
b) Western World and Islam, dialogue or clash?
c) Creating the enemy: media power.
d) Iraqi: the next war?

Speaker:
Pietro Ingrao (Italy)
Fabio Alberti (Un ponte per...,Italy
Tariq Ali (Gb)
Yannis Banias (Initiative for the Greece social forum)
Patriche Cohen Seat (president Espace Marx, French)

Coordination: Firenze social forum (It) + Leo Gabriel (Austria)

3. No justice, no peace.

a) Conflict prevention.
b) Resistance to war.
c) Building solidarity and international and decentralized cooperation.

Speaker:
Lindsay German (Stop the war, Gb)
Maria Styllou (activist of greek left G2001 Greece)
Lidia Menapace (Convenz. permanente, Italy
Tobias Pfluger - German delegation
Others?

Coordination: Tonio Dell¹Olio (Pax Christi), Stop the war (Gb)

4. Local conflicts: Europe¹s responsibilities

Introduction.
a) Palestine and Israel.
b) Balkans.
c) Kurdish question.
d) Cecenia.

Speakers:
Samir Amin
Luisa Morgantini (Woman in black It)
Rada Zarkovic (Feminist Activist Bosnia Erzegovina)
Kurdish rapresentant
Cecenie?

Coordination: Gc Disobbedienti, Paolo Girardi (Swiss without army)

5. Europe security zone? Social control, repression and denied rights

a) Restricting individual and social rights.
b) Criminalisation of social conflict.
c) Militarisation of the borders and repressive measure against
migrants.
d) Euro police, euro justice: which polcies?

Speakers:
Eva Forest (Human right activist, imprisoned various times, Basque
Country)
Luigi Ciotti, (Gruppo Abele Italy)
Alessandro Dal Lago (Univ. Genova, Italy)
Fatos Lubonja, Albanian intellectual
Tony Bunyam (Editor Statewatch, Gb)

Coordination: Bruno Paladini (Mat), Irene Khan (Amnesty International)

6. War nourished economy

a) Production and transformation.
b) Defence budget, social spending and global market.
c) War economy, mafia smuggling and power.
d) Weapons in action: war when living under the bombs.

Speakers:
Brian Wood - Amnesty International (Military and security
policy
sector)
Gino Strada (Emergency, It) - Italy
Giorgio Beretta (Missionary, Italy)
Gino Pontara (univ. Stoccolma, Sweden)

Coordination: Brescia social forum?

RIGHTS/CITIZENSHIP/DEMOCRACY

1. From the Declaration of Nice to the European Convention: the crisis
of
democracy in Europe and the struggle for universal citizenship.

a) The process leading to a politics driven Europe.
b) Universal Citizenship and European Democracy.
c) A different European integration
d) Participatory democracy to establish a democratic Europe.

Speakers:
Boaventura Sousa Santos (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal
Luigi Ferraioli, (giurist) Italy
Pierre Barge, (Citizenship and fundamental rights commette French)
Ces Proposal (Guglielmo Epifani, Cgil Italy)/Maria-Helena André,
segr.
conf. CES
Carmen San José (Carta derechos sociales, Spanish state)

Coordination: Franco Russo (Roma Social forum), Sophie Zafari (Fsu
French)

2. With the rightless, against social exclusion.

a.) Introduction.
b) central and local governments¹ initiative and social action against
compassionate liberalism.
c) Young peoples¹ right to future: autonomy, work, income
d) Housing rights.

Speakers:
Christiane Maigre (Shop steward), Belgium euromarch
Cesare Ottolini (Hic)
Renzo Fior (Emmaus International)
Erika Biehn - German Delegation
Rosa Mendez (feminist and migrant activist)
J. B. Eyrault (Dal Fr.) French delegat.

Coordination: Ilaria Lani (Udu), Greece G2001

3. Emergency if the extreme right emergency: social divide in Europe

a) Social insecurity, chauvinism, nationalism and discrimination.
b) Political values and ideologies of the extreme and populist right.
c) Fighting social exclusion to counter the Right.

Speakers:
Gary Younge (The Guardian, Gb) English Esf
Tamas Krausz (Attac Hungary) Cees coordination
Michel Tubiana, Presid. Human rights League, Fr.
Guido Caldiron (journalist, It)
Hermann Dworzcak (Austrian documentation center of the Resistence -
Austria)

Coordination: Federica Modreghini (Sin. Giovanile),

4. Information and culture, humankind¹s resources: from a monopoly
based
system to new individual and social rights.

a) Information monopoly and concentration.
b) Experiences of alternative information and indipendent media
c) Intellectual property and knowledge.
d) Protection of cultural diversity in the global market.

Speakers:
Birgit Mahnkopf /Eva-Maria Stange, Germany
Luciana Castellina (It)
Antonio Martins (Ciranda - Porto Alegre)
journalist?
Others?

Coordination: Anna Pizzo (Carta), Laurent Jasovier (Attac France)

5. Men and women: necessary conflict for common future
Introduction
a) Labour-jobs.
b) Patriarchal family, sexuality and violence.
c) Power and political representation.

Speakers:
Christine Delphy (Marches Women)
Laura Gonzales de Txabarri - Ela
Sianou Fotini, president comittee women Etuc/Angelika Psara
journalist-feminist Greece
Pragna Patel (Black sisters, Gb)
Wanda Nowiczka (Federation for women planning, Pl) -
Lidia Cirillo (March. Women, Italy)

Coordination: Nadia De Mond (Rete delle Marce), ?

6. Immigrants and Fortress Europe: apartheid, social conflict and
universal
citizenship.

a) Migrants and refugees, the way to universal citizenship.
b) Racism and xenophobia in Europe.
c) Exemplary work of immigrants.
d) Migrations between the two Europes: inclusion or new discrimination.

Speakers
Annamaria Rivera, (Univ. di Bari, It)
Odile Schwartz ( FASTI, fédération associations de soutien aux
travailleurs immigrés, Fr)
N. Dong - German delegation+Kanack Attac membership
Stella Alfieri (Former member greek parliament), G2001 Greece?
Asad Rehman - Amnesty International
Ioanna Kourtovic (lawyer, antiracist mouvement, Greece)?

Coordination: Grazia Naletto (Forum migranti),

Pre-serale
18 ­ 20

Dialogs

Movement and political parties
Vincenzo Di Rupo (Ps Belg)
?? (Grunen Ger.)
Fausto Bertinotti (Prc It)
O. Besancenot (Lcr Fr.)
Vittorio Agnoletto (Ita)
Bernard Cassen (Attac Fr.)
Chris Nineham (Gb)
M.L. Boccia ?(feminist It)
Naomi Klein
Chair: Tom Benettollo (Arci)

Movements and trade unions¹ struggle
Jean Lapeyre segr. CES
Annick Coupé (Sud, Fr)
Piero Bernocchi (Cobas It)
Bob Crow (Rmt, Gb)
Marco Bersani (Attac It)
Ingrid Kurtz-Shorf (Germ.)
Paul Nicholson (Via Camp)
Jose María Fidalgo(Cc.OO
Chair: Carla Casalini (il manifesto)

Movements and institutions
Claudio Martini (Toscana)
J. Brezouack, S.Denise (fr.)
Tarso Genro (Port Alegre
Elena Paciotti
Alfio Nicotra (Mov. soc. It)
Marie Paul Connai (Belg.)
Attac Sweden
Franco Gesualdi (lilliput)
Chair: Piero Sansonetti (l'Unità)

Alternatives

Non violence, disobedience and social conflicts
Joan Galtung(Univ. Norv.)
Alex Zanotelli (llilliput,)
Luca Casarini (Disobb)
Heidi Giuliani
Petros Constantinou (Gr)
Giorgio Cremaschi (Fiom)
Monica Lanfranco (Marea)
Christophe Aguiton
Chair: Salvatore Cannavò (Liberazione)

Social and State Economy
M. Albert(Z Magazine,Usa)
Scalvini (Pres. Cecop)
Ugo Biggeri (Banca Etica)
Marco Revelli (prof.)
Riccardo Bellofiore ?(Prof.)
Sergé Latouche
Rosi Bindi (Margherita, It)
Yannis Milios (economist, Greece)
Chair: Giorgio Del Fiume (Ctm altromercato)

Participatory democracy
R. Dominici (Florence mayor)
Maria de Lurdes Pintassiglo (Portugal)
Miriam Giovenzana (Altreconomia)
Alberto Magnaghi (Univ.)
Raffaella Lamberti (feminist)
Gigi Sullo (Carta)
P. Cacciari (Venice mayority)
Massimo Rossi (Mayor)
P. Ginsborg (Univ. Fir.)
Chair: Giampiero Rasimelli (Tavola della pace)

Windows on the world:

Palestina- Israele

Hanan Ashrawi
Julia Deeg
Raji Sourani (Palestinian center for human rights
Azmi Bishara, Arab MP
Khader Skhirat, Legacy of Barghouty
M. Barghouty (the doctor)
Refusnik
C: Alessandra Mecozzi

The Mediterranean: West Sahara, Algeria and Cyprus.
Toumazos Tsielepsis -Cyprus social forum
- Bruno Amoroso (Univ Copenaghen)

Latin America: Colombia, and Argentina

Luis Sepulveda?
Rigoberta Menchu?
Attilio Boròn (Clacso) ?
Eduardo Galeano?
Lucio Garzòn (Colombia)
Estrella Carlotto (Madres Plaza de Mayo, Argentina)
Pastoral Council (Brazil)
Pino Carlino, secretario confederal, CSC (Ces)
K. Vergapoulos Greece

Africa: the Great Lakes, the African Horn, and Southern Africa.

Zaki Achmat (Treatment Action Campaign, S.A.);
Madama Binta Sarr (Senegal)
G. Calchi Novati (prof, Italy)
Amref
Samsidin Indrisu (Greece)

C: Emmaus International

>From Afghanistan to Iraqi, Indonesia e Filippine

Dita Sari (Indonesia)
Walden Bello
Tiziano Terzani
Rawa (afghanistan)

The role of Religions in the critique of globalisation.

Tariq Ramadam (Muslim swisse)
Giulio Girardi
Mons Bettazzi
Samuel Ruiz
Chief Rabbi of Florence
C: Adriana Zarri

Il Movimento dei movimenti

Assembly 10 november

C. Bolini, Muhlbauer, Fratoianni
+ 3 Europa