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category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday November 01, 2002 17:00author by Irish ESFer - ESF Report this post to the editors

Florence meetings

ESF Seminars (Morning)

SEMINARS

LIBERALISM/ GLOBALISATION

1. From the European Union of neoliberal Globalisation to the Europe
of alternatives

Thursday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
The Bayer issue - Coalizione contro danni Bayer (GERMANY)

Power and Property. - TRANSFORM!

Consequences of globalisation in the global crisis - SOZIALISMUS,
ISTITUTO PER LE RICERCHE ECONOMICHE (D)

Thursday afternoon - 14:30 - 17:30
ANSWERS TO THE WTO - (anche campagne) ATTAC FRANCIA, ATTAC EUROPA,
ALTERNATIVE RUSSIA, NETWORK SEATTLE TO BRUSSELS, ACV (B), ORU WORLD
IS NOT FOR SALE, WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT

Networks of solidale economy - IDEM+DELOS NETWORK OF GERMAN
COOPERATIVES SE LILLIPUT è D^(1)ACCORDO

Europe-Latin America Observatory: democracy and development -EURALAT

Tobin Tax and global Tax - ATTAC EUROPE, WAR ON WANT (UK)

Europe financing disasters - (BEI) CRBM, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, EE
BANK WATCH

Fight against tax evasion and tax havens - ATTAC GERMANY, ITALIA,
SWITZERLAND, DICHIARAZIONE DI BERNA

Theoretical basis for neoliberal globalisation - ALTERNATIVE RUSSIA,
NGO ITALIAN, FORUM TERZO SETTORE, ATTAC FRANCE, KEEPERS OF THE
RAINBOW BULGARIA, CAMPAGNA SDEBITARSI

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
International cooperation (First Part) - GRUPO SUR, MOVIMONDO*

Towards a post capitalist economy - KVARNI SCHOOL FOR POPULAR
EDUCATION, CENTRO STUDI MARXISTI (SW)

Trade agreements and Europe/ Mexico - UE OSSERVATORIO EUROMESSICANO

Energy: Neoliberalisation and privatisation - ENERGIAKLUB (H)

New indicators for social, economic, environmental complexity - RETE
LILLIPUT

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Finance and rules to development: Europe after Monterey and
Johannesburg -

European ethical finance as an instrument to fight social exclusion
(takes place in Prato) - BANCA ETICA, COOP ..MAG2, FINANCE INAISE,
FOND.CHOROS, CONS. ETHIMOS

Financial policy in Europe - UNION SYNDICALE G10 SOLIDAIRES (F) and
others

A different enterprise is possible - CONSORZIO CTM ALTROMERCATO, RETE
LILLIPUT, ROBA and others

Economy of comunion: proposal for a new way of economic doing - NEW
HUMANITY, GIOVANI PER UN MONDO UNITO

Alternatives for Europe: socialism as an utopia? - FONDAZ. MARX-
ENGELS, ISTITUTO STUDI MARX (GREECE).

International cooperation (Second Part) - GRUPO SUR, MOVIMONDO*

GATTS -

Control of the capital? Financial crimes - ATTAC EUROPE

Fight against tax evasion and tax havens - ATTAC GERMANY, ITALIA,
SWITZERLAND, DICHIARAZIONE DI BERNA

Anticapitalism: what we want and how to get it - GLOBALISE
RESISTANCE, GENOA 2001 (GR)

Saturday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Deletion of the Debt and End of the structural adjustments - CADTM-
CCFD /CIDSE, GENOVA 2001, CAMP. RIFORMA BANCA MONDIALE, CCFDI and
others

Critic consumption: the life style as opposition and political
proposition.

Power of the multinationals in the EU - CORPORATE EUROPE OBSERVATORY
(NL), ATTAC DENMARK, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL(UK)

Fair Trade North South - Trade justice movement, uk

2. WATER, AIR, EARTH: EUROPE OPPOSING UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT


Thursday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Energy :Experiences of movement - EUROSOLAR, LEGAMBIENTE

Thursday afternoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Thieves of future ? ecomafia in the globalisation - LEGAMBIENTE,
LIBERA, NUOVA ECOLOGIA

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Globalisation, hunger in the world, food choices - GLOBAL HUNGER
ALLIANCE

Environmental Problem, economic social system, Europe - ASSOC.
RINNOV. SINISTRA SOCIALISMO 2000

Science and globalisation, genetic manipulation - Gene coalition,
EUROPE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Water, public good of human race - COMITATO ITAL.ACQUA +water, earth,
health, education: goods or rights? - PUNTO ROSSO, FORUM TERZO
SETTORE, ARS (IT), RETE LILLIPUT , ATTAC RUSSIA

After Johannesburg Summit - LEGAMBIENTE, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH + the
role of Europe - AMREF, KEEPERS OF THE RAINBOW, PAX ROMANA
INTERNATIONAL, GRUPPO AMBIENTE BULGARIA

Videoconference on water France

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

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Problems of the minorities in the eastern Europe - ATTAC H,
ALTERNATIVE RUSSIA, BULGARIA

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Balcans, the mirror of Europe - OSSERVATORIO BALCANI, ICS, T.Tr. per
Serbia, Gruppi Balcanici YU + Balcans:nationalisms, peace,
migrations - GREECE SOCIAL FORUM, SOCIAL FORUM SOUTH-EAST EUROPE

Saturday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
New perspectives for the enlargement of the Europe - IUSY,ECOSY


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


Thursday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Against the privatisation of sanitation and the commodification of
health care ( First Part)- COBAS SANITA, LAVORATORI SANITA' UK, SUD
SANTE, CUB*

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Public Services and privatisation: (First Part) - ATTAC FRANCE,
ESPACE MARX ATTAC SUISSE,COLLECTIF SERVICES UBLIQUES (CGT) ENERGIE,
FSU, G10, ATTAC (FR), WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT, GLOBALISE
RESISTANCE, FP CGIL*

The commodification of education (First Part) - COBAS SCUOLA, ESIB,
UDS/UDU, ATTAC FeI, STUD.G.C., ATTAC FRANCE, LIGUE ENSEIGN., UNEF,
GLOBALISE RESISTANCE, EDUCATION IS NOT FOR SALE, ALTERNATIVE RUSSIA*

The commodification of education (Second Part) - COBAS SCUOLA, ESIB,
UDS/UDU, ATTAC FeI, STUD.G.C., ATTAC FRANCE, LIGUE ENSEIGN., UNEF,
GLOBALISE RESISTANCE, EDUCATION IS NOT FOR SALE, ALTERNATIVE RUSSIA*

From Students to temporary employees in training - Coordin.ASS.
MADRID, CORD. ASS UAB, COORD. COLL.ROMA

The growth of life expectancy changes rights and welfare - AUSER,
UDS,SPI-CGIL, FORUM TERZO SETTORE (IT)

Social expenses and social rights - LUNARIA,MANITESE,PUNTOROSSO,

Against the privatisation of sanitation and the commodification of
health care ( Second Part)- COBAS SANITA, LAVORATORI SANITA^(1) UK+
SUD SANTE +CUB*

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Public Services and privatisation: (Second Part) - ATTAC FRANCE,
ESPACE MARX ATTAC SUISSE,COLLECTIF SERVICES UBLIQUES (CGT) ENERGIE,
FSU, G10, ATTAC (FR), WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT, GLOBALISE
RESISTANCE, FP CGIL*

The commodification of education (Third Part) - COBAS SCUOLA, ESIB,
UDS/UDU, ATTAC FeI, STUD.G.C., ATTAC FRANCE, LIGUE ENSEIGN., UNEF,
GLOBALISE RESISTANCE, EDUCATION IS NOT FOR SALE, ALTERNATIVE RUSSIA*

Transport, environment, security: against the commodification of the
European soil - G10, Solidaires, Sin. Cobas Trasporti-Sulta.Cub, UCS
+ Heavy Transport -TIR ITE, ATTAC VALDAOSTA and others

Health in Europe between `equity and access' - LILACEDIUS, EPHA EUROPE

Saturday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Public Services and privatisation: (Third Part) - ATTAC FRANCE,
ESPACE MARX ATTAC SUISSE,COLLECTIF SERVICES UBLIQUES (CGT) ENERGIE,
FSU, G10, ATTAC (FR), WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT, GLOBALISE
RESISTANCE, FP CGIL*

Popular resistance and alternatives to privatisation and
commercialisation of housing - HIC

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


Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Work in Europe - strategies for employment - ATTAC FRANCE +Work and
its transformations - ESPACE MARX, KAZAKHSTAN SOLIDARITY (TRADE
UNION)

Financialisation, workfare, new rights - FIOM, ARCI, GREE(F)

Trade unionism anti-liberal - CONF.COBAS,CUB,SIN.COBAS+S(UNION
SYND.G10 SOLID., GENOVA 2001, POST WORKER UK

Recovery of European trade unions, 2002 Strikes and conflicts - FORUM
EUROPA SOCIALE, RMT UK

Multinationals and EWC - ETUC

Against juvenile work - NO SWEAT EUROPE

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Rights of work and social rights: experiences, fights, strategies. -
FIOM, IG METALL, CC.O, CNM BRASILE, RMT UK, UNITE (USA),
CONFEDERAZIONE SIBERIANA DEL LAVORO, ATTAC FRANCE

Russian trade union movements and fights against neoliberalism -
DEFENSE OF LABOR (RUSSIA) +Neoliberalism and trade union - GRUPPO DI
LAVORO EUROPA CENTRORIENTALE

Women and tradeunionism - for a network of european female
tradeunionists - INTERSYNDIC. FEMMES(FR)-G10, FSU, CGT GREECE, FIOM
(IT)

Workers struggles and new rights - ETUC

Sweated sisters - No sweat europe

6. Europe and Food Sovereignty

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Food sovereignity - VIA CAMPESINA, ALTRAGRICOLTURA, ISITUTO
AGRONOMICO, NGO EAST EUROPE CPE, CROCEVIA

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
PAC and alternative strategies

WAR AND PEACE


1. Europe in the new world (dis) order

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
For a Europe "disarmed and neutral", social citizenship, female
citizenship - CONVENZIONE PERMANENTE DONNE CONTRO LE GUERRE (IT)

Europe and United States in the new imperial order - PROJECT K
(riviste europee) - GLOBALISE RESISTANCE

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Globalisation and militarisation - ATTAC SUISSE, GROUPE POUR UNE
SUISSE SANS ARMEE + Globalisation and War without End - CICG, GRUPPO
DOPO 11/9 (FR)

The question of world governance - ALLEANZA PER UN MONDO RESP..(FR)

Saturday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Presentation 5th Assembly UN of the people - TAVOLA DELLA PACE (IT) +
UN and human rigths in a global contest - LEGAMBIENTE


2. People's Europe against the war without end.


Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Europe against war and terror - STOP THE WAR (UK)

The roots of violence and war in religions and in great ideological
systems - COMUNITA DI BASE (I), CENTRO ECUMEN. AGAPE, NOI SIAMO
CHIESA, PAX CHRISTI

Media and war: the right to information in time of conflicts -
Informazione senza frontiere e partner europei -ARCI

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
The Earth is not a map of the world: the movement and war - PUNTO
ROSSO (IT)

Saturday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
After the 11/9 Iraq , Palestine - COMITATO SOLIDARIETA CAUSA ARABA
(SP)- GENOA2001


3. No Justice, No Peace

4. Local Conflict: Europe's Responsibility

Thursday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Palestine - Israel: Stop Occupation, european action for a just peace
(First Part) - ACTION FOR PEACE/TAVOLAPACE, GENOA 2001, Globalise
resistance*

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Volunteers without borders - LEGAMBIENTE, ALLIANCE OF EUROP.
VOLUNTARY SERVICE ASSOCIATION

Palestine - Israel: Stop Occupation, european action for a just peace
(Second Part) - ACTION FOR PEACE/TAVOLAPACE, GENOA 2001, Globalise
resistance*

Greece, Turkey, Cyprus - FORUM SOC.GREECE , CYPRUS, GENOA2001,
THESSALONIKI 2003

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Rights and Democracy in Turkey - UIKI ONLUS, ASSOPACE (IT)

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Against the war. Building peace networks in Europe and in the World -
TAVOLA DELLA PACE(IT) + Peace without borders: the building of
strategic alliances in the pacifistic movements - WSA UNIMONDO (IT) +
Educate to peace - SINISTRA GIOVANILE, ALTRI

Political, economic and social consequences of the euromediterranean
agreements - ATTAC FRANCE, DWRC, CSCA, H.BOELL FOND(D), FESTIVAL
MEDITERRANEE + Euro-mediterranean between globalisation and search of
identity - LEGAMBIENTE, SOC.FORUM SUD

The fight of palestinian people, kinds of European Aid - CONFED.
COBAS (IT) + How can Palestine be free? + film on the Intifada -
GLOBALISE RESISTANCE, CUB

The Chechnya Question - COMITE DE SOUTIEN TCHECHENIE (FR)

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


Thursday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Repression of the protests and of the movements - COLLETTIVO VAMOS!
(FR), GLOBALISE RESISTANCE (UK)

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Schengen, human rights; migratory movements - ESPACE MARX/ TRASFORM!

No to NATO, no to European Defence Force - BALKAN ANTINATO COORDIN.
CENTER

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Justice and jails in the 21st century - ANTIGONE, SOS PRISOES(PT),
OBSERVATORIO DERECHOS HUMANOS PENAL REFORM INTERN (LONDRA)


6. War nourished economy

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Responsibilities of the multinationals in the armed conflicts -
LEGAMBIENTE, TERRANUOVA, CRIC, CAMPAGNA RIF.BANCA MONDIALE, BEATI
COSTRUTTORI DI PACE, CARTA, ASSOCIAZIONE POPOLI MINACCIATI

Dialogue of civilisations vs fight of civilisations (First Part) -
ORGANIZZ. UNIVERSITARIE ARABE, NETWORK DI MEDIA, CONSIGLIO MONDIALE
DELLE CHIESE, JAMMAHIR SOCIETY*

Anti-war movements - Genoa 2001, ROSA LUXEMBURG + For an alliance of
intellectuals against barbarism - Alliance intell. Commissione di
Stato Spagnolo

The Europe seen with african eyes. - EMMAUS INTERNATIONAL

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Against the Plan Colombia - NETWORK EUROPEO PER COLOMBIA, COBAS,
COLOMBIA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN (UK)

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
No weapons for atrocities - AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (UK - ITALIA)

Dialogue of civilisations vs fight of civilisations (Second Part) -
ORGANIZZ. UNIVERSITARIE ARABE, NETWORK DI MEDIA, CONSIGLIO MONDIALE
DELLE CHIESE, JAMMAHIR SOCIETY*

The use of the terrorism to justify war and repression of the social
conflict. - COBAS, MOVIMENTO ANTAGONISTA TOSCANO, GREECE SOCIAL
FORUM, LAB, GLOBALISE RESISTANCE

Never ending war and control of energy. - Basta guerra, Forum
Sociali Italiani, Un ponte per

Diamonds and war. - AMNESTY, GREENPEACE and others(UK)

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.


Thursday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Social participation, associations and European Constitution - ARCI
(IT)

The contribution of the Churches in the construction of the new
Europe - Noi siamo Chiesa, Pax Christi and others

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Democracy and european institutions: Convention, transparence and
determination in the debate of the space for the civil society -
CCDF/LDH

Ireland, Denmark, Poland: resistance to the EU - Globalise Resistance
Ireland

Ethnic discrimination, a challenge for the european civil society -
Amnesty International (UK)

Social Europe and the defence of rights - IUSY,ECOSY,CGILToscana,
Lilliput,Giov.CES

The politics as common good, left and movements: Punto Rosso, FMA,
Transform! TNI

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
From the Declaration of Nice to the European Convention - GIURISTI
DEMOCRATICI (IT)

The place of the Islam in Europe - LDH (F) +Islamophobia - The
respectable face of the european racism - Black Racial Attacks Network

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Movement, democracy and self organisation, territory - SOCIAL FORUM
ROMA, BRESCIA, FIRENZE, VERONA, BASILICATA, ABRUZZO

From the Europe of the states to the people's one - CIEMEN
(Barcellona)

Participatory democracy - Carta (I), Gruppo amministr. + Democratise
the democracy - DRD (F) + Perspectives for the direct democracy in
the 21st century - Left Alternative Association (H)

Power, class, multitudes and counterpower - Project K, GLOBALISE
RESISTANCE

Christianity, Islam, Hebraism in Europe - Noi siamo chiesa, Pax
Christi

Saturday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Participation, representation, non-violence. Alternatives for a
different Europe - Rete Lilliput, FMA, FIOM Lombardia

The left of the future: young people between anticapitalist left and
social movements - Project K, Gruppo Est Europa. ATTAC RUSSIA

2. With the rightless, against social exclusion.

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Unemployment, social exclusion and local agreements - Alleanza per un
mondo solidaleS( (F) + The word to the excluded - Emmaus
Internazionale, Emmaus I

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Childhood denied: the child market and their right of happiness -
Legambiente (I) +The rights of children - International Falcon
Movement (H)

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Right to and of the city and urbanism, dialogues north-south - HIC

The social rights Charter - Movimento Catalano (E) + economic and
social rights and social citizenship - CCDF/LDH (F)

For that the future will be not indifferent to us. Lesbian, gay and
trans-sexual in the social Europe project - Arcilesbica (I)

International law and the new war - TRIBUNALE PERMANENTE DEI POPOLI-
FONDAZIONE INTERN. LELIO BASSO

Knowledge and citizenship, means for a democratic development - ESIB,
UDS, Education is not for sale


3. Emergency! extreme right: social divide in Europe


Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Europe and national extremisms - Les Amis du Monde Diplomatique (F) +
Building a movement against racism and fascism uniting white and
black people - Globalise Resistance (UK) + Against racism -
ASSOCIATION OF RESISTENCE AND ANTIFASCIST(H) + Haiderizzazione dell'
Europa , Fight against fascism! - Social Forum Austria +Eurofascism -
Attac H, Comitato ESF 2002 PL (First Part)*

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Europe and national extremisms - Les Amis du Monde Diplomatique (F) +
Building a movement against racism and fascism uniting white and
black people - Globalise Resistance (UK) + Against racism -
ASSOCIATION OF RESISTENCE AND ANTIFASCIST(H) + Haiderizzazione dell'
Europa , Fight against fascism! - Social Forum Austria +Eurofascism -
Attac H, Comitato ESF 2002 PL (Second Part)*

Friday evening - 18:00 - 20:30
Europe and national extremisms - Les Amis du Monde Diplomatique (F) +
Building a movement against racism and fascism unifing white and
black people - Globalise Resistance (UK) + Against racism -
ASSOCIATION OF RESISTENCE AND ANTIFASCIST(H) + Haiderizzazione dell'
Europa , Fight against fascism! - Social Forum Austria +Eurofascism -
Attac H, Comitato ESF 2002 PL (Third Part)*

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

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Information in time of globalisation - Liberazione, Carta (I) +Access
to information - rights to comunication - WSA - Unimondo (I) +Power
and comunication - Media Watch International

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
FORUM CULTURA : Culture is not for sale, WTO question - ARCI, Les
états généraux de la culture, ATTAC FR, ATTAC IT. + Culture,
neoliberism, citizenship, cultural exception - Espace Marx, Transform!

Cultural identities in Europe - LHD (F)

MEETING ON SPORT - GENOVA 2001.(GR) Sport oltre le frontiere -
Legambiente, UISP, ICS (I)

**TWO EVENINGS CULTURAL HAPPENING Jamming their culture, Creating
our own AND Can music help us to change the world? Future and
science fiction - Globalise Resistance**

5. Men and Women: an inescapable conflict for a shared future.


Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Political Representation of women - WWIFUN, VADO-WAVE

The body of women, fundamentalist attack to the self-determination -
Marcia Mondiale Donne

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Prostitution between slavery and choice - Marcia mondiale donne

Identity of the women in the Balcans - YU +The condition of the women
in central Europe - H


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

Thursday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Immigration: circulation, right to establish and citizenship of
residence - CCDF, LDH (F) ESPACE MARX + Immigration and fight against
racism and the extreme right - FORUM SOCIAL MARSEILLE

ROM of Europe - Arci and others (I)

Sangatte revealing of the Europe of the refugee camps -Colletivi di
sostegno Gisti, (F)

Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Right of asylum - LDH (F) + Protection of the refugee. The rule of
economic, social and cultural rights - AI, International Secretariat

State Violence: Police control of the resistant communities - Black
Racial Attacks Network (UK)

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Right to self-determination. - Liga de Euskal Herria and others

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Right to migrate, right of asylum - Pro Asyl (D), Arci, ICS, Lunaria,
ASGI (I), Tavolo migranti Social Forum (I)

Homeless and migrants, proposal for a transeuropean network - HIC

Migrant women, relation North-South: Which politics? - Punto di
partenza (assoc. migranti)

Fight against racism - Black Racial Attacks Network (UK)

Football, culture and the fight against racism - Black Racial Attacks
Network (UK)

INCONTRI DI RETE- CAMPAGNE- ASSEMBLEE DI MOVIMENTO


Thursday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Sustain to the excluded Europe-Activists of the Media. - EURO SOCIAL
ACTIVISM, CUB

Initiatives against the World Economic Forum Davos - SOCIAL FORUM
SVIZZERA E DICHIARAZIONE DI BERNA, OLTNER BUNDNIS (SVIZZERA)

The presentation of the White Book on privatisation - ATTAC

The fight for the rights of Young people in Europe - Cena e WFDY
GREECE

Campaign for the guaranteed wage - AC, EURO MARCHES,CUB

Argentina. - MARXISMO VIVO, COBAS, ASEAR

Friday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
To Build a European network against precariousness and social
exclusion - ATTAC ITALIA, AC, ALTRI, CUB, COLLETTIVI STUD. SN COBAS,
G.C.

Friday afterrnoon - 14:30 - 17:30
Cuba and Europe. - OEKG AUSTRIA, FORUM EUROPEO DI SOLIDARIETA CON CUBA

EU Summit Thessaloniki 2003 - SOCIAL FORUM GREECE

Mediterranean Social Forum in November 2003 - ASSEMBLEA PROMOTRICE
FORUM BARCELLONA

Presentation of the project "La European social Consulta" - GRUPPI
PROMOTORI DI MADRID, VIGO, BARCELLONA

European net from the down 2nd meeting. - NGO BALCANI, ICS,
OSSERVATORIO BALCANI, EUROPA DEL CENTRO-SUD

Unemployed and precarious in fight assembly - EUROPEAN MARCHES

Friday evening - 18:00 - 20:30
Network for the opposition to the GATS for the initiatives of the
march 2003 - GRUPPO BELGIO, OXFAM, ATTAC, WDM

Campaign against the G8

European MIGRANT assembly - Tavolo Migranti , Globalise resistance,
Genova 2001 and others

The right to Health networks meeting LILA CEDIUS and others

A different Europe, a different world: young people in movement -
IUSY, ECOSY, GIOVANI CES, GIOVANI FEDERALISTI EUROPEI

Saturday morning - 9:30 - 12:30
Students Assembly - ESIB, UDS, EDUCATION IS NOT FOR SALE

After the 2000 March, a new mobilisation - MARCIA DELLE DONNE

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THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER

1. Liberalism:
a) From the European Union shaped by neoliberal globalisation to the
Europe and the global institutions: Wto, Gats, Imf; Wb, G8. Control
over financial markets and economy and unrestricted investments.
Economy and solidarity. Budgetary and Fiscal polices in Europe.

Speakers:
Christian Marazzi (Univ. Switzerland),
Emiliano Brancaccio (Attac Italy )
Serge Colin (G10 Solidaires, Fr.)
Barry Coates (World Development Movement UK)
Denise Cormanne (Cadtm Belgium)
Frank Bsirske (Ver.Di Germany)

Coordination: Antonio Tricarico (Crbm), G2001 Greece

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

Speakers:
José Bové (Confederation paysanne, French)
Sergio Marelli (Pres. Ngo Italy)
Hector Mondragon (Colombia, economist)
Lidia Cerdra (Via Campesina, Galizia, Spain)
Mamadou Cissoko (Peasent Senegal)

Coordina: Gianni Fabbris (Altragricoltura Italy), Hege Nerland (Via
Campesina- Norway)

2. War and peace:
a) No justice, no peace. Conflict prevention. Resistance to war.
Building solidarity and international and decentralised cooperation.

Speakers:
Johan Galtung
Lindsay German (Stop the war, UK)
Maria Styllou (activist of greek left G2001 Greece)
Lidia Menapace (Women against the war, Italy)
Hans Abrahamsson (Prof. Univ. Goteborg, Sweden)

Coordination: Tonio Dell' Olio (Pax Christi), Stop the war (UK)

b) Emergency extreme right: social divide in Europe. Social
insecurity, chauvinism, nationalism and discrimination. Political
values and ideologies of the extreme and populist right. Fighting
social exclusion to counter the Right.

Speakers:
Gary Younge (The Guardian journalist, UK)
Tamas Krausz (Attac Hungary)
Michel Tubiana, (Presid. Human rights League, French)
Guido Caldiron (journalist, Italy)
Hermann Dworzcak (Austrian document. center of the Resistence -
Austria)
Tania Assulin (Unef, French)

Coordination: Federica Mogherini (Sin. Giovanile), Nouno Tito
(Portugal)


3. Rights - Citizenship - Democracy:
a) With the rightless, against social exclusion. Introduction.
Central and local governments' initiative and social action against
compassionate liberalism. Young peoples' right to future:
autonomy, work, income. Housing rights.

Speakers:
Christiane Maigre (Shop steward, Euromarch, Belgium)
Markus Drake (Helsinki disobedients)
Renzo Fior (Emmaus International)
Erika Biehn (Bag Shi association, Germany)
Costance Etch (European coordination ^(3)sans papier)
J. B. Eyrault (Dal French)

Coordination: Ilaria Lani (Udu), Migranti social forum

b) Information and culture, humankind's resources: from a monopoly
based system to new individual and social rights. Information
monopoly and concentration. Experiences of alternative information
and independent media. Intellectual property and knowledge.
Protection of cultural diversity in the global market.

Speakers:
Luciana Castellina (Italy)
Rainer Rilling (Rosa Luxembourg Found. Germany)
Antonio Martins (Ciranda - Porto Alegre)
Michalis Tremopoulos (journalist, Greece)
Cees Hamelink (Prof of communication at Amsterdam univ.)
Ludmilla Boulovka (Russia Alternatives)

Coordination: Anna Pizzo (Carta), ?


FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER

1. Liberalism:

a) Central and East Europe into the globalised world: alternatives to
neoliberalism. Results of privatisation and neoliberalisation.
Enlarging the European Union to the East. Social problems and common
alternatives

Speakers:
Jacek Kuron (former dissident, Solidarity, Poland)
Andrej Grubacic (Belgrade university, Yu)
Karoly Lorant (Attac Hungray)
Alexander Buzgalin (Russia Alternatives)
Cathrine Samary (Le monde diplomatique, Fr)
Silvya Anders (International association on world economic, Germany)

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

b) Europe is not for sale: new rights for a new social system.
Decline and renewal of the welfare state in Europe: health care,
school and pension systems. No to privatisation and liberalisation:
preserving and changing of the public service. Family centred
policies and rights for men and women.

Speakers:
Cesare Ottolini (Hic, Italy)
Mirem Etxezarreta (Economist, Univ. Barcelona)
Manuel Carvalho da Silva (Segr. Gen. Cgtp Portugal)
Pierre Khalfa (Attac Fr.)
Bettina Shwarzmayer (student Austria)
Bernard Thibault (Segr. Gen. Cgt French)

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

2. War and peace
a) Europe security zone? Social control, repression and denied rights
Restricting individual and social rights. Criminalisation of social
conflict. Militarisation of the borders and repressive measure
against migrants. Euro police, euro justice: which policies?

Speakers:
Eva Forest (Human right activist, Basque Country)
Luigi Ciotti, (Gruppo Abele, Italy)
Alessandro Dal Lago (Univ. Genova, Italy)
Fatos Lubonja, (Albanian intellectual)
Tony Bunyam (Editor Statewatch, UK)
Dolores Jiuliano (Prof. Univ. Barcelona)

Coordination: Bruno Paladini (Mat), Greece social forum

b) Europe in the new world (dis) order. UN and international law.
Europe, Nato and joint European defence policies (euroarmy).
Subordination or antagonism towards the USA: any alternative?

Speaker:
Rossana Rossanda (journalist, Italy)
Alex Callinicos (Prof. York University, UK)
Tobias Pflüger (Imi, antimilitarismo assoc. Germany)
Flavio Lotti (Peace table, Italy)
Johana Ruziczkova (Ceka republic)

Coordination: Piero Maestri (Bastaguerra), Susan George (Attac France)

3. Rights - Citizenship - Democracy:
a) From the Declaration of Nice to the European Convention: the
crisis of democracy in Europe and the struggle for universal
citizenship. The process leading to a politics driven Europe.
Universal Citizenship and European Democracy. A different European
integration. Participatory democracy to establish a democratic Europe.

Speakers:
Boaventura Sousa Santos (Pro-Urbe activist,Coimbra University,
Portugal)
Luigi Ferraioli, (giurist Italy)
Pierre Barge, (Citizenship and fundamental rights commette French)
Guglielmo Epifani, (Segr. Gen. Cgil Italy)
Carmen San José (Iniciativa por una Carta derechos sociales, Madrid)
Antonis Manitakis (Prof. Costituional law, univ. Thessaloniki, Greece)

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

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

Speakers:
Christine Delphy (Marches Women)
Laura Gonzales de Txabarri (Ela, Basque countries)
Sianou Fotini (president comittee women Etuc)
Pragna Patel (Black sisters, UK)
Wanda Nowiczka (Federation for women planning, Poland)
Lidia Cirillo (March. Women, Italy)

Coordination: Nadia De Mond (Rete delle Marce), Angelika Psara
(journalist Greece)


SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER

1. Liberalism:
a) Water, air and earth: Europe opposing unsustainable development.
Living standards and consumer patterns. Privatisation of public goods
and ecological debt. Alternatives: right to quality life, health and
well being. Energy question.

Speakers:
Wolfgang Sachs
Riccardo Petrella (Water campaign, Italy)
Gustave Massiah (Crid,French)
Zoltan Endreffy (Pax romana, Hungray)
Tony Juniper (Vice president Friends of the Earth, Usa)
Luigi Mara (Medicina Democratica, Cub, Italy)
Manuel Tomàs (New culure of water, Catalunya)

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

b) Europe of workers between global production and social
fragmentation. Impact of finance driven economy on the corporate
system and precarization.Labour, jobs and fights for rights. Women
and the youth facing the changes in work organization and labour
market. Education, training and work..

Speakers:
Gianni Rinaldini (Gen. secr. Fiom-Cgil, Italy)
Paolo Sabbatini (Coordinatio Sin.Cobas, Italy)
Gerard Aschieri (Segr. Gen. Fsu, fr)
Maria Helena Hendré (Segret. Conf. Ces)
Giorgios Orfanos (General Confederation of workers Greece)
Doro Zinke (European transport trade unions)

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


2. War and peace
a) People's Europe against the never ending war. September 11th: the
Bush doctrine, the Afghan War and the war on terrorism. Western World
and Islam, dialogue or clash? Creating the enemy: media power. Iraqi:
the next war?

Speakers:
Pietro Ingrao
Fabio Alberti (A bridge for Iraqi, Italy)
Tariq Ali (New Left Review, Gb)
Yannis Banias (Initiative for the Greece social forum)
Patriche Cohen Seat (president Espace Marx, French)
Irene Khan (Director of Amnesty International)

Coordination: Daniela Santroni (Gc/disobedients) + Leo Gabriel
(Austria)

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

Speakers:
Brian Wood (Military and security policy sector, Amnesty
International)
Gino Strada (Emergency, Italy)
Giorgio Beretta (Missionary, Italy)
Giuliano Pontara (Univ. Stoccolma, Sweden)
Caroline Lucas (International Forum on globalisation, GB)

Coordination: Pierpaolo Leonardi (Rdb-Cub), Angeles Maestro (Antiwar
mouvement Spain)

3. Rights - Citizenship - Democracy:
a) Gay, Lesbian, Transex
(As soon as possible)

b) Immigrants and Fortress Europe: apartheid, social conflict and
universal citizenship. Migrants and refugees, the way to universal
citizenship. Racism and xenophobia in Europe. Exemplary work of
immigrants. Migrations between the two Europes: inclusion or new
discrimination.

Speakers
Annamaria Rivera, (Univ. di Bari, It)
Odile Schwartz (Fasti, French)
Christopher Nsoh (KanackAttac membership, Germany)
Stella Alfieri (United antiwar Rally Athen, Greece)
Asad Rehman (Antiracist mouvement, Gb)
Ioanna Kourtovic (lawyer, antiracist mouvement, Greece)

Coordination: Rosa Mendes (Tavolo migranti), Mamadou Ba (Sos Racisme,
Portugal)

Dialogues, alternatives and Windows
(Timetable 18:00-21:00)

Thursday 7 November

Movements and trade unions' struggle

Jean Lapeyre segr. CES
Annick Coupé (Sud, Fr)
Piero Bernocchi (Cobas It)
Bob Crow (Rmt, Gb)
Marco Bersani (Attac It)
Mag Wompel (chief editor of Labournet, Germany)
Paul Nicholson (Via Campesina)
Jose María Fidalgo (CC.OO, Spain)

Chair: Carla Casalini (il manifesto)

Movements and institutions

Claudio Martini (President Toscana)
J. Brezouack, (Mayor of S.Denise Fr.)
Tarso Genro (Mayor of Port Alegre)
Elena Paciotti
Alfio Nicotra
Marie Paul Connai (Belg.)
Attac Sweden (?)
Franco Gesualdi (lilliput)

Chair: Piero Sansonetti (l'Unità)

Non violence, disobedience and social conflicts

Alex Zanotelli (llilliput,)
Luca Casarini (Disobb)
Heidi Giuliani
Petros Constantinou (Greece)
Giorgio Cremaschi (Segr. naz. Fiom)
Monica Lanfranco (Marea, Review)
Christophe Aguiton (Attac French)

Chair: Salvatore Cannavò (Liberazione)

Mediterranean: a sea of conflicts, looking for democracy and peace
***Time 14,30 - 21.00 (in two parts)***

Samir Amin - Introduction

Balkans and Cyprus
Panos Garganas (Gr)
Rada Zarcovich (Bosnia)
Igor Seke (YU)
Sonia Licht (YU)
Toumazos Tsielepis (Cyprus social Forum)
Turkish Cypriot
Giacomo Scotti (Croatia)

From one side to another
Asamblea promotora Foro Social Mediterraneo
Repres. Saharaoui
Algerian woman
Attac Tunisia
Kurdish Representative (UIKI)

Coord. Pino Carlino (ETUC), Maria Grazia Ruggerini (Imed)


Latin America: global crisis and social resistence

Miguel Urbano Rodriguez
Estela Carlotto (Abuelas Plaza de mayo-Argentina)
Lucio Garzòn (CUT ? Colombia)
Pastoral Council (Brasil)
K.Vergapoulos (Greece)
Josè Abargar (Tallèr de multinacionales ? ES)
Hugo Alberto Pena (Presidente de la Asociacion campesina de Arauca
Indigenous Community)
Via campesina
Hernando Hernandez - USO

Coordin. Mario Lubetkin (Uruguay-IPS)

The role of religions in the critique of globalisation

Giulio Girardi
Monsignor Bettazzi (IT)
Samuel Ruiz (Mexico)
Chief Rabby Florence
Gertrud Knoll (Austria)
Superintendent Evangelisch Church
Women Buddhist Network
Tariq Ramadan
Marseille Muftì

Coord. Firenze Social Forum

Friday 8 november

Social and State Economy

Michael. Albert (Z Magazine,Usa)
Felice Scalvini (Pres. Cecop)
Ugo Biggeri (Banca Etica)
Marco Revelli (prof. univ)
Riccardo Bellofiore (Prof.univ))
Rudi Dalvai (Itaf, Usa)
Carola Reintjes (Spain)
Yannis Milios (economist Greece)

Chair: Giorgio Dal Fiume

Participatory democracy

R. Dominici (Mayor Florence)
Maria de Lurdes Pintassiglo (Portugal)
Paul Ginsborg (Univ. Florence)
Miriam Giovenzana (Altreconomia)
Alberto Magnaghi (Univ.)
Raffaella Lamberti
Gigi Sullo (Carta)
Massimo Rossi (Mayor Grottammare, Italy)

Chair: Giampiero Rasimelli


Movement and political parties

Elio Di Rupo (Ps Belgium)
H.-C Ströbele (Grunen, Germany)
Fausto Bertinotti (Prc Italy)
O. Besancenot (Lcr French)
Rosi Bindi (Catholic dem.Italy)
Vittorio Agnoletto (Italy social mouvement)
Bernard Cassen (Attac French)
Chris Nineham (Globalise Resistence, UK)
Naomi Klein

Chair: Tom Benettollo

Africa

G.Calchi Novati
Amref (Medical Association)
Samsidin Indrisu (Greek African Community)
Mad.Binta Sarr (Senegal)
Unac Mozambico
Zaki Achmat (S.Africa)
Guinea equatorial (?)
MPL (Sud Africa)?

Coord. Emmaus International

Asia

Tiziano Terzani (Italy)
Dita Sari (Indonesia)?
Walden Bello (Philippines)
Rawa (Afghanistan)
Andrej Kolganov (Russia)
Asian social forum (India)
Womens association Timor East

Coord. Giuliana Sgrena (journalist)

Palestine-Israel the conflict, Europe, active solidarity for a just
peace

Luisa Morgantini
Hanan Ashrawi (Miftah)
Leila Chahid (ANP)
Mustafa Barghouti (PINGO)
Fadwa Barghouti
Michael Warschanwsy
Peace Now
Bat Shalom center
Jacob Katriel (Haifa University)

Coord. Alessandra Mecozzi

Chairpersons for Assembly 10 november

Raffaella Bolini, Nicola Fratoianni, Luciano Muhlbauer,
+ 3 others

 
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