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  • Short summary from the migrants network at the ESF in Athens
    23 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The fourth ESF gives a strong place to the migration struggles, analyses and demands.
    The several meetings and seminars aimed at the European and transnational dimension of migrants’ movement and struggles.
    More or less every day we can find all over Europe, and not only Europe, protests and campaigns against camps and deportations, for asylum rights for women and men, for a european citizenship of residence and against exploitation of migrant labour.
    In this frame, we want to propose (…)

  • International Conference in Geneva “For a just peace in Palestine and Israel"
    23 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Report from the european network after the seminars, working sessions and Assembly on Palestine during the ESF in Athens, conducted with the participation of Palestinians civil society representatives and Israeli anticolonialist activists.
    The occupation system on Palestine is achieving a new stage. Israel is implementing its strategy in order to achieve its own unilateral solution completing the building of an apartheid system. The total isolation of Gaza is part of this system.
    We (…)

  • Athenian democracy
    22 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Hilary Wainwright
    The fourth European Social Forum, held in Athens in May, outstripped the modest expectations of the Greek organisers. Hilary Wainwright reports on the key themes of the Athens forum - and what might come next
    In the build up to the European Social Forum (ESF) in Athens, the fourth since Florence in 2002, the Greek organisers were modest in their expectations of its political significance. ‘It will be a well organised event; but that’ll be it,’ said Panayotis Yulis (…)

  • BELLACIAO ATHENS: Media control and freedom of speech, Italy before and after Berlusconi
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday 4th of May from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm at the ESF in Athens Room S 208 screening of of the Italian film by Sabina Guzzanti
    followed by a debate on
    "Media control and freedom of speech: Italy before and after Berlusconi"
    organised by Collettivo Bellaciao with: Luciana Castellina (co-founder of Il Manifesto, author, reviewer) Gigi Sullo (director of the weekly Carta) Doriana Goracci (Women in Black, Bellaciao Italia) Cecchino Antonini (journalist, Liberazione) Angelo Mastrandrea (…)

  • FOR A WOMEN’S SPACE AT THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM IN ATHENS, IN MAY
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The organizing committee of the European Social Forum
    Subject: Creation of a specific space for the women’s and feminist organizations and our meetings
    Dear comrades,
    It is well known that the women’s and feminist organizations and collectives have had an important presence in the World and European fora. We hope that our presence in May will be equally important.
    For the facilitation of meetings, small activities, networking, we wish the formation of a women’s space which we are (…)

  • ASSEMBLY OF THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AT WORLD SOCIAL FORUM CALLS FOR GLOBAL ACTION ON MARCH 18
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Section on war of the statement of the Assembly of the Social Movements, World Social Forum, Venezuala, January 29th.
    MARCH 18TH: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MOBILISATION AGAINST THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AGAINST THE WAR AND OCCUPATIONS. NO MORE WARS. PEACE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION We demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and an end to the privatisation of energy resources. We oppose all occupations by foreign troops and demand an end to the Israeli occupation of (…)

  • World Social Forum: Series of Global Protests to Begin in March
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS- A day of international protests against the occupation of Iraq, on Mar. 18, will mark the start of a series of demonstrations and mobilisations organised at the sixth World Social Forum, which ended Sunday in Venezuela.
    A conference against the U.S. occupation of Iraq will be held Mar. 24-27 in Cairo, Egypt, announced the international Assembly of Social Movements, which met on the final day of the WSF in Caracas.
    Some 2,200 civil society organisations (…)

  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A Loud, Multicoloured ’No’ to Imperialism and War
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Although the sixth World Social Forum grants equal importance to all of the myriad workshops, seminars and other activities taking place this week in the Venezuelan capital and to all of the participating civil society groups and figures, that has not kept some personalities from standing out, like U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq.
    "We need to bring our troops home immediately," Sheehan told the (…)

  • A New World Is Possible
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And necessary! This is the theme for the World Social Forum that I (along with tens of thousands of people from all over the world) am attending in Caracas this week. I know the idea of a world where everyone lives in peace and with justice is very "subversive," but the theme is very close to my heart and soul.
    We need a new world. This one is broken.
    Before my son Casey was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, I had never traveled much to speak of. I had gone to Israel and Mexico (…)

  • African World Social Forum Meeting Opens
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, Jan 20, (Granma) The African gathering of the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) opened in Bamako, Mali on Thursday with around 30,000 participants.
    The opening ceremony began with a march from the independence monument to the Modibo Keita Stadium. Aminata Dramane Traere, former minister of culture and Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former general director of the UN Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) were among the participants.
    The 2006 WSF is being held at three (…)