European Social Forum, first draft of program
15/10/2002
(first draft of the official program of the European Social Forum in Florence, November 6-10, 2002: http://www.fse-esf.org/)
European Social Forum - Programme approved by Assembly of 5-6 october in Barcelona
THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER
1. Liberism:
a) From the European Union shaped by neoliberal globalisation to the Europe and the global institutions: Wto, Gatts, 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. Svizzera),
Emiliano Brancaccio (Attac Italy )
Serge Colin (G10 Solidaires, Fr.)
Barry Coates (England. ??)
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 Wtos 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.
a) No justice, no peace.
Conflict prevention. Resistance to war. Building solidarity and international and decentralized cooperation.
Speakers:
Johan Galtung
Lindsay German (Stop the war, Gb)
Maria Styllou (activist of greek left G2001 Greece)
Lidia Menapace (Women against the war, Italy
Hans Abrahamsson (Prof. Univ. Goteborg, Sweden)
Coordination: Tonio DellOlio (Pax Christi), Stop the war (Gb) ?
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, Gb)
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)
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 >=sans papier)
J. B. Eyrault (Dal French)
Coordination: Ilaria Lani (Udu), Migranti social forum
b) Information and culture, humankinds resources: from a monopoly based system to new individual and social rights. Information monopoly and concentration.Experiences of alternative information and indipendent 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. Liberism:
a) Central and East Europe into the globalised world: alternatives to neoliberalism. Results of privatisation and liberalisations. 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)
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 polcies?
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, Gb)
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?
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 andviolence. 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, Gb)
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. Liberism:
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 Friend of Earth, Usa)
Luigi Mara (Medicina Democratica, Cub, Italy)
Manuel Tomas (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) Peoples 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 movement 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.
Coordination: Rosa Mendes (Tavolo migranti), Mamadou Ba (Sos Racism, Portugal)
Dialogs, alternatives and Windows (Timetable 18-21)
Thursday 7 November
Mouvements 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 MarĚa Fidalgo (CC.OO, Spain)
Chair: Carla Casalini (il manifesto)
Mouvements 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)
Mediterranean: a sea of conflicts, looking for democracy and peace
Tume 14,30 - 21.00 (in two parts)
Samir Amin - Introduction
Balkans and Cyprus
Panos Garganos (Gr)
Rada Zarcovich (Bosnia)
Igor Seke (YU)
Sonia Licht (YU)
Toumazos Tsielepsis (Cyprus social Forum)
Turkish Cypriot (name missing)
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)
Latino America: global crisis and social resistence
Miguel Urbano Rodriguez
Estela Carlotto (Abuelas Plaza de mayo-Argentina)
Lucio Garzňn (CUT - Colombia)
Pastoral Council (Brasil)
K.Vergapoulos (Greece)
José Abargar (Tallér 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 Mufti
Coord. Firenze Social Forum
Friday 8 november
Social and State Economy
M. 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 movement)
Bernard Cassen (Attac French)
Chris Nineham (Globalise Resistence, Gb)
Naomi Klein
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)
