Comrades from international and regional networks and social organisations that have been working together for several years, we are calling seminar strategies of the social movements for September 28-30th and October 1st that will take place in Brussels, Belgium
On the call to the seminar. On October 18, 2005, on the occasion of the mobilisation against WTO’ General Council that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, several movements of various continents were there defining an immediate agenda (mobilisations against WTO) but also to assess the social movements in the present period and the new challenges between them the continuation of the joint work on the international level. (This meeting was organised in the context of the process opened by the Assemblies of social movements that have been taking place since the first WSF in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brasil and reproduced in the world and regional social forums).
One of the more important conclusion of that meeting was the need to get forward towards a meeting as a seminar from the social movements on the international level to have time to think about the evolution of the alterglobalist movement on the international and regional level, its features, the obstacles it meets and its line of march to get forward in building a network of social movements this without the relative hurry of the meetings of world or regional social forums.
Coming from that and after the polycentric WSF in Caracas, we are trying to get forward in two central aspects for the seminar: the date and the country where it will take place. The proposition comes from the consultation of various networks and movements.
The seminar will be the occasion for
– sharing information from all the continents about the political process and social mobilisations at regional/national level
– sharing opinions from our networks/movements/organisations about the world situation and its link with the situation on regional and national level
– sharing opinions about the world process we are building (through each of our network/ organisations of the World Social Forum/ of the Assembly of social movements/network of social movements...)
– defining new ways of joint action for the agenda of the next period (2007) and what does this imply in practical terms.
Social Continental Alliance, (Americas)
CADTM (Committee For the Abolition of Third World Debt)
COMPA, Americas
Focus on the Global South, Asia
Grassroots Global justice, United States
Jubilee South
World Women March
Via Campesina