Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
See also the rubric “At the Left” (in “Europe & France”) for several European networks.
, by Attac Germany, GIEGOLD Sven
Dear friends,
on Wednesday the police has raided more than 40 book shops, housing co-operatives, info centres, anti-racist initiatives in order to get hold of information on the radical anti-g8-activities. All this was justified with the “formation of a terrorist organisation”.
Attac offices (…)
, by La Via Campesina
The heads of state and government of the world’s eight wealthiest and most powerful countries will meet from June 6-8 in Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea in Northeastern Germany. These eight governments decide and implement neo-liberal policies that increase the number of hungry people in the (…)
, by Movements (international)
In 2007 the summit of the eight richest and most powerful states in the world will take place in Heiligendamm near the City of Rostock on the Baltic coast of Germany. The politics of the G8 have triggered criticism and worldwide protest for a long time. During the 2007 summit in Germany this (…)
, by BUKO
In March 2007, over 40 Non-governmental Organisations signed a policy document for the G8-Summit in Heiligendamm that asks the governments of the G8 to fulfil demands on various issues, for instance climate change and resources, world trade or development aid in Africa. (1) We criticise the (…)
The Lisbon European Preparatory Assembly (EPA) of the ESF took place March 30th and 31st - April the 1st 2007.
INTRODUCTION
The process of European Social Forum is in a crucial moment. It needs to move forward.
It bares the risk to fall into repetition. Many difficulties are due to the (…)
, by Movements (international)
There is another way.
A summit of alternatives
G8-Alternative-Summit: 5th to 7th of June 2007, Rostock
The Summit of the eight richest and most powerful states of the world will take place in Heiligendamm near Rostock in 2007. The politics of the G8 provokes worldwide criticism and (…)
, by Action network Global Agriculture
Global Agriculture in disastrous conditions Each year 30 million people die worldwide as result of hunger and malnutrition. Different processes like the enforced opening of markets, prices being dictated by supermarket-chains and the subsidisation of food production for export, systematically (…)
, by GEORGE Susan
For those who can read French, there is more documentation on Attac France’s crisis in the French section. To open it, click on the “translation” button in the left column.
A message from Susan George to friends of Attac France [and her own] worldwide, please feel free to circulate. I wish (…)
Reports from European Preparatory Assembly (EPA) to the European Social Forum held in Frankfurt, Germany, 3, 4, 5 November 2006. Included are reports from the networks meetings.
More reports will be added as they come.
REPORTS ON THE EPA DECISIONS
These are only the decisions from the EPA (…)
, by ALMPANIS Yannis
The fact that approximately 300 meetings were held in Athens from 4th-7th May 2006 and were organised by hundreds collectives from all over Europe shows that the European Social Forum is the biggest and most pluralist European laboratory of radical ideas. The variety of the topics that were (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Assessment of the Logistics Committee
For all of us who worked in the Logistics Committee it was a great challenge to organise the 4th European Social Forum. With a view to confirm our initial argument that a small country, “far away” from the centre of Europe, can and should try to organise (…)
Invitation The next European Preparatory Assembly (EPA) of the European Social Forum will take place in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. After the exiting days of the 4th ESF in Athens this meeting will give us the opportunity to rethink and evaluate the event. We have to discuss the future of (…)
, by Attac Germany
Information from the Coordinating Committee of Attac Germany on the preparations for protest at the G 8 in Heiligendamm 2007
The G 8 2007 will be held from 8th - 10th of June in the seaside resort Heiligendamm near Rostock by the the Baltic Sea. This year the G8 takes for the first time place (…)
, by ALMPANIS Yannis
This text is a personal report of Athens ESF. It does express neither the Organizing Committee nor the Greek Social Forum. It was written directly in English so it contains many grammar mistakes. Please forgive me.
1. The success of the Athens ESF exceeded all hopes. Even the most optimists (…)
, by WAINWRIGHT Hilary
The fourth European Social Forum, held in Athens in May, outstripped the modest expectations of the Greek organisers. Hilary Wainwright reports on what made the Athens forum special - and what might come next.
In the build up to the European Social Forum (ESF) in Athens, the fourth since (…)
, by HAYES Ingrid
In spite of widespread apprehension beforehand in the global justice movement, the Athens forum did not show that the process of the European Social Forum (ESF) was running out of steam. The ESF, which took place from the 3rd to the 7th of May, was a success both for the Greek organizers and for (…)
, by Greek Social Forum
The success of the 4th European Social Forum (Athens 4-7th May) exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. With 100.000 people participating in the rally and with more than 35.000 participants attending the seminars and workshops, the Forum proved both the potential of the Greek movements (…)
, by No-Vox
This declaration was read during the General Assembly of Social Movements, on the 7th May 2006.
During this 4th ESF in Athens, the participation and visibility of the Have-Nots, of the precarious, the migrants and their grass-root movements have been strengthened. Have-Nots from central, and (…)
Here is the final text written by the ESF Migration Network during the Migration assembly and read to the Assembly of social movements, at the end of the Athens European Social Forum (May 4-6, 2006). A more detail account will be send later.
The fourth ESF gives a strong place to the (…)
, by Women’s Assembly
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
A different Europe, the Europe of all of us, of all the peoples, will not be possible without the full participation and involvement of Women on the Move.
For this change, we, European Feminists, migrant women, workers and unemployed, young and older, lesbians, women from (…)
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