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, by AEPF
The ASEM 4 People hosted 600 civil society organistions from Asia, Europe (EU and Accession Countries) and a sizeable Danish Public in the in Copenhagen from 19-22 September at the occasion of the ASEM 4 European - Asian Summit. The final declaration adopted follows below:
Over 600 women and (…)
, by AEPF
The ASEM 4 People hosted 600 civil society organistions from Asia, Europe (EU and Accession Countries) and a sizeable Danish Public in the in Copenhagen from 19-22 September 2002 at the occasion of the ASEM 4 European - Asian Summit. The final declaration adopted follows below:
HUMAN RIGHTS, (…)
1) In the face of continuing deterioration in the living conditions of people, we, social movements from all around the world, have come together in the tens of thousands at the second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. We are here in spite of the attempts to break our solidarity. We come (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Porto Alegre is not exactly a Third World city. Located in one of Brazil’s more prosperous states, Rio Grande do Sul, and populated by people mainly of European stock, this city of 1.2 million people is First World when it comes to infrastructure and social services. In fact, it ranks near the (…)
, by Attac France, CUT, Focus on the Global South, WMW
ORIGINS
During the first World Social Forum, more than a thousand people representing hundreds of social movements, NGOs and trade unions of the whole world gathered in a common assembly and, with a feeling of strong unity, approved the “Porto Alegre Call of the Social Movements for (…)
, by World Social Forum
The committee of Brazilian organizations that conceived of, and organized, the first World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre from January 25th to 30th, 2001, after evaluating the results of that Forum and the expectations it raised, consider it necessary and legitimate to draw up a Charter of (…)
Social forces from around the world have gathered here at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Unions and NGOs, movements and organizations, intellectuals and artists, together we are building a great alliance to create a new society, different from the dominant logic wherein the free-market (…)
, by ALI Tariq, FINKEL David
DANIEL SINGER, A close friend of Against the Current and longtime European correspondent for The Nation, died December 2, 2000.
Born in Warsaw, Poland in September 1926, Daniel Singer became a committed socialist in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg, and always a passionate internationalist. (…)
, by KIM Iggy
CONTENTS O20 actions Background ’Critical engagement’ Role of the KCTU Partners in global neo-liberalism
On October 20 (O20) and the days before, a series of lively demonstrations against the third Asia-Europe Parliamentary Meeting (ASEM) signalled Seoul’s entry into the growing worldwide (…)
, by WATANABE Hiroshi
I participated in the ASEM 2000 People’s Forum in Seoul from October 18 to 21 with Tono Haruhi, the Corepresentative of APWSL Japan. ASEM stands for the Asia-Europe Meeting and is a biennial summit of 25 countries from Asia and Europe. The first ASEM was held in Bangkok in 1996 and the second (…)
, by Daniel Singer Foundation, LÖWY Michael
About Daniel Singer
Daniel Singer was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris.
He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman, the Tribune and The Nation (where he was Europe correspondent for (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Seoul: ASEM 2000
, by BRENNAN Brid
Between ASEM 2 and ASEM 3 a profound re-structuring of the East Asian economies has taken place. The rules now governing Asia’s political economies have been so thoroughly re-written that new liberalism is now the new development orthodoxy. Structural Adjustment has been severely imposed and has (…)
, by MARTIN Eamon
Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 20- On Thursday, thousands of protesters staged a boisterous anti-globalization rally as Asian and European leaders gathered in Seoul for a cross-continental summit. In a series of lively demonstrations against the Asia-Europe Meetings (ASEM), South Koreans linked up (…)
, by DAN Byung-Ho
Keynote Speech presented at the Third Asia-Europe People’s Forum, Seoul, Korea, 17-21 October 2000.
Sisters, brothers - friends,
I am honoured, both personally and on behalf of the six hundred thousand members of the Korean Federation of Trade Unions (KCTU), and all other workers who have (…)
, by SIVARAKSA Sulak
One of the keynote speeches presented at the Third Asia-Europe People’s Forum, Seoul, Korea, 17-21 October 2000.
I have been asked to speak on the theme of the conference and would like to pose two corollary questions. The first question is, “What is our alternative vision to globalisation?” (…)
, by Movements (international)
The events of Seattle have changed the balance of forces between the social movements opposed to globalization and the G7 leaders, governments, corporations and global economic institutions, including the IMF, World Bank and WTO, that drive the globalisation project.
Seattle gave expression to (…)
, by ETTY Elspeth
IN his hometown of Amsterdam, the town where he came into this world on 5 August 1915, the writer and mild-mannered Trotskyist Sal Santen passed away on Saturday, 25 July. He was still full of life, recovering from a serious hip operation when he unexpectedly died from a heart attack.
The last (…)
, by DUGGAN Penelope
Contents Foreword 1. Dissatisfaction with “politics” 2. Remembering the context 3. Development of collective consciousness: where and how? 4. Development of women’s collective consciousness 5. Role of the women’s movement 6. The Marxist tradition and women 7. The autonomy of the women’s (…)
, by FRANK Andre Gunder
We have lost not only a most humane human being, but the world’s greatest optimist. I don’t know which is the greater loss, but perhaps there was an intimate connection of humane optimism and/or optimistic humanism; and, if so, the world’s loss is multiplied and all the greater. Not only shall (…)
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