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THEMATIC FORUMS AND PROPOSED WORKSHOPS - SSF 2002
Thematic Forums
| ALTERNATIVES TO THE WORLD TRADE
ORGANISATION |
With the WTO mini-ministerial meeting in Sydney, how does the WTO really operate? There are 144 members of the WTO, but only the richest 25 are meeting in Sydney. What are the effects of WTO agreements in terms of, say, the 3rd World, agriculture, and education?
Pat Ranald, AFTINET
Rayyar Farhat, on Food security and TRIPs
Anne O'Brien, Student Environment
Activist Network
James Goodman, Research
Initiative on International Activism, UTS
| RESISTING RACISM AND NATIONALISM |
Indigenous rights, refugees, post-9/11, the "Pacific Solution", borders. How do we combat the apparent rise in racism and nationalist sentiment?
Khaldoun Hajaj, Palestinian activist and media commentator
Ray Jackson, Indigenous
Social Justice Association convener
Cassi Plate, School of Humanities & Social Sciences UTS
Hassan Al-Shimi, Refugee on temporary protection visa
Facilitator: Corrie Hodson
| WHAT FUTURE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? |
Has corporate "greenwash" ruined the term "sustainable"? What actually happened at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg? How can we stop the economy destroying the environment?
Kathy Ridge, Nature
Conservation Council of NSW
Glen Klatovsky, World Wildlife Fund
Sean Marshall, CFMEU (Construction)
Susan Hawthorne, on women and the environment
Geoff Evans, Mineral Policy Institute
Facilitator: Dr Paul Brown, Coordinator Environment Studies
Program
Faculty of Art and Social Sciences UNSW
| RESISTING THE WAR ON TERROR |
The "War on Terror" and the movement against corporate-led globalisation. How can we resist the drive to war by Bush, Blair and other hawks?
Amanda Tattersall, Labour
4 Refugees
Hanna Middleton, Anti-Bases Coalition
Kerry Nettle, NSW Greens
Senator
Renee Rabin, Kurdish Refugee Activist
Facilitator: Rahab Cherida
| BUILDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN
SYDNEY |
Where we're at, the challenges we face in Sydney, are we building a single movement or are we really a movement of movements? How can we develop activism in Sydney?
Gabrielle Kuiper, co-founder Active
Sydney
Amanda Perkins, AMWU (Printing)
Lena Nahlous, community development worker Information and Cultural
Exchange Incorporated (ICE)
on Western Suburbs community resistance
| ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALISATION: |
Alternatives to corporate globalisation, from the World Social Forum to local initiatives.
Chris Richards, Australasian Editor New
Internationalist magazine
Humphrey McQueen, writer & historian, , author of "The Essence
of Capitalism": a history of Coca-Cola
Dick Nichols, national co-convenor Socialist
Alliance & participant in WSF I & II
Proposed Workshops
How can we win the refugee campaign?
Double-session workshop first looking at the issues and challenges facing
the campaign - the Labor Party, Temporary Protection Visas, deportations -
followed by report-backs and discussion on "where the campaign is at".
The second session will be an opportunity to meet, network and forge constructive
links with groups and individuals involved in the campaign against the inhumane
treatment of refugees. It will focus on very practical strategies and tactics
for the on-going campaign.
Refugee Action Coalition, Labor4Refugees, Chilout, Free the
Refugees Campaign, and National Union of Students
Initiated by RAC
National Security Laws:
The ASIO Bill and its effects on activists in Australia
Will look at the intensified use of national security laws in the framework
of the "war on terrorism" launched by the US government in response to the
September 11 2001 attack. Includes a report from the 23-25 August conference
in Thailand discussing issues around the theme "Democracy and Security of
the People in the Asian Region".
Tim Anderson, Lecturer in Politics @ UNSW
Damian Lawson, Federation of Community Legal Centres
Corporate Globalisation vs. Democratic Globalisation
Double session which will look at the globalisation of neo liberal-economics
and compare this model to its alternative. Will include discussion about national
industrial relations policy. We will then discuss the Cole Royal Commission
and the AMWU productivity report as microeconomic examples.
Anita Ceravalo & Jodie Coleman, CFMEU
Don Sutherland, AMWU
Inspirational stories from around the Majority World
People taking control to create better ways to live.
In Brazil - Giving people control over allocating government budgets is not
only improving democracy but also winning votes. In Kenya - Kenyan farmers
are being converted from forest vandals into environmental activists by a
project that has fused the interests of people with their surrounds. In China
- Urban transformations are replacing 'economy first' with 'ecology first'.
In Argentina - Behind the closed factory doors that Argentine workers are
reopening, there are new tools for employees everywhere. In Iceland - Oil's
out, and hydrogen's in, as the island nation moves towards becoming the world's
first renewable energy society. Let's get together and talk about how people
can make their political dreams into realities. For, in the spirit of the
words of English academic Raymond Williams 'To be truly radical is to make
hope possible, rather than despair convincing.'
Chris Richards
Australasian editor of New Internationalist magazine
The Argentinian Crisis
This is a conference given by Dr. Joseph Halevi, senior lecturer at Sydney
University. The conference shall focus on the analysis of the origin and final
dénouement of the crisis, from an economic perspective. And it promises
to be a must.
Dr. Joseph Halevi, Senior Lecturer, Sydney University
Neoliberalism and Latin America
Shall focus on the broad social, economic, and political consequences of the
implementation of neoliberalism in the region. The political 'contagion' of
the Argentinian Crisis to neighbouring countries shall also be examined.
Dr. Peter Ross
senior lecturer at the Latin American Department (UNSW).
The Bolivarian revolution and the struggle against U.S intervention in
Colombia
This workshop will discuss the effects of the U.S sponsored Plan Colombia
which promotes increased military aid to the Colombian government. It will
also discuss the effects of U.S foreign policy on the people of the region.
It will put forward strategies that would help in ending the civil war that
has engulfed Colombia for over 30 years.
Dr Gustavo Montealegre
Luis Almario
Colombian Solidarity Committee
Organising at Work:
Building the WTO action at your workplace
What would you do to get your workmates to start changing things instead of
putting up with it and complaining about it at the end of the shift? A nurse,
a telemarketing worker and a firefighter give 5 minute introductions on what
they are doing to encourage their co-workers to protest the WTO in November,
then you join in the brainstorm to help them out. Everybody wins .
. . except the WTO and the Liberals.
Michael Whaites, Nurses Association member
Dom Rowe,
Jim Casey, FBEU member
Indymedia
Global Indymedia... and Sydney in particular.
Community Activist Technology
Socially Responsible Climate Change?
The recent increase in 'ethical' or 'socially responsible' investment
means $1.3billion is now managed this way in Australia. However, all but one
of the 16 'SRI' funds in Australia invest in fossil fuels, meaning that your
ethical dollar is supporting climate change. This workshop will launch MPI's
latest report, 'Socially Responsible Climate Change?", discuss the justifications
of the funds against the alternatives offered by renewable energy, and plan
the 'next step' for the campaign.
Nina Lansbury, Mineral Policy Institute
On-line Activism
Doing legwork for getting online coalitions built and getting more people
savvy with on-line activist hubs in Sydney.
Community Activist Technology
The Tobin Tax and ATTAC
Democratising the global financial markets and introducing ATTAC Australia.
GE Food
Over the past 7 years, a handful of multinational chemical companies have
been redesigning the world's food supply to suit their own interests. Genetically
Engineered organisms are an irreversible, global experiment - taking risks
with our health, the environment and playing with farmers and consumers as
if they were a dispensable part of the game - totally oblivious to our future!
We all need to eat. And we all need to think about where our food comes from,
what its impacts are for our farmers, underpriviledged communites worldwide
and our environment. This workshop is about the campaign to stop GE foods
- the state of play and how we can be part of a big people's movement rejecting
GE in our life line - our foods and our fields!
Tina Meckel and John Hepburn
True Food Campaigners
Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Fire, Snow and Honey - Voices from Kurdistan
This workshop aims to give people an understanding of Kurdish issues in all
parts of Kurdistan - Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria - particularly concentrating
on Iraqi Kurdistan, its present circumstances, and how a war with Iraq would
impact on the future of the Kurds. The workshop will end with a discussion
on whether USA and Australia should be involved in a war with Iraq, with Kurdish
people in attendance presenting their point of view.
Gina Lennox,
editor of the book Fire, Snow & Honey
Simko Helmet - Sulaimani Regional Government and PUK representative to Australia
Ahmed Dezaye - Kurdish academic, studying for his PhD at Sydney University,
lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Salahaddin since 1985
Dr Jamal Murad - medical practitioner
The World Social Forum - Why? And How?
Will focus on the Origins, Aims, and Objectives of
the WSF. Its purpose is to ensure greater awareness and clarity about the
philosophical underpinning and the methods of work that have made the WSF
so successful. The session will explore the points of pressure on the WSF
that require attention to the rationale,structure and methods of work.
Don Sutherland
AMWU
Trading away our essential services?
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations on Trade in Services (GATS)
and your access to health, education, water and postal services.
Pat Ranald
Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
Reclaiming the Rights Agenda
This workshop will cover a wide range of issues that are facing Australians
and the global community. It will focus on how individuals, community groups
and activists in Australia should be paying attention to the "connections"
that exist between a number of human rights and social justice issues, particularly
Indigenous rights and the Reconciliation agenda, and the rights of asylum
seekers and refugees. The focus of this workshop is to assist people in making
the connections and to openly discuss strategies for re-embracing the rights
agenda so that advocacy, action and awareness become effective avenues for
transformation in society.
The Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education
The Lingiari Foundation
The ReconciliACTION Network
The Commercialisation of Aid
The Australian Government spends $1.8 billion dollars of tax-payers money
on "aid" programs - but most of it ends up in the hands of Australian
corporations and businesses eager to win overseas development contracts. This
workshop will address and uncover the commercial interests being served by
Australia's Aid program, explore the issue of 'tied aid', and discuss what
a better aid program would look like.
Melita Grant and Tim O'Connor
AidWatch
Export Credit Agencies:
T he dirtiest secret of globalisation.
Citizens worldwide are increasingly aware of global institutions (like the
WTO and the World Bank) and their impacts on the environment and human rights.
But
other secretive government bodies, export credit agencies, have as big, if
not bigger, impacts on the process of globalization.
Kate Walsh
AidWatch
Water Rights
The World Bank is one of the largest financiers of water projects in developing
countries, and one of the most influential international institutions in policy-making
for the water sector. Along with the Asian Development Bank and the IMF, the
World Bank's answer to people's lack of access to safe drinking water is to
institute "user-pays" systems - by privatising community assets
and handing them over to transnational corporations. This workshop will look
at privatisation as a key ingredient in corporate globalisation, and trend
of water privatisation in low-income countries.
Melita Grant and Alexus Vanderweyden
AidWatch
Pillars of the Global Economy
WTO, IMF, WEF, ECA, World Bank, ADB? WTF??? Come along and a session of
demystifying the letters that have come to represent how our world works.
Speakers will have 10 mins on each pillar, material to take home and suggestions
for further reading.
AidWatch
Globalisation, the state and war
What is meant by globalisation? What has changed with the September 11 attacks
and what is a continuation of a long pattern of capitalist competition and
domination? Is the capitalist state more or less powerful or just a puppet
of global corporations? Is this imperialism or something new? With renewed
debate sparked by the ideas in the book Empire, Sergio Fiedler from UTS and
Tad Tietze from the ISO discuss these questions to help us understand how
we can best build an anti-war movement in Sydney.
Sergio Fiedler, UTS
Tad Tietze, International Socialist Organisation
What are we for? - Alternatives to capitalism
Our movement is often accused of being "anti-". So what do we believe
is possible and necessary in a future world beyond ours of poverty and war?
Could a system of Participatory Economics work efficiently? Alison Stewart
from the International Socialist Organisation and John Hepburn from Greenpeace
talk encourage us to think big about alienation, grass roots democracy and
planning, production for need not profit, sustainable
technology and human creativity.
Alison Stewart, International Socialist Organisation
John Hepburn, Greenpeace
Lesbian and Gay liberation - Beyond the Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras bankrupt, still no equal age of consent in NSW, IVF bigotry from
Howard and Pell. Michael Schembri, convenor of Gaywaves on 2SER 107.3FM and
Emilie Awbery from the ISO discuss how anticapitalist activists can work together
to resist homophobia, what we can learn from the Gay Liberation Front in the
1970s and how the struggle for queer liberation connects with other struggles
for justice and equality.
Michael Schembrie, Gaywaves Convenor, 2SER 107.3
Emilie Awbery, International Socialist Organisation
From Here to There - Developing Strategies for a Brighter Future
We will begin by collectively creating a vision of what we would like
society to look like in 50 years time. From there we will work backwards to
the present until we establish what we can do here and now to work for the
future we believe in.
Proutist Universal
Co-operative Enterprise - Replacing Capitalism at a Grassroots Level
We will screen a recently-made 24-minute documentary on the twenty-one active
co-ops in Maleny, followed by a hands-on discussion about the role of co-ops
in creating a new people-based economy.
Proutist Universal
Self-Sustainability: Meditation for social activists
Meditation helps activists tap into their inner resources of power, tranquility
and creativity. Learn practical tools and useful insights to maintain inner
balance and a strong commitment your cause.
Dada Giridevananda
Social activist and yogic monk
Yoga and Meditation Workshop
Begin Sunday's program by clearing your mind and invigorating your body with
the ancient practices of yoga and meditation - 9:00am Sunday.
Dada Giridevananda
Social activist and yogic monk
Closetification
Or: "so what the hell is homosexual oppression?"
David Loncar
Community Action Against Homophobia
Community Organising
Workshop looking at some of the examples and experiences from Community Action
Against Homophobia campaigning.
Emma Banyer
NUS National Queer Officer
Environmental Refugees
Paula Safransky
Refugee Action Collective, Sydney Uni
Self Publication, Zines and Independent Media
Louise Thatcher, SCAM
"Get up, Stand Up": The Music of Liberation
Richard Bailey
RAC Sydney Uni Staff Group
Building the Refugee campaign at work
Sydney Uni Staff Refugee Support Group
Creative Resistance
From the internet to film to performance, the struggle against corporate-led
globalisation is taking place on a variety of fronts.
Colin Stokes
Community Artist / Fact Tree Youth Service
Where to for the SSF?
Is the Sydney Social Forum the way to go?
The Art of Political Satire
Experiences from the Australian, SMH and The Chaser.
Fiona Katauskas, Freelance Cartoonist
Radically Active Theatre
Caitlin Newton-Broad
Stand your Ground Youth Theatre Project
Young people, Employment and the Neo Liberal Agenda
Kirsten Whalley, Fact Tree Youth Service
Speciesism:
Oppression of Other Species by the Human Species
Video, discussion and strategies. Humankind and the apes spring from a common
ancestor. Earth's multiple
lifeforms are variations on a theme, not differences in kind. This workshop
focuses on Factory Farming, Food Animals, Non-Native (Feral) Animals and Circus.
Other relevant issues will be discussed if participants
wish it.
Animal Liberation
Wildlife Slaughter: the plight of the kangaroo and the Rusa
deer
The kangaroo kill quota for 2002 has been set at 7 million. At least 6% of
adults shot will not be killed outright and joeys are either bludgeoned to
death or left to die from predication or starvation. But more then simply
cruel Australia's wildlife slaughter has resulted in a reduction in the size
and age of the kangaroo population, leaving some species vulnerable to genetic
deterioration especially in times drought. At the same time Australian native
wildlife is being killed at the bequest of European style farmers, free living
introduced animals are being killed on the pretence of protecting Australian
native fauna. The killing is carried out using methods known to be cruel without
any attempt to utilise humane methods of population reduction such as birth
control.
World League for Protection of Animals
How Women Are Paying For Neo-liberalism
Women carry a starkly greater burden of work, family responsibility and poverty
while suffering repression in different forms around the world. Here the Liberals
are simultaneously driving a conservative moral agenda to
promote the nuclear family and cutting effective support for the poor. Rebecca
Lemay leads a discussion on how activists are organising to continue the struggle
for women's liberation.
Rebecca Le May
International Socialist Organisation
Why the world is in crisis:
A Marxist explanation of economics
Ever increasing technological development for the minority world but collapsing
living standards across Africa and Latin America. A growing gap between the
elite in Sydney and the suburbs where most people live. What drives these
contradictions and can they continue? Can we reform the market to provide
solutions or is the market system itself to blame?
Kieran Latty
International Socialist Organisation
Global migration and the refugee crisis
The world is now seeing the greatest movement of peoples since the last quarter
of the 19th century. Flights of people may be precipitated by war or famine
but the underlying cause is economic. People are on the move because they
cannot get an adequate living, evidence of the impact of globalisation and
intensifying imperialist competition on poor countries. We discuss the impact
of global inequality and how governments are scapegoating migrants and refugees
to sow racism and division amongst our side.
Kylie Witt
International Socialist Organisation
Corporate power and resistance in Mexico today
A workshop on neoliberalism in Mexico and some examples of resistance. The
workshop will consist of two breif presentations and discussion, including
space for developing strategies for solidarity and linking solidarity action
with other struggles.
Part 1: A brief background on Mexico's move to neoliberal policies following
the debt crisis of the early 80's, and the impacts of NAFTA. Then a focus
on Mexico's current role in laying the groundwork for a Free Trade Area of
the America's through a 25 year megadevelopment project - the Plan Puebla
Panama - which involves the construction of superhighways, maquiladora corridors,
and extensive resource exploitation thoroughout Mexico and all of Central
America. Links with the ppp and the international finance institutions such
as the inter-american development bank and the WTO will also be explored.
Part 2: Discussion of current resistance to neoliberal policies within Mexico
and a brief history. Examples include the successful campesinos deafeat of
the construction of a new airport earlier this year, and campus ressistance
to the privatisation of education. Discussion will then focus on the increased
violence against Zapatista leaders in Chiapas, which have seen numerous assasinations
in the last few weeks, and the history and current situation of the Zapatista
rebellion. Discussion could include opportunities for direct solidarity, such
as around the next stage of negotiations of the FTAA in Ecuador in October,
for intervention into the WTO trade ministers meeting in Sydney in November,
and linking together other struggles in Latin America and around the globe.
Dr Sergio Fiedler
Holly Cutcher
Can the Left Unite?
To the left of the ALP the political landscape has traditionally been one
of fragmentation and infighting. The formation last year of the Socialist
Alliance was a big step forward in overcoming this state of affairs. In this
workshop Socialist Alliance National Co-Convener and Democratic Socialist
Party leader Dick Nichols asks what steps are needed to achieve higher levels
of left unity and collaboration.
Dick Nichols, Democratic Socialist Party
The Empire strikes Back:
How Washington warmongers exploit 9/11
Washington's ``war on terrorism'' is a fraud. On that day, the US rulers realised
that the terrible terrorist attack in New York provided them with a golden
opportunity to achieve the US capitalist ruling class' long-held objective
of world domination -- ``the American Century'' it predicted was at hand at
the end of WWII.
Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly newspaper
Youth and the Global Revolt
"Generation Y" has often been targetted for its apathy, cynicism
and lack of ideals as compared to the youth of the sixties. But the global
justice movement, from Seattle to Melbourne, Genoa to Sydney, has turned that
upside down as masses of young people have taken to the streets against global
capitalism. This workshop will look at the leading role that young people
have played in reigniting the flames of struggle.
Danny Fairfax
Resistance Socialist Youth Organisation
Environment, Immigration and Population
The aim is to raise the issues of population and immigration; how can progressive
environmentalists approach these issues in an internationalist and non-racist
way? This workshop will introduce the work of Friends of the Earth Australia
through its environment and
population project. It will also be a forum for sharing information between
individuals and groups on these issues, and aim at forging alliances between
environmental activists wanting to encourage the mainstream green movement
to take a more proactive role in the immigration and population debates.
Cam Walker & Binnie O'Dwyer
Friends of the Earth
War and neoliberalism in the Asia Pacific: Australia's role
Is Australia a US lapdog or a bully in its own right? This workshop will look
at the long history of Australian's own predatory role in parts ofthe Asia
Pacific, and the growing people's movements across the region against military
and economic aggression. It will also highlight the significance of the Asian
Social Forum process for our movements.
Iggy Kim
Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific
The Polictics of Shelter:
Global Cities, Autonomous Enclaves and Social Housing
This workshop will discuss the current state of public, private and autonomous
/ squat housing and open discussion around future possibilities for housing
activism.
Jesse Booth, Inner West Tenants' Advice & Advocacy Service
Hazel Blunden, Shelter NSW
Gavin Sullivan, Sydney Housing Action Collective (SHAC)
Carmen Jauregui, Boarders and Lodgers Action Group
Globalisation and Education
Comprehensive public education and some degree of equitable access to universities
were hallmarks of the struggles for state reform from the 1950s to the 1970s.
But for fifteen years the neoliberal agenda has promoted elitism in the name
of 'choice' and defunded public schools, TAFEs and universities, magnifying
class inequality. And now the Nelson Review demands more! Education activists
give a global snapshot of their attacks and strategies for our resistance.
John Morris
NSW Teacher's Federation council member
International Socialist Organisation
Alternative Media
Getting out an alternative message to the mainstream can be challenging to
say the least. This is especially true in Australia, which has one of the
highest concentration of media ownership in the world. Speakers will share
their media experiences of working in a world dominated by corporate interests.
Peter Lewis, editor Workers
Online
Jim Beatson, Programme Manager, Community
Broadcasting Association of Australia
Julian Morrow, The Chaser
Andy, Sydney IndyMedia
Working towards a nuclear-free Australia:
The nuclear industry in Australia
The aim of this workshop is to share information concerning the state of the
anti-nuclear movement in Australia and issues surrounding the campaign, and
to motivate people towards influencing change in Australia's nuclear policy.
Cat Reimer
People Against a Nuclear Reactor
Radicalise or Perish: Building Fighting Unions
We need fighting unions. The bosses want tame unions: unions that won't stand
up for young workers and migrants, unions that won't fight for decent wages
and parental leave, unions that won't march for refugees and against Bush's
war plans, unions that won't break laws designed to break them.Our unions
are under attack by the bosses and the government, through Tony Abbott's new
anti-union laws and the Cole Royal Commission into theCFMEU. Our unions are
also under attack from the within the union movement with the attempt to crush
the Victorian AMWU. This session is about how to build unions that will fight
on every front.
Michael Thomson
Assistant State Secretary NSW NTEU
Socialist Alliance NSW executive
Building Movements: ballot box or the streets?
How does real change occur in society? Is it through lobbying politicians?
Voting during elections? Organising at work? Or through rallies and demonstrations?
This workshop discusses these questions, and puts forward an argument for
how we can build movements to activate social change at a grass roots level.
Angela Budai, Finance Sector Union Organiser
Socialist Alliance candidate for the Legislative Council
A counter-globalism centre for Sydney?
Counter-globalist conferences like the World Social Forum are creative meeting
points for activists and academics. They bridge action and theory, developing
praxis and stimulating solidarity. Should we try to institutionalise this?
What could a counter-globalism centre look like? What is the experience beyond
Australia?
Participants in the Research Initiative in International Activism
Selling the Backlash Against Women:
The politics of guilt and fear
This workshop will discuss the powerful ideological offensive or "backlash"
against women's rights which is being used to reinforce and "sell"
capitalism's neo-liberal offensive against women. A kind of pop-culture version
of the "Big Lie", the backlash seeks to perpetuate the myth of the
women's rights movement having gone too far. Kim Bullimore will lead a discussion
on how this ideological and propagandistic offensive seeks to erode the hard-won
gains won by women and the women's liberation movement and how to organise
to overcome it.
Kim Bullimore
Tutor in Gender and Media studies, Macquarie University
Democratic Socialist Party
Racism & The Media
An examination of the effect that racist media coverage has on the Arab community.
Omeima Sukkarieh worked with the community during the attacks on veiled women
that followed September 11. She also took part in a forum entiltled "Women
Reporting Violence in a Time of War: The Silenced Voices of the 'Race Election.'"
Omeima Sukkarieh, community advocate
Australian Arabic Communities Council.
Women & Islam
In light of the recent backlash against Islam, this workshop with deal with
the real situation of muslim women living in Australia today.
Sally Moussa
Islamic Women's Advocate
Oil & Power
The relationship between oil and conflicts in the Arab world, particularly
focusing on the real reasons behind the US' war on terror.
Nikolai Haddad
Palestinian activist
Palestine: Resistance & Building the Movement
A workshop dealing with the current situation in Palestine and how we can
build a movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle in Sydney
Rihab Charida & Nasser Shaktour
Autonomous Spaces : Social Centres : Occupy to Resist!
A workshop-discussion about autonomous social centres, the experience of Sydney's
Midnight Star Squatted Social Centre [currently 6 months in occupation], and
strategies for building and networking autonomous/occupied spaces and movements
in Australia.
Facilitated by members of
Social Centre Autonomous Network [SCAN]
The Threats of US on Iraq
This workshop will focus on one of the most pressing international issues
at the moment - the probable US attack on Iraq.
Layla Muhammed
Workers Comunist Party of Iraq
The Cuban Alternative to Neo-Liberalism
This workshop session will outline the importance of the Cuban Revolution
as an alternative to neo-liberalism in Latin America and the world. We will
examine Cuba's activism in relation to third world debt, internationalism
and a more just social system.
Mara Ochoa, Ron Paulson,
Rebecca Pinkstone, Gonzalo Para & Dano Garcia
activists from Cuban Solidarity Groups
Latin America Activists Workshop
This workshop session will comprise of a brief report back from each of the
prior Latin American workshops. The majority of the workshop will consist
of discussion and networking for future Latin American solidarity. Session
will have a heavy emphasis on practical ideas including building for a Latin
American contingent at the WTO protests.
| WTO SPOKESCOUNCIL |
Join other activists, organisations and interested individuals at a "spokescouncil" meeting discussing and planning action around the upcoming mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Sydney on November 14-15.
Plans are already underway for direct action, rallies and a "counter-conference" in November. This meeting is for everyone who is planning or wants to be involved in action and discussion when the WTO comes to town.
All are welcome.
Workshops listed here are in no particular order.
Workshop list is current as of 20-Sept-2002 01:34PM.
