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Thursday January 01 1970

ISF Summit of Co-operation and Solidarity

category dublin | public consultation / irish social forum | event notice author Monday October 13, 2003 19:22author by Clare Leeauthor email clare562001 at yahoo dot com Report this post to the editors

Summit of Co-operation and Solidaity from 17th - 19th October. Kicks off in UCD, Belfield in the new Students Centre at 7pm, Friday 17th. All day 18th there are plenaries and workshops in UCD. Sunday 19th finishes summit with final session in Mother Redcaps, Christchurch followed by March 4 Change starting at Central Bank, Dame St. at 1:15.

Related Link: http://www.irishsocialforum.org
author by Ian McDonald - ISF Outreach Working Grouppublication date Wed Oct 15, 2003 04:48author email ian at theplateau dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Invitation and Summary
An invitation to the ISF, with a summary of some of the development/ North-South Solidarity content this Saturday.
*** All Welcome to the First Irish Social Forum ***
University College Dublin, New Student's Centre, Oct 17-19

This weekend groups, organisations and individuals from acoss the country will meet at UCD to participate the first Irish Social Forum. And development issues and North-South solidarity will play an important part.

Speakers from Paksistan, Peru, India, Israel, Italy, Britain, Canada and
Aceh will speak along side Irish trade unionists, activists, campaigners,
communiy workers, environmentalists and many more. In this process of sharing our concerns, and listening to each other's ideas and analysis, the hope of the Irish Social Forum -like the grown nummber Social Forums across the world - is to create a space where people might begin to articulte a vision of another world, beyond the exclusion and injustice that we see in this one.

More details, and summary of development related workshops below:

Times
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Main day of 28 workshops of 4 plenaries:
11am-8pm Saturday Oct 18, UCD

and also:
7:15pm Friday, Oct 17 - Opening ceremonies and first plenary from
11am-1pm Sunjday, Oct 19, (Moving to At Mother Redcap's) Final plenary
1:15 Sunday, March leaving from Central Bank

Registration fee 5 euros unwaged, 12 waged (at the door) - All Welcome!

More informationon the social forum (including map):
http://www.irishsocialforum.org/
Detailed program at:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61623


Highlights of development related workshops on Saturday Oct 18
--------------------------------------------------------------

Some the 28 Wokshops and 5 plenaries that relate specifically to development
issues on Saturday, Oct 18th:


11:00 "Trade, Debt, and Development Activism in Ireland and Around the
to world" (Debt and Development, Oxfam, Action Aid, Tobin Tax Campaign,
12:00 Comhlamh, Boycott the World Bank Campaign)

11:00- "Civil Resistance and the Struggle for Justice in Peru"
1:00 (Trocaire, LASC)

12:30- "Farmers Rights: North and South"
2:00 (Oxfam, People's Rights Movement (Pakistan), Macra Ne Feirme)

2:00- "Documentary Making at the Margins"
4:00 (Trociare, The Other Media, India, Gaffer Productions, Comhlamh
Media)

3:30- "What is A Feminist Organisation?"
5:00 (Banulacht, Akina Dada Wa Africa - Sisters from Africa (AkiDwA),
Acehnese Women's Democratic Organisation).

3:00- "Initiatives in Corporate Accountability and Grassroots People's
5:00 Democracy and Law (Christian Aid, Lok Sath [People's Tribunal],
Pakistan)

2:00- Plenary "Defending Public Services: Privatisation and Public Space"
5:00 (People's Right's Movement, Pakistan etc)

5:00- "GATS: Linking the Erosion of Public Services and Democratic
6:30 Accountability in Ireland and Around the World" (ATTAC, Comhlamh)

6:30 "Internationalising the West Papau Struggle for Independance and
8:00 Survival" (West Papau Action)

7:00- "People's Livlihood Struggles in Pakistan"
8:00pm (People's Rights Movment, Pakistan)



Further details of the above workshops (full details given at:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61623)
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Title: TRADE, DEBT AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVISM IN IRELAND AND AROUND THE WORLD

Host: TRADE JUSTICE IRELAND & DEBT AND DEVELOPMENT COALITION IRELAND

Speakers:Jean Somers, Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, Caroline
Maxwell, Action Aid Ireland, Aisling Wheeler, World Bank Boycott, Donnacha O
Briain, Tobin Tax Initiative, Colin Roche: Oxfam Ireland, Monica Corish:
Comhlamh Trade Justice Group, Ian McDonald: Comhlamh Media, Oisin Coghlan:
Christian Aid Ireland.

Time & Room: Blue Room, 1st Fl., 11.00 - 1.00.

Details:

This workshops will describe some of economic injustices that ensure that
the majority of the world's people are kept in poverty, and explore the rich
and growing opportunities for people in Ireland to become part of a rapidly
growing and maturing global movement in which ordinary people are demanding
that these injustices be rectified to ensure a just equitable world for. It
will begin by explaining the current position on debt cancellation/debt
campaigning and identify how individuals can get involved. The workshop will
place debt campaigning and resistance to IMF/World Bank imposed programmes
in indebted countries in a global and local framework. Questions looked at
will be: the impact of people's movements /global campaigning : what has
been achieved on debt; what are the pressing current debt issues in the
South and North of the- globe e.g. illegitimate debt, tackling the
globalisation/debt link, cancellation for development; where Ireland
stands/opportunities during the EU presidency. The Boycott the World Bank
Campaign will then describe how the role international institutions such as
the World Bank are coming under increasing public scrutiny, and how people
in Ireland can join an international campaign to put pressure on World Bank
to end its destructive policies. Donnacha of the Tobin Tax Initiative will
then describe the Tobin Tax Campaign which was recently launched in Ireland
to advocate a simple tax on currency speculation which could, in one stroke,
protect developing countries from the often devastating economic volatility
caused by currency speculation while simultaneously raising billions that
could then be used to assist counties in their development.

The second hour will be hosted by the Trade Justice Ireland coalition.
Speakers will come from several of the 17+ groups who formed this coalition
earlier in the year to campaign against incredible injustices that run
through the rules of international trade (typically negotiated and enforced
through the World Trade Organisation). Across the world, more and more
people are become aware of the seriousness of these injustices and how they
are increasing and reinforcing poverty in the developing world on an vast
scale. This workshop will describe how the Trade Justice Ireland coalition
is providing opportunities for people in Ireland to add their voices to the
growing cry of an international movement demanding trade justice for all the
world's people.



Title: DOCUMENTARY MAKING AT THE MARGINS
Time & Room: Blue Room, 1st Fl., 2.00 - 4.00.
Host: TRÓCAIRE

Chair: Donnacha O Briain, Documentary Filmmaker, co-director of ‘Chavez –
Inside the Coup’.
Speakers: E. Deenadayalan, The Other Media, India. Muireann de Barra,
Gaffer Productions
Ian McDonald, Comhlamh Media

Details:

Documentary Making at the Margins: this workshop will explore the
experiences of documentary makers from India and Ireland in working with
marginalised communities to highlight their struggles for social justice and
to broaden and deepen the principles and values of democracy, justice and
peace.

Deenadayalan works with a Trócaire partner organisation in India – The Other
Media. The Other Media was set up due to the mainstream media’s tendency to
ignore, distort or misrepresent the struggles and issues that affect the
most vulnerable groups in civil society. Deenadayalan has produced and
directed documentaries on caste-based violence in Gujarat and throughout
India; the struggle of the indigenous Naga people in North East India. He is
currently working on a film about women negotiating conflict and violence in
their everyday lives and the role of women’s agency for change and
transformation in everyday situations.

Muireann de Barra has worked in Ireland with drug-affected communities and
with rural communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in a solidarity film and
art-based project to recreate a mural on Peace and Freedom which was
destroyed by the Mexican military. This project was captured in a
Documentary called ‘Muralistas’ which has been screened on national TV
networks in Ireland and the US and has also been shown in Chiapas.


Title: CIVIL RESISTANCE AND STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE & RIGHTS IN PERU (includes
a documentary film on the health and environmental consequences of intense
mining activities in the heart of the Peruvian Andes.)

Host: TRÓCAIRE & LATIN AMERICA SOLIDARITY CENTRE
Time & Room: Solidarity Hall, Ground Fl., 11.00 - 1.00.

Speakers: Ernesto Cabellos - Peruvian, Stephanie Boyd - Canadian

Details:
This workshop will present a documentary film on the health and
environmental consequences of intense mining activities in the heart of the
Peruvian Andes. It highlights the struggle of peasant communities to seek
justice and their rights following a devastating mercury spill by one of the
world’s richest gold-mining corporations (Newmont). The workshop will also
look at civil resistance in Peru and how other communities organise and
prepare themselves to – participate in decision-making around local
development in their area.



Tile: PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOOD STRUGGLES IN PAKISTAN
Time & Room: Blue Room, 1st Fl., 7.00pm - 8.00pm.
Host: PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT, PAKISTAN.

Speaker: Asha Amirali, from The Peoples Rights Movement Pakistan.

The Peoples Rights Movement is a confederation of grassroots social
movements in Pakistan which includes tenant farmers fighting eviction and
privatisation of their land, squatter communities fighting for the right to
shelter, students and teachers resisting privatisation of education,
fisherfolk communities struggling to protect their livelihood from corporate
foreign fishing fleets, indigenous forest dwellers protecting their forests
from timber mafia’s, and people displaced by mega “development” projects
asserting their right to life. In this workshop Asha will describe some of
their struggles, and suggest ways - to be explored more fully in the
remainder of the Irish Social Forum - of building solidarity between people
in Ireland and Pakistan.


At the 2pm Plenary Asha will also tell the story of the Anjuman Mazarain
Punjab (Sharecropper Tenants Association of the Punjab), a grassroots social
movement in which 1,000,000 farmers in central Pakistan are engaged in a
life and death livelihood struggle against eviction from the lands on which
they have been tenants for as long as 100 years. The agenda behind this
dispossession is the need of the para-statal (semi-states) companies and
institutions who control the land to -realise their assets- before being
privatised.
When addressing an audience of tenant farmers in Co. Mayo in 1879, Charles
Stewart Parnell might easily have been speaking to their struggle as he
said:

"You must not allow yourselves to be dispossessed as your fathers were, you
must help yourselves, and the public opinion of the world will stand by, and
support you in your struggle to defend your homesteads."

Yet although no other country in the developed would should be able to
identify with the struggle of these communities more effortlessly than
Ireland, through demands made on Pakistan in recent trade negotiations at
the WTO (specifically GATS), Ireland in fact appears to be complicit in the
agenda behind this dispossession. In addition to describing the struggle of
these communities, Asha will suggests connections between people's struggles
in Pakistan and Ireland.]



Title: GATS: LINKING THE EROSION OF PUBLIC SERVICES AND DEMOCRATIC
ACCOUNTABILITY IN IRELAND AND AROUND THE WORLD.

Host: ASSOCIATION FOR THE TAXATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS FOR THE AID OF
CITIZENS (ATTAC)
Time & Room: Blue Room, 1st Fl., 5.00 - 7.00.

Speakers :Asha Amirali, People's Rights Movement, Pakistan. Barry Finnegan,
ATTAC; Article 133 Information Group. Conall O Coaimh, Comhlamh. speaker,
Anti Incineration Campaigns speaker, Dublin Campaign Against the Bin Tax,
speaker, Dublin Bus Workers

Details:
This workshop will show how GATS is removing democratic control of public
services both in Ireland and around the world; it will also focus on the
practical possibilities of building cooperation and solidarity between the
many groups affected by GATS.

GATS is the General Agreement on Trade in Services. It is an international
trade agreement from the WTO which is being adopted by / forced on,
governments / peoples around the world. The GATS attack on vital public
services is linked to the EU Treaty of Nice, the proposed EU constitution,
and the commodification and privatisation of waste management, transport,
health and education in Ireland, while for people in poorer countries the
battle against GATS is often one of survival.

In the afternoon plenary, Asha will have described the role GATS in playing
in the dispossession of a million tenant farmers in Pakistan and the urgency
which these communities need solidarity and support.

This workshop is intended as a chance to explore practical ways in which we
might mutually inform and strengthen our campaigns through practical
cooperation, information sharing, solidarity, and perhaps feeding into
larger European and international campaigns against GATS


Title: FARMERS RIGHTS NORTH & SOUTH
Time & Room: Bar Function Room, 1st Fl., 12.30 - 2.00

Host: PEOPLE'S RIGHT MOVEMENT (PAKISTAN), MACRA NI FIRMA, OXFAM IRELAND

Speakers: Asha Amirali (People's Rights Movement), Colin Roach (Oxfam),
Shane Fitzgerald (Macra na Feirme)

Details:
Across the world family farming is in crisis. This workshop will explore the
experiences of small farmers as they struggle to stay on their land, drawing
particularly on the experience of farmers in Ireland and Pakistan, while
looking at some of the daunting issues to be addressed in the rules of
international trade and agricultural policy.


Title: INITIATIVES IN CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY AND GRASSROOTS PEOPLE'S
DEMOCRACY AND LAW.
Time & Room: Green Room, 1st Fl., 3.30-5.00

Host: CHRISTIAN AID IRELAND

Speakers:Oisin Coghlan, Christian Aid Ireland, Asad Farooq, People's
Tribunal (Lok Sath) Pakistan.

Details:
In this workshop, Oisin will discuss the initiative of global civil society
to develop an enforceable charter of corporate accountability. Asad has been
working with the Anjuman Mazarain Punjab, a social movement of tenant
farmers fighting eviction in Pakistan (see afternoon plenary), as well the
Chashma campaign of people in central Pakistan struggling against the impact
of mega water projects on their communities. He will be describing his
experience with grassroots initiatives in people's democracy and people's
law, through the process of a Peoples Tribunal.


Title: WHAT IS A FEMINIST ORGANISATION?
Time & Room: Orange Room, 1st Fl., 3.30 - 5.00.

Host: BANÚLACHT
Facilitators:Eilish Dillon and Maeve Taylor, Banúlacht.

Speakers:
Salome Mbugua, Akina Dada Wa Africa - Sisters from Africa (AkiDwA).
Raihana Diani, Acehnese Women's Democratic Organisation.
Time & Room: Orange Room, 1st Fl., 3.30 - 5.00.

Details:
This workshop will explore different questions about what it means to be a
feminist organisation in the context of Ireland and Aceh. How can feminist
analyses inform what justice issues are addressed by a group or
organisation? Does being a feminist organisation make a difference to how
people work together or how they talk about and view the world? What are the
challenges of calling an organisation feminist?



DEFENDING PUBLIC SERVICES - PRIVATISATION AND PUBLIC SPACE Plenary
[focusing on issues of local and global reduction and commodification of
public services].

Facilitator: Paul Dillon, President UCD Students Union.

Asha Amirali, People's Rights Movements of Pakistan.
Luciano Muhlbauer, Italian Trade Unionist (cobas), Italian ESF
Co-ordination.
Bill McCamley, SIPTU activist; CIE worker-director (Dublin Bus).
Heike Vornhagen, Community Workers Co-Op.
speaker, Dublin Campaign Against the Bin Tax


Title: INTERNATIONALISING THE WEST PAPUAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE AND
SURVIVAL
Host: WEST PAPUA ACTION

Speaker:
Mark Doyle, co-ordinator West Papua Action
Time & Room: White Room, 1st Fl., 6.30 - 8.00.

Details:
Internationalising the West Papuan struggle for independence and survival

Related Link: http://www.irishsocialforum.org
 
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