friends attached is an update on the visit by Michael Albert and associated events. Although we are not calling the event a 'social forum' as such (it is now called 'Another World is Possible, using a consistent theme from the World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre), the same idea underpins the event: of collaboration between a cross-section of progressive social forces and movements.
The program for the forum on the 23rd is starting to shape up: i have attached the program below. It is still evolving and we are adding workshops as they are offered so perhaps keep an eye on the FoE website for extra details. http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au There is also a workshop with Micheal Albert on 'building effective movements'. This will be on Monday 25 March and is jointly hosted by the RMIT Community Advocacy Unit and FoE. You will need to book for this. Details are available on the front of the FoE site or at: http://advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au/ (under public events). We would welcome your involvement in this process. We are meeting on tuesday evenings at 6pm at trades hall (check the downstairs blackboard for details on the meeting room). You can also contact any of the people listed on the announcement on the FoE site. Please consider circulating this information through your networks. We hope to see a good turn-out for what should be an inspiring event. regards Cam Walker ---- ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE proposed agenda for 23/3/2002 Venue: Trades Hall, Carlton. Corner of Victoria and Lygon streets. Note on the workshops. Workshops can be offered in two 'streams': critiques and visions (focussing on big picture analysis and strategy for the movement) and action and activism (focussed more on practical activism and particular issues). People are welcome to send in proposals and they will be listed on the website. We can have up to 8 workshops in each session, each of 1.5 hours. People will also be able to nominate workshop topics at the start of the forum. We anticipate that the people offering the workshops will have given thought to how the session will run and will give a presentation to set the scene; however, we hope these will be participatory discussions rather than lectures. It is not necessary for workshops to deliver proposals, resolutions or other outcomes. But we do hope that they will be a forum for people to make new contacts and hopefully get involved in issues. We are currently calling for offers on workshops: please send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agenda 9am Registration, stalls set up The anti-corporate globalisation movement: critique, action and vision 9.30am Welcome/ overview of day/ workshops information Social critique and vision in the anti-corporate globalisation movement (presentation by Michael Albert) 10.15 Local contributions responding to Michael Albert (strictly 5 mins each) - [groups involved in anti-corporate movement specifically] 10.40 Tea Break 11.00 Workshops: Critique and Vision Is there a social, environmental and economic alternative to corporate globalisation? A green and left dialogue. Anne O'Casey (Democratic Socialist Party) http://www.greenleft.org.au New Social movements in Latin America. US war and popular resistance. Lucho Riquelme (Chilean Popular and Indigenous Network) and Alan Jennings (Committee in Solidarity with Latin America & the Caribbean) http://www.cislac.org.au/ How do we deal with the state? Repression and violence. David Glanz (ISO) http://www.iso.org.au 1.00pm Lunch 2.00 Workshops: Action and Activism Chris Richards, co-editor, New Internationalist magazine: on current struggles and military repression in West Papua. http://www.newint.org/ Energy Action Group: an activists guide to the energy market How do we build open and grassroots campaigns and movements? Jorge Andres Jorquera (DSP) Colombia and Argentina: popular and Indigenous resistance. Roque Grillo, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Support Group 3.30 Tea break 3.45 An activist dialogue: Where do we go from here with the anti-corporate globalisation movement? [Organisations invited to make strictly 5 minute contributions. 3 organised speakers at a time then followed by 15 minutes for contributions from the floor - maximum 3 minute speaking limit. etc] Close with music. Outline of Melbourne Social Forum (MSF) process and invite for involvement. The MSF is an informal grouping of progressive organisations based in Melbourne who are meeting on a regular basis in order to increase collaboration and strategic planning for the social movements. ---- PUBLIC WORKSHOP "EFFECTIVE MOVEMENT BUILDING" with MICHAEL ALBERT Co-founder of Boston-based Z Magazine and ZNet PROGRAM DETAILS This three-hour workshop is aimed at activists and all those interested in building more effective social movements. The workshop will be informal and interactive and will touch on the following: strategic thinking and vision development unity with difference: how different political groupings and tendencies can work together effectively contemporary perspectives: lessons from recent mobilisations around the world historical perspectives: lessons from earlier struggles and movements Monday 25 March @ 6.00pm RMIT University, City Campus $10.00 FULL / $4.00 CONCESSION Further information from: Gillian Davy, Community Advocacy Unit, 9925 2910 Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth, 9419 8700 ----- help keep FoE active - give a tax-free donation ----- Friends of the Earth Melbourne (Australia) PO Box 222 Fitzroy 3065 312 Smith St Collingwood Phone: (03) 9419 8700 Fax: (03) 9416 2081 (International: tel. +61 (3) 9419 8700; fax +61 (3) 9416 2081) www.melbourne.foe.org.au . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
