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


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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.


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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


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