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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Autonomous Spaces at the ESF Malmö 17-21 September
2008</span></b></p>
<p>from email, 12 August 2008</p>
<p>@ <a href="http://www.wombles.org.uk/article2008081893.php">http://www.wombles.org.uk/article2008081893.php</a>
</p>
<p>Collaborative wiki form:<br>
<a href="http://openesf.net/projects/autonomous_spaces">http://openesf.net/projects/autonomous_spaces</a></p>
<p>Other people directly involve in organizing the spaces might do a great
contribution completing and updating this info in the wiki.</p>
<p>Hoping you find it useful. In solidarity! Mayo</p>
<p>List of autonomous spaces that are in preparation for the ESF 2008 Malmö -
September: (Info accessible at the wiki:<br>
<a href="http://openesf.net/projects/autonomous_spaces">http://openesf.net/projects/autonomous_spaces</a>)</p>
<p>1) ESF2008 Action Network<br>
2) Camp promoted by Friend of the earth and Via Campasina<br>
3) European Peace Action<br>
4) Migrant labour and precarity Meeting<br>
5) European Security Architecture<br>
6) Youth German Metal Trade Union Confederetion (DGB)<br>
7) No Vox (To be confirmed)<br>
8) Open space and Media&Memory Lab provided by the ESF<br>
9) Other infos useful for self-organize activities: ESF program and<br>
logistic contacts; <a href="http://openesf.net">openesf.net</a> online space for initiatives; others.</p>
<p>1) ESF2008 Action Network - <a href="http://www.esf2008action.net">http://www.esf2008action.net</a><br>
It is based on different autonomous groups in relation to the official ESF.
Plans include action, mobile soup-kitchen, radical assemblies, workshops,
lodging and entertainment for free. See updates on the official site
<a href="http://www.esf2008action.net">www.esf2008action.net</a> . Place: Utkanten (youth house), Glassfabriken (café), Smalands
(Student housing, Lund).</p>
<p>There will be a "convergence center" in the activistcenter
Utkanten, with space for assemblies, workshops and an action space. People who
participate dont need to pay fee or participate in the official ESF (if they
dont want to). Close to the official ESF-area there will be an open infopoint
at the cafe Glassfabriken.</p>
<p>More about the ESF 2008 Action Network including infos on Convergence
centers, Infopoints, Assemblies, Actions, Demostrations and<br>
<a href="http://openesf.net/projects/autonomous_spaces/the-esf-2008-action-network" target="_blank">Publications</a></p>
<p>2) Camp promoted by Friend of the earth and Via Campesina<br>
Camp where to celebrate seminars and activities and also be a camp for living.
They have a place 15 km from Malmö, nevertheless they are also considering to
find an other place instead inside Malmö. "The European youth of Via
Campesina organizes a camp from the 17th to the 21st September in Malmö,
Sweden, parallely to the ESF. Through this camp, we want to contribute to the
dynamic of the European Social Forum, linking more theoretical debates with
more practical alternatives. During the camp, we will propose workshops and
debates on sustainable family farming, food sovereignty and ecology (visit of
local farms, workshops on how to set up community supported agriculture, on
anti-GMO actions, on self-building of houses, on land occupation, on how to
produce energy, etc...). This camp will be organized in an autonomous way, which
will require the participation of all people staying there (collective cooking,
daily assembly to discuss the life of the group...). We wish to implement as
much as possible food sovereignty and will thus cook with local season
products". Staying in the camp will be free of charge. A voluntary fee
will be asked for the meals. The space there should allow to have about 200
people staying there. </p>
<p>Youth camp opened : 16 - 22 September<br>
Activities : 18 - 21 September </p>
<p>Contact Via campesina </p>
<p>If you wish to receive more information, please subscribe to the newsletter:<br>
<a href="mailto:vcampmalmoe@lists.openesf.net">vcampmalmoe@lists.openesf.net</a></p>
<p>If you wish to take part to the organization of the camp, you can contact:<br>
<a href="mailto:smekens.m@hotmail.com">smekens.m@hotmail.com</a> </p>
<p>Contact Friend of the Earth:<br>
Contact: <a href="mailto:ellie.cijvat@gmail.com">ellie.cijvat@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://openesf.net/projects/agriculture-food-sovereignity-land-reform-network/via-campesina-youth-camp" target="_blank">Wiki to organise the camp here</a></p>
<p>3) The European Peace Action<br>
Plans a special space where to celebrate seminars and organize actions. In 2008
the ESF, European Social Forum, will be arranged in Malmö, Sweden. We will grab
this opportunity to bring together different active peace movements from all
over Europe. We will organise a European peace forum, European Peace Action,
which will create a network of European peace groups for direct action. Our
goal is to develop common strategies and campaigns. The forum will run between
the 17- 21 September 2008 and the programme will contain presentations,
discussions, practical work and networking. The forum will focus on 4 themes:
NATO and the militarisation of the EU, nuclear weapons, militarisation of
space, and the international military industrial complex. The over-reaching
theme for the entire forum will be how to strengthen our resistance against
militarisation. During the forum there will also be possibilities to do direct
actions against arms companies in the region. The forum welcomes anybody who is
interested in peace work, not only people who are already active but also those
who don't have any previous experience at all in peace activism. If you have
any questions about the forum, if you want to have a look at the preliminary
programme or get active in other ways, contact on:<br>
<a href="mailto:forum@europeanpeaceaction.org">forum@europeanpeaceaction.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.europeanpeaceaction.org">http://www.europeanpeaceaction.org</a> and <a href="http://www.ofog.org">http://www.ofog.org</a></p>
<p>4) Migrant labour and precarity Meeting<br>
This kind of meeting should probably be organized in a space outside the Esf in
September in Kopenhagen, and if more people are interested to participate in
the preparations, please let us know / justice for janitors - global campaign
amsterdam, tavolo migranti italy, euromayday hamburg, no one is illegal hanau.
Explanation of the idea: After the conference „Migrant / Media / Metropolis -
New labour struggles in the global city" in Amsterdam last february some
activists came together and discussed first time the idea to organize a kind of
assembly on precarity and migrant labour in the days of the next European
social forum in Malmö in september. we are actively involved in various
transnational networks and all of us could imagine, that a coming together on
this topic from at least three approaches would be very interesting: from
euromayday, from union organizing campaigns and from the migrationrelated
networking. we agreed in the needs and in the potentials to deepen such a
cross-over debate in order to strengthen common struggles. We believe that
migration policies and migrations management are a crucial perspective in order
to understand the contemporary transformation of labor and the whole process of
precarization. Starting from different experiences of organization and struggle
against precarity and exploitation, it would be possible to make a step
forward, particularly on a transnational scale. This kind of interaction
already took place in Europe: for euromayday 2008, in the call and in the
parades of many cities the demands of migrants have been a crucial part, and in
Milano migrants had built first time the front of the mayday demonstration,
which was focused on the political centrality of migrant labor in the process
of precarization. At the same time, migrant labour was one of the crucial topic
within the frame of the Transnational Chain of Migrationrelated Actions, which
is actually going on in Europe and beyond Europe. So the base is even better
now to promote a process of political discussion and communication focused on
the issues of migration and precarity. We want to use the wider participation
in the next esf to organize a coming together, where also new people and groups
can be involved. It should be the occasion to share, on the one side, our
various experiences and approaches and to deepen, on the other side, the
questions related to the interaction between migrant labor and precarization,
and to the necessity – and difficulties – of a process of transnationalization
of the struggles.</p>
<p>5) European Security Architecture<br>
We (a bunch of people in germany and netherlands) try to strenghten at the ESF
and also the autonomous forum to discuss more about the so called
"european security architecture", that mixes inner and outer
security, such as military and police, leading to more european surveillance,
repression and war.We will make a proposal in malmö to take the NATO-summit in
france/germany 2009 as a reference to struggle against new police- and
army-collaboration in europe. One of our aims is to focus more networking
between groups in other countries that are working on that issues. So please
feel invited to join the preparations for the workshops in malmö! To get an
impression about what people from scandinavia want to discuss, what was and is
going on see: <a href="http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Goeteborg_2001/5045.html">www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Goeteborg_2001/5045.html</a>. it talks
also about the discussions in sweden after gothenburg EU-summit 2001.</p>
<p>Find a summary on institutions, agreements and techniques on
<a href="http://gipfelsoli.org/Multilanguage/English/4819.html">http://gipfelsoli.org/Multilanguage/English/4819.html</a> or see the presentation
for workshops (as pdf) on
<a href="http://euro-police.noblogs.org/gallery/3874/euro-police-networking.pdf">http://euro-police.noblogs.org/gallery/3874/euro-police-networking.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>6) The Youth German Metal Trade Union Confederation (DGB) plans a special
space to celebrate seminars on labour issues.</p>
<p>7) No Vox (France) is expecting to have their own space at the ESF in order
to organise activities. (To be confirmed)</p>
<p>8) There will be an "Open space" provided by the ESF. The Open
space is based on a meeting space without activities planned beforehand but
announced on the spot during the ESF. The Open Space will be at Sofielunds
Folkets Hus. The Open space will be close to the Media&Memory Lab of the
ESF. The Media&Memory Lab will provide infraestructure for self-reporting
on the ESF. The working group taking care of building the Media & Memory
Lab is: <a href="http://openesf.net/projects/documentation-esf-2008/project-home">http://openesf.net/projects/documentation-esf-2008/project-home</a></p>
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<p>9) Other infos useful for self-organise activities:</p>
<p>+ The Nordic Organiser Committe assumes that the logistics (rooms etc) of
the auronomous spaces are self-organised. Nevertheless for the coordinate on
the logistics with the ESF 2008 office you must write to: <a href="mailto:logistik@esf2008.org">logistik@esf2008.org</a><br>
+ Information on activities at the autonomous spaces will also included at the
programme publication that will be facilitated to the ESF participants.
Deadline to send the information to be included at the official program: 15
June. The information has to be sent to: <a href="mailto:program@esf2008.org">program@esf2008.org</a> and
<a href="mailto:info@esf2008.org">info@esf2008.org</a><br>
+ The <a href="http://www.openesf.net">www.openesf.net</a> provides online space for any project and initiatives
including own subdomain, wiki, task tracker, blogs, e-lists, etc. It is not
necessary that the project is linked to the ESF 2008 "event", but to
a continouus process.<br>
+ Ellie (Friend of the Earth) is available to facilitate information that could
be relevant for spaces organization. She is based at Malmö - Sweden:
<a href="mailto:ellie.cijvat@gmail.com">ellie.cijvat@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>--<br>
Mayo Fuster Morell<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:lilaroja@gmx.net">lilaroja@gmx.net</a><br>
Skype: mayoneti</p>
<p><a href="http://www.onlinecreation.info">http://www.onlinecreation.info</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.networked-politics.info">http://www.networked-politics.info</a><br>
<a href="http://www.euromovements.info">http://www.euromovements.info</a></p>
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