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<!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Friday, September 26, 2008</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear friends on WSFDiscuss, Social Movements, and Debate (separately)</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Copy : All speakers at the two events, and Magnus Wennerhag and Olav Unsgaard at Fronesis; colleagues at CACIM</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>This posting is to share with you brief summary reports of the four events - two ‘real’, one virtual, and one informal – that we at CACIM co-organised at the European Social Forum that took place in Malmö last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In both the real cases, we have recordings of the events, and will be uploading those along with photographs – certainly, on <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net">www.openspaceforum.net</a></span></span> and maybe also elsewhere – over the next while; as outlined below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Watch this space for details !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And for the third event, see a couple of blogs by </span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CONTACT _Con-42CE9FFCA26 \c \s \l <span style='mso-element: field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">America Vera-Zavala</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">; links given below.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">Before summarising the events though, I want to take the opportunity of this posting to publicly again all the speakers at our events : Thank you for making them the great events they were ! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I also want to publicly thank our new friends at Fronesis, in Sweden (<a href="http://fronesis.nu/english/">http://fronesis.nu/english/</a>), Magnus Wennerhag and Olav Unsgaard, for their generous collaboration in helping us organise the two events, and for finding and sharing with us – for both events - the marvellous space that they had found for their events : The Babels/Jeriko café and theatre, which was just 150 metres away from the main ESF site, the Folkets Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A converted (and thoroughly re-formed) church, in my opinion it had just the right ambience for our kind of event and contributed strongly to making the two sessions what they became !</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">And also to thank </span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CONTACT _Con-42CE9FFCA26 \c \s \l <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">America Vera-Zavala</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB"> for her / your two great blogs, at zero notice...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">For </span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CONTACT _Con-42CE9FFCE87 \c \s \l <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">CACIM</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB">JS</span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>The launch of the second edition of <i>World Social Forum : Challenging Empires</i></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thursday, September 18 2008, from 1-3 pm; co-organised with Black Rose Books, Montréal. <a href="http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm">http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">CACIM’s first event at the ESF – and which was one of the first to take place in the European Social Forum as a whole, taking place at lunch on the first day – was to launch the second edition of a book that had come out in 2004, <i>World Social Forum : Challenging Empires</i></span><span lang="EN-GB">, and that Black Rose Books of Montréal had asked Peter Waterman and Jai Sen to prepare for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have audio recorded the session, and with luck will soon be uploading both the recording and some photographs on OpenSpaceForum (<a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net">www.openspaceforum.net</a>), with a link also from <a href="http://www.cacim.net">www.cacim.net</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">With the book coming out just in time for the ESF, BRB flew the books over to Malmö, accompanied by Dimitri Roussopoulos himself, the publisher; and where BRB also took a stall in the Folkets Park (‘People’s Park’) for the book sales.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Following a welcome by Dimitri where he underlined that he felt that this was an important book around an important political development, the World Social Forum, Peter and Jai, in turn, put the book in context and invited those contributors to the second edition who were present to say a few words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We had with us there Emma Dowling (scholar-activist from the UK), Gina Vargas (Articulación Feminista Marcosur, Peru), Samir Amin (Third World Forum and World Forum for Alternatives; Egypt, Senegal, and France), and Teivo Teivainen (NIGD, Finland and Peru), each one of whom spoke briefly; and where this was followed by a fairly long, intense, and spirited exchange between the speakers and with several of those present, including Dorothea Haerlin (ATTAC Berlin, Germany), </span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CONTACT _Con-42CE9FFCEA0 \c \s \l <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Graeme Chesters</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element: field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB"> (UK), and Gustave Massiah (CRID, France).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In all, we had some forty people there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Another contributor to the book, Irene León from ALAI in Ecuador, was also to have joined us, but was finally unable to come to Sweden because of political developments in her country.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Among many other contentious points that were debated, Samir Amin’s emphasis on what he sees as being “fragmentation” in the (global justice) movement – and the need therefore for greater order - was strongly contested by Gina Vargas and Dorothea Haerlin, and others, who argued that seeing the diversity and plurality that they see as the hallmark and strength of the global justice movement as ‘fragmentation’ was a part of the problem; and part of how those who want more centralised, and centrally driven and led, movement see and characterise what is by nature a very diverse movement, in their attempt to being it under control and organise it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Samir, unfortunately, left early, to go to another meeting; but it was interesting to see Teivo Teivainen, who one normally associates with taking other positions, in this case expressing his cautious agreement with Samir’s point about fragmentation.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This, and many other points, led to a long and very engaged discussion about the Forum and its possible futures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Because this discussion took place on the very first day of the Forum, and as one of the first session on the first day, this was perhaps one of the very first such discussions to take place in this area at the ESF at Malmö.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And one could argue that it therefore may have contributed to sharpening the focus of all those who were there – several of whom are key players in the WSF process - on the deliberations during the days ahead.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The session then moved to the bar part of Babels, where Black Rose Books treated all those who bought a copy of the book to a drink, and we at CACIM all the contributors to the book who had spoken, on behalf of the editors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The discussions then continued in small groups, deep into the afternoon….</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Let us end this quick report by urging you all as people interested in the WSF as a social and political phenomenon to please buy this book and to promote it and push it as much as you can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>While it has been a great privilege to be published by Black Rose Books, they have also invested heavily in doing so and in bringing the book over to Malmö from Canada, and they need your help to make the book pay its way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To order it, go through the publisher’s page on it, <a href="http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm">http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm</a>; and other things being equal, for those in North America the book should be on the shelves of your local bookshop any day now, and in Europe soon after.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In addition, please do urge other people to buy it : Especially Forum and movement organisers, teachers giving courses in any and all related areas (political sciences, social sciences, government, etc), and libraries; please do try and get the book reviewed in journals and newspapers – including by doing so yourself; and : please try and get key people to prepare ‘testimonies’ that can help us promote the book (and send those to<span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:mavros@blackrosebooks.net">mavros@blackrosebooks.net</a> and to <a href="mailto:jai.sen@cacim.net">jai.sen@cacim.net</a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span>Thanks for your solidarity !</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><b>For more information on the book</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><b> and to place advance orders</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">, see : </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm">http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm</a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(See below for information on the speakers.)</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>Seminar on ‘How Relevant is the WSF to Struggles for Social Justice in the World Today ?’<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Friday, September 19 2008, 10-1 pm; co-organised with Fronesis. <a href="http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Malmo">http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Malmo</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Some 50-60 people came to CACIM’s second event at the ESF, a seminar co-organised with Fronesis, a Swedish journal that aims to provide “… tools for a radical comprehension of our time by gathering politics, theory, and critique in extensive thematic issues” (<a href="http://fronesis.nu/english/">http://fronesis.nu/english/</a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The event was videotaped, and if all goes well, CACIM proposes to upload both the recording and some photographs on OpenSpaceForum (<a href="http://www.openspaceforum.net">www.openspaceforum.net</a>), with a link also from <a href="http://www.cacim.net">www.cacim.net</a>. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Organised somewhat as a roundtable rather than a panel discussion, the seminar started off with a welcome by Olav Unsgaard, Chair of Fronesis, and then an introduction by Jai Sen of CACIM, followed by invited presentations by Gina Vargas (veteran feminist of the <span style="color:black">Articulación Feminista Marco Sur, </span>Peru, and a leading member of the WSF’s International Council) and by Alex Callinicos (of the SWP – Socialist Workers’ Party, in the UK, which after much struggle ultimately took the lead role in organising the European Social Forum in London in 2004).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Citing both the intense and sustained criticism and challenge that the WSF has been facing for the past year and more from leading ideologues within the WSF such as Walden Bello and Samir Amin, and also the distance that popular movements in India today keep from the WSF - and where India was seen, just some years ago, as the first major experiment in globalising the Forum - Jai invited the speakers, and the panellists to follow, and all those present, to try and focus their attention and presentations on the very hard and real implications of the theme proposed for the meeting : <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>How Relevant is the WSF to Struggles for Social Justice in the World Today ?</i></span><span lang="EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Gina and Alex both, each in their own ways, located and problematised the WSF at the present historical juncture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Gina placed focus on some of the key issues that the WSF’s International Council is today faced with and is going to address at its then-upcoming meeting in Copenhagen, and – as in her presentation on the occasion of the launch of the second edition of <i>World Social Forum : Challenging Empires</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"> (as reported above) – on the importance of nurturing diversity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alex, on the contrary, argued that the refusal of the IC to prioritise issues, and its tendency instead to prioritise diversity, means the institutionalisation of fragmentation; and that the challenge that the Bamako Appeal has placed before the WSF is very healthy. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">These two opening / ‘keynote’ presentations were followed by a short, open question-answer session, then by short intervention presentations by our panellists, and then by a sustained open discussion in the round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our panellists were Emma Dowling (scholar-activist, UK), Geoffrey Pleyers (scholar-activist, Belgium), America Vera-Zavala (<span style="color:black">writer, activist</span>, and playwright, Sweden), Moema Miranda (IBASE, Brazil, member, Brazil Organising Committee, and member, WSF International Council), Gustave Massiah (</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element: field-begin'></span> CONTACT _Con-42CE9FFCEDF \c \s \l <span style='mso-element: field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">CRID – Centre de Recherche et d'Information pour le Développment</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">, France), Raffaella Bollini (ARCI, Italy, and member, WSF International Council), and finally, Dimitri Roussopoulos (Black Rose Books and Urban Ecology Centre, Canada).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Given the sheer range of experience, viewpoints, and locations – both within and in relation to the WSF and the global justice movement, and on the planet – that the panellists brought to the meeting, their presentations almost inevitably led to a wide-ranging, rich, and at times a little heated interrogation of the WSF and of the theme of the meeting, filling out the full three hours we had for the session. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Several members of the audience also came in with substantive comments and interventions, including Chico Whitaker of Brazil, co-founder of the Forum and member of the International Council; Fazia, a student from London; Graeme Chesters from the International Centre for Participation Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK; Jason Nardi, of Zoes and other initiatives in Italy and an active member within the WSF International Council and its committees; Kristophe, doing his PhD on the alter-globalisation movement; Peter Waterman, labour internationalist living in The Netherlands and co-editor of <i>World Social Forum : Challenging Empires</i></span><span lang="EN-GB">; Stellan Vinthagen, Senior Lecturer at the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University and Member of the WRI (War Resisters’ International) International Council; Teivo Teivainen, of NIGD (Network Institute for Global Democratisation) and from Finland (‘and a little from Peru’, as he said); Thomas Wallgren of the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and a key member of % Movement in Finland in the 1980s and 90s; and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is impossible to summarise the content of the discussion in a few words; we urge those interested to view the video of the session when it is uploaded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But many among other points, and from the panellists alone, Emma Dowling asked whether the WSF was only for activists or for everybody; Geoffrey Pleyers asked, in the context of the actual participation in the Social Fora and also changes taking place in society, whether members hip in the WSF’s Council should be only for organisations or should be opened up to individuals; America Vera-Zavala asked how a movement prioritises – and urged the ESF to be less Euro-centric; Moema Miranda stressed the need for a common agenda – and the need for addressing disagreement and conflict but with diversity as the basis; Raffaella Bollini outlined crises emerging in the movement in Europe given larger social, economic, and political trends in the region towards the right and towards fundamentalism, and towards the centralisation of wealth, and made an appeal for help in thinking through the Forum and rebuilding it; Gustave Massiah emphasised that the WSF is a part of a larger historical movement – and that we must see in the <i>longue durée</i></span><span lang="EN-GB">; and Dimitri Roussopoulos strongly echoed Raffaella’s appeal, underlining that rebuilding the movement and the Forum was even more necessary in North America, as the home of the militarised beast that is driving this process – and without this, there can be no alternative future, no other worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">One point that we from CACIM want however to take the privilege of mentioning here, was an exchange about the dismal state of the WSF in India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Moema Miranda and Chico Whitaker – both members of the WSF’s founding Brazil Organising Committee and of its International Council – questioned the somewhat negative, pessimistic picture that Jai had portrayed of the WSF in India, and cited the views of members from India on the IC to support their point of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Jai responded first by suggesting that citing their views – people who movements in India see as being part of the problem – was surely hardly appropriate; but more, he summarised briefly the consequences for the WSF in India, and more generally for relations between social movements in the country and the CPI(M) (Communist Party of India (Marxist)), which the leading members of the WSF in India mostly belong to - of the savage repression and killings that the CPI(M) unleashed in a place called Nandigram, in the state of West Bengal, in 2007, to punish the villagers for daring to oppose and refuse an industrial ‘development’ project being imposed by the state on their area that would leave them landless and homeless (for information, see <a href="http://sanhati.com/">http://sanhati.com/</a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This, along with other such developments in the country (such as in Chengara in the state of Kerala), has created a deep schism between independent movements and this part of the party left and has in turn, because of the dominance of this grouping in the WSF in India, also traumatised the WSF process; which in any case had been left to languish since the Mumbai Forum in early 2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It no longer has any legitimacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Implying that somewhat similar other such processes have also taken place elsewhere in the world, in relation to the WSF, Jai asked Chico and Moema, and all members of the IC, and all those present, to reflect on the implications of such deep inversions, and especially in the face of the profound multiple challenges that the WSF is today facing and, more broadly – and as the panellists made clear - that the world is today facing.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As Geoffrey Pleyers remarked after the seminar, what was remarkable about the meeting was the extent and depth of critical engagement that was present in the exchanges, which in his experience of the past several years of the Forum – since its inception – was rare; and in his estimation, this was something that CACIM’s sustained focus and insistence on engagement has contributed to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alex Callinicos even berated the members of the International Council for their complacence, and urged them to engage with issues far more self-critically. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It was a great session; many, many participants said so, after it ended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This summary does little justice to it; and given that we expect to have a full recording uploaded, we strongly urge you to take the time to view and study that when it is up. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(See below for information on the speakers.)</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>America Vera-Zavala’s blogs on the Malmö ESF </b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0E16F8"><u style="text-underline: #0E16F8"><a href="http://openspaceforum.net/pipermail/worldsocialforum-discuss_openspaceforum.net/2008-September/000929.html">http://openspaceforum.net/pipermail/worldsocialforum-discuss_openspaceforum.net/2008-September/000929.html</a></u></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">and<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0E16F8"><u style="text-underline: #0E16F8"><a href="http://openspaceforum.net/pipermail/worldsocialforum-discuss_openspaceforum.net/2008-September/000936.html">http://openspaceforum.net/pipermail/worldsocialforum-discuss_openspaceforum.net/2008-September/000936.html</a></u></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The third ‘event’ that CACIM helped give shape to at the Malmö ESF were the two very interesting blogs by America Vera-Zavala on politically and historically locating the ESF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They were posted on these lists on September 18 (the first day of the Forum) and 19/20 (written 19<sup>th</sup>, posted 20<sup>th</sup>), and got some responses. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>TOIM – Time Out in Malmö ! : A daily get-together at the Nya Tröls Bar & Restaurant<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Another event is possible !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Along with the three ‘serious’ events, we also took the initiative of organising another kind of event at the ESF, a daily get-together between 5-8 pm at a bar just 500 m from Folkets Park called the Nya Tröls Bar & Restaurant (</span><span style="color:#0D14E7; mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><u style="text-underline:#0D14E7"><a href="http://www.nyatrols.se/">http://www.nyatrols.se/</a></u></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The idea was to make space and time to also have some good toim together in Malmö - to create a space where friends, old and new, could take a moment out and have the chance of definitely meeting each other, and pleasant new friends, over a drink and maybe also snacks or a meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The word spread, and though we even started with a great evening on the 17<sup>th</sup>, starting at 5 or so and going, with a break for the inauguration at 6, till 11, people came each day whenever they could during the announced period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Many brought new friends with them, and some started independently using the Nya Tröls Bar as a place to meet other people whom they met at the Forum.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Some more information on the main characters in this play – the invited speakers and actors in the various CACIM events at the Malmö ESF :</i></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Alex Callinicos <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Alex Callinicos is Professor of European Studies at Kings College London and a member of the SWP (Socialist Workers Party) in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:alex.callinicos@kcl.ac.uk">alex.callinicos@kcl.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>America Vera-Zavala <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">A writer and an activist, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">America Vera-Zavala <span style="color:black">has written commentaries for Znet since 2001. She has published three books in Sweden and her book </span><u>Democracy Lives : A World Mosaic of Participatory Democratic Experiences</u><span style="color:black"> was released in Turkey in 2006 and published in English in 2007. She lives in Sweden. She has been active in both the Left Party and in founding the Attac movement in Sweden. She is currently writing a play on <i>sans papier</i></span><span style="color:black">, paperless workers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:america@americavz.com">america@americavz.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Chico Whitaker <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">A member of the Brazilian Organising Committee of the WSF, Chico Whitaker is one of the co-founders of the WSF, and received the Right Livelihood award in 2006 for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Author of <i>A New Way of Changing the World</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> (Nairobi : World Council of Churches, 2007; published in Portuguese and Spanish in 2005).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:intercom@cidadania.org.br">intercom@cidadania.org.br</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Dimitri Roussopoulos <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Dimitri Roussopoulos is a well-known activist in Canada for some four decades working from the local to the regional level and back again on issues dealing with radical democracy and urban ecology. He is also a writer and book publisher, having been educated as an political economist.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:dr@urbanecology.net">dr@urbanecology.net</a>, <a href="mailto:mavros@blackrosebooks.net">mavros@blackrosebooks.net</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Emma Dowling <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Emma Dowling is active within the social forum movement and in struggles for global justice. Based in Berlin, she is currently studying for a PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she is researching the development of neoliberal global governance from the perspective of social conflict and resistance. Her <span style="color:black">research interests include social and political change; autonomous politics and global democracy; radical practices of political participation; immaterial and affective labour; and border regimes, detention, and deportation. She has published a number of articles on the social forum process and has been an active participant in the organisation of the ESF and WSF (both the official and autonomous spaces).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:esd@riseup.net">esd@riseup.net</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Geoffrey Pleyers <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Geoffrey Pleyers obtained a PhD in sociology at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is currently FNRS Researcher at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at the Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (Paris) and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance (London School of Economics). Geoffrey Pleyers is a member of the Open Space Forum discussion network and has attended the seven World Social Forums. He has conducted field research on the Global Social Justice Movement in Western European and Latin American countries including France, Belgium, Mexico, Argentina, and Nicaragua. His recent publications include <i><u>Forums Sociaux Mondiaux et defis de l’altermondialisme</u></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <u>(‘</u>World Social Forums and the challenges of alter-globalisation’, in French), Brussels: Academia. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:Geoffrey.Pleyers@uclouvain.be">Geoffrey.Pleyers@uclouvain.be</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Gina Vargas<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">A veteran Peruvian feminist sociologist and founder of the Centro Flora Tristan in Peru, Gina Vargas is one of the 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2006. She is associated with the Articulación Feminista Marcosur in Latin America, and the Program of Democracy and Global Transformation in San Marcos University, Lima. She has taught at universities worldwide and currently teaches the Master of Sexuality and Public Policies course at San Marcos University in Lima, Peru. She is a member of the WSF International Council. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:ginavargas@telefonica.net.pe">ginavargas@telefonica.net.pe</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Gustave Massiah<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Gustave Massiah is President of </span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size: 9.0pt'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CONTACT _Con-42CE9FFCEDF \c \s \l <span style='mso-element: field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-size:9.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">CRID – Centre de Recherche et d'Information pour le Développment</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size: 9.0pt'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">, France.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:guma@globenet.org">guma@globenet.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Moema Miranda <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Moema Miranda (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Tahoma-Bold">Moema Maria Marques de Miranda)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> has worked at IBASE, the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Research, since 1992 on different projects and initiatives. She is an anthropologist with an MA in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she studied rural labour and politics. Currently, she is a coordinator of two programmes at IBASE : the World Social Forum (WSF) process, and Democratic Alternatives to Globalization. She has also recently taken charge of IBASE’s Human Rights initiative. As IBASE’s representative on the WSF International Council, she has been a member of the organising committee of the last five global WSF events. She has also been the Secretary-General of the Agrarian Reform National Campaign in Brazil; between 1998 and 2001, she was a member of the steering committee of the National Forum on Urban Reform; and she was an active participant of the Citizenship Action against Hunger and for Life, one of the largest popular mobilisations in Brazilian history. A ‘Carioca’, as natives of Rio de Janeiro City are called, she has two daughters and one son.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:moema@ibase.br">moema@ibase.br</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Raffaella Bolini<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Raffaella Bolini is the Coordinator of ARCI, in Italy, and of the International Council of the WSF.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:bolini@arci.it">bolini@arci.it</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Samir Amin <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Samir Amin is Director, Third World Forum, located in Dakar, Senegal, and Chair, World Forum for Alternatives, Cairo, Egypt, and Louvain, Belgium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>An economist and intellectual, he is regarded as one of the foremost thinkers on the changing dynamics of capitalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Since 2001, he has been actively associated with the World Social Forum as well as the regional fora.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Amin has authored my articles and books, including <u>Accumulation on a world scale</u> (1970), <u>Transforming the revolution : social movements and the world system</u> (1990), <u>Beyond US Hegemony : Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World</u> (2006), and <u>Memoirs of An Independent Marxist</u> (2006), and with François Houtart in 2002, he edited - <i><u>Mondialisation de resistances : L’etat des lutes 2002</u></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> [‘The Globalisation of Resistance : The State of the Struggles 2002’, in French] (Paris : L’Harmattan / Forum Mondial des Alternatives).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:Samir.Amin@wanadoo.fr">Samir.Amin@wanadoo.fr</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><b>Teivo Teivainen <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt">Chair of World Politics, and Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, Teivo Teivainen is a past President of NIGD (Network Institute for Global Democratisation), a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, and co-founder of the Program of Democracy and Global Transformation in San Marcos University, Lima, Peru.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:teivo.teivainen@helsinki.fi">teivo.teivainen@helsinki.fi</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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