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<div><br></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:info@askapena.org">info@askapena.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> October 3 2008 4:04:44 PM GMT+05:30</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:eh-info-engl@askapena.org">eh-info-engl@askapena.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>[ASKAPENAinfo:] boga! 4:"Malmö: Where is going to the movement of mevements?"</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:info@askapena.org">info@askapena.org</a></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><i>herrien mundurantz<br> Euskal Herria internazionalista</i></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Tahoma; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="7" color="#891a96" style="font: 37.0px Arial; color: #891a96"><b><i>boga!</i></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 47.0px; text-indent: -18.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Symbol">· <a href="http://www.askapena.org/berriak/men/karpeta_es/0000004"><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0d14e7" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0d14e7">PDF version</font></a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 47.0px; text-indent: -18.0px; font: 12.0px Tahoma; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Tahoma" size="7" style="font: 32.0px Tahoma"><b>Malmö</b>:</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Tahoma" size="6" style="font: 24.0px Tahoma"><b>Where is going to the movement of mevements?</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">The V European Social Forum just ended in Malmö. In it took part with enthusiasm a delegation of more than 20 people organized in the network 'Herriak Aske', in which the Coordinadora Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), Health Work Comittees (Palestine) and Askapena (Euskal Herria) take part.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">Representatives of various Basque movements and popular organizations have been in 5 seminars as organizers. These seminars are a reflection of the Basque people's movement for the construction of another possible Euskal Herria in another possible Europe and in another possible and necessary world, and in some cases, a reflection, in turn, of the ongoing repression that is punishing this movement, precisely, because fighting for this so necessary another Euskal Herria.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="6" style="font: 24.0px Tahoma"><b> </b></font><font face="Tahoma" size="6" style="font: 21.0px Tahoma"><b>Why are fighting for another Europe?</b></font></p> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">In Euskal Herria we fight against the Europe of the Union for many reasons, the first one is clear: because like the Spanish and French states, the EU deny not only the official nature of our language and culture, and of our very people, but also of to dozens of European nations without state. This is why alongside with participants from countries like Païses Catalans, Welsh, Kurdistan or Flanders we have claimed the self-determination of our languages as a tool to decide and specify the necessary resources so that people can ensure the transmission, development and standardization of their language and culture.</font></li> </ul> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">Undoubtedly, the self-determination of our languages is inherent and is a consequence of the right to self-determination of peoples. It is a right which is crucial to understanding almost all conflicts worldwide, and a key to its solution. The speakers at this table on the right of self-determination were the representatives of the Foundation of Nations without State, Fundación Galiza Sempre and the Bureau of Social Forum of Hungary (in addition to Herriak Aske), and among those attending the seminar there were people of the Tamil people, Kurdistan, Germany, the Philippines ... It is clear that living in a world with some 5.000-6.000 peoples and just two hundred states, the right of self determination is the key to understanding the survival of thousands of peoples in the world. Besides, it is clear that even peoples with a state have political and armed conflicts, precisely because the states / empires violate their political sovereignty: the path they have chosen to build their country. This is why it is really frustrating to see that the European Social Forum and many of the organizations participating in it do not give to the right of self-determination the importance it has, both at European and global level, in order to regulate the coexistence and relations among the peoples.</font></li> </ul> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">The participation of the network Kamaradak of young internationalist was qualitatively and quantitatively important (undoubtedly the most numerous in the Basque delegation). They have taken a stand and organized a debate in the Forum with the theme 'The Process of Building of an Internationalist Youth Movement ' in which they participated along with other youth organizations internationalists, such as Fighters + Lovers of Denmark.</font></li> </ul> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">Regarding the internationalist field, and taking into account the campaign to criminalize this Danish group because of their campaigns in solidarity withe the Colombian FARC and the PFLP in Palestine, Askapena launched at the Assembly of Movements a question / request so that the ESF will be positioned against the criminalization and prosecution of international solidarity among peoples, ranging from the imprisonment of Sebas Bedouret or Remedios Albert Garcia (with tortures in the first case), to the judicial harassment against solidarity as in Denmark, and the paramilitary threats as in the case of a Basque threaten by the paramilitary Colombian group 'Aguilas Negras'. This has been the prize of denouncing fascist states as Israel and Colombia, or of organizing boycott campaigns against transnationals stained with blood as Coca Cola.</font></li> </ul> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">The fight or the solidarity of the ones who fight in their own peoples has also a price, as witnessed the representatives of the Network Against Repression coming from Palestine, Colombia, Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Denmark and Euskal Herria a in seminar entitled 'The liberation struggle is not terrorism,' that showed that the strategic policies designed by the states in their so-called 'fight against terrorism' aim to deny the most socially and politically committed sectors their civil and political rights. Faced with the Europe of the Eurowarrant and the black lists, we claim the right to resistance and solidarity.</font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"> </font><font face="Tahoma" size="6" style="font: 21.0px Tahoma"><b>Which is our stand in the Forums?</b></font></p> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"> It is easy to understand just looking at the delegation that has gone from Euskal Herria: people who are working and struggling every day, and in different sectors for a free and socialist Euskal Herria. In terms anti-globalization, who are fighting for 'another' Euskal Herria.</font></li> </ul> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">We understand the 'global' fight only from the 'local' one. So, in the case of our fight in Euskal Herria, only from the struggle for social and national liberation of our Basque people we understand the construction of a new world where states do not exploit the individuals, nor the peoples who live there, nor other peoples or states through 'trade', that is, the looting exercised by imperialist entities and transnationals.</font></li> </ul> <ul> <li align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">Taking into account the two previous points, we understand that, while in Forums there is room enough for all the people fighting for 'another world possible', the vanguard of this movement of movements are the ones who on a daily basis are facing this world (of the capital, the globalization, and the imperialism), and who are building real alternatives.</font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">Social Forums are a tool that should enable us to learn first-hand the fights and realities of different latitudes, that help mutual communication and interaction, and that should be able to coordinate and organize the agenda of the various movements. In short, they must be understood and developed in a internationalist key: fighting together against the injustices committed against anyone anywhere in the world.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">We must not ignore that nowadays there are people participating in Forums who work in, from and for social democracy: for a world that 'remains the same'. There are also individuals who representing only themselves act as censors who veto too important matters.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">Therefore, it is the responsibility of all organizations and movements that are fighting on a daily basis in our respective peoples, to make the forums and the anti-globalization movement in general a more effective tool for making possible this another world that we need so much, before the managers of the current one get to annihilate it.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#0d14e7" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; color: #0d14e7"><a href="http://www.askapena.org/"><u>www.askapena.org</u></a></font></p></div><div><br></div><div>__________________</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "><b>CACIM</b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A-3 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">www.cacim.net</font><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ph : +91-11-4155 1521<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"><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Check out</b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>the OpenSpaceForum</b> @ <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">www.openspaceforum.net</font></span></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"><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Subscribe to WSFDiscuss</b></span><span lang="EN-GB">, an open and unmoderated forum on the World Social Forum and on related social and political movements and issues. 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