[WSF-Discuss] Meeting defines mobilisation schedule for WSF 2008 and 2009 process and working groups

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24.08.2007
*Meeting defines mobilisation schedule for WSF 2008 and 2009 process and
working groups*

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More than 100 people of many entities from Amazonia countries, International
Council and Americas Social Forum's Hemispheric Council took part on *August
9 – 10* in the first meeting to prepare the organisation of WSF to be held
in January 2009 in Belem. The meeting had two main agendas: the preparation
for the week and day of mobilisation and global action (January 26 2008) and
discussions on the first initiatives towards 2009 event organisation.

In regards to the mobilisation journey, one of the immediate results were a
first schedule systematising an agenda of events and mobilisations to be
held by organisations, movements, networks acting in Amazonia (see the
complete and updated document on the website, in the section Agenda of
Events and Mobilisations > Upcoming Calls for
Action<http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=12_1&cd_language=2>).
These events will be moments, in which diverse social actors will
disseminate information on the day of mobilisation and global action, as
well as on World Social Forum in Amazonia. At the meeting were debated
various initiatives to be developed in this journey of struggles. It was
highlighted: boat caravans, marches, parades, artistic-cultural
demonstrations (movies, theatre performances etc.).

A broad working group have been constituted in this meeting to depth-in the
activities preparation for January 2008 and also those towards WSF 2009 in
Belem. Some of them: encourage WSF mobilisation committees set up in states,
to think on activities to disseminate WSF process in whole Amazonian region
and organise caravans of participants abroad Belem.

*WSF Amazon concept and relation with Pan Amazonian SF*
During the meeting, It was agreed that, in a WSF in the Amazonian region,
the struggles, campaigns, subjects and concerns that emerges from the local
should be a reference in the event and in the organisation process, as well
as the need to take place a Pan Amazonian Social Forum to highlight
amazonian issues at the WSF agenda.

At the same time, it was underlined that, even if the basis is Amazonian,
the WSF must be global. Other strategical issues will point out in
accordance to the diversity of countries and local, thematic and regional
forums from many parts of the world (Africa, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe,
Middle Eastern, Latin America and North America). As well as WSF issues will
be defined in the way to call and encourage discussions of whole world,
letting link with problems from Amazonian region.

A second working group, Methodology/program, was set up to, from proposals
made during the meeting, depth-in the debate and elaborate until October a
proposal of how to do this link between world and amazonian issues, as well
as between WSF and V Pan Amazonian Social Forum. It was agreed also that WSF
in Amazon will not be tight to the environmental issues and it should be a
space, in which mostly, Amazonians speak on Amazon to the world and not the
opposite.

Moreover, the working groups (WG) of mobilisation and methodology/program,
were set up two other WG: communication, information and memory; and on
logistics (infrastructure) and resources for WSF 2009. All the four WGs set
up will meet in a seminar at the end of October, just before WSF
International Council meeting, in which a set of amazonian proposals on WSF
2009 will be presented to the delegates from more than 150 international
entities member of this council.



*Agenda of events and mobilizations*



17.09.2007
*WSF Process – Calendar of Mobilisations towards 2008 and 2009*

*2007*

*National events and dates*

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@ http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=12_1&cd_language=2

*August*

*17-20* - II National Conference of Public Policies for Women, Brasilia, DF
*21-22* - March of Margaridas, Brasilia, DF

*September*

*August 31 to September 1st* - State meeting of the National Union for
Popular Housing, Sindicato dos Bancarios, Belem, PA
*First week* - State-level campaigns to legalise abortion (Articulação de
Mulheres Brasileiras)
*01-07* - Brazilian Social Week and Vale do Rio Doce Plebiscite - CNBB
*7* - Cry of Excluded
*13-16* - World Education Forum, Alto Tiete, SP
*18-21* - II National Encounter of Forest Peoples, (Coiab, CNS, GTA),
Brasilia, DF
*20-23* - Regional Seminar of Communities of African roots' religions,
Belem, PA
*20-22* - III State Conference for the Right to the City, Belem, PA
*21* - National Day of Struggles of Handicapped People
*24-28* - National Encounter of Human Rights, Brasilia, DF
*25-28* - Pan Amazonian Fair of Solidarity Economy, Rio Branco, AC
*28* - Struggle Day of struggle to legalise abortion, Brazil and Latin
America
*27-28* - Seminar to internalise WSF in the city, Belem, PA
*Last week* - Pan Amazonian Book Fair, Belem, PA


*October*

*4-7* - National Fair on Family Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Brasilia,
DF
*22-24* - II National Popular Assembly, Brasilia, DF
*6-11* - National Encounter of Training on Violence against Women and
National Politics Committee Meeting of AMB, Belem, PA
*13* - Cirio de Nazare, (flyer distribution to mobilise for January 26,
2008), Belem, PA
*15-30* - Democratisation of Communication Week, Intervozes
*29-nov 1st* - WSF International Council plenary, working groups and
commissions meeting, Belem, PA


*November*

*1-4* - Mercosur Youth Social Forum, Florianopolis, SC
*4-7* - ENONG – National Encounter of AIDS NGOs, Goiania, GO
*14-17* - National Fair of Solidarity Economy, Belo Horizonte, MG
*14-18* - XXVIII National Conference on Health
*20* - Black Conscience Day
*25-29* - III National Conference of Cities, Brasilia


*December*

*3-6* - VII National Conference of Children and Adolescent rights, Brasilia,
DF
*5-8* - V FAOR Conference, Palmas, TO
*14-17* - National Conference of Social Assistance, Brasilia, DF
*To be set* - State Fair of Solidarity Economy, Belem, PA


*Internation events and dates*

*August*

*23-26* - Quebec Social Forum, Montreal, Canada
*30-sept 2nd* - Social Movements Forum - Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul,
South Korea


*September*

*10* - International Journey against WTO, Transnationals and Agribusiness
*28* - Struggle of struggle to legalise abortion, Brazil and Latin America


*October*

"*Blue October*" - Month of Global Action against water privatisation /
Launching of the Global Campaign "Zero Evictions"
*7* - Action Day for Migrants Rights and for the Free Movement of People
*7-12* - Americas Social Forum, Guatemala City, Guatemala
*8* - Educational Seminar to remind Ernesto Che Guevara death (OCLAE),
Bolivia
*12* - Day of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance, Central America and
Mexico
*12* - International Journey "Freedom for the five Arrested Cuban Heroes in
United States"
*12* - Continental Cry of Excluded, Latin America
*14-21* - Global Week of Action against Debt and Multilateral Financial
Institutions
*17* - International Day for Poverty Eradication
*19-21* - Actions against the IMF and World Bank annual encounters
*20* - Youth World Day
*26-28* - V Continental Encounter of Solidarity with Cuba, Quito, Ecuador
*29-nov 1st* - WSF International Council plenary, working groups and
commissions meeting, Belem, Brazil


*November*

*To be set* - Human Rights Week
*To be set* - MOICAN Peasant Encounter - Movimiento Indígena y Campesino
Mesoamericano (Central American Indigenous and Peasant Movement), Nicaragua
*8-10* - Iberoamerican Alternative Summit, Santiago, Chile
*25* - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
*29* - Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People


*December*

*1* - World Day of Struggle against Aids/HIV
*3-6* - VII National Conference of Children and Adolescent Rights
*5-8* - V FAOR Conference, Palmas, TO, Brazil
*3-14* - United Nations Climate Change Conference, Bali, Indonesia
*8* - International Day of Action on Weather Changes
*10* - March of Human Rights Week closure
*To be set* - Central America Encounter of Women from Honduras
*To be set* - VII Central American Forum of Panama Peoples
*To be set* - Central America School on Economics and Politics of Women
*To be set* - IV Central American Encounter of Latin America Network against
Dams and in defence of Rivers and of Water, El Salvador
*To be set* - Mercosur Social Summit, Montevideo, Uruguay

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