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Here follows   in yellow   the suggestion of modifications in the text of the report of the meeting of September 12 proposed by Rita -   

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  • The current consensus / consent in the CI is that the WSF is a space    (explicitly mentioned @ 17 @ 19 @ 26 @ 27 @ 28 @ 39)
    • On the other hand, it is worth mentioning the expressions in the interventions that WSF is subject to the actor, (explicitly @ 23 @ 24 - most implicitly @ 13 group of activists - @ 20 Cetri - @ 23 IPS - @ 24 CSA - @ 26 CF FSMSSS - @ 27 international de la madera @ 31 colectivo @ 40 fundación franz fanon. 
    • Now  the main narrative remains that of an WSF as a space tool.  Dahi several  reformulations  proposed in the text, cuando have a formulation that implicitly presenta the WSF as "actor forum"  

     

  •  the initial blotter text  is here 
  • Text 44 below and the “live” rapporteur -  
  • text 44B is a more “fresh” categorization of statements related to the WSF in the interventions, based on the text
  • The realization of an almost verbatim of the meeting  http://openfsm.net/projects/ic-extended/online-202009-ampliado1-extension  allows to know who mentioned such an expression or word - these interventions numbered @ 7 to @ 47 are identified in blue below - there may be errors or omissions that anyone can correct based on the transcripts

 

 

SUMMARY OF THE MEETING OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN INVITED ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS MEMBERS OF THE IC - 12/09/2020


  • The meeting of CI organizations with a restricted group of movements and international organizations took place on a virtual basis on September 12, 2020, lasting 3 hours. It had an expressive presence of 36 representatives of organizations and movements from all continents. (17 CI member organizations and 19 invited organizations and movements (16 were on a list of invited organizations and 3 were unforeseen)

  • In general, we have had a diverse participation in the regions and all of them understand the importance and the necessity of this dialogue , recognizing the role and possibilities of the WSF to contribute effectively to the articulation of resistance and transformation gains. 
  • Some organizations request information on the next stages of dialogue @ 21 NAPM)
  • The pandemic challenges us all for putting a check on the capitalist system and highlighting the wide-open inequalities. The pandemic is not a struggle in itself, it is not the cause of everything, but a new crisis that encompasses all others, a crisis of the model, with a chaotic world situation, the gravity of which is due to all the other dimensions of the crisis against which have had articulations in the WSF for 20 years. The moment demands positioning and consequent actions.


1) Global solidarity and internationalism

  • Everyone understands the importance, the need and the opportunity of this dialogue, recognizing the role and possibilities of the WSF to make a real contribution to the articulation of social struggles and resistance and to transformations.
  • Solidarity between the struggles was recurrent in the speeches and results from the need that everyone feels not to act alone, with more articulation, alliances, coordination, joint actions, - words widely used in the debate, among others of a similar sense. In themes cited as global and environmental justice, women, racism and reparations, work and exploitation, extraction, migration, wars and apartheids, financial control, debt, colonialism, pandemic, among others.
  • Some speeches pointed out that participation in the WSF should stimulate the debate about a new internationalism. It can help in the emergence of a new social contract, which is inclusive, guided by human and environmental rights and which privileges social protection. @ 33ntui 6 @ 42 fsmagh 
  • This “global social dialogue” must continue and integrate new movements, including youth. In the WSF space, it is necessary to recognize the existence of new struggles, movements, and also their role, their functions , in the midst of different struggles. Several proposals point to the need for a new WSF, or a new dynamic within the framework of the current WSF . (@ 20 cetri @ 17 caritas)
  • It was also suggested to carry out a mapping of the struggles in the world, which face the pandemics of COVID-19 and capitalism   @ 18 united
2) Political impact

  • Expectations point to an unresolved challenge of the strategy to develop the WSF process for political incidence, which deepens in the face of two themes that are also quite common - the advance of the extreme right in the world and the attacks on democracies, which are seriously threatened.
  • Political incidence, either as a step to be taken by the WSF   considered as an actor and with the necessary democratic mechanisms, or as a result of proactive and self-organized use of open space “with added value” by its participants  
  • The expression “political subject” was also remembered in several interventions , either as a role to be constructed by the WSF (@ 23 IPS @ 24 CSA) , or as a construction by participants who are subject (@ 34 AFM) and through a red of powerful articulations, of a collective political subject that the use of the WSF process, as a tool should better help to build (@ 47 CEAAL)
  • The political impact is incompatible with the invisibility of the process. But the solution for the struggles to become visible, - communication - is also political, making it visible involves the ability to form alliances,   and also the ability to foster decentralized production and dissemination by participants in the news process since the WSF
  • ( @ 9 IAI @ 12 BNC @ 14 euromarches @ 24 CSA @ 17 caritas)

 

3) Support for struggles

  • Some expectations (@ 9 IAI) expressed that the WSF should be a motor for mobilization, and not just a place or space for which movements are mobilized. For this, the WSF must present ?? final lack of phrase It is not just a matter of movements finding ways to develop and reinforce their struggles through the WSF: the WSF must be a process that is more in line with the struggles, in order to support them. There is a need for more mutual visibility of resistance and transformation initiatives , and more help / support, solidarity and cooperation between them (@ 17 caritas)
  • Specific situations call for global articulations, as in the case of Palestine. This role should be encouraged by the CI . (Who?)   In this sense, some interventions (@ 9 IAI)   point out that the  WSF CI must not only publicize the struggles, but support determined struggles. In the space of the WSF The expression of solidarity must be transformed into actions.

4) Common strategies and actions

  • The articulation must go beyond what has been achieved in the WSF it has done so far. Participations in the WSF should help to connect but also to build struggles together, to identify common actions and agendas, to stimulate campaigns ...
  • Global and regional strategies need to be deepened. In this sense, an intervention (@ 30 CRID) suggests the holding of regional assemblies with the definition of regional strategies, to be evaluated in the CI as a basis for reflections on global strategies. This debate on marketing strategies can also be supported by thematic and regional forums.
  • The construction of articulation strategies to be built at the WSF involves the definition of priorities and some actions, but preserving the diversity of movements . (@ 14 euromarches @ 41 franz fanon) In the emergency context caused by the pandemic, it was also suggested to plan a few priority actions (one or two) for execution in a short period of a few months , (by whom?) it was also suggested to organize a week of global action (perhaps as already done in 2008) . (46 @ FMAS

5) CI

  • The weaknesses of the International Council need to be addressed. It is necessary to assess its limitations in the process of revitalizing the process, its heavy methodology of meetings, its difficulties in hosting clear debates about its tasks and making and forwarding decisions in relation to these . (@ 35 arena)
  • An intervention focusing on the responsibility and the possibility of the IC to define and implement in fsm 2021 new formats of participation in the open space oriented to online meetings, the visibility of action initiatives, and to participate-communicating from the WSF to make the WSF a ​​tool most useful for your active participants   (@ 17 caritas)
  • In the face of limitations to mobilize dynamic forces in various regions. the regionalization of self-organized  facilitation and articulation initiatives and even intervention strategies was suggested 30 CRID @ 36 FMA 
  • On matters of whose positioning, opinions are not unanimous. For example, do political positions fall to CI or its members? (who spoke of the CI in that?) or to an indefinite WSF @ 23IPS @ 31 centreo mexico) remembering that the practice of “positions on behalf of CI members and the current consensus / consent )  
  • CI's practical tasks should include mapping - active movements, struggles and alternatives being built (@ 7 GTA @ 18 arena) and could include the CI website creation (@ 35 arena)
  • The composition of the CI was also questioned again . (@ 21 NAPM @ 23 IPS - @ 33 NTUI @ 35 ARENA   The CI should increasingly reflect diversity and involve rules for gender representation.

 

SUMMARY OF THE CI MEETING WITH SOCIAL MOVEMENTS - 12/09/2020

  • The IC meeting with a restricted group of movements and international organizations took place virtually on September 12, 2020, lasting 3 hours. There was an expressive presence of representatives of organizations and movements from all continents.
  • The pandemic challenges us all for putting a check on the capitalist system and highlighting the wide-open inequalities. The pandemic is not a struggle in itself, it is not the cause of everything, but a new crisis that encompasses all others, a crisis of the model, with a chaotic world situation, the gravity of which is due to all the other dimensions of the crisis against which the WSF has been articulating for 20 years. The moment demands positioning and consequent actions.


1) Global solidarity and internationalism

  • Everyone understands the importance, the need and the opportunity of this dialogue, recognizing the role and possibilities of the WSF to make a real contribution to the articulation of social struggles and resistance and to transformations.
  • Solidarity between the struggles was recurrent in the speeches and results from the need that everyone feels not to act alone, with more articulation, alliances, coordination, joint actions, - words widely used in the debate, among others of a similar sense. In themes cited as global and environmental justice, women, racism and reparations, work and exploitation, extraction, migration, wars and apartheids, financial control, debt, colonialism, pandemic, among others.
  • Some statements pointed out that the WSF should stimulate the debate on a new internationalism. It can help in the emergence of a new social contract, which is inclusive, guided by human and environmental rights and which privileges social protection.
  • This “global social dialogue” must continue and integrate new movements, including youth. The WSF needs to recognize the existence of new struggles, movements, and also its role in the midst of different struggles. The proposals point to the need for a new WSF or a new dynamic.
  • It was also suggested to carry out a mapping of the struggles in the world, which face the pandemics of COVID-19 and capitalism.

2) Political impact

  • Expectations point to an unresolved challenge of the WSF strategy for Political Incidence, which deepens in the face of two also quite common themes - The advance of the extreme right in the world and the attacks on democracies, which are seriously threatened.
  • Political incidence, as a step to be taken by the WSF and with the necessary democratic mechanisms, was also remembered by the expression “political subject”, as a role to be built by the WSF.
  • The political impact is incompatible with the invisibility of the process. But the solution for struggles to become visible - communication - is also political, making visible involves the ability to form alliances.

3) Support for struggles

  • The WSF must be a motor for mobilization, and not just a place or space for which movements are mobilized. For this, the WSF must present  It is not only about the movements finding ways to develop and reinforce their struggles through the WSF: the WSF must be a process that is more in line with the struggles, in the sense of supporting them. More help / support, solidarity and cooperation are needed.
  • Specific situations call for global articulations, as in the case of Palestine. This role should be encouraged by the CI. In this sense, the WSF IC must not only disclose, but support determined struggles. The expression of solidarity must be transformed into actions.

4) Common strategies and actions

  • The articulation must go beyond what the WSF has done so far. The WSF should help to connect but also to build struggles together, to identify common actions and agendas, to stimulate campaigns ...
  • Global and regional strategies need to be deepened. In this sense, it was suggested to hold regional assemblies with the definition of regional strategies, as a basis for the definition of global strategies. This strategy debate can also be supported by thematic and regional forums.
  • The construction of strategies involves the definition of priorities and some actions, but preserving the diversity of movements. In the emergency context caused by the pandemic, it was also suggested to plan a few priority actions (one or two) to be implemented in a short period of a few months.

5) CI

  • The weaknesses of the International Council need to be addressed. It is necessary to assess its limitations in the process of revitalizing the process, its heavy methodology of meetings, its difficulties in making and forwarding decisions.
  • In the face of limitations to mobilize dynamic forces in various regions. the regionalization of facilitations and articulations, and even intervention strategies, was suggested .

  • On positioning issues, opinions are not unanimous. For example, do political positions fall to CI or its members? 
  • CI's practical tasks should include mapping - active movements, struggles and alternatives being built.
  • The composition of the CI was also questioned again. CI should increasingly be a reflection of diversity and involve rules for gender representation. 

 

 @ 44EN verbatim Damien we work together as rita y grita is going to present some days 12 points list Rita please

 Rita

1 / First of all, it is said that the pandemic, inequalities are open, many have pointed out that it is not a fight in itself, it is not the cause of everything and not of the crises that encompass all the others or all the others a crisis of the gravity model decorrência of all the crises that the WSF was born to answer, so I do not know if the moment it demands positions itself as consistent axioms

@ 9 IAI - @ 11 International progressive 

2 / Many spoke of the solidarity of the struggles as a characteristic of the discourses of the need for everyone not to act alone

This appears in many speeches such as articulation, alliances, coordination, joint actions, on various issues, I will not talk about all of them, but the issues of global justice, environmental, women, work, exploitation, extractivism, believe apart. financial control of is colonialism and structural racism, pandemic

3 / In general, we have had a diversified participation from the regions and all understand the importance and the need, the opportunity of this dialogue , recognizing the role and the possibilities of the WSF to effectively contribute to the articulation of resistance struggles and transformations. 

@ 14 euromarches - @ 30 CRID - @ 36 FMAS  

4 / But this depends on strategies or changes. The debate has been very consistent in this regard, the expectations point to an unresolved challenge of the political advocacy strategy that deepens in the face of the issues discussed, and some are quite strong: The Advancement of the right in the world, the attacks to democracies, and also concrete situations that require global articulations, one of them very hot on the Palestinian question

@ 31 center for global justice fsm  

5 / Political advocacy as a step forward to be taken by the WSF with necessary democratic mechanisms has also been remembered for the use of an expression that is “political subject as a role to be built by the WSF and this political impact is incompatible with the invisibility of the process, but the solution for the struggles to become visible is also political

 @ 13 group of activists - @ 20 Cetri - @ 23 IPS 

6 / I translate here as the question of communication, but making it visible passes through the ability to make alliances , how it has been scored by one of the participants

 @ 9 IAI @ 12 BNC @ 14 euromarches @ 24 CSA

7 / Some expectations about the role the role of the FSM is that it must be a driving force, not only a place to mobilize, not only to spread, this is for him CI must support determined struggle. The WSF must create effective alliances against racism 

 and other struggles. Not only defining common agendas but being committed to producing and facilitating alliances in the end

@ 9 IAI @ 40 franz fanon

8 / It does not mean exchanging experiences but identifying priorities , it is not just that the movements find ways to articulate and reinforce their struggles through the WSF, but that the WSF must go towards the struggles, and support them . Here is one thing as a political subject because you are not going anywhere, if not.

@ 14 euromarches 

9 / More help, support, solidarity, cooperation are needed, it is necessary to discuss and deepen more global and regional strategies. The fsm needs to recognize the existence of new struggles , of active movements, in all they are in dialogue

@xxx 

10 / Also the role of the forum in the midst of the different struggles and movements. It has been mentioned that within the WSF there are proposals that point to the needs of a new WSF with a new dynamic, and there is also this point there is discussion about what the new challenge or the revitalization of the WSF means, especially with an old discussion about the political role of civil society the political role of parties. All this the forum has to face to revitalize

@ 20 Cetri 

11 / It is also necessary to address the weaknesses of the International Council, which has its limitations in the representativeness process. For example, it has been mentioned that it is unable to gather dynamic forces in different regions, especially local regional forces, but it is questioned whether the important thing is to have them on the council or for the WSF to be in the regions with articulated agendas.

@ 21 NAPM @ 23 IPS 33 @ NTUI 

12 / At this point also At the end it was said that it is very important to suggest the regionalization of the debate, facilitations and even the articulations in intervention strategies 

In this debate the political positions are not unanimous and fall on the IC or its members in articulation capacity 

@ 36 FMAS

13 / Or changes in the IC may favor the occurrence of the IC cannot be closed or between meetings discontinued . They are suggestions for the process 

@ 21 NAPM

14 / This challenge of the debate has been treated as a challenge for the intelligence collected in the WSF, the challenge of coordinating capacities, common priorities . Practical and methodological tasks have also been punctual , including mapping movements , struggle, alternatives involve rules for the representation of gender in activities, with respect to diversity And insist on dialogue with more movements, even if you do not feel, that they have struggles Global against militarism, climate, 

@ 18 united 

15 / I think that the methodology has also been mentioned with the possibility of working so that regional debates are held, so that they can together build a more global strategy. In general, all say to revitalize or renew the WSF process, which is urgent. What the moment, is paid with the fsm that does not go forward without looking at itself and continuing Looking at these challenges that have been scored 

thanks to this we can write down

@ 17 faces 30 CRID 36 FMA

 

@ 44B EN Categorization of the 37 interventions from @ 7 to @ 42 by pierre 



WITHOUT MENTIONING THE WSF 

  • @ 7 GTA make alternatives visible - @ 10 Katalizo FSM inspiring @ 11 Progressive International - @ 25 GJN



PARTICIPATION IN THE WSF 

  •  @ 8 Woodworkers - commitments to assume - @ 15 conselho da paz - @ 16 Meeting of economy - make your event during the days of the forum in Mexico - @ 19 WCC - @ 28 CF FMTL - @ 29 feminist confluence add - @ 32 comiet fsmmagh - @ 34 AFM Participants are politicians - @ 37 OWT the horizon widens - @ 42 Mumbai legacy - magic of solidarity learning in the forum



EXPLAIN THE FORUM 

  • Organizing political education webinars about what is the forum @ 22 IAI 
  • We are here to understand how we can help in construction @ 40 Greenpeace



ACTION IN THE WSF (to be clarified)

  • Asking support "to the WSF" for a campaign @ 9 IAI 
  • Participating is not just talking @ 12 BDS - 
  • Over prioritizing something for action @ 14 euromarches
  • Mentioning joint action @ 18 united 
  • The promise of a new internationalism @ 33 NTUI
  • We need action week @ 36 FMAS
  • WSF umbrella of struggles with an axis against commodification @ 38 CADTM
  • Organizing a renewed and powerful assembly of social movements @ 39 VK

 

FOCUSING THE IC: COMPOSITION

  • rotation in CI @ 21 NAPM  
  • inclusion criteria @ 23 IPS -
  • new members @ 33 NTUI 
  • who is a member @ 35 ARENA 



FOCUSING THE IC: TASKS

  • CI defining new formats for self-organized participation - for access - focus on actions - and communication @ 17 Caritas -
  • CI discussing strategic synthesis @ 30 Crid -
  • Clarify forms of decision- making - make website @ 35 ARENA    
  • What we can do as members @ 36 FMAS



TOWARDS A “SUBJECT” WSF WITH VOICE AND POLITICAL POSITIONS? 

  • referring to a WSF "subject with a political voice" @ 13 activist group - @ 20 Cetri - @ 23 IPS - @ 24 CSA - @ 26 CF FSMSSS - @ 40 franz fanon foundation put racism in front of everything
  • beyond space @ 27 international timber - takes positions in the 3 crises - @ 31 center for global justice fsm  

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