• Communication commission discussion

Last day to contribute with themes for Dakar

from rita@... on Sep 10, 2010 07:29 PM
Please pay atencion to axe 5, on communication issues
and knowledge, culture

The International Council of the World Social Forum and the African  
Social Forum and the Senegalese Organizing Committee launch a public  
consultation until September 10th to finalize the thematic axes of the  
centralized edition of the WSF, to be held in Dakar, Senegal, on  
February 06-11 2011. This methodological proposal was defined after  
Mumbai (Maharashtra, India), five years ago. Its main goals are to  
give a structure to the physical space of the WSF, in relation to the  
distribution of the self-organized activities, and contribute to  
facilitate the communication between organizations, networks and  
movements, groups and campaigns participating in the WSF process,  
reaching greater convergence and articulation between them.

This consultation moment was therefore prepared after the three  
structuring strategic axes of the 2011 event:

1)To strengthen the offensive capacity against neoliberal capitalism  
and its instruments;

2)To deepen struggles and resistances against capitalism, imperialism  
and oppression;

3)To propose democratic and people?s alternatives

The Dakar Social Forum proposes 11 thematic axes taking into account  
the current international context and the context of the movements?  
organized struggles and of themes related to Africa. The organizers  
proposes:

1.For a human society founded on common principles and values of  
dignity, diversity, justice, equality between all human beings,  
regardless of genders, cultures, age, disabilities, religious beliefs,  
health status, and for the elimination of all forms of oppression and  
discrimination based on racism, xenophobia, caste system, sexual  
orientation and others.

2.For environmental justice, for universal and sustainable access of  
humanity to the common goods, for the preservation of the planet as  
source of life, especially land, water, forests, renewable energy  
sources and biodiversity, guaranteeing the rights of indigenous,  
traditional, native, autochthonous and original peoples, their  
territories, resources, languages, cultures, identities and knowledge.

3.For the applicability and effectivity of all human rights ?  
economic, social, cultural, environmental, civil and political rights  
? particularly the rights to land, food sovereignty, food, social  
protection, health, education, housing, employment, decent work,  
communication, cultural and political expression.

4.For the freedom of movement and establishment of all, especially  
migrants and asylum-seekers, trafficked people, refugees, indigenous,  
original, native, autochthonous and original peoples, minorities,  
people under occupation and people in situations of war and conflict,  
and for the respect of their civil, political, economic, social,  
cultural and environmental rights.

5.For the inalienable right of people to the cultural patrimony of  
humanity, for the democratization of knowledges, cultures,  
communication and technologies, valuing the common goods, for  
visibilizing subjugated knowledges, towards the ending of hegemonic  
knowledge and of the privatization of knowledge and technologies,  
fundamentally changing the system of intellectual property rights.

6.For a world freed from the values and structures of capitalism, of  
patriarchal oppression, of all forms of domination from financial  
powers, transnational corporations and unequal systems of trade,  
colonial and debt domination.

7.For the construction of a social, solidary and emancipatory economy,  
with sustainable patterns of production and consumption and with a  
system of fair trade, putting at the heart of its priorities the  
fundamental needs of peoples and the respect for nature, ensuring  
systems of global redistribution with global taxes and without tax  
havens.

8.For the construction and expansion of democratic, political,  
economic structures and institutions, at a local, national and  
international level, with the participation of the people in  
decision-making and in the control of public affairs and of resources,  
respecting people?s diversity and dignity.

9.For the construction of a global order based on peace, justice and  
human security, the rule of law, ethics, sovereignty and  
self-determination of peoples, condemning economic sanctions and in  
favor of international rules for the arms trade.

10.For the valuing of the histories and the struggles of Africa and  
the diaspora and their contribution to humanity, recognizing the  
violence of colonialism.

11.For collective reflection on our movements, the World Social Forum  
process itself and our perspectives for the future

The registration and the agglutination of self-determination  
activities will start after this consultation. See if your  
organization?s struggles are contemplated above and send contributions  
up until September 10th to: consultation@...

http://www.ciranda.net/ecrire/?exec=articles&id_article=4562

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