Congratulations to you all !

>From what I read and hear your success was well earned and the event in the
true spirit of the Social Forum.  I hope we can meet someday soon.

In solidarity

Jason Nardi
www.socialwatch.org



On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Martina Pignatti M. <
martina.pignatti@...> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> the ISF has been a wonderful experience, at a personal and at a collective
> level! Ismaeel and I are now spending a week writing articles and giving
> speeches in Italian events on the ISF, so we have little time left for
> emails :-)
> I send you the picture of some people who gathered in Pisa (Italy) today
> to watch pictures and short videos about the ISF. Overall we were about 25
> people, and everybody was amazed by our achievements in Baghdad.
> Ismaeel was in Perugia yesterday for other events on ISF, and is leaving
> for Sicily tomorrow morning. The Extended Iraqi Social Forum continues! If
> you are organizing or have organized events in your countries please send a
> few lines of report and a picture to Toon <isf.extensionteam@...><isf.extensionteam@...>,
> who's doing the report of the Extended ISF.
>
> Thanks a lot to all of you and huge congratulations to the Iraqis for
> making a dream come true!!!
>
> Best
> Martina
> www.unponteper.it
>
> Il 30/09/13 12:05, Iraqi social forum ha scritto:
>
>  Dear friends
>
> Hope this e mail finds you well. It was our pleasure, and privilege that
> you came to Baghdad to witness the launch of the first ISF activities. Your
> presence and solidarity with Iraqi peoples’ issues was an additional
> motivation to the activists of the ISF preparatory committee, secretarial,
> and volunteers who worked for months to organize this huge event that was
> able, with our limited resources to attract more than 170 activities that
> dealt with different issues of the Iraqi society, and the registration of
> 3000 participant.
>
> Yes, our Iraqi society is heading towards gathering the efforts into one
> solid unity, as a result of networking that took place during the forum
> between activists and organizations, to turn the page of scattered,
> unorganized civil activity, thus we feel like we are on the right track
> towards “Anther Iraq IS Possible”.
>
> We also thank our international friends, who couldn’t come to Baghdad for
> one reason or the other, who participated in solidarity activities with
> Iraqi people through a verity of activities that deeply enhanced the
> activists’ enthusiasm, and introduced the people of Iraq’s issues to the
> international public opinion.
>
> Once again, we thank you for the solidarity that you generously offered
> the Iraqi people by coming to Baghdad, or through the activities of the
> Extended Iraqi Social Forum. We wish that we have been successful in
> reflecting a good image of Iraq and its’ people.
>
> You all are welcome anytime to your Iraq
>   Ali Saheb
>  Iraqi Social Forum Coordinator
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Bonjour tout le monde,Grand bravo à tout ceux qui se sont déplacés pour le forum social Irakien et aux Irakiens qui ont su relever le défi d' organiser ce forum avec toutes les difficultés du moment à gérer . GRAND BRAVO ET MERCI POUR CETTE LEÇON DE COURAGE ET DE PERSEVERENCE.
Sabiha Hamza Ben AmmarCGTT/TUNISIEMobile: 25 931 645

Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 23:53:12 +0200
From: martina.pignatti@...
To: iraq-social-forum-english@...
Subject: Re: [Iraq Social Forum] Thank you


  
    
  
  
    Dear all,

      

      the ISF has been a wonderful experience, at a personal and at a
      collective level! Ismaeel and I are now spending a week writing
      articles and giving speeches in Italian events on the ISF, so we
      have little time left for emails :-)

      I send you the picture of some people who gathered in Pisa (Italy)
      today to watch pictures and short videos about the ISF. Overall we
      were about 25 people, and everybody was amazed by our achievements
      in Baghdad. 

      Ismaeel was in Perugia yesterday for other events on ISF, and is
      leaving for Sicily tomorrow morning. The Extended Iraqi Social
      Forum continues! If you are organizing or have organized events in
      your countries please send a few lines of report and a picture to
      Toon <isf.extensionteam@...>, who's doing the report
      of the Extended ISF.

      

      Thanks a lot to all of you and huge congratulations to the Iraqis
      for making a dream come true!!!

      

      Best

      Martina

      www.unponteper.it

      

      Il 30/09/13 12:05, Iraqi social forum ha scritto:

    
    
      
        
          Dear
              friends
          Hope
              this e mail finds you well. It was our pleasure, and
              privilege that you came to
              Baghdad to witness the launch of the first ISF activities.
              Your presence and
              solidarity with Iraqi peoples’ issues was an additional
              motivation to the
              activists of the ISF preparatory committee, secretarial,
              and volunteers who
              worked for months to organize this huge event that was
              able, with our limited
              resources to attract more than 170 activities that dealt
              with different issues
              of the Iraqi society, and the registration of 3000
              participant.
          Yes, our
              Iraqi society is heading towards gathering the efforts
              into one solid unity, as
              a result of networking that took place during the forum
              between activists and
              organizations, to turn the page of scattered, unorganized
              civil activity, thus
              we feel like we are on the right track towards “Anther
              Iraq IS Possible”.
          We
              also thank our international friends, who couldn’t come to
              Baghdad for one
              reason or the other, who participated in solidarity
              activities with Iraqi
              people through a verity of activities that deeply enhanced
              the activists’
              enthusiasm, and introduced the people of Iraq’s issues to
              the international
              public opinion.
          Once
              again, we thank you for the solidarity that you generously
              offered the Iraqi
              people by coming to Baghdad, or through the activities of
              the Extended Iraqi
              Social Forum. We wish that we have been successful in
              reflecting a good image
              of Iraq and its’ people.
          You
              all are welcome anytime to your Iraq
        
        
          
            Ali Saheb
            
              Iraqi Social Forum
                Coordinator
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              isf.iraq@...
              info@...
              
                www.iraqsf.org
              skype: ali_ros87
              009647717642238
              009647702685201
            
          
        
      
      

        

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Dear All,

Here following the speech that we have prepared for the plenary session of ISF:

 

No matter if you play sports alone, as a form of training for your well being or for a race preparation, or if you compete with another athlete individually or as part of a team for fun or to win the championship, all sport practices are based on the pleasure of running, playing, sweating to reach your goal in competition with the others, but having respect for persons.

We strongly believe that playing sports, doing basic physical excercise within schools, sports centers, in the parks or in the streets is a key element of a good lifestyle within every community: indeed, it represents an essential part of a healthy education of young people, as well as a good way both to provide leisure time for adults and to keep the elderly active. 

In this spirit, every day of the year, in a country very far from yours, we are committed to ensuring that the citizens of all Italian cities, women and men of all ages and social backgrounds are able to play sports.

You don't need big or sophisticated sport and fitness facilities.

You need instead experienced organizers and teachers, the willingness of the institutions in charge and the pleasure to take a challenge from all those that are involved.

Cities can be and have to become a place where people can play sports and share experiences in order  to build a new citizens’ awareness.

Sport shouldn’t be just a means to gain approvals or to get the media attention. It is not even a nice ritual able to ensure participation.

Sport, but mainly sport practice, is an element of self growth that has to accompany people’s lives, from the childhood to the old age.

Sport is respect for yourself and for the others. It led up to sharing emotions and experiences both with your fellows and with different people, coming from your country or from abroad.

Sport is respect for the environment that surrounds us: the Earth, the air and the water should be protected as much as the work and a safe work, as well as the respect for all the religious beliefs and, in general, for human being represent a civil growth opportunity for a society struck by the war.

Sport is an essential means for every society to stress its own traditions, its culture and its level of civilization.

This might seem to many people just a rhetorical speech, pronounced  by someone that today is faraway, in a safe place. But our commitment for years now to the realization of a sporting event, such as the Erbil Marathon or SAV within the University of Baghdad, organized in strong cooperation with the working groups set up in different Iraqi cities, shows all our desire to make people understand that playing sports represent a form of emancipation for everyone.

It should not serve any other purpose, it has not less dignity than any other social or cultural issue or activity. That's why we think that it shouldn't be just an opening or closing moment for another event. This is the reason why we feel sorry about the lacking attention given to sport also within the ISF program.

But we believe that time will prove that we are right and with the commitment of all, we will realize our purposes, making the most of the opportunities that we have today and that we hope will become experiences entrenched among citizens.

We are close to your efforts and we would like to thank in particular the Rector of the University of Baghdad for the involvement and openness proved until now.

dott. Nicola Visconti President of ASD SPORT AGAINST VIOLENCE ITALY 

prof Giuseppe D'Agostino President of ASD Università Popolare dello Sport ROME 

 

 

 

Da: Martina Pignatti M. [mailto:martina.pignatti@...] 
Inviato: mercoledì 2 ottobre 2013 23:53
A: iraq-social-forum-english@...
Oggetto: Re: [Iraq Social Forum] Thank you

 

Dear all,

the ISF has been a wonderful experience, at a personal and at a collective level! Ismaeel and I are now spending a week writing articles and giving speeches in Italian events on the ISF, so we have little time left for emails :-)
I send you the picture of some people who gathered in Pisa (Italy) today to watch pictures and short videos about the ISF. Overall we were about 25 people, and everybody was amazed by our achievements in Baghdad. 
Ismaeel was in Perugia yesterday for other events on ISF, and is leaving for Sicily tomorrow morning. The Extended Iraqi Social Forum continues! If you are organizing or have organized events in your countries please send a few lines of report and a picture to Toon  <mailto:isf.extensionteam@...> <isf.extensionteam@...>, who's doing the report of the Extended ISF.

Thanks a lot to all of you and huge congratulations to the Iraqis for making a dream come true!!!

Best
Martina
www.unponteper.it

Il 30/09/13 12:05, Iraqi social forum ha scritto:

Dear friends

Hope this e mail finds you well. It was our pleasure, and privilege that you came to Baghdad to witness the launch of the first ISF activities. Your presence and solidarity with Iraqi peoples’ issues was an additional motivation to the activists of the ISF preparatory committee, secretarial, and volunteers who worked for months to organize this huge event that was able, with our limited resources to attract more than 170 activities that dealt with different issues of the Iraqi society, and the registration of 3000 participant.

Yes, our Iraqi society is heading towards gathering the efforts into one solid unity, as a result of networking that took place during the forum between activists and organizations, to turn the page of scattered, unorganized civil activity, thus we feel like we are on the right track towards “Anther Iraq IS Possible”.

We also thank our international friends, who couldn’t come to Baghdad for one reason or the other, who participated in solidarity activities with Iraqi people through a verity of activities that deeply enhanced the activists’ enthusiasm, and introduced the people of Iraq’s issues to the international public opinion.

Once again, we thank you for the solidarity that you generously offered the Iraqi people by coming to Baghdad, or through the activities of the Extended Iraqi Social Forum. We wish that we have been successful in reflecting a good image of Iraq and its’ people.

You all are welcome anytime to your Iraq

Ali Saheb

Iraqi Social Forum Coordinator

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