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European Social Forum - Lambeth mobilising meeting

CR | 05.09.2004 09:57 | European Social Forum | London

European Social Forum - Lambeth mobilising meeting

Speakers:

Dave Timms World Development Movement
Kuldip Bajwa Workers Power and participant in World Social Forum, Mumbai, India
Chair Janet Macleod Lambeth Unison

The third European Social Forum will meet in London at the Alexandra Palace
on October 14-17th. Tens of thousands of activists will gather from all over
Europe for 3 days of debate, discussion and demonstration under the slogans:

* stop the war
* no to racism
* end privatisation
* for global justice

The purpose of this meeting is to explain what the World and European Social
Forums are about and organise to build support for the event in the borough.
If you are involved in a community campaign or group, anti war activity,
trade union struggle or just interested in finding out more come along.

The Dogstar (backroom), Coldharbour Lane, Brixton (corner with Railton Rd)

TUESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 7.30 pm start 9.30 finish

If you cannot come to the meeting but want to be kept in touch email
 lwilde@gn.apc.org or phone 020 8265 8714.

Please email this on to anyone you think might be interested.

CR

Comments

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esf is elitist!

05.09.2004 16:31

I'm not coming unless we all sit round in a circle! I will not sit facing someone at the front. That is SO elitist and authoritarian!

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and was socially engineered by the ford foundation

05.09.2004 23:43

For its conception the WSF was social engineered by the Ford Foundation (a well known front for the CIA in eastern Europe). So if the WCF promotes the WSF and the ECF promotes the ESF then surely they are of the same 'planetary' make up

Ford Foundation Grants:

Organization: World Culture Forum Corporation
Purpose: General support to plan and market the first World Social Forum, create an online virtual forum and develop its institutional infrastructure
Location: ITHACA, NY
Program: Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom
Unit: Media, Arts and Culture
Subject: Arts and Culture
Amount: $ 700, 000
Year: 2004

 http://www.fordfound.org/grants_db/view_grant_detail.cfm?grant_id=182947

Organization: Focus on the Global South
Purpose: To strengthen participation of marginalized communities in the World Social Forum process
Location: THAILAND
Program: Peace and Social Justice
Unit: Governance and Civil Society
Subject: Civil Society
Amount: $ 92, 850
Year: 2004

 http://www.fordfound.org/grants_db/view_grant_detail.cfm?grant_id=181597

Organization: Internews Interactive, Inc.
Purpose: For the Bridge Initiative on Globalization, a collaboration with television agency Article Z, to provide a means of communication for participants in the World Social Forum and World Economic Forum
Location: SAN RAFAEL, CA
Program: Peace and Social Justice
Unit: Governance and Civil Society
Subject: Civil Society
Amount: $ 153, 000
Year: 2003

 http://www.fordfound.org/grants_db/view_grant_detail.cfm?grant_id=180161

Organization: Brazilian Consumer Defense Institute
Purpose: For a multimedia public information campaign at the World Social Forum and the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum
Location: BRAZIL
Program: Asset Building and Community Development
Unit: Community and Resource Development
Subject: Environment and Development
Amount: $ 30, 000
Year: 2003

 http://www.fordfound.org/grants_db/view_grant_detail.cfm?grant_id=179189

Organization: Brazilian Association of NGOs
Purpose: For the 2003 World Social Forum, where civil society organizationsdevelop social and economic alternatives to current patterns of globalization, based on human rights and sustainable development
Location: BRAZIL
Program: Peace and Social Justice
Unit: Governance and Civil Society
Subject: Civil Society
Amount: $ 500, 000
Year: 2003

 http://www.fordfound.org/grants_db/view_grant_detail.cfm?grant_id=179186

Organization: Feminist Studies and Assistance Center
Purpose: To coordinate a campaign against fundamentalist dogmas during thesecond World Social Forum
Location: BRAZIL
Program: Peace and Social Justice
Unit: Human Rights
Subject: Human Rights
Amount: $ 65, 600
Year: 2002

 http://www.fordfound.org/grants_db/view_grant_detail.cfm?grant_id=177246

Organization: Brazilian Association of NGOs
Purpose: To hold a seminar on international mechanisms for the protection of human rights during the second World Social Forum
Location: BRAZIL
Program: Peace and Social Justice
Unit: Human Rights
Subject: Human Rights
Amount: $ 40, 000
Year: 2002

 http://www.fordfound.org/program/peace_units.cfm

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