In September, the European Social Forum will be hosted by Malmo, an event planned to give social movements and radical organizations all over Europe the opportunity to enter into dialogue with each other. More than 20,000 people are expected to attend this five-day Forum which will offer seminars, workshops, and arts events, including music, all with the slogan ‘Another Europe is Possible.’
Simultaneously, various kinds of demos, mass activities and street events will take place, some as parts of the official ESF, but others outside and independent of this. The ESF 2008 Action Network is intended to co-ordinate those organizations – from other parts of Sweden and Europe – that wish to work independently and get involved in mass activities and other events in Malmo during the ESF period. The purpose is especially to help different groups communicate, and to help organize their mobilization.
The ESF 2008 Action Network is totally independent of the official ESF, politically as well as economically, and all participants in the Network will little by little shape its slant and aims. The mass activities won’t take place in opposition to the official Forum, but on the other hand, they won’t be in the least committed to that political agenda or social practice which the wealthiest and most powerful forces no doubt will express through the official ESF. Quite the contrary: we know that many of the thousands of activists expected to travel to Malmo because of the ESF will welcome the chance to turn their own political opinions into action through mass activities.
Within the Network, there will be time and place for a wide spectrum of different kinds of practice. Respecting each other’s methods, but without compromises, people will act together, or at least during the same days, towards our common goals.
The ESF 2008 Action Network is totally independent of the official ESF, politically as well as economically, and all participants in the Network will little by little shape its slant and aims. The mass activities won’t take place in opposition to the official Forum, but on the other hand, they won’t be in the least committed to that political agenda or social practice which the wealthiest and most powerful forces no doubt will express through the official ESF. Quite the contrary: we know that many of the thousands of activists expected to travel to Malmo because of the ESF will welcome the chance to turn their own political opinions into action through mass activities.
Within the Network, there will be time and place for a wide spectrum of different kinds of practice. Respecting each other’s methods, but without compromises, people will act together, or at least during the same days, towards our common goals.
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