[fse-esf] EPA Vienna - Final Information!

Mon Jan 2 15:42:26 CET 2006

Dear participants,

This mail contains the following information:
1) Financial contribution
2) Sleeping places
3) Invitation
4) New time table

According to the suggestions received we modified slightly our proposal of
the time table for the next EPA to take place from the 5th to 8th of
january in Vienna, Austria. Other minor changes still can be discussed
upon your arrival.

In order to avoid further misunderstandings we would like to stress the
fact that we by no means intended to organize a “little ESF” in Vienna,
but to contribute to the work of the program group giving the different
networks the possibility to articulate their proposals  in a structured,
transparent and open discussion within the network meetings on Friday,
Jan. 6th and in the plenary discussion on Saturday, Jan. 7th. 

We consider this to be the best way to build a program for Athens based on
seminaries and workshops following the guidelines of the methodological
discussions during the previous EPAs. Still there will be enough space to
discuss on Saturday, Jan. 7th and Sunday 8th for important matters of
Organisation (e.g. the discussion about the date of the next ESF) and
Enlargement (e.g. towards and within Eastern European networks and
countries).

We are very much looking forward to see you in Vienna and wish you and us
a happy new year full of success for all our struggles

Leo Gabriel 

in the name of the

Preparatory Committee of the EPA – Vienna 2006

1) FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION
Each participant contributes 10€ personally and 50€ from her/his
organisation to the EPA Solidarity Fund if she/he can afford it. Please
consider, that this contribution enables the participation of people who
cannot afford their travel. Please take the money with you in cash!

2) SLEEPING PLACES
Please go to the registration in the Congress House (how to get there:
http://esf.socialforum.at) in order to receive the contact data of a
private sleeping place. 

Please take a youth hostel or hotel if you can afford it, as the number of
private flats we could organize is limited. You will find the contact data
at http://esf.socialforum.at

3) INVITATION
You find a document attached. Please fill in your name and print it out
yourself. Show this document to the border police if they ask for it.

4) PROGRAM FOR THE EUROPEAN PREPARATORY ASSEMBLY (EPA) – Vienna 2006 

(You find the program attached in tables)

Attention! All the meetings will take place in the different rooms of the
Kongresshaus (der Eisenbahnergewerkschaft) 
Margaretengürtel 138-140
1050 W i e n

All plenary discussions will be translated into 6 languages: German,
English, French, Greek, Hungarian and Romanian. The network-meetings will
be translated according to the needs and technical facilities. 

Thursday, January 5th
2pm to 7 pm: Registration

5 pm: Meeting of the interpreters

6:30pm: First Sesssion of the Program Group

Friday, Jan. 6th
8:30 am to 9:30 am: Registration

9:30am to 10 pm: Meetings of different networks (working groups):

9:30am – 12:00am
Migration & Racism
Precarity, Poverty, Exclusion
Local Social Forum Meeting
Enlargement****)

12:00am – 1:30pm
Lunch

1:30pm – 4pm
Palestine
Health
Environment & Climate	
Bolkestein***)
Charta 1

4pm – 6:30pm
Anti-War  // Against Security Policy & Repression *)
Education
Latin-America
Charta 2

6:30pm – 7:30pm
Dinner

7:30pm – 10pm
Arab-European Collaboration**) 
Women
G8
Program 2nd Session

*) According to the number of participants there can be also a working
group on “Security policies and repression” at the same time.

**) Participants in the meetings on Anti-War and Palestine are requested
to also take part in the meeting on Arab-European Collaboration.

***) This working group should be attended preferably by trade unionists.

****) According to previous EPA-decisions the Enlargement group will
decide on the request to form a special working group on a Eastern
European Social Forum.

Saturday, Jan 7th

On Saturday, Jan. 7th , the EPA meets in plenary sessions and will discuss
the proposals of the working groups for the program and further actions to
be proposed. It is planned to structure the discussion by thematic
clusters, in which each working group gives a short input (all together
half an hour), followed by a discussion and a short conclusion by the
speakers of the working groups (30 min.).

9:00am – 9:30am
Opening Statements

9:30am – 11:00 am
Information on Organisation and Program

11:00am – 12am
Cluster 1

12:00am – 1:30pm
Lunch*)

1:30pm – 2:30pm
Cluster 2

2:30pm – 3:30pm
Cluster 3

3:30pm – 4:30pm
Cluster 4

4:30 pm – 6pm
Preparing Athens I: Organisation Program and Enlargement

6pm – 7pm
Dinner

7pm – 10pm
Preparing Athens II**): Organisation Program and Enlargement

*) During the lunchbreak a special meeting of the Womens-Network has been
requested (probably without interpretation)

**) Only if necessary

Jan. 8th (Sunday):

9:00am – 13am
Action plan

Assembly of Social Movements

Conclusions

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