[fse-esf] VIENNA EPA prgram decisions

[Campaign GENOA 2001 Greece-Petros Constantinou]

I hope Leo Gabriel is ready to collect all reports like this for the 
programm and put them all together for all on the list and people who 
run the site do the same.
Thank you all in advance
Petros
 
Yannis Almpanis <yannisalmpanis at hotmail.com> åßðå:

> Dear all,
> 
> Here is the program report from Vienna. I have just addes a small 
part about 
> thematic spces. If there is a consensus ti shoul be submitted to 
the ESF 
> site.
> 
> best regards
> 
> Yannis Almpanis
> 
> Report and decisions from Vienna EPA on the development of program
> for Athens ESF 4-7 May 2006
> 
> a. Until 4th of January 271 activities have been submitted to the 
workspace
> for proposals (http;//workspace.fse-esf.org) by 100 
organizations.154
> proposals were attached to the 16 thematic areas decided at 
Istanbul EPA and
> 117 did not submitted to a specific area for reasons of omission or 
being
> not wishing a particular area.
> b. We continue to submit proposals for activities to the website. 
The
> deadline is 20 of February. After 20/2 we start the process of 
voluntary
> merging.
> The Greek Program Group will present the map of proposals at the 
next EPA
> which will take place on 2-5 March in Frankfurt Germany.
> The European program group will meet on 2nd of April 12.00.
> We will decide for facilitators for the merging process at next 
EPA. They
> will help to bring in conduct participants who submitted activities 
on the
> same thematic area and inform on possible transversalities. They 
will not
> decide the mergers but make sure that participants get the picture 
of the
> possibilities of cooperation between networks and organization who 
submitted
> proposals of activities.
> *The finalization of the program will take place in the Athens 
Meeting for
> the Program on 1-3 of April.
> *The Athens ESF can host around 400 meetings in rooms.
> *A new website will help the process of merging. It is crucial to 
give the
> possibility to more than one participant to put together a proposal.
> *A new thematic area is added on Urban policies and the cities.
> The meetings of networks in Austria started and propose set of 
activities.
> We will continue this process and at the meeting of Program group 
on 4-5
> March we will take into account their proposals.
> So merging process will practically start from EPA meeting on 4-5 
March in
> Germany.
> c. The proposal on events of Great visibility proposed by Greek 
Program
> Group was based on the desire of Greek organisers to help 
mobilization for
> ESF and giving visibility to common targets of struggle of the 
social
> movements and the participants of Athens ESF.
> Six events were proposed:
> 1. War, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine occupation, antiwar and anti-
occupation
> movement
> 2. Social and workers; resistances to neo-liberalism: the movements 
against
> social exclusion,, precarious employment, privatizations and the
> commercialization of public goods.
> 3. Immigrants and refugees against racist policies in Europe. 
Fighting for
> legalisation, political asylum, equal rights.
> 4. Globalization, environment climate change and alternatives
> 5. Europe after the NO to the European Constitutional Treaty
> 6. Seven years after Seattle, the development and the prospects of 
the
> movement.
> Remarks and concerns have been expressed on the number (1 or 2 per 
day) and
> on the character of the 6 proposals. We expect a detailed proposal 
from
> Greek Organising Group for the next EPA( exact character, names of 
speakers
> and so on).
> Networks can also propose events of great visibility.
> d. Assemblies will be organised in an effort to bring together 
participants
> on each thematic area or for transversal approach of issues and 
also to
> coordinate campaigns and help networking.
> e. Proposals about specific thematic spaces should be submitted in 
the ESF 
> mail list. They will be discussed in the next EPA.
> f. It is possible to organize cultural activities and all these 
proposals
> Should be also submitted to the workspace. Artistic creativity has 
the
> possibility to be integral part of the program enriching the Athens 
ESF.
> g. The Assembly of Social Movements will be discussed at the next 
EPA
> 
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Petros Constantinou
Campaign GENOA 2001-Greece
0030 6932828964