[fse-esf] About the EPA in Frankfurt

[Haris Golemis]

Dear all,
Not including Greek as one of the languages of the next EPA is not a
wise decision. I hope that our German friends will try to correct this
mistake.
Haris Golemis

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fse-esf-bounces at lists.fse-esf.org] On Behalf Of Prokes
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:10 PM
To: FSE ESF
Subject: Re: [fse-esf] About the EPA in Frankfurt

Dear all,

I agree with Anastasia.
I am glad that Hugo and the German comrades took up the tough work to 
organize the next EPA in Frankfurt (however, the following EPA after 
Frankfurt has to be organized in Central/Eastern European region with 
all efforts!).
I have to remind another very important issue about this EPA: it has 
been postponed to the first weekend in November, thus coinciding with 
the Global Day against Climate Change 4th of November. We should 
organize or at least join an activity against the global climate change 
during this EPA.
Even more important it is not to harm the climate just with our own 
transport to Frankfurt. Frankfurt/Main has the most excellent train 
connection in Europe with international trains arriving there at 300 
km/h every hour.
I do not speak about participants from Greece, Russia or Portugal but I 
would not be glad to see German participants flying thereto. Should we:
- keep at the rules we have introduced in Athens for registration fees 
and travel reimbursements (not for flights under 1000 km)
- change the invitation so that we offer trains in the first place, 
transport from the airport thereafter?
I would like very much to make there rules a good tradition, not needing

to push for them for each and every EPA again.

Looking forward to seeing you in Ffm and having a fruitful debate,

Mirek Prokes, Initiative for Social Fora (Czechia)


Anastasia Lampropoulou wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> During the organization of the 4^th ESF in Athens, Babels assisted 
>>> by ALIS group strived to provide passive -at least- interpretation 
>>> in more than 20 languages. This choice was not a luxury that the 
>>> Greek Organizing Committee could afford to offer to the 
>>> participants. It was a conscious political decision; both Babels-el 
>>> and the Organizing Committee knew that not so many languages were 
>>> "strictly" needed for carrying out the 4^th ESF. However, at the 
>>> expense of organizing the EL booth in a better way, Babels-el and 
>>> the Organizing Committee decided that it was politically important 
>>> to send the participants the message that we are doing our best to 
>>> make everyone's voice heard.
>>> I was extremely surprised to find out that our effort to break the 
>>> barrier of the widely spoken languages and to include Eastern 
>>> European ones was not noticed by anyone. In the first EPA for the 
>>> 5^th ESF, there will be interpretation only in English, French and 
>>> German. There was not even a thought or a discussion about including

>>> an Eastern European language such as Polish.
>>>  
>>> Today I -I know it's a bit late but I lost track of the developments

>>> because I faced health problems lately- read the message of Hugo 
>>> Braun about the topics that will be discussed in the EPA. The first 
>>> topic is the evaluation of the 4^th ESF and how we are going to 
>>> proceed. However, so as to hold this discussion and make the most of

>>> it, you should at least consider to provide simultaneous 
>>> interpretation from and into Greek since a number of Greeks are 
>>> going to travel to Frankfurt to talk about their experience and 
>>> discuss about the process. Some of them speak neither English nor 
>>> French nor German and others although might speak one of the 
>>> above-mentioned languages, they are anything but fluent.
>>> Anastasia Lampropoulou
>>> Babels-el
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