[fse-esf] IN STRUGGLE not IN PARALLEL : ESF - EU.

[CymruEuropaPress]

                          Companieros,Friends,
  EU-Presidency 98-2007
   
   
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  To me the 'Counter Summits' (EU) were the for-runners of the ESF and they were presenting themselves as the 'People's Alternative' to the Neo-Liberal 'Imperialist EU Council of Ministers'.
   
  In my Experience:
  1998 June :EU  COUNTER SUMMIT CARDIFF - relatively good mobilisation.
   
  1999 June :EU Counter Summit Koln/Cologne - very dynamic big mobilisation.
   
  2000 December : EU Counter Summit NICE - at least 1 million people turned up and thousands were stopped at the Italian Border.
   
  2000 June: Counter Summit Goteburg Sweden - Local Social Forum Goteburg came out of it no? - big mobilisation.
   
  2001 December: EU Counter Summit Brussels - Dynamic, big mobilisation.
   
  EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM 
   (in PARALLEL not in OPPOSITION/ STRUGGLE to the 'EU Government' -including of course our non-EU Member State,Central, Eastern European,Russian,Turkish Companieros/Friends )
   
  2002 November ESF-Firenze (EU Summit in Denmark)................??
   
  2003 November ESF-Paris (EU Summit in Italia)...................??
   
  2004 October ESF-London (EU Summit in Netherlands)..............Dynamism dropping (mainly because of English Chauvinistic Anti-Continental European bullshit perhaps) but No Clear STRUGGLE against the 'EU Government'.
   
  2006 May ESF-Athina (EU Summit in Austria)..............Dynamism recuperating after London 'Verticals' debacle - no doubt due, in large degree, to the Passion ,Carisma & Dynamism of our Greek Companieros - but again NOT IN DIRECT STRUGGLE WITH THE 'EU Government.
   
  What do you think in terms of taking the ESF - FORWARD & TO A HIGHER DIMENSION - To Another Possible Europe,World, PARADISE !!!!!
   
  Should we have:
  1. The ESFs AT THE SAME TIME AND AT THE SAME PLACE AS THE EU-SUMMITS.?
   
  2. Have the EPAs also at the same time and place as the EU Summits - perhaps with some variation e.g. to satisfy the needs of our even poorer Eastern Companieros/Friends.This should include Free Accomodation and Food of course.
   
  Salud, Hwyl, Bottoms-Up.
  Merlin Ap Ceridwen/Richard Jenkins (Social Forum Cymru/Wales)
   
   
   
   
   
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