[fse-esf] Final schedule of the ESF-5 Mobilisation-tour to Greece and the Balkans

[Joel Borgström]

  Dear friends,

i've now finalized the schedule for the ESF-5 mobilisation tour to Greece
and the Balkans. As you will see the schedule is very intense and is
dependent on working transportation. If transport becomes a problem at some
point during the tour this will probably affect the meetings as well but I
have great hope to be able to arrive in each destination in said time.

The next phase of this project is for you to arrange various meetings during
my visit to your country. As i mentioned in my last email i will prefer
larger meetings with many organisations at once instead of many small
meetings. I will in most places be available for more than one meeting as
long as they are not at the same time. Ideally invitations can go out to a
broad range of organisations with many different areas of interest.

Most of the meetings will have to be in the evening which i suppose is more
convenient both for you and for me. In Albania, Macedonia and Serbia i will
spend two days which means that i will have the opportunity to do something
in the daytime as well. It would be very nice to meet as many as possible
outside meetings as well. Get back to me if you have any questions.
Your contact information including telephone-numbers would be very good so i
can notify you if my bus is late or if other problems occur.

I'm now looking forward to seeing your suggestions for interesting meetings!


I have a few things that i would like to say during these meetings but then
the setup is for the organisers to decide. I would like to have a short
presentation about the European Social Forum (if you feel that the
participants need some information about this). After this I would like to
inform you about some practical things related to the forum such as
how applications to the solidarity fund (created to refund travel costs,
participant-fees, food and accommodation during the forum, costs for visas
etc.) are made, the help that is available for visa-applications, how one
enters a program-point-proposal and other information that is good to know.
Another topic will be the possibilities to arrange an activity in your
countries at the same time as and with contacts to the forum, this could be
interesting for those that won't be able to go to Malmo
themselves. Thereafter the organisers of the specific meeting have to decide
what they think is relevant to discuss. One idea is to have a discussion
about the political content on the forum - which issues and topics the
present organisations feel would be interesting for participants from
Balkans and Eastern Europe etc. One of the main objectives of the
enlargement process is to increase the influence from organisations,
movements, geographic regions etc. that hasn't taken part on the forums so
far. Since the forum is a political project this must obviously also be
reflected in the program-points. Which topic would your organisation like to
see at the forum?


The schedule for the tour is as follows:

15/4 Arrive in Athens at 2 PM, meeting in the evening
16/4 Travel to Thessaloniki, meeting in the evening
17/4 Travel to Tirana, meeting(s) in the evening
18/4 Tirana, activity, meeting(s)?
19/4 Travel to Skopje, meeting(s) in the evening
20/4 Skopje, activity, meeting(s)?
21/4 Travel to Sofia, meeting(s) in the evening
22/4 Travel to Belgrade, meeting(s) in the evening
23/4 Belgrade, activity, meeting(s)?
24/4 Travel to Sarajevo, meeting(s) in the evening
 25/4 Travel to Split, flight to Sweden

Contactpersons that have notified me that they are interested in organising
or co-organising a meeting in their city:

Greece:
Yannis Almpanis - yannisalmpanis at hotmail.com

Albania:

ASAG, Ermira Pirdeni, asag at gmx.net

Albanian Ecological Club- International Friends of Nature, Albanian
Environment NGO Forum, Ali Eltari - co_club_al at yahoo.com
Tirana Legal Aid Society, Rajmonda Bozo - rbozo at tlas.org.a

Macedonia:

Zlatko Dimitrioski - zlatko168 at yahoo.com

Elez Bislim - b_elez at yahoo.com
Front 21/42  - front2142 at earthling.net

Bulgaria:

Bulgaria Mechti i Otbori - mobulgaria at gmail.com

ZAEDNO Foundation - zaedno.net at gmail.com, zaedno at zaedno.net

Teodor Vasilev - zelenbg at gmail.com
BGO GEMINI - aksinia at bgogemini.org

Serbia:
???
Big problem at the moment - who can organize a information-meeting in
Belgrade or elsewhere in Serbia?

Bosnia and Hercegovina:

ARCI Mostar, Antonio Ruzza - arcsmo at cob.net.ba
Goran Markovic - goran.rkpbih at gmail.com

I provide this information so you know which other organisations that are
interested in organising a meeting. For me it's best if they are not at the
same time :-)

Warm regards with hopes of hearing from you soon,

/Joel Borgstrom, member of the Contactgroup for Europe and the World of the
NOC, ESF-5
 Email: joel.borgstrom at gmail.com Telephone: +46708116160


Information about ESF: www.esf2008.org,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Social_Forum
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