[fse-esf] Re: FSE-ESF Digest, Vol 26, Issue 27
Elettra Anghelinas
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Fri Jan 25 21:49:51 CET 2008
I will be in Paris for the program working group .
Elettra Anghelinas
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> 1. program group in Paris : next week (Sophie Zafari)
> 2. R: [fse-esf] program group in Paris : next week (a.mecozzi)
> 3. Statement of the Seattle to Brussels Network for the Global
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> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:39:46 +0100
> From: Sophie Zafari <sophie.zafari a snuipp.fr>
> Subject: [fse-esf] program group in Paris : next week
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> Dear friends,
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> I remind you that a programm working group will take place in Paris on
> february the 2d et 3th .
> The venue is the FSU office building : 104, rue de Romain Rolland.
> Les Lillas ( the metro station is "mairie des lilas" ligne 11 ) It is
> in the north of Paris.
> For the hotel you can stay near these metro's station : République,
> place des fêtes, belleville ,jourdain, porte des Lilas or mairie des Lilas.
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> We will start the 2d at 11am.
> Can you confirm your presence?
> thanks, see you soon
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> Sophie Zafari
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> From: "a.mecozzi" <a.mecozzi a fiom.cgil.it>
> Subject: R: [fse-esf] program group in Paris : next week
> To: "Sophie Zafari" <sophie.zafari a snuipp.fr>,
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> Hi Sophie,
> I confirm my presence. I will arrive on the 1st of february. Ciao
> Alessandra Mecozzi
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> [mailto:fse-esf-bounces a lists.fse-esf.org]Per conto di Sophie Zafari
> Inviato: venerdì 25 gennaio 2008 15.40
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> Oggetto: [fse-esf] program group in Paris : next week
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> Dear friends,
>
> I remind you that a programm working group will take place in Paris on
> february the 2d et 3th .
> The venue is the FSU office building : 104, rue de Romain Rolland.
> Les Lillas ( the metro station is "mairie des lilas" ligne 11 ) It is
> in the north of Paris.
> For the hotel you can stay near these metro's station : République,
> place des fêtes, belleville ,jourdain, porte des Lilas or mairie des Lilas.
>
> We will start the 2d at 11am.
> Can you confirm your presence?
> thanks, see you soon
>
> Sophie Zafari
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> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:16:05 +0100
> From: "Charly Poppe" <charly.poppe a foeeurope.org>
> Subject: [fse-esf] Statement of the Seattle to Brussels Network for
> the Global Day of Action 2008
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> Dear all,
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> Please find copied below the statement of the Seattle to Brussels (S2B)
> Network for the WSF Global Day of Action 2008. The statement focuses on the
> EU ‘Global Europe’ strategy, bilateral free trade agreements, corporate
> power and our upcoming struggles. Do not hesitate to share it with your
> friends, colleagues, partners, parliamentarians, government officials…!!!!
>
>
>
> You can also download the statement on the S2B website:
> http://www.s2bnetwork.org/download/S2B_statement_WSF_GlobalDayofAction_2008
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> Best greetings,
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> Charly Poppe
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> Coordinator
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> Trade, Environment & Sustainability Programme
>
> Friends of the Earth Europe
>
> Rue Blanche, 15
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> B-1050 Brussels
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> Belgium
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> Tel: +32.2.542 01 89
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> Fax: +32.2.537 55 96
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> E-mail: <mailto:charly.poppe a foeeurope.org> charly.poppe(at)foeeurope.org
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> Web: <http://www.foeeurope.org/trade> www.foeeurope.org -
> <http://www.s2bnetwork.org> www.s2bnetwork.org
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> Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for sustainable and fair societies and
> for the protection of the environment, unites 31 national organisations with
> thousands of local groups and is part of the world's largest grassroots
> environmental network, Friends of the Earth International.
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> Statement of the Seattle to Brussels Network
>
> World Social Forum Global Day of Action, 26 January 2008
>
>
>
> No to Corporate Europe – Yes to Global Justice!
>
>
>
> As members of the Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B), we are calling for
> concerted efforts to roll back the strategy of the European Union called
> “Global Europe: Competing in the World”, the EU’s unfair bilateral trade
> agreements and corporate power. We also reject the false solution of unfair
> multilateralism and the EU’s proposals at the WTO, and a revival of the Doha
> Round in the exclusive premises of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
>
>
>
> We, civil society activists engaged in a wide range of peoples’ movements
> and organisations in Europe express our opposition and resistance to the
> neoliberal trade and investment policies that the EU governments and
> European Commission are implementing in our countries and worldwide.
> Simultaneously, we are also building the alternatives.
>
>
>
> Global Europe: Serving European corporations
>
>
>
> In 2006, the European Commission (EC) unveiled its new Communication
> entitled “Global Europe: Competing in the World” which outlines how the EU
> will pursue bilateral trade agreements with major emerging economies in
> order to secure new and profitable markets for EU companies. While pushing
> for even more business-friendly ‘domestic reforms’, the EU sets out an
> aggressive so-called ‘external competitiveness’ strategy. As the EU Trade
> Commissioner puts it: “What do we mean by external aspects of
> competitiveness? We mean ensuring that competitive European companies,
> supported by the right internal policies, must be enabled to gain access to,
> and to operate securely in, world markets. That is our agenda.”
>
>
>
> The core elements of this strategy are:
>
> * Access to resources (from agricultural commodities to energy)
> * New and better market access for European products
> * Rules securing European investments and intellectual property rights
>
>
>
> In addition to the ongoing multilateral WTO negotiations, the EU seeks these
> objectives by negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with the so-called
> emerging economies such as India, South Korea, the ASEAN states, and also
> Central America and the Andean Region. Russia, the MERCOSUR countries and
> the Gulf Cooperation Council are also on the priority list of the EU. The
> goal of these bilateral or bi-regional free trade agreements is to open and
> deregulate developing country markets for European companies, to increase
> their access to natural resources, particularly to energy reserves, and to
> secure their profits by enforcing intellectual property rights and other
> trade defence mechanisms.
>
>
>
> This strategy not only undermines regulation in target countries. It also
> clearly links EU internal deregulation to this agenda. It says, for example,
> that future directives on social, labour or environmental issues for
> instance, should not be threatening the global competitiveness of European
> corporations. In this way, Global Europe poses a serious threat to social
> justice, gender equality and sustainable development not only outside the
> EU, but also within. The erosion of workers’ rights, the worsening of the
> quality of jobs within the EU, the destruction of a sustainable model of
> farming is also intrinsically linked to the external EU trade agenda. With
> trade liberalisation across all sectors – agriculture, industry and services
> – the beneficiaries are a handful of corporations but millions lose their
> jobs.
>
>
>
> Stop EPA campaign needed more than ever
>
>
>
> Recently we met in Lisbon from 7-9 December 2007 to express our opposition
> to the “Africa-EU Strategic Partnership” and the so-called “Economic
> Partnership Agreements” (EPAs). These unfair trade deals based on an
> ultra-liberal perspective, threaten the livelihoods of millions of farmers
> and workers of both the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) and European
> countries. We noted the historical and contemporary role of European
> governments and corporations in Africa, and stressed that Europe constitutes
> a direct source of threats and pressures on the peoples and the environment
> of Africa. During the last years ACP countries have been confronted with the
> reinforcement of policies through the EU’s proposed EPAs such as trade
> liberalisation, the promotion of export-oriented economies, the
> liberalisation of capital markets, the promotion of foreign investment, and
> the privatisation of public services. These agreements are also motivated by
> the aspiration of the EU to secure or re-gain geo-political and economic
> influence in its former colonies.
>
>
>
> In the last few months the EU and the EC have abused the expiration date of
> the Cotonou Treaty to apply pressure and push 20 ACP countries into signing
> very unfavourable “interim agreements”. ACP Ministers, meeting in Brussels
> on 13th December 2007, have stated that the “European Union’s mercantilist
> interests have taken precedence over the ACP’s developmental and regional
> integration interests”. The interim agreement on the liberalisation of goods
> trade have been rushed through in the last weeks on the basis of draft texts
> proposed by the EC that ACP negotiators have not been able to examine or
> amend properly. The result is devastating agreements, that contain onerous
> commitments on the side of the ACP countries and, among other things, do not
> offer adequate protection for Food Sovereignty and emergent industry. It is
> clear that the EC has deliberately crippled the interim agreements to
> maintain leverage to force the ACP countries to accept negotiations on the
> infamous liberalization of services and the ‘Singapore issues’ next year.
> The Stop EPA Campaign must continue to undo these interim agreements and
> ward of further damaging EU demands.
>
>
>
> The EU’s new external trade strategy is destroying our jobs, rights and
> environment
>
>
>
> EU policies based on so-called “competitiveness” and increasingly open and
> deregulated markets, have failed to deliver on sustainable development and
> social justice. Instead, tougher and tougher competition and trade
> liberalisation have lead to more insecurity, precarity, deteriorating
> salaries and working conditions, deepening inequalities between countries,
> regions and between women and men. This strategy also puts under threat
> environmental and health regulations.
>
>
>
> For poor countries, market opening means the collapse of farming and
> industry in the face of unfair competition from European corporations –
> threatening the livelihoods of millions. Rural communities, often still a
> majority of the population in the targeted countries, will be particularly
> harmed as cheap, processed and subsidized agricultural goods flood
> developing countries’ markets. Farmers, and particularly small-scale women
> farmers, who simply cannot compete with powerful European agribusinesses,
> will be driven off their land.
>
>
>
> Trade chiefs from the EU and the United States warned recently that tackling
> climate change should not become an excuse for throwing up new barriers to
> foreign trade. Trade Ministers, whose decisions are perpetuating
> unsustainable modes of production, consumption and trade, are directly
> responsible for climate change. Global warming shows the failure of a
> development model based on unfettered economic growth, the irrational
> exploitation of fossil fuels, over-production, over-consumption and trade
> liberalisation.
>
>
>
> While the society has never been as conscious about the social and
> environmental crisis of the planet as today, the political class is still
> promoting “development-as-usual”. Instead, we need a real paradigm shift.
>
>
>
> We demand Climate Justice Now, with solutions including:
>
> * Reduced consumption in the EU
> * Huge financial transfers from EU to the South based on historical
> responsibility and ecological debt in order to support adaptation and
> mitigation costs
> * Financing provided by redirecting military budgets, innovative taxes
> and debt cancellation
> * Leaving fossil fuels in the ground
> * Investing in appropriate energy-efficiency and safe, clean and
> community-led renewable energy
> * Rights-based resource conservation that enforces indigenous land
> rights and promotes peoples’ sovereignty over energy, forests, land and
> water
> * Sustainable family farming and peoples' food sovereignty
>
>
>
>
>
> The Lisbon Treaty: the wrong solution to an undemocratic and unsocial Europe
>
>
>
> We condemn the so-called EU Reform Treaty (Lisbon Treaty) which reinforces
> the power of the EC in matters of trade and development and further reduces
> the capacity of citizens to influence democratically its policies. The new
> treaty is deepening the neoliberal policies and the democratic deficit of
> the EU, perpetuating the power of transnational corporations and serving the
> interests of European capital, increasing the militarisation of Europe,
> strengthening “fortress Europe” and bringing no substantive protection to
> European citizens against the downward spiral in social and environmental
> standards.
>
>
>
> The main substance of the antisocial character of the “Constitution” which
> was rejected in France and Holland, remains. The new Treaty will surely
> deepen the crisis of legitimacy. The Europe that is being built is a Europe
> of capital, that tries to defend the interests of its main economic and
> financial actors worldwide (entailing both alliances and tensions with the
> United States), guaranteeing also the same interests at home, over and above
> those of its peoples and the environment. And to do so, Europe needs a
> growing internal authoritarian structure, which will operate as a “fortress”
> for the migrants, based and coordinated on its reinforced nation states, and
> a “unified” and structured military might to project its economic and
> monetary-financial power worldwide.
>
>
>
> We reject the externalization of borders policy of the European Union, the
> policy of detention, expulsion and deportation and the readmission
> agreements, the Frontex Program, which represents a huge investment in the
> militarization of borders control creating the basis for direct
> interventions in African countries and represents a real declaration of war
> against migrants.
>
>
>
> Another vision for Europe: peace, sustainability, solidarity
>
>
>
> Our purpose is to construct a world based on the concepts of peace,
> participatory democracy, social justice, human rights, sustainability, food
> sovereignty and peoples’ rights to self-determination.
>
>
>
> We aim at creating spaces to link current struggles, emerging grassroots
> resistance movements and alternative visions, and articulating social
> movements, NGOs, women organisations, trade unions, human rights
> organisations, farmers, ecological and indigenous movements, migrant and
> refugee organisations towards joint action and reflection.
>
>
>
> We are calling for joint strategies to halt current negotiations seeking to
> implement “Free” Trade Agreements (FTAs) between Europe and the rest of the
> world; and consolidating the struggles against European transnational
> corporations, and deepening the process of constructing alternatives, to
> reclaim the right to food, education, health and other basic services.
>
>
>
> We commit ourselves to strengthen interregional solidarity and cooperation
> among our social movements and organisations from all over the world against
> corporate power and all unfair bilateral trade and investment agreements. We
> commit ourselves to joint resistance against neoliberal policies and to
> build people-centred alternatives.
>
>
>
> In particular we continue to campaign together to
>
> * Stop the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
>
> * Stop the Global Europe Strategy
>
> * Stop all bilateral trade agreements
>
> * Suspend WTO negotiations and reconsider the multilateral trading
> system as a whole
>
> * Support the Moratorium on Agrofuels and the fight against global
> warming and the energy crisis
>
> * Achieve freedom of movement for all people
>
>
>
> In order to dismantle the power of transnational corporations (TNCs), we aim
> to:
>
> * Strengthen resistance against the operations of TNCs violating human
> rights and playing a key role in the construction of the neoliberal global
> system
> * Expose the legal-political system and dominant institutions that
> serve and protect the interests of TNCs, including the FTAs and Bilateral
> Investment Treaties (BITS) that allow transnational corporations to operate
> with impunity
> * Demand compliance to existing rules, the elimination of unfair laws,
> and progress on international regulations that respect the rights of people
> and the environment, with which TNCs and governments are required to comply
> * Provide tools to enhance the strategies of communities, social
> movements and organisations confronting TNCs and promoting alternatives that
> strive to dismantle their presence and judge their crimes.
>
>
>
> We will support policies in favour of solidarity, peace, the realisation of
> all human rights and the harmony between people and the planet.
>
>
>
> In the next months, we will use moments in the political calendar to link
> with the global justice movement:
>
>
>
> * The Global Day of Action of the World Social Forum on 26 January
> 2008
>
> * The UNCTAD XII meeting in Accra, Ghana (April 2008)
>
> * The Action Week on Global Europe and the EU-FTAs in Brussels and
> different European countries (April 2008)
>
> * The Peoples summit “Enlazando Alternativas 3” and the Permanent
> Peoples Tribunal Session on the occasion of the EU-LAC summit and the
> proposed “free trade zone” (Lima, Peru, 15-18 May 2008)
>
> * The Migration WSF in Madrid (11-13 September 2008)
>
> * The 5th European Social Forum in Malmö (17-21 September 2008)
>
> * The campaigns calling for referendums on (or against) the Lisbon
> Treaty
>
>
>
>
>
> -------
>
>
>
> For more information and links: <http://www.s2bnetwork.org/>
> www.s2bnetwork.org
>
>
>
> Members of the Seattle to Brussels Network: 11.11.11, Actionaid
> International, Action Solidarité Tiers Monde, Africa-Europe Faith and
> Justice Network, AITEC, Anti-Globalisation Network UK, Attac Austria, Attac
> Belgium, Attac Denmark, Attac France, Attac Germany, Attac Hungary, Attac
> Norway, Attac Sweden, Attac Switzerland, Begegnungszentrum Gewaltlosigkeit
> Salzburg – Forum against WTO, Berne Declaration, Both Ends, Bundjugend /
> Young Friends of the Earth Germany, Bündnis für Eine Welt / ÖIE, Campagna
> per la Riforma Della Banca Mondiale, CCCOMC Paris, Central America
> Committee, Christian Aid, CNCD-11.11.11., Coordination Paysanne Européenne–
> European Farmers Coordination / La Vía Campesina Europe, Corporate Europe
> Observatory, Ecologistas en Acción, [Fair], Fédération Syndicale Unitaire
> (Education, Recherche et Culture), Finnish WTO Campaign, Food and Water
> Watch Europe, For Velferdsstaten / Campaign for the Welfare State, Forum
> SYD, Friends of the Earth Croatia / Green Action, Friends of the Earth
> Denmark / Noah, Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland,
> Friends of the Earth Europe, Friends of the Earth Finland, Friends of the
> Earth Germany / BUND, Friends of the Earth Hungary / MTVSZ, Friends of the
> Earth Latvia, Friends of the Earth Netherlands / Milieudefensie, Friends of
> the Earth Norway Youth / Natur Og Ungdom, Friends of the Earth Slovakia /
> CEPA, Friends of the Earth Ukraine / Zelenyi Svti, Gatswatch Project, Global
> Roots, Greenpeace Germany, Greenpeace International, Institut pour la
> Relocalisation de l‘Economie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy,
> Initiative Colibri, International Forum, Les Amis de la Terre, Nature Trust
> Malta, New Economics Foundation, Norsk Bonde-Og Smabrukarlag, Oxfam
> Solidarity, People & Planet, ¡Prou OMC!, Rete Lilliput, SOMO – Center For
> Research on Multinational Corporations, Terra Nuova, The Corner House, The
> Development Fund, Third World Network, Transnational Institute, URFIG,
> Védegylet / Protect the Future, Vredeseilanden, War On Want, WEED -
> Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie & Entwicklung e.V., WIDE - Women In Development
> Europe, Women‘s International League for Peace and Freedom, Working Group
> against the MAI and Globalisation, World Development Movement.
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