[fse-esf] Fwd: Florence 10+10. proposal franco russo

[mariangela]

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> De: Tord Björk <tord.bjork at gmail.com>
> Fecha: 22 de junio de 2012 14:13:38 GMT+02:00
> Para: mariangela <maciacia50 at hotmail.com>
> Asunto: Re: [fse-esf] Florence 10+10. proposal franco russo
> 
> Thankyou Mariella for this valuable criticism. The idea to focus in
> this time of simultanous crisis on democracy as a way to bring us
> further after ten years of ESF seems to me an intellectual construct
> of little capacity to mobilize interest among movement activists nor
> addressing the core of what is needed at the present situation which
> rather maybe would be how to connect the struggles.
> 
> Here in Rio that is exactly what takes place due to close cooperation
> between Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth, CUT, indiegenous
> movements, World March of Women and Jubilee South. This understanding
> of having all main movements central in the peoples summit and the
> political parties and NGOs playing a more marginal role is missing in
> Europe. Rural movements and envrionmental organisations are not taken
> seriously into account. Occupy alos exists here. But like in Sweden it
> is utterly small. US Social Forum organizers from grassroots movements
> claim Occuoy in the US also is in a period of declining influence. I
> belive a mixture of bringing the key popular movements while also
> inviting new povements.
> 
> yours Tord
> 
> having problems sending to the fse-esf list at the moment
> 
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:43 PM, mariangela <maciacia50 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> here in Madrid as 15M movement we are working on a 2 days forum july
>> It's going to be transversal in its organization
>> to see contents and struggles from different point of view
>> (ex. miners struggle in Spain and environmental problems with mines...)
>> 
>> It will be great to have an european gathering in Florence in November
>> (florence 10 +10)
>> but I really think that it quite impossible to focus everything on
>> democracy
>> 
>> We are thinking for July at least on six big thematics
>> 1. democracy and law (referendum, auditoria, law proposals, popular
>> tribunal, republic ....., what Europe
>> 2. exploitation, environment, housing, eurovega, water, church property,
>> occupation of empty spaces .......
>> 3. violence of the systeme ( use of medias, manipulation, patriarchy,
>> homophoby, wars and occupation... global disarmament, the hearth charter
>> 4. movements (how we are practising horizontality, absence of leadership,
>> consensus ........ strike, boicot, alternatives
>> 5. work (precarity, unemployment, students and workers struggles, July
>> marches to Madrid, cooperation, take the work, decrecimiento,
>> 6. state, public, common : services, citizen participation in organizing
>> services,
>> 
>> The idea is to go through these 6 thematics presenting the proposals coming
>> from the elaboration of this year of work of the movement in terms of
>> actions, disobedience and selfmanagement
>> 
>> I am informing movements about the preparation meeting in Milan (14,15 and
>> 16th of September)
>> and i hope that the people involved in the process of the ESf will be really
>> open to all the movements which have taken the streets all over Europe and
>> the world during last year, from Spain, to wall Street, to Quebec, to
>> Frankfurt, to London, to Greece, to all over the places
>> 
>> and when I say open I mean recognize what has been done, being able of
>> seeing it
>> and understand that there are a lot of new subjects in the european and
>> global skreen
>> which are not
>> the ones we were before
>> 
>> So I dont really understand this sentence
>> 
>> The European  societies, notwithstanding important struggles (from Spain to
>> Greece), have not been able to respond and to mobilize around the most
>> important issue: democracy, which is the  necessary condition to fight the
>> neoliberal policies so as to implement social and economic alternatives.
>> 
>> 
>> which sounds a bit as a criticism without underline what has been done
>> 
>> In terms of democracy we are showing that we NEVER ask permission for being
>> in the street demonstrating, in assemblies, camping ( WE DO IT : we have
>> taken the streets, the squares, the fields, in order to affirm our rights of
>> organizing in a different way and this is in itsself the first important
>> step,
>> 
>> we have started important process like popular consultation (referendum on
>> water and debts), presentation of popular laws, open and citizen tribunal
>> where we denounce speculation
>> 
>> we have started campaign to promote objection to militar fees, debt fees,
>> repression fees, churches fees .......
>> 
>> we have stopped with our bodies people being evicted from their flats and
>> campaign against banks (move your money from banks to cooperative or ethical
>> banks
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I think all these movements all over Europe and the world in these years
>> have a lot to think of in terms of achievements and in terms of what we need
>> in order to do it better with more strength with more and more people
>> and we can go on and on
>> 
>> recognizing each other work, experience and work
>> and I hope that Milan and Florence will be a step in this path
>> 
>> 
>> ps As far as I know there will be also in September an European meeting in
>> Madrid organized by the collectives which have worked around
>> MAYOccupyFrankfurt
>> 
>> An internacional meeting will be held on Mumble, Occupytalk, Assemblies and
>> round tables, Open Space
>> on Saturday the 23rd at 8 pm (spanish hour)
>> 
>> Yaou are all invited
>> 
>> Mariangela
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  Florence 10+10
>> Europe and democracy
>> In the last two years the ruling classes – economic and political – have
>> transformed the EU in order to respond to the financial, economic, and
>> social crisis.
>> The neoliberal response has been the same throughout the EU: fiscal
>> consolidation, austerity measures, the so-called structural reforms to
>> destroy the national collective contracts by substituting them with the
>> enterprise and local contracts, workers’ flexibility and the destruction of
>> social rights (pensions, health care, education) through the liberalization
>> and privatization of the public services and the commons.
>> Without modifying the Treaties, without discussion in the European and
>> national parliaments, without a public debate, the EU already-existing
>> organs have been transformed, and new ones created, through jurisdictions
>> not foreseen in the Treaties. Step by step, according to the old
>> functionalist model, the powers of European governments (through the
>> European Council), of the EBC and the technocracy have been rendered
>> increasingly pervasive. The result is that the market consensus substitutes
>> that of the citizens.
>> The European Semester,  the Euro Plus Pact,  the Six pack, the Fiscal
>> Compact have been the most important steps to forge a European economic
>> governance, which grants the political supremacy of the markets.
>> All these moves do not represent the old question of the democratic deficit,
>> anymore, they represent the flight from democracy.
>> A network of governments, technocracies, financial and economic powers,
>> central bankers constitutes a European oligarchy which is accountable only
>> to the markets. Now the ruling classes want to forge institutions which will
>> manage the fiscal policy and the Bank Union in order to better respond to
>> the demands of the markets.
>> The EU is now a market society with an economic constitution, which has
>> overturned the principles of 20th-century constitutional charters.
>> The introduction of the balance budget in the Constitutions of the Member
>> States - as written in the Fiscal Compact - is the climax of the victory of
>> neoliberalism, the construction of a European juridical order of the market.
>> ‘Brussels’ and ‘Frankfurt’ have become the centres of power, a circuit of
>> institutions in the service of markets, from which democracy has been
>> expelled.
>> The European  societies, notwithstanding important struggles (from Spain to
>> Greece), have not been able to respond and to mobilize around the most
>> important issue: democracy, which is the  necessary condition to fight the
>> neoliberal policies so as to implement social and economic alternatives.
>> 
>> Florence 10+10 can be a good occasion to discuss how to try to overcome our
>> great difficulties in fighting against the EU antidemocratic evolution, and
>> to try to forge European alliances and coalitions able to organize campaigns
>> to build a democratic Europe.
>> We propose to use Florence 10+10 to hold seminars and an assembly focused on
>> ‘Europe and democracy’.
>> We wish to have your opinion on these proposals, and your availability to
>> organize together these activities.
>> 
>> Thank you for your attention
>> Best regards
>> Roberto Musacchio- Franco Russo
>> 
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