Dear friends,

Concerning the IC agenda, we suggest the following work schedule:

_May 29th (morning) from 10 am noon _

Accreditation, payment of the solidarity fund, IC Working Groups and
Commissions meetings

May 29th (evening) from 2 to 6 pm

Seminar on WSF assessment

_May 30th and 31st- from 9 am to 7 pm _

- Presentation, agenda approval, information from WGs and Commissions

- WSF process in 2008 towards 2009

- Expansion

- Facilitation

- Communication

- Resources

- Debate and next steps

• On the night of 29th, it was arranged by the local host organisations
  a meeting with Karin Kortmann, Parliamentary State Secretary at the
  Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, from 6 pm to
  8h30 pm, with IC members. The proposal is that she gives a brief
  presentation on Germany government’s position for G-8 meeting and then
  open a round for questions and comments made by IC members.

• German organisations also booked a slot for an workshop at the G-8
  alternative meeting’s program (from June 5th to 7th), in Rostock. We
  could take advantage of this space to organise a dissemination activity
  about WSF process in 2008.

It is in charge of IC to decide the activity format. We suggest that the
Strategy Commission prepare a proposal. We should know who from IC will
be in Germany up to those dates.

• Other moments that could be used for the mobilisation towards WSF 2008:

- Assembly of Social Movements (June 1st, Rostock)

- Assembly of the Youth for the right to land and the right to farming
(June 2nd, Rostock)

• Everybody probably knows that a huge anti-G-8 demonstration is
  scheduled for June 2nd, Saturday, in Rostock (it takes 3 hours to reach
  there by train from Berlin)

WSF office in Brazil is systematising an agenda of events that will take
place simultaneously to the demonstrations against G-8, and soon will
circulate that on the IC lists, as well as disseminate through the
website. Organisations interested in include its event in this agenda
can send the information to IC list or to the email
fsmci@forumsocialmundial.org.br .

Hugs,

Brazilian Collective Responsible for WSF Office

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Mehr als 60000 TeilnehmerInnen registrierten sich beim Weltsozialforum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenia. Zum siebten Mal fand das WSF parallel zum Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos (WEF) statt.
Harsche Kritik aufgrund von Ausgrenzung begleitete das WSF, es gab Aktionen wegen zu hoher Preise für Teilnahmegebühren und Essen. Viele bunte Demonstrationen zogen rund um den Austragungsort, einem großen Fußballstadion. Die Eröffnungs- und Abschlußveranstaltungen liefen im Uhuru Park im Stadtzentrum von Nairobi über die Bühne. Im Vorfeld des WSF trafen sich Feministinnen aus Nord und Süd bei den Feminist Dialogues in Nairobi.
Ein Fotobericht unter http://www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de/bildarchiv/ereignis/wsf2007_nairobi.html

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30 Jan 2007 08:36 GMT
Nairobi, 24 January 2007

We, social movements from across Africa and across the world, have come together here in Nairobi at the 2007 World Social Forum to highlight and celebrate Africa and her social movements; Africa and her unbroken history of struggle against foreign domination, colonialism and neo-colonialism; Africa and her contributions to humanity; Africa and her role in the quest for another world.

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Die europäischen Sozialforen trafen sich im Januar 2006 auf Einladung von attac.
Dort beschlossen sie, das Thema G8 auf dem ESF in Athen einzubringen.

In der Abschlußerklärung der sozialen Bewegungen wird auf die globalisierungskritische Bewegung und die Kämpfe gegen G8 Bezug genommen.

Mehr unter www.sfid.info

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(Vorbemerkung: Das ESF versteht sich als Raum der Debatte und des Austauschs und verabschiedet keine politischen Stellungnahmen. Wie bei den vorherigen europäischen Sozialforen trafen sich auch diesmal im Anschluss an das 4. ESF am Sonntagmorgen zahlreiche Vertreter und Aktive der sozialen Bewegungen, um einen gemeinsamen "Aufruf zur Tat" zu debattieren und zu verabschieden.)

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On occasion of the G-8 planned for 3006 in St. Petersburg (Russia) and 2007 in Heiligendamm (Germany) and the necessary mobilisation for Europe-wide protests, there will take place on the eve of the next European preparatory assembly for the ESF on January 6 in Vienna a networking meeting on the topic of the G-8.

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