Another world is under construction!

national | public consultation / irish social forum | news report Thursday May 22, 2003 18:49 by Not Barry - but the reminder is as good

Irish Social Forum open space consultation process Open Day: What kind of social forum in Ireland? Convergence Festival Cultivate Centre, West Essex St., Temple Bar, D. 2 Saturday, May 24th

Who should take part?
· Anyone involved in formal or informal groups / movements / NGOs
expressing the needs of Irish society
· Anyone interested in building a Social Forum to connect up our different movements and express the "other world" that our movements are building
· Anyone interested in opposing the future that the World Economic Forum, the EU and our own rich and powerful tell us we have to accept

What is the Open Day? · Activists and organisers from a wide range of different movements have
already spent several months in consultation discussing the possibility of creating
an Irish Social Forum, and what it should look like.
· The goal of this Open Day is to extend the process and involve activists,
movements and organisations which have not already got involved in the discussion.
· We hope that this day will give a flavour of what it's like to work with
people from different sectors and will be part of our shared learning process in
moving towards the "real" Irish Social Forum, which will be constituted in June
on the basis of these discussions.

Programme for the day
09.30 - Welcomes
10.00 - Opening: What have the (World, European) Social Forums been like?
10.30 - Discussion groups: What do we want from an Irish Social Forum?
11.30 - Report back
12.10 - Lunch
2.00 - Workshops: how can we develop the "movement of movements"?
3.00 - Break
3.30 - Report back
4.10 - Plenary: Where to from here?
5.00 - Open space forum ends
6.00 - Vital viewing: Social Forum video
8.00 - Play: Accidental death of an activist (Dario Fo / Spacecraft)
Late - Club!

· We invite participants to bring / make posters about their own issues, campaigns, ideas etc.
· We will also be making tables available for any free material participants wish to bring.
· However, there will be no stalls and no selling of anything!

To avoid disappointment please register your attendance for May 24th as soon as
possible by contacting the interim convenor of the Dialogue for Irish Civil Society
To Build An Irish Social Forum on www.IrishSocialForum.org;
john.finnegan3@mail.dcu.ie

http://www.irishsocialforum.org/