Invite to 3rd All Ireland Irish Social Forum Gathering - Belfast Sept 21st
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Tuesday September 02, 2003 10:07
by eoin o'broin - North East Irish Social Forum
eoinobroin at hotmail dot com
Cooperation not Competition - Human Rights not Privitisation
Below is an invitation to attend the 3rd All Ireland Irish Social Forum Gathering, being hosted by the North East Irish Social Forum in Belfast on Sundat September 21st 2003. For further details contact eoinobroin at the mail address provided below.
NORTH EAST IRISH SOCIAL FORUM
Invites You To The 3rd All Ireland Social Focum Gathering
Cooperation not Competition
Human Rights Not Privitisation
Sunday September 21st
Crescent Arts Centre
Belfast
The NEISF is organising an one day event under the title ‘Cooperation not Competition, Human Rights not Privitiation’. The event will examine issues of privitisation, neo-liberalism, human rights, peace and democracy. The gathering will also discuss the future development of the Irish Social Forum and its European and World counterparts. This event is open to all those involved in the evolving Irish Social Forum networks, all those who are opposed to neo liberalism, privitisation and global capitalism and all those who believe that another world is possible.
Agenda
Registraton: 10am
Morning Plenary Discussion: 10.30 - 12.00
Neo-Liberalism - From the local to the global
Communities Against Water Tax (Manus Maguire), Firebrigades Union (Jim Barbour), ICTU (Alisa Keane), Refugee Rights (Refugee Action Group). Chair (Emily Kwano)
Morning Workshops: 12.15 - 1.45
workshops on
•trade justice
•anti war
• another world is possible
•poverty
•Ireland in the global economy
•consensus facilitation skills
•ghandiism
•open
•open
•open
Lunch: 1.45 - 2.45
Food Not Bombs
Lunch will take the form of a public food Not Bombs event at the Venue.
Afternoon Discussion: 3.00 - 5.30
The Future of the ISF
The agenda of this session will not be set until one week before the event. Partitipants should feel free to e.mail their suggestions or issues they would like to discuss by September 15th. Possible elements to the session could be:
• reports from regional social forums
• workshops on specific themes such as ISF national structure, priuorities etc
• open plenary to discuss workshop report backs and decison making on way forward
Social Event: 7.00
Theatre followed by,
World Music Disco, with resident DJ Steve Mc in Cresent Arts Centre
Additional Details
For more information on travel, billetts or childcare or to suggest topics for workshops or the afternoon ISF session contact
Eoin O’Broin at eoinobroin@hotmail.com
Comments (5 of 5)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5I thought that the big ISF meeting will be in UCD? Or is this meeting not an 'all ireland meeting of the irish social forum'?
The ISF are hosting a counter summitt and carnival on the weekend of October 19th in Dublin. This is indeed an all Ireland event and so far looks excellent.
The NE ISF are inviting ISF people from across the island to Belfast on September 21st for a series of debates and to continue the discussion on the future direction of the ISF.
There is a month between the two events and we are hoping that the September event in Belfast will help us build for the October summitt and carnival in Dublin.
Any less confused now?
C'mon somebody must know what happened.
folks,
greets from Donegal... >> Big 'do' a happening on Tuesday Sept 9 11.45am-2pm Conrad Hotel Dublin. http://www.amcham.ie/events/transatlantic.htm
- American chamber of Commerce 'business dinner' with Ireland's top top globalisation new world order maestro - Peter Sutherland.
Sutherland was Attorney general, top man at AIB, then a EU commissioner, then a asst. sec general of the WTO - he's also a assoc. member of the WEF and Ireland's rep. to the Bilderberg group (Serious new world order stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) - and there's more - feck - he's also chair of BP and Goldman Sachs (what a fecking CV!)
>info http://www.bilderberg.org
- a few heads are proposing a few counter deeds to expose, propose, rip and roar and make Sutherland, the top business heads and the Irish public aware of the devious deliberations of big brother and co. - not to mention the direct involvement of the American Chamber of Commerce in promoting corporate rule and global hegemony....
Anyone up for involvement????????????????
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60763&search_text=bp
Ruairi
do you have any details of the weekend of the 19th of October. Where and when will these events be taking place? Dublin is a big city!!
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