#GlobalSquare reports from the World Social Forum 2013

Minutes of GlobalSquare assemblies @ World Social Forum 2013, Tunis A summary of the events and evaluation notes will be published soon!

• Assembly friday 29 March 2013
• Assembly thursday 28 March 2013
• Assembly wednesday 27 March 2013
• Assembly tuesday 26 March 2013

News and personal reflections on GlobalSquare/WSF

• Marouane: Forum Social Mondial: Un autre mensonge est possible [En-Pt-Es-Fr] (24-4-13)
• Marisa: Why we occupied the World Social Forum (22-4-13)
• Rami: Mes impressions sur le FSM (16-4-13)
• Carminda: Some impressions from the WSF 2013 [en-fr] (15-4-13)
• Dani: My Tunisian experience (14-4-13)
• Vica: A report from the World Social Forum (12-4-13)
• #SpanishRevolution: Occupy the WSF (31-3-13)
• Elisabetta: Assemblea di piazza in avenue Bourguiba (30-3-13)
• Tunisia Live: Occupy movement welcomes Tunisia to “Fake Democracy” (28-3-13)
• OccupyLondon: Occupy activists at the WSF (24-3-13)

People United Against Troika, on June 1st 2013

Back to the Streets on May at Barcelona

The May 15th 2011, millions of people started a process of social change, giving a clear and unmistakable signal that we are not merchandise in the hands of politicians and bankers, we have been publicly and massively expressing that the representative democracy is dying. The political class have not understood the message. Despite the growing protests and the outcry of upset people, these ruling classes are using this crisis to plunder the common wealth, risking the lives of people.

Capitalism has decided to cancel democracy and now the bankers rule us. Clearly, this 1% of the population is the legalized crime in power. The current political system leads us to disaster and we have to be the 99% who take the helm of our destiny. We demand a constituent power to recover the sovereignty that belongs to us. Therefore, on May 12th and 15th, after a 2 years protesting, we return to the streets with legitimate demands and we will continue building the alternatives.

Face to repression and blockades imposed on us from the institutions we will require a list of minimum points, since it is endangering the integrity of population with inhumane measures.

In order to guarantee the right to the existence of  the 99%, we demand:

1. Not a single euro to rescue the banks. Citizen Audit of debt. We will not pay illegitimate debt created by those who caused the crisis.

2. Public, free and a quality Education and Health Care System. No cuts in welfare, not to the privatization of public services. Not repayment.

3. Fair distribution of job and wealth. Not to the precariousness. No retirement at 67. Removal of the Labor Reform. Assessment of reproductive work, domestic and care.

4. Guaranteed right on access to adequate housing. Retroactive dation in payment. Social rental housing. Promotion of housing cooperatives.

5. Tax reform that allows fairly redistribute the wealth that we produce among all.  Basic Income for everyone.

6. Protection of the rights of assembly, demonstration, strikes, association and all civil liberties including the right to your own body.

Therefore, on May 12th and 15th we have been organized demonstrations everywhere and a consumer strike.

THE PEOPLE ARE THE SOLUTION!

#12M15M Barcelona

AGENDA MAY 10th to 12th at CATALUNYA SQUARE

Friday May 10th
All day, Action ‘Papers your bank’
18:00 Press Conference
19:00 Reoccupation of Catalunya Square (with the Set Up of different Tables and Info Tents from Neighborhood Assemblies, Commissions, Collectives…)

Saturday May 11th
All day, talks and info-exchange from Neighborhood Assemblies, Commissions, Collectives…
19:30 Potbanging
20:00 General Assembly

Sunday May 12th
11:00 Constituent Assembly
16:30 Street Theater: ‘The three gilts evicted’ by  ‘Teatre sobre la marcha’
18:00 Start of the DEMO ‘Stop financial genocide, together we can!’

From the night of May 12th until 15th, actions are decentralized. Each neighborhood, town, village, commission or working group will generate its own events and announcements.

DEMO MEETING POINTS ON MAY 12th BARCELONA

BANNERS, POSTERS… ETC. TO SPREAD OUT

#London – Global Skills Exchange June 8-9

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND PARTICIPANTS – 8-9 June, London

From the uprising in northern Africa to the assemblies in Spain, followed by the spreading of Occupy, new social movements have sprung up all over the world. Our structures, ways of organising and tactics are still in their embryonic form: working through experimentations and learning from the inevitable difficulties. To progress and strengthen these processes, it is important that we come together to reflect on them and build visions.

Therefore, we invite you to participate in GlobalSkillsXChange in London this June.

Workshops will take place on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of June, followed by a week of actions and events for democracy, against G8*. We will share tools, skills and experience to take back to our local struggles, while defining common projects/actions/campaigns for global collaboration - moving away from capitalism and fake democracy towards fair, sustainable futures.

The event will focus on 4 axes:

• Real democracy, assemblies and horizontal organising
• Economical, social and political alternatives
• Strategies of resistance and action
• Online platforms/resources/tools

#18M Llamamiento a concentrarse frente a embajadas españolas por la aprobación de la ILP sobre Desahucios @PAH_BCN

 

Foto: @groundpress
Hola a todxs desde la PAH de Barcelona,

Como muchxs de ustedes tal vez ya conocen, este mes está en discusión en el
Congreso y el Senado Españoles la tramitación de la Iniciativa de
Legislación Popular  (ILP) que propuso la PAH avalada con mas de un millón
y medio de firmas. La ILP es una propuesta de ley que posibilitaría la
dación en pago retroactiva, el alquiler social y la moratoria de los
desahucios. Sin embargo, el Partido Popular, que tiene mayoría absoluta en
el congreso, ya ha adelantado que votará en contra del texto que se ha
propuesto. Por esta razón desde Barcelona y el resto del estado Español se
están realizando varias acciones de presión social para demostrar al actual
gobierno que la mayoría de la población (más del 88%) apoya la ILP de la
PAH.

En conversaciones con el DAL de Paris hemos pensando en realizar una acción
internacional conjunta a la que quisiéramos que se sumen todos los
colectivos afines con los que hemos colaborado en los últimos años. El
objetivo es demostrar que las propuestas de la PAH tienen un amplio apoyo
internacional.

La acción sería el día *18 de marzo* frente al mayor número posible de
embajadas españolas, solicitando que se apruebe la ILP de la PAH. La idea
principal es presionar al gobierno desde dentro de España así como desde
fuera ahora que esta por decidirse el futuro de la ley hipotecaria en
España.

Nos encantaría que se sume el mayor número de colectivos posible y
esperamos poder contar con ustedes. Es importante para nosotros demostrar
al gobierno español el apoyo que existe a nivel internacional. Esperamos
poder contar con ustedes!

Seguimos en contacto,

Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH)

Movimiento de la Juventud Palestina – Conferencia de la Juventud Árabe por la Liberación y la Dignidad – 27~30 Diciembre 2012

[ESP]

Movimiento de la Juventud Palestina

Conferencia de la Juventud Árabe por la Liberación y la Dignidad

27 – 30 Diciembre 2012

 

El Movimiento de la Juventud Palestina se complace en anunciar la primera Conferencia de la Juventud Árabe por la Liberación y la Dignidad, los días 27 al 30 de diciembre de 2012. La Conferencia tendrá lugar en Túnez y tiene como objetivo aunar a participantes en torno a la lucha por la liberación árabe y la liberación de Palestina. En la Conferencia participarán más de 100 jóvenes luchadores y activistas del mundo árabe que quieren construir una visión común que se pueda traducir en acciones. 

Ágora 99: 4 días de debate sobre Deuda, Democracia y Derechos.

 

Barcelona: #20o 11:30am pl Sants DEMO in support #somCanVies #yesWecanVies

Spain: Next actions in October: No to the Debt State Budgets 2013

Draft-document that rejects the State Budget 2013

Not to the budgets

On 29th September was presented to Parliament the draft State Budget for 2013. Presumably, after regular processing a mock debate in Congress, will be approved by the plenary in mid-November without substantial changes.

These budgets have been prepared without taking into account the material conditions in which the population is, delving into the line of higher taxes and deep cuts in health, education, dependency, research, etc. The last modified Article 135 of the Constitution, without popular consultation mortgaged our sovereignty to markets and prefaced the payment of a debt that there was no been generated by the population at the expense of our rights. The purpose of the budgets for the coming year is to expropriate resources that belong to pay the enormous debt than others, because of their private interests, they have collapsed.

The institutional system in which we are immersed obvious, if not prevent, participation in decisions that affect the whole population and limited to elections following which the parties not complying with their programs. Who should be our political representatives and act on popular demand to address our real needs follow the dictates of external agencies, outside the popular sovereignty.

The draft budget for 2013 endorses the irrationalities and injustices in the organization of public resources, reaffirming that we will be the vast majority of people who will pay the debt. A debt that, in large part, is private and has been transformed in public through bailouts to banks, and therefore, it is illegitimate. It is essential to implement an audit that publicly clarify how much its owe, why its owe, and who owe and therefore who should pay.

The spiral of austerity, cuts and debt in which we entered in 2009 in all the countries of southern Europe is not serving to improve the situation. The draft budget for 2013 continues in the same line, it endorses the irrationalities and injustices in the organization of public resources and charges in the population the payment of the debt clearly unpayable by further cuts in social rights (as the most probably cuts in the pension system).

The consequences of these budgets are beyond the term for which they are approved. Cut in social progress achieved for decades affect several generations. Therefore, we propose that the project must be returned.

Schedule

October 13 against debt

[ENG] Español abajo. Français ci-dessous.

International call on debt / Globalnoise /Global Week of Action against Debt  - THSankara

Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) Spain - Strike Debt/Occupy Wall Street – Democratie Réelle Maintenant ! Paris

To the financial institutions of the world, we have only one thing to say: we owe you NOTHING!

To our friends, families, our communities, to humanity and to the natural world that makes our lives possible, we owe you everything.

To the people of the world, we say: join the resistance, you have nothing to lose but your debts.

On O13, in the larger context of the worlwide “globalnoise” mobilisation, and within the Global Week of Action against Debt, we will mobilise against debt in several cities of the world: Barcelona, Madrid, Mexico, Paris, New York, Rome…