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ISF Press Launch is TOMORROW Thur 3rd July- 11.30 at Dail + 12.00 Earl Of Kildare Hotel

category dublin | public consultation / irish social forum | press release author Wednesday July 02, 2003 21:25author by Barry Finnegan - ISf interim Communication Working Groupauthor email john.finnegan3 at mail dot dcu dot ie Report this post to the editors

2nd Irish Social Forum All-Island Gathering, Sunday 6 July, 11.00 - 17.00

IRISH CIVIL SOCIETY PREPARES TO CONTEST DUBLIN WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM SUMMIT

GLOBAL JUSTICE GATHERING AND PHOTO-OP
Dáil Eireann, Kildare St., 11.30 - 12.00 THURSDAY, 3 JULY 2003
"Government tips the scales for corporate power" says Irish Social Forum

Photo-event featuring a 'scales of justice' with representations of Mary Harney and Peter Sutherland on one side, with Public Sector workers and participants from the Irish Social Forum on the other.

Followed by:
Press launch of Irish Social Forum
12.00, July 3, Earl of Kildare Hotel, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Speakers to include:
Donnacha O Briain ATTAC Ireland, co-director of 'Chavez - Inside the Coup'
Colm O Cuanacháin Secretary General, Amnesty International Irish Section
Bill McCamley SIPTU activist and CIE worker-director
Ivana Bacik Feminist and law lecturer
Clare Lee Irish Anti-War Movement
Barry Finnegan Interim Convenor, Irish Social Forum

As Mary Harney and Peter Sutherland prepare to host a summit of world business leaders in Dublin in October on the theme of 'Competition', Irish civil society is mobilising to ensure that an alternative voice - the voice of ordinary people - is also heard.

"The Social Forum, from Porto Allegre to Florence, for Mumbai to Dublin, is the most positive global movement emerging in our time. It's about people pursuing their human rights through their own power, with an unstoppable passion. We need an active civil society in Ireland if human rights are to become a reality for all, and the Social Forum movement provides the vehicle to stimulate and focus this activism", said Colm Ó Cuanacháin, Secretary General, Amnesty International Irish Section

"The World Economic Forum is a private club of the biggest companies in the world. Their agenda of ruthless competition undermines democracy. Cutbacks in respite care, the axing of community employment schemes and the ideologically-driven plans to privatise CIE and the ESB are examples of the WEF's anti-social agenda" said Barry Finnegan, interim convenor of the Irish Social Forum.

"We are inviting community and voluntary organisations, trade unionists, alternative globalisation activists and concerned citizens to join in an Irish Social Forum. In October the ISF will bring people from Ireland and abroad to discuss 'Co-operation' - an alternative to the corporate agenda of the WEF. Over the days preceding the arrival of the business leaders and neoliberal economists who think that our world is theirs to despoil, a host of organisations and individuals will be showing that 'another world is possible”, said Donnacha O'Briain of ATTAC Ireland.

Quotes end. Media queries:
Barry Finnegan. 01-8741223, 085-7333044, email: john.finnegan3@mail.dcu.ie
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2nd Irish Social Forum All-Island Gathering, Sunday 6 July, 11.00 - 17.00, Teachers' Club, Parnell Square, Dublin. Organisations and activists from around Ireland are invited for a day of discussions on the issues the ISF will address and our plans for the ISF CO-OPERATION counter-summit in October, opposing the Competition summit of the World Economic Summit.

author by London Callingpublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 21:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Um, do the ISF know they're clashing with a Refugees March tomorrow at midday, calling for foreign parents with kids born here to be allowed stay? Organised by Residents Against Racism, a very active, grassroots community group. Isnt the ISF supposed to be supporting/representing these marginalised people? Why not bring the media down to it, to talk to the marginalised and at risk in Irish society? They are meeting at midday at the Central Bank on Dame Street.

author by Barry Finnegan - ISf interim Communication Working Grouppublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 21:31author email john.finnegan3 at mail dot dcu dot ieauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Another World Is Under Construction!
Invite to the 2nd all-island Irish Social Forum get-together
at the Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Sq., Dublin 1; 11.00 am to 5.00pm Sunday July 6th 2003

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
Background:
From December ’02 to May ’03 activists and organisers from a wide range of different movements took part in a consultation and dialogue process discussing the possibility of creating an Irish Social Forum, and what it should look like. This led to the 1st ISF all-island one-day Open Space consultation process on May 24th last which had 75 people from around the island attending. A consensus adoption of the WSF Charter of Principles was made (with expression of intent not to discriminate against people in political parties) and a mandate was given to create five interim working groups in order to create a structure within which to get the work done to plan the July 6th get-together and to plan for 1st Irish Social Forum, Fri. Oct. 17th - Sun Oct. 19th, 2003. These ISF Interim Working Groups will be reporting to the plenary on July 6th on the progress made so far and a consensus review of the working structures will be made by the plenary. July 6th will incorporate a launch of the ISF, with presentations being made, as well as being a working meeting where decisions are made and participants will also have an opportunity to hold their own discussion groups.

Programme For The Day:
11.00 - 11.05 Welcome address from the ISF interim Communication Working Group
11.05 - 11.20 Launch speech and presentation on the World Social Forum
11.20 - 11.30 Presentation linking the global neoliberalist project with the local issue of CIE
privatisation by a Dublin bus driver.
11.30 - 11.40 Presentation on what is the World Economic Forum and their Lisbon Review
11.40 - 11.50 Report from the first meetings of the Northwest Social Forum
11.50 - 12.00 Report from the first meetings of the Northeast Social Forum
12.00 - 12.10 Report from the first meetings of the Southwest Social Forum
12.10 - 12.20 Report from the ISF interim Communications, Outreach, Topics and Principles, and Buildings and Finance Working Groups.
12.20 - 12.40 Report from the ISF Interim Think Tank For October Working Group: Buildings and speakers booked; Carnival for Global Economic and Social Justice; October Group proposal for an Oct. 20th WEF blockade; October Group proposal for an Oct. 20th anti-WEF march.
12.40 - 1.00 Plenary discussion on the blockade and march proposals
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 2.45 Final plenary discussion and decision on the blockade and the march proposals
2.45 - 3.00 How do participant led Open Space Technology discussion groups work?
3.00 - 4.00 Participant led Open Space discussion groups
4.00 - 4.15 Discussion groups report to plenary
4.15 - 5.00 Plenary review of ISF interim Working Groups structure and any other business.

 To maintain the spirit of inclusiveness and transparency, participants, before making their submissions to the discussions and plenary, must say their name, and (if any) what group(s), organisation(s) and political party they are members of.
 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 register for July 6th please join the ISF Interim Communication Working Group elist by mailing ISF_CommTalk@topica.com; or mail: john.finnegan3@mail.dcu.ie; or ring 01-8741223, or visit the website: www.IrishSocialForum.org; or just come along!

author by will they, wont they...publication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 21:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The big question on the lips & minds of the 'activist' community... will the ISF back a street blockade or not... let the slew of comments begin below

(and remember children, be nice to each other..!)

author by pcpublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 22:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

how will the isf hlep out people say over hte next five years ?

author by R Isible 1 of IMC Editorial Group - IMC Irelandpublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 22:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If anyone makes an error with a date in their post the editorial group will be delighted to make a change if you email them at imc-ireland-editorial@lists.indymedia.org with the url of your post and a description of what you want changed or the complete replacement post. Much better than just slapping up another post on the newswire and driving other people's news off until an editor happens to notice. I'm sure you didn't mean to do that or think about it, so this is just a heads-up for everyone. Thanks.

author by pcpublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 22:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

its unavoidable i tihnk july 6ht was picked before this other thing anyway

i for one will try to be present at both ans it is exactly the type of thing the members isf want to be involved in

author by John Meehanpublication date Fri Jul 04, 2003 12:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The "scales of justice" photo-event was covered on the RTÉ News @ 6.00pm (Thursday July 3.

The Irish Times covered the press conference in its Friday July 4 edition.

Anyone else hear or see other coverage - e.g. other daily papers, radio or TV outlets?

There was no "clash" with the very successful Residents Against Racism march against deportations; many of the same people who attended and worked on the ISF press launch joined the RAR march.

The links were nicely illustrated by Ivana Bacik speaking at both the ISF press conference and the RAR march.

Great work done by everyone - I guess the only individuals who feel sore about all of this are likely to be Peter Sutherland and Mary Harney.

It is good to see different strands of the left working well together, achieving useful results, and attacking right wingers instead of other parts of the left.

A final thought - congratulations to the jury members at Kilrush Court who refused to convict Mary Kelly - it was a great strategy to invite witnesses such as Ramsey Clarke and Denis Halliday to testify at the political trial.

The people have spoken.

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