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

by London Calling Wed Jul 02, 2003 21:31

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.

by Barry Finnegan - ISf interim Communication Working Group Wed Jul 02, 2003 21:31 john.finnegan3 at mail dot dcu dot ie

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!

by will they, wont they... Wed Jul 02, 2003 21:41

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..!)

by pc Wed Jul 02, 2003 22:02

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

by R Isible 1 of IMC Editorial Group - IMC Ireland Wed Jul 02, 2003 22:17

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.

by pc Wed Jul 02, 2003 22:21

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

by John Meehan Fri Jul 04, 2003 12:10

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.