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national | miscellaneous | news report Monday July 22, 2002 16:03 by esf

> >This is the proposed ESF official conference prog. > >

> >Morning Conferences: a list of titles and topics, Tessaloniki, 12-13
> july
> >2002
> >
> >
> >Globalisation and liberalism
> >
> >
> > 1.. From the European Union shaped by neoliberal globalisation to
> the
> >Europe of the alternatives.
> > 1.. Europe and the global institutions: WTO, GATTs, IMF; WB,
G8.
> > 2.. Control over financial markets and economy and unrestricted
> >investments.
> > 3.. Economy and solidarity.
> > 4.. Budgetary and Fiscal polices in Europe.
> >
> >
> > 1.. Water, air and earth: Europe opposing unsustainable
> development.
> > 1.. Living standards and consumer patterns.
> > 2.. Privatisation of public goods and ecological debt.
> > 3.. Alternatives: right to quality life, health and well being
> > 4.. Energy question.
> >
> >
> > 1.. Central and East Europe into the globalised world:
alternatives
> to
> >neoliberalism.
> > 1.. Results of privatisation and liberalisations.
> > 2.. Enlarging the European Union to the East.
> > 3.. Social problems and common alternatives.
> >
> >
> > 1.. Europe is not for sale: new rights for a new social system.
> > 1.. Decline and renewal of the welfare state in Europe: health
> care
> >and pension systems.
> > 2.. No to privatisation and liberalisation: preserving and
> changing of
> >the public service.
> > 3.. Family centred policies and rights for men and women.
> >
> >
> > 1.. Europe of workers between global production and social
> >fragmentation.
> > 1.. Impact of finance driven economy on the corporate system
and
> >precarization.
> > 2.. Labour, jobs and fights for rights.
> > 3.. Women and the youth facing the changes in work organization
> and
> >labour market.
> > 4.. Education, training and work.
> >
> >
> > 1.. Europe and Food Sovereignty
> > 1.. For a joint Agriculture Policy: social and labour based,
> >agro-ecological opposing Wto's policies.
> > 2.. A society serving science: patents, GM and research free of
> >multinational power against the market exploitation of life.
> > 3.. Limited cycle, consumerism and North-South trade: an equal
> >pattern.
> >
> >
> >
> >War and Peace
> >
> >
> >
> >1. Europe in the new world (dis) order.
> >
> >a. UN and international law.
> >
> >b. Europe, NATO and joint European defence policies (euroarmy).
> >
> >c. Subordination or antagonism towards the USA: any
alternative?
> >
> >
> >
> > 1.. People's Europe against the never ending war.
> >a. September 11th: the Bush doctrine, the Afghan War and the
war
> on
> >terrorism.
> >
> >b. Western World and Islam, dialogue or clash?
> >
> >c. Creating the enemy: media power.
> >
> >d. Iraqi: the next war?
> >
> >
> >
> > 1.. No justice, no peace.
> >a. Conflict prevention.
> >
> >b. Resistance to war.
> >
> >c. Building solidarity and international and decentralized
> >cooperation.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1.. Local conflicts: Europe's responsibilities
> >a. Introduction.
> >b. Palestine and Israel.
> >
> >c. Balkans.
> >
> >d. Kurdish question.
> >
> >e. Cecenia.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1.. Europe security zone? Social control, repression and denied
> rights.
> >a. Restricting individual and social rights.
> >
> >b. Criminalisation of social conflict.
> >
> >c. Militarisation of the borders and repressive measure against
> >migrants.
> >
> >d. Euro police, euro justice: which polcies?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 1.. War nourished economy
> >a. Production and transformation.
> >
> >b. Defence budget, social spending and global market.
> >
> >c. War economy, mafia smuggling and power.
> >
> >d. Weapons in action: war when living under the bombs.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Rights/citizenship/Democracy
> >
> >
> >
> >1. From the Declaration of Nice to the European Convention: the
crisis
> of
> >democracy in Europe and the struggle for universal citizenship.
> >
> >a. The process leading to a politics driven Europe.
> >
> >b. Universal Citizenship and European Democracy.
> >
> >c. A different European integration
> >
> >d. Participatory democracy to establish a democratic Europe.
> >
> >
> >
> >2. With the rightless, against social exclusion.
> >
> >a. Introduction.
> >
> >b. central and local governments' initiative and social action
> against
> >compassionate liberalism.
> >
> >c. Young peoples' right to future: autonomy, work, income
> >
> >d. Housing rights.
> >
> >
> >
> >3. Emergency if the extreme right emergency: social divide in Europe
> >
> >a. Social insecurity, chauvinism, nationalism and
> discrimination.
> >
> >b. Political values and ideologies of the extreme and populist
> right.
> >
> >c. Fighting social exclusion to counter the Right.
> >
> >
> >
> >4. Information and culture, humankind's resources: from a monopoly
> based
> >system to new individual and social rights.
> >
> >a. Information monopoly and concentration.
> >
> >b. The experience of independent media and alternative
> information.
> >
> >c. Intellectual property and knowledge.
> >
> >d. Protection of cultural diversity in the global market.
> >
> >
> >
> >5. Men and Women: an inescapable conflict for a shared future.
> >
> >a. Labour-jobs.
> >
> >b. Patriarchal family, sexuality and violence.
> >
> >c. Power and political representation.
> >
> >
> >
> >6. Immigrants and Fortress Europe: apartheid, social conflict and
> universal
> >citizenship.
> >
> >a. Migrants and refugees, the way to universal citizenship.
> >
> >b. Racism and xenophobia in Europe.
> >
> >c. Exemplary work of immigrants.
> >
> >d. Migrations between the two Europes: inclusion or new
> >discrimination.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Evening programme
> >18.00 - 20.00
> >
> >
> >
> > Dialogues:
> >
> > Movement and political parties
> >
> >
> > Movements and trade unions' struggle
> >
> >
> > Movements and institutions
> >
> > Alternatives:
> >
> > Non violence, disobedience and social conflicts
> >
> >
> > Social and State Economy
> >
> >
> > Participatory democracy
> > Windows on the world:
> >
> > Palestine-Israel.
> >
> >
> > the Mediterranean: West Sahara, Algeria and Cyprus.
> >
> >
> > Latin America: Colombia, and Argentina.
> >
> > Africa: the Great Lakes, the African Horn, and Southern
Africa.
> > From Afghanistan to Iraqi.
> >
> > Kashmir.
> >
> > Indonesia and the Philippine.
> > The role of Religions in the critique of globalisation.
> >
> > Movement of movements
> > Where we at?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The G8 summit in France.
> >
> >
> > Agenda for the future.