Bloom- Activist Forum: Movement Building for Global Justice

dublin | consumer issues | event notice Thursday October 30, 2008 16:45 by Anna Guiney - Africa Center, Comhlámh , Debt and Development Coalition Ireland and Latin American Solidarity Centr anna at comhlamh dot org

People Acting Together for Radical Change and a Just World

Join us and help us build a global justice movement in Ireland!

Bloom’s First Activist Forum: Movement Building for Global Justice

Saturday 8th November 2008
9.30am-5.30pm, The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00- 10.15 Introduction and Welcome from Benedicta Attoh, Africa Centre

10.15- 11.15 Part One: ‘Seizing the Moment: Towards a Post-Neoliberal Global Order’ Professor Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick
Chair: José Antonio Gutiérrez D, LASC

11.15-11.30 Tea/ Coffee Break: Reflections on activism, Sr. Magella McCarran

11.30- 12.30 Part Two: ‘Stories from the Global Movement’
Njoroge Njoki Njehû, Jubilee South Africa Region
Chair: Maeve Taylor, Banulacht

12.30- 2.00 Lunch and Political Action

2.00- 3.00 Part Two: Eyad Burnat, Friends of Freedom and Justice Bi’lin
Chair: Raymond Deane, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

3.00- 4.00 Part Three: ‘Grassroots Mobilisation in Ireland: Opportunities and Challenges’ Claire O’Grady Walshe, Jean Somers, Gregor Kerr and Eric Yao
Chair: Laurence Cox, Grassroots Gathering

4.00- 4.15 Tea/ Coffee Break

4.15-4.30 Creative Inspiration

4.30- 5.30 Part Four: ‘Visions of a Global Movement’
Oscar Olivera, Industrial Workers’ Trade Union Bolivia
Chair: Aidan Cahill, LASC

8- late- Congomania!

To register for this event email anna@comhlamh.org or phone 01-6174835

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