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- Program for European Futures Congress
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- (Ur Göteborgsaktionens Nyhetsbrev 26 maj
2001)
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- 4b European Futures Congress
- Invitation to
- EUROPEAN FUTURES CONGRESS (VII)
- In connection with the Gothenburg EU-Counter Summit
June 2001
- During the dates June 12th till
June 17th a broad spectra of organisations
- and movements will arrange
different kinds of meetings, conferences and events in
Gothenburg in connection with the EU-Summit ending the
Swedish EU-presidency period.
- The European Futures Congress will
use the opportunity to join these events but also to
arrange some own lectures open for anybody to
attend.
- Up till now European Futures
Congresses have been held in Warsaw 1997, in Budapest
1998, in Prague 1999, in Helsinki in connection with the
EU-Summit 1999 and in Bratislava and Ljubljana
2000.
- The Congresses have launched a
fruitful co-operation between EU-critical as well as
peace and environmental movements all over Europe. The
co-operation is cross-political and it is aiming at
building up and broaden NGO-networks between movements in
Western Europe and movements in the Baltic States,
Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In Helsinki
in December 1999 around 75 different organisations from
30 different European countries were represented.
- ALTERNATIVE I-EUROPEAN FUTURES
CONGRESS
- June 14th/15th - June 17th/18th,
2001In cooperation with GBG 2001, Free Forum, the Nordic
Peoples Parliament and peace movements
CONFERENCE LANGUAGE:
English
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- June 15th, Friday
- European Futures Congress in
cooperation with the Nordic Peoples Parliament and Free
Forum
FORENOON09.00 - 12.00 at
HVITFELDTSKA GYMNASIET, Viktor Rydbergsgatan 9 Opening of
the European Futures Congress VII (10 minutes/speaker) -
Ulla Klötzer, one of the initiative-takers for the
European Futures Congresses, Alternative to EU - Finland,
Women for Peace - Finland - Hans Lindqivst, the European
Anti-Maastricht Alliance, TEAM, Center No to EU,
Sweden
EU Enlargement to Eastern Europe
(20 minutes/speaker)
- -Jaromir Kohlicek, Member of the
Czech Parliament, Communist Party of Bohemia
and
- Moravia
- -Jan Kepinski,No to EU,
Poland
- -Gorazd Drevensek, Group Neutro,
Slovenia
- -Kalle Pöld, Estonian
Independence Party
Discussion
AFTERNOON12.00 - 15.00 at
HVITFELDTSKA SKOLAN, Viktor Rydbergsgatan 9 Baltic-Nordic
co-operation (20 minutes/speaker)
Sustainable development;
environment, economy, trade
- -Jonas :Ringqvist, Member of the
Swedish Parliament, Left Party
- -Kyllike Uusaed, Vitality of
Estonia
- -Olaf Swolkien, Green Federation
Krakow, Poland
- -Teuvo Junka, researcher, special
field: the social dimension of the Monetary Union,
Finland
- -Niels I.Meyer, professor of
physics, co-author of several books on alternative
societal models, including "The Unbearable Unfairness of
Globalisation" (2001), Denmark
-
- -David C. Korten, world famous
writer of the books "The Post-CorporateWorld" and "When
Corporations Rule the World", USA (35 minutes
speech)
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- Discussion
LATE AFTERNOON 15.30 - 17.30 at
FREE FORUM TENT
- Big panel debate: EU -
Militarisation - Globalisation
- Participants from the European
Futures Congress:
- -Rezso Baynasz, Ambassador,
Hungarian Neutrality Foundation
- -Normunds Grostins, Movement for
Baltic Union, Latvia
- -and a lot of other participants
from different parts of the
- world/Free Forum
EVENING18.00 -
- Demonstration against the EU
arranged by The Peopleðs Movement No to
EU
- GBG2001 Assembly on The Schengen
Treaty - Fortress Europe
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- June 16th, Saturday
- European Futures Congress and the
GBG2001 platform
MORNING AND
FORENOON:
- 09.30 Big EU-critical
demonstration of the GBG2001 platform open
for
- organisations that believe in
changing the EU from the inside as well as for
organisations that are strictly against EU
Membership
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- EARLYAFTERNOON
- Speakers rally in a big park
(Heden)
- Themes:
- -Fortress Europe - the Schengen
Treaty etc
- - Social questions - social
dismantling, unemployment
- - Globalisation - EMU
- - Peace - the militarisation of
the EU
- - Environment - the environmental
policy of the EU
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- EARLYAFTERNOON
- No to EU - Sweden , Conference at
Folkets Hus, room A, Järntorget
- LATEAFTERNOONANDEVENING
- GBG2001 program: Assembly on
Solidarity with the Third World, minorities and Eastern
Europe - the role of the Nordic countries and
Europe
- June 17th, Sunday
- European Futures
Congress
- FORENOON09.00 - 12.00
- Visions for a democratic
society(20 minutes/speaker)
- -Michael Rellos, Enlightening
Movement for Democracy, Greece
- -Gerald Häfner, Mehr
Demokratie, Member of the German Bundestag,
- Germany
- Referendums (20
minutes/speaker)
- -Drude Dahlerup, the June Movement
against EU, Denmark
- -Patricia McKenna, Member of the
European Parliament, Ireland
- -Gabriele Wladyka, Aktion
EU-Austritt, Austria
- Discussion
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- Youth activities
- - speakers from different
countries
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- Discussion
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- AFTERNOON
- 14.00 - 17.00
- Post-Nizza Challenges and visions
for Another Europe (20 minutes/speaker)
- -Ida Magli, Italiani
Liberi
- -Anthony Coughlan, National
Platform, Ireland
- -Prof. Jean-Paul Bled, Etats
Généraux de la Souveraineté
Nationale, France
- -Thomas Rupp/Roman Huber, Mehr
Demokratie, Germany
Discussion
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- EVENING18.30
- European Futures Congress Farewell
Party together with the Nordic Peoples
- Parliament. If the weather is nice
it will be an outdoor party with
- bonfires, singing etc.
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ALTERNATIVE II
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- SUSTAINABILITY ANDSOLIDARITY
CONFERENCE
- Combined with the European Futures
Congress
- June 12th - June 17th/18th,
2001
The Sustainability and Solidarity
Conference is arranged by Friends of the Earth Europe,
the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the
Earth Sweden in co-operation with different
environmental, solidarity, peace, third world movements
and trade unions.
Speakers will be invited from the
third world and Eastern Europe.
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- June 12th, Tuesday
- (Sustainability and Solidarity
Conference)
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- EVENINGPROGRAM
- How to get rid of the obstacles
for a sustainable society?
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- June 13th, Wednesday
- (Sustainability and Solidarity
Conference)
WHOLEDAY PROGRAM
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- Lectures and workshops on the
following themes:
- - the Rio Conference and the
expectations regarding the World Summit on Sustainable
Development
- - the sustainable development
strategy of the EU
- - the EU and Eastern
Europe
- - the EU and the Third
World
- - Local Mobilisation and Local
Agenda 21
- - Current issues such as
agriculture, nuclear power, etc
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- EVENINGPROGRAM
- Environment Assembly (Friends of
the Earth)
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- June 14th, Thursday
- (Sustainability and Solidarity
Conference)
WHOLEDAYPROGRAM
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- Dialogue with politicians on the
theme The Global Responsibility of the EU: - How to
challenge the neo-liberal globalization?
- - Europe towards a sustainable
development
- EVENINGPROGRAM
- Employment Assembly
- June 15th - June 17th
- please see ALTERNATIVE
I
- please also note: there are a lot
of other events going on in Gothenburg
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE
EUROPEAN FUTURES CONGRESS Please contact:
Ulla Klötzer
Alternative to EU
Makelankatu 62 C, 00530 Helsinki,
FINLAND
E.mail:
ullaklotzer@yahoo.com
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Lea Launokari
Women for Peace
Kaksosmaki 24, 02400 Kirkkonummi,
FINLAND
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or
Gorazd Drevensek
Nova Stranka and Group
Neutro
Jarska Cesta 36, 1122 Ljubljana,
SLOVENIA
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