La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris                                  30 November-2 December 2000

Building a World of Citizens
One Year after Seattle
International Gathering in Paris

The Seattle summit a year ago was a turning point and a springboard.A turning point, because it revealed a new capacity at a global level to oppose a process that many considered unstoppable. A springboard, because it enables us to set other dynamics in motion.
Headed together down this road, in the diversity of our beliefs and mobilisations, we are motivated by the importance of the necessary work: inventing alternatives to the current, neoliberal form of globalisation and translating these alternatives into concrete proposals.
Our task is an urgent one. The commodification of every area of life, in every nook and cranny of the planet, is leading to devastation that we cannot accept.
We have come together in a collective made up of 10 organisations, foundations, grassroots movements, journals and newspapers, and we are taking an initiative to invite all the discontented, indignant, even rebellious people in the world who are looking for other possibilities for human development, whether their particular approach is to regulate, humanise or go beyond capitalism. In short, weare inviting everyone who is trying to invent a different future, obviously through a variety of forms of philosophical, political and civic involvement.
This diversity of individual contributions will allow this gathering to be a fruitful one, to be a decisive moment in the post-Seattle period, and to push forward a peoples’ counter-offensive against neoliberalism, through the connections we make and the richness of our discussions and contributions about possible alternatives.
As mobilisations grow, we are called upon to take the initiative in putting forward proposals.
See you in Paris, so that we can share our experiences and ideas on how to build a democratic world of citizens.

Actuel Marx, Attac, Cimade, Copernic, Espaces-Marx, Jean Jaurès Foundation, Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique, League for Education, Globalisation Observer, Christian Witness.

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