----- Original Message ----- From: SolidNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: PC Refounding, Italy, Invitation to a meeting on G8/ pls circulate http://www.soldinet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . ================================================================ PC Refounding, Italy, Invitation to a meeting on G8/ pls circulate -------------------------------------------------------------- From: Party of the Communist Refounding, Italy, Thu, 29 Mar 2001 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.rifondazione.it/ ================================================================ Dear comrades, please find here attached an invitation to a meeting on G8 protest actions in Genoa. Please confirm when you receive this message. Thank you Prc International Department ======================================================== Associations NGOs International Networks Trade Unions Political Forces Genoa, 26th March 2001 Re: The G8 summit in Genoa We are some Italian and Genoese organisations, which, all together, are coordinating themselves in view of the protest actions against the G8 summit in Genoa on 20/22 July. We have undersigned a document that you can find here attached, and we have been working together for a few months to negotiate with local and national authorities on the spaces for the actions and demonstrations of those days. On the basis of the Porto Alegre final document, to prepare at best the actions we are going to organize, we think it useful to call on an international meeting for 4/5 May in Genoa. The meeting working language will be English. We will inform you as soon as possible about other details such as programme, timetables, venue of the meeting, and above all the planning of the action we have been thinking about. Please forward this letter to all associations and organizations you think might be interested. All those who, individually or as an organization, would like to attend or ask for any kind of information, please send an e-mail to _ HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Further details are available on the web at _ HYPERLINK "http://www.genoa-g8.org" __www.genoa-g8.org_ (under construction) ================================================================= GENOA SOCIAL FORUM Genoa, 20-22 July 2001 A different world is possible Introduction The world in which the Genoa G8 Summit is to be held is one full of striking injustices. 20% of the world population - in countries with advanced capitalism - wastes 83% of the resources of our planet; 11 million children die every year of malnutrition and 1.3 billion children live on less than one dollar per day. This situation does not improve: on the contrary, it is getting worse and worse. Thanks to its international relevance, this summit is a challenge to all those organisations that for a long time have undertaken to assert - with different methods and priorities- principles of social justice and solidarity, as well as fair and sustainable development. The challenge must be met! We must contribute all together to make the different projects known, which deal with such matters as international co-operation, environmental protection, citizens' and workers' rights, promotion of ethical and solidaristic economic models, and development of multiethnic communities, support peace and fight against injustice. These experiences must help society to grow, spurring it to develop, by July 2001, initiatives aimed at increasing the public awareness of this unacceptable situation and at denouncing it. It is necessary to develop a new way of thinking in order to respond to the dominant cultural models that - through growing social disruption - hinder even the dream of a better society. Yet, a different world is possible! This is the meaning of the challenge for the citizens to accept. The international organisations, upon which the attention of a growing global movement is focussing, should be forced to take into account the demands of an ever more attentive population, determined to ask for real democracy and new social and economical justice. Work Agreement For aforesaid reasons, the signatory organisations commit themselves to a work agreement whose objectives are as follows: raising the citizens' awareness of the different themes each association focuses on, respecting their individual methods and procedures; asking the local and national authorities to grant everybody wide spaces for activities, projects and demonstrations to be organised before and during the Summit; above all, demanding that the right to demonstrate not be subjected to arbitrary restrictions; acting in a co-ordinate way in order to favour a smooth flowing of information and to foster all the initiatives in the program; respecting all open and transparent forms of expression, protest and direct and non-violent action. Through this document the signatory organisations invite all interested organisations and networks as well as those who are already working against the G8 Summit, to meet soon in order to better co-ordinate their energies and purposes, to start a dialogue with the scientific and political circles, to pursue the above mentioned goals as effectively as possible. Local Signatories: ACLI, Altrimondi, ARCI Nuova Associazione, Arciragazzi, ASSEFA, Associazione Agire Politicamente, Associazione Città Aperta, Associazione Medici per l'Ambiente - ISDE, Associazione per il Rinnovamento della Sinistra, AYUSYA, Bambini Vittime, Banca Etica - Circoscrizione Locale di Genova e Imperia, CEDRITT, Centro Cooperazione Sviluppo, Centro Sociale Talpa e Orologio, Centro Sociale Terra di Nessuno, Centro Sociale Zapata, Circolo ARCI Mascherona 16, COGEDE, Consorzio Sociale Agorà, COSPE, Federazione Chiese Evangeliche Liguria, Federazione Giovani Socialisti, Federazione Regionale Solidarietà e Lavoro, ICS - Consorzio Italiano di Solidarietà, Il Ce.sto, ISCOS CISL Liguria, Legacoop Liguria - Comparto Cooperative Sociali, Lavoratori della Libreria Feltrinelli, Legambiente Regionale Liguria, LOC - Lega Obiettori di Coscienza, Mani Tese, Marea, Movimento Federalista Europeo, Partito Rifondazione Comunista, Planet, Progetto Continenti, Rete ControG8, Rete Lilliput, Sinistra Giovanile, Sondagenova, UISP, Ya Basta! National Signatories: Altrimondi, ARCI Nuova Associazione, Arciragazzi, Associazione Botteghe del Mondo, Associazione Coordinamento Pace (Cinisello Balsamo), Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau, Associazione per la Pace, Associazione Tatavasco, ATLHA - Associazione Tempo Libero Handicappati, Beati i costruttori di pace, Bilanci di Giustizia, Campagna Chiama L'Africa, Campagna Dire mai al MAI - Stop Millennium Round, Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale, Campagna Sdebitarsi, Carta - Cantieri Sociali, Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppo, Centro Sociale Leoncavallo, Coalizione Italiana Contro la Pena di Morte, COCORICO - COnsumatori COnsapevoli RIciclanti COmpatibili, Comitato per la Globalizzazione dei Diritti (TO), Consorzio CTM Altomercato, Cooperativa Roba dell'Altro Mondo, COSPE, Democrazia Popolare, Federazione Chiese Evangeliche, Federazione dei Verdi, Federazione Giovani Socialisti, Giovani Comuniste e Comunisti, ICEI - Istituto Cooperazione Internazionale, ICS - Consorzio Italiano di Solidarietà, IRED Nord, Lega Missionaria Studenti, Legambiente, LILA, Lunaria, Mani Tese, Nigrizia, Partito Rifondazione Comunista, Pax Christi, Rete ControG8, Rete delle Marce Europee, Rete Lilliput, Rete Lilliput (SV), Rete Radie Resch, S.in.COBAS, Sinistra Giovanile, Tavola della Pace, UISP, Unione degli Studenti, WWF, Ya Basta! International Signatories: Casa da Mulher Oito de Março (BR), Forum Nord Sud (BE), Marches européennes contre le chomage, la précarité et les exclusions (FR), National Coordination in Greece - Campaign Genoa 2001 (GR) ================================================================= Rome, 26th March 2001 Dear comrades, Please find here attached an invitation to the international meeting taking place on 4/5 May in Genoa to discuss on the protest actions against the G8 summit on 20,21 and 22 July in Genoa. Associations, organizations, NGOs, international networks, trade unions and political forces will attend the meeting. Communist Refoundation is the only party taking part, as such, in the promoting committee. If you are interested in taking part in the meeting or if you want to be part of the committee please let us know by fax (+ 39 06 44182286) or by e-mail (_ HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Fraternal greetings Ramon Mantovani Head of the Prc International Department
