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Social Forum Aotearoa Agenda - DRAFT PROGRAMME
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 2:41 pm
Press Release: Oceania Social Forum
Anyone interested in group travel (ie minivan) contact me urgently:
Mike Treen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Social Forum Aotearoa
'another world is possible'
21-23 November 2003
Porirua - Te Wananga o Aotearoa
Todd Park Campus
1 Heriot Drive, Porirua
DRAFT PROGRAMME
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Friday, November 21
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1:00 Powhiri
2:30 Introducing The World Social Forum and Social Forum Aotearoa
3:00 Empowering Local Communities and Whanau
Tangata Whenua Presentation
Roger Blakely, CEO, Porirua City Council Local democracy under the new
Local Government Act
Panel discussion : Meg Williams, Paekakariki, Kane Forbes Residents Action
Movement, Auckland, Porirua Representative
5:00 Open Space � opportunity for participants to propose and organize
additional workshops
7:30 Te Wananga O Aotearoa Performances
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Saturday, November 22
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9:00 Opening
Speakers
Dr. Jane Kelsey, The global agenda after Cancun
Deborah Manning � The Ahmed Zaoui case, implications for Human Rights
Colin Fox, MP Scotland : European perspective on the Global Agenda
Dr. Ralph Petterman Making sense of the world
Panel Discussions
The GE Debate after the lifting of the moratorium Lessons from the Peace
Movement Economic Rights and sustainability
Workshops
� ARENA (Action Research and Education Network Aotearoa)
Globalisation,
Colonisation and Militarism
� Universal Income Trust
� Mobilising and organizing in Aotearoa :Peace Movement Aotearoa, Global
Peace and Justice Coalition, Auckland, Peace Action Wellington, Peace
Action Network Christchurch
� Human Rights Network � National Plan of Action
8:00 Gig local bands and performers
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Sunday, November 23
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9:00 Opening
Speakers
Sandy Morrison: Maori educational leader
John Roughan : Solomon Islands Civil Society Network
Maxine Gay: Trade Unionist
Susan Hawthorne: Australian feminist
Clifford Wallace: �America�s foremost anti-drug war African- American
activist�
Edwina Hughes: Peace Movement Aotearoa
Workshops
Universal Income Trust
Social & Civic Policy Institute: engaging communities through deliberation
and sustained dialogue
East Side Porirua local perspectives on economic development
Paul Bruce, Latin American Committee � participatory democracy
Marian Mc Donald: Teaching Social Justice & Social Change an adult
learning perspective
3:00 Plenary Session
4:00 Close
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