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Index
1) Registrations for the Alliances Day (6th Day)are already open
2) Participants of the WSF 2009 are exempt from visa fees
3) Registration for the Intercontinental Youth Camp 2009 is open
4) Call for indigenous and originaries peoples participation
5) Call for convergences by the WSF IC Liaison Group
6) Belem expanded : on going preparation
1) Registrations for the Alliances Day (6th Day) are already open
One
particular day dedicated to convergences and alliances between the
entities, organizations and their struggles in the World Social Forum
2009
The registrations for organizations and networks that want to offer assemblies for the Alliances Day (6th Day).
On February 1, 2009, the sixth and last day of the WSF Amazon, is the Alliances Day, which will be divided into two stages.
In
the morning the assemblies will be held between the networks and
entities with similar themes and struggles, which should lists concrete
proposals on the campaigns, demonstrations or any other activity,
action or reflection that should continue beyond the event of the WSF
2009.
In the afternoon, during the Assembly of the Assemblies,
will be reading the proposals and referrals with the results of all the
assemblies during the morning shift. It will be a public event
scheduled to start at 3 P.M, giving visibility to the specific
proposals of the participant movements of the WSF.
In the
Assembly of the Assemblies the presentation of the results of
convergence will be interspersed with artistic and cultural activities,
marking the closure of the 2009 WSF Amazon.
How to register
The networks, movements and organizations that are ready to register assemblies can already do so.
For this, just fill out the information below and send it to the e-mail: aliancas.fsm2009(at)gmail.com
1. Assembly Title
2. Entity proposer, with country, e-mail and telephone contacts
3. Entities articulated in the same proposition, with country, e-mail and telephone contacts
4. Brief description of the assembly
Deadlines for registration
For the assembly to integrates the official program of the WSF, the proposal should be sent until the day December 18.
The
other assemblies could be proposed after that date but they will not
appear in the printed program, however, will be advertised on the web
site and on the review of the WSF 2009.
Information: +55 (91) 3230-2285 (Benoit Guichard / Belém), +55 (11) 3258-8914 (Hélio Menezes /São Paulo)
2) Participants of the WSF 2009 are exempt from visa fees
Participants of the World Social Forum 2009 that are outside of
Brazil and need a visa, will be exempted from fees and will receive, in
exceptional character, a Courtesy Visa (Vicor), which is valid for 30
days.
The guarantee of visa exemption was informed to all
embassies or consulates by Telegraphic Circular N° 70.635, sent by the
Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty).
How to apply to the Courtesy Visa (Vicor)
It
is necessary to submit to the Brazilian embassy or consulate, located
in the country of origin of the Requestor, since December 10, the proof
of payment of registration in the WSF 2009 or an invitation letter sent
by the office of the WSF, which can be requested by e-mail: wsfletter(at)gmail.com
As
a security issue is prudent to take in hand the number of Telegraphic
Circular (No. 70.635), that authorizes the exemption of fees.
IMPORTANT:
The Brazilian visa system serves the agreements firmed with each
country. So, see the chart below to find out what nationality is
required for a visa in Brazil. Link to the chart: http://www.abe.mre.gov.br/antes/tab_vistos.doc
3) Registration for the Intercontinental Youth Camp 2009 is open!
The
registration process of participants at the Intercontinental Youth Camp
(IYC) is open to everyone, as well as to groups, collectives, social
movements and other entities who wants to propose self-organized
activities in the camp. They can subscribe through the following links:
Participants: http://sistemas.pa.gov.br/acampamentojuventude/?do=Main.acampado_form
Activities: http://sistemas.pa.gov.br/acampamentojuventude/?do=Main.organizacao_form
Attention! Don't miss the deadlines to register:
Activities: until 20th December 2008
Individuals: until 20th January 2008
Individuals
that take part in the same caravan or group should fill the full
organization name in the correspondent field (i.e. Caravan of the
Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law
of the American University, not AHRHL-WCL American University).
Registration fees
The
registration fee is a political call to the self-sustainability of the
IYC. Aware of the differences in the payment capacities of the
participants, the Organizing Committee of the WSF set different fees:
Participants from the geopolitical North (composed by the wealthier countries * ): 10 euro (30 reais)
(German,
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Spain, United States of
America, Finland, France, Greece, Netherlands, Ireland, Island, Japan,
Luxemburg, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, United Kingdom, Sweden and
Switzerland)
Participants from the geopolitical South (Brazil and all others): 5 euro (15 reais)
Activities (proposed either by organizations from the North or the South): 16 euro (50 reais)
Subscription
to the IYC will allow lodging and participants kit; it does not include
food, neither the tent, which should be brought by the participants.
The badge of the YIC will also allow access to all the self-organized
activities from the World Social Forum (WSF) 2009.
Infra-structure
The
IYC will take place in the Amazonia Rural Federal University
(Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia - UFRA). The territory will
have bathrooms, showers, places to the self-organized activities,
health spaces, information points and security. The UFRA will also
receive the main events related to the Pan-Amazonia Day (28th of
January).
Read the blog http://acampamentodajuventude.wordpress.com/ for more details and news on the YIC preparation.
For further information on the WSF 2009, please visit the site (in English): http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/forum-social-mundial?set_language=en
Email: acampamento@fsm2009amazonia.org.br
4) Call for indigenous and originaries peoples participation
Indigenous People go to WSF in Belem, for:
* Territories, Free determination, Good living and Plurinational States
*
Global mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth, People and
Mankind against the transformation of Life in merchandise,
Contamination, Toxic Consumption and Social Criminalization
Dear friends,
Mother
earth suffers the incredible violence of the transnational
corporations, thirsty of water, petroleum, minerals, wood,
genetic resources and other natural goods to turn them into merchandise
and profits. All this at the cost of reheating the planet and
exterminating us, the Earth’s children, and simultaneously
putting in danger the whole Humanity. The States allow all this and
they have become its overseers.
The Seattle’s Chief of the
Dewamish tribe warning of 1855 in letter to the president of the United
States of North America is fulfilled,: How it is possible to buy or to
sell the sky or the heat of the Earth? … If we aren’t owners of the air
freshness, nor of the water reflection, how you will be able to
buy them? … Each shining needle of pine, each sand grain of beaches,
the humming of each insect… are sacred in my People’s memory and
experience. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.
The
rocky summits, the humid meadows, the heat of the body of the colts
and men, we are part of the same family. We know that the white
man doesn’t understand us… the Earth isn’t his sister but
his enemy and when having dominated it, he continues advancing… He
treats his mother, the Earth, and t his brother, the air, like things
to buy and to devastate, to sell them as if they were sheeps.
Its
voracity will finish devouring the Earth, leaving back nothing more
than a desert. What affects the Earth, will also affect the Earth’s
children. When men spits the earth, they're spitting themselves... the
Earth doesn’ t belong to the man, but the man to the Earth. Everything
is related like the blood that unites a family. The man did not
create the weave of the life, but simply it is a fiber of him. What you
do to that weave, to you you make it same.
It is urgent to fight
against Capitalism and its "globalization" of life destruction in the
planet. An important scenary to organize this answer is the World
Social Forum that will meet in Belem do Parà (Brazil) from
27th January to 1st February 2009. We announce
this call for all of us to participate actively in this WSF 2009,
in order that in the construction of other worlds our alternatives of
Free determination, Originaries Peoples Rights, Multinational
decolonization of Power and Knowledge, Communitarian Self
governance, Plurinational States, Reciprocity and Good living; and that
is the 10th objective of forum WSF 2009
'For
the defense of the environment (amazonic and others ecosystems) as
source of life for the planet Earth and for the originary peoples of
the world (indigenous, afro-descendent, tribal and riverine), that
demand their territories, languages, cultures, identities,
environmental justice, spiritually and right to live'
To
accomplish, in organizing in this forum the Worl Wide
mobilization in Defense of the Mother Earth, People and Humanity
against the transformation of Life in merchandise (Natural Water,
Food, Natural Goods), Contamination, Toxic Consumption and Social
Criminalization, decided by the participant indigenous organizations in
III the Social Forum Americas in Guatemala (October 2008).
Other Worlds are Possible and Urgent… and we are already builting it!
- Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas - CAOI
- Coordinadora de Organizaciones Indígenas de la Amazonía Brasilera, COIAB
- Convergencia Nacional Maya Wakib Kej (Guatemala)
- Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala-CONAVIGUA
- Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia – ONIC
- Confederación de Pueblos de la Nacionalidad Kiwcha del Ecuador – ECUARUNARI
- Confederación Nacional de Comunidades del Perú Afectadas por la Minería – CONACAMI
- Consejo de Ayllus y Markas del Qollasuyu – CONAMAQ
- Organización Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas de Argentina – ONPIA
- Confederación Nacional Agraria del Perú, CNA
- Unión de Comunidades Aymaras, UNCA, Perú
- Confederación campesina del Perú - CCP
- Asociación Nacional de Maestros en Educación Bilingüe - ANAMEBI Perú
5) Call for convergences by the WSF IC Liaison Group
TO ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS
WHO HAVE REGISTERED ACTIVITIES
TO WORLD SOCIAL FORUM IN BELEM
FIRST REGISTRATION PERIOD WAS OVER ON NOVEMBER 21st
NOW IT IS TIME FOR VOLUNTARY MERGING!
LET’S WORK TOGETHER TO PRODUCE CONVERGENCES FOR DEBATING, STRENGHENING SOCIAL ALLIANCES, ACTING AND MOBILISING!
Dear friends,
all of you have registered activities to be organized during WSF in Belem.
First registration period was over on November 21st.
Then,
You will have until December 18th to edit your registered activities
and to pay the registration fee correspondent to your organisation.
Before
confirming, we strongly suggest you to check the list of all the other
registered activities inside the same objective of yours.
To do it is very easy: in the webpages http://inscricoes.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/content/index.php?page=consulta_pub# or http://openfsm.net/projects/fsm2009-facilitadores/project-home you can find the list of objectives with the complete list of registered activities related to each one.
Probably, you will discover that similar activities to yours have been proposed by other organizations.
You
have the possibility to get in touch with them, using the e-mail
address and phone numbers you will find in the activities information.
You
can decide to unify the activities you have already registered by
editing/modifying one of them, incorporating the changes you agreed in
the fields like title, description and, specially, partners in the
activity, and deleting the extra activities registered.
You can
decide also to make a “block” with these other activities, to be
realized near to each other and in direct sequence, so that you all can
reinforce the participation in the activity of each one, deepening the
analysis, propositions and identification of possible convergences to
build new alliances.
This merging process, of course, is made on
voluntary bases. If you are not interested to merge or combine your
activity with others, you can do it separately as in your initial
proposition.
But merging activities is a wonderful way to enrich
the debate, to strengthen social alliances, to create new conditions
for acting and mobilizing.
WSF aim is to help as much as possible new global convergences: don’t lose Belem occasion!
You'll probably be contacted by one of the merging facilitators, who are voluntary trying to help this process.
Facilitators
can help you in order to find partners for your activities. But please,
don’t wait for them: you can work in an easy way by yourself!
In
the next days you will receive another new letter, explaining
procedures and details for the organization of the WSF final day (the
so-called 6th Day).
Basically, the morning of the 1st of
February will be devoted to finalize concrete proposals for global
campaigns, mobilizations and any type of actions and practices. This
will be done through assemblies.
This kind of assembly is the
one where merging and combining with similar activities are very
important for the success of your action!
In the afternoon, a
sort of "assembly of assemblies" will take place, aiming to present the
result of the morning assemblies, before the WSF closing ceremony.
So, let’s stay in touch, and let’s start together the merging process!
All the best, in solidarity
WSF International Council Liaison Group
6) Belem expanded : on going preparation
Many
organisations and activities registered in Belem FSM2009 have expressed
intentions for organizing decentralized activities outside of Belem
or having moment of connections with such decentralized
activities or with groups of person in the town they come from.
These
moments of connection can be during the activity slots or in any other
moment during the forum, taking into account the availability of people
in Belem and in the other place connected to Belem and the time
difference
Belem expanded facilitation team is getting prepared to support some of those moments of live connection in Belem.
It
will propose support for live audio and live video collective
chat connections using "skype", and if you have other ideas in mind you
can express them
You will find more information on Belem
Expanded in this page, where you also learn how to send an announcement
to confirm and organize your connection: http://openfsm.net/projects/club-belemexpanded/english
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