30.11.2009
The WSF International Council Liaison Group announced proposals to link together events of 2010

The World Social Forum Liaison Group announced on November 29 a letter with proposals to link together all the 2010 events from what has been discussed at the last IC meeting, held in October in Montreal, Canada. The letter is aimed especially to organizers of events and actions in 2010. Read below the complete text. Also check out the calendar of activities already scheduled for 2010.


TO: The organizers of WSF events in 2010, Members of Working Group on 2010 and WSF IC members

PROPOSALS ON HOW TO CONNECT THE 2010 WSF EVENTS

INFORMATION AND REQUESTS TO THE EVENT ORGANIZERS

During the WSF International Council meeting in Montreal, the Working Group on 2010 met twice, and proposed a plan of action which was accepted by IC.

Following this decision, the Liaison Group discussed how to implement the plan of action. Information can be found below.

In the spirit of creating a link and continuity between 2010 activities leading up to Dakar 2011, the LG is available to assist and cooperate in which ever way we can.

1. The Working Group on 2010 will include members of Liaison Group in order to cooperate and to create a link with the IC Commissions. We ask the organizers of each of the 2010 events to identify at least 2 persons to take part in the Working Group.

2. In a few days a short explanation of 2010 process and the list of the events will be ready. They will be sent by mail, and they will be put up on the first page of the website.

3. A common logo for 2010 will be presented by the WSF Office in due course.

4. The slogan/title of each the 2010 events will be collected. Organizers are requested to send it as soon as possible to fsmsite@forumsocialmundial.org.br, in Sao Paulo office.

5. All these slogan/titles, together with “Another world is possible” will be displayed in a banner which will be prepared in Porto Alegre during the event in January.

6. The banner will go from one event to the following, according to the calendar of events.

7. A delegation of at least two persons of the previous event will bring the banner to the following forum, together with a message.

8. The messages should be accumulated from the motto "Our responses to the crises”. They are not compulsory and can be of various types, such as written statements, pictures, videos, artistic expressions etc. Each event can decide whether to do it and how it will be done. The final methodology must integrate what happened in 2010 to become visible in Dakar.

9. 2010 events’ organizers will create a space to receive the delegation, to provide visibility to the delegation, the banner and to the message. They will organize their own delegation to go to the following event.

10. Most of the debates in 2010 events worldwide will contain “our responses to the crises”. But in addition to the self organized activities debating on alternatives to the crises, the Forums and events are invited to devote to this issue a special day or special seminars and assemblies.

11. The Liaison Group will involve IC Methodology Commission to find a way to collect, summarize and make accessible in a useful way the proposals and alternatives coming from the debates.

12. Many organizing committees of 2010 events are willing to devote special attention in interconnecting their event with others and are planning to invite social actors and activists from other Social Forum processes. The LG and the Sao Paulo office, as well as the Expansion Commission, are ready to help whenever needed in creating contacts to facilitate this interchange.

13. In addition to the material collected by the LG and the Methodology commission (item 11) the banner, the slogans, the proposals and alternatives to the crises will arrive at the WSF in Dakar in 2011.