INVITATION
Kairos
Europa Action Days, Brussels 21
st
– 24
th
October 1999:
”Alternatives
to Neo-liberal globalisation: Another World is Possible”.
Europe
is going through a very critical moment in its history. The crucial question
being asked is: will the new Red-Green political majority in EU really depart
from neo-liberalism, re-regulate and effectively tax capital to the benefit of
employment and social cohesion, or will the transnational economic forces win
again? How this question is answered depends on us - social movement, churches,
and other actors of civil society - joining forces to campaign and lobby for
new policies.
During
the last two years Kairos Europa, a European grass-roots network of justice
initiatives, co-operating with social movements, churches, trade unions and
NGOs in and outside Europe, has worked for alternatives to the dominating
neo-liberal model of economy and development in two ways;
- launching
a European Kairos Documents as an appeal to build alliances for liberating
people from the stranglehold of the globalised deregulated economy and its
culture of competition;
- developing
concrete alternatives in a double strategy, strengthening local economies,
communities and a new spirituality of solidarity, resistance and identity among
people as well as promoting proposals for politically re-regulating the economy
at all levels according to a more social, ecological and democratic criteria.
Kairos
Europa invites you to join the harvesting this process and the intervention at
the European Parliament in the Brussels Action Days, 21
st
– 24
th
October 1999;
Thursday
21
st
October
Hearing
in the European Parliament:
The
Responsibility of the European Union for Neo-liberal Globalisation
Presentation
of demands by representatives from Africa and the Caribbean, particularly
concerning alterantative(s to) Structural Adjustment Programmes (ASAPs)
Presentation
of demands by representatives from social movements, NGOs, trade unions and
churches in Europe.
(This
hearing will be prepared by an international consultation, 19
th
– 20
th
October)
Friday,
22 October to Sunday 24
th
October
Sharing
and celebrating grass roots alternatives from Europe:
- People
who have worked with the Kairos Europa Document in their own context are
invited to present their work, share them with others and develop a strategy
for follow-up.
- Representatives
of communities are invited to present their alternatives; local economics
initiatives, integrative communities, share their experience and strategize for
re-regulating the economy according to social just and ecological criteria.
Ø Friday
and Saturday nights will be celebrated with music and drama
Ø Saturday
and Sunday (morning & noon) work in neighbourhoods around specific issues
namely:
- Macro-Economics
(fiscal policy, unemployment benefits and social welfare), Structural
Alternative Adjustment Programmes and Debt Relief
- Micro-Economic
Alternatives and alternative groups and life-styles
- Peace
and relationships with the East and the South
- Migrants,
Refugees – Exiles
- Spirituality
of liberation and resistance
- Culture
and Identity and Discrimination
* And
in plenary sessions to address the interconnection of the issues and strategize
together
Join
us in Brussels in October to strive for new policies in Europe – A Europe
for Justice!
Please
reply to:
The
Secretariat
”Kairos
Europe October 99”
c/o
Carla Goffi - MCP
rue
de la Poste 111/87
B
- 1030 Bruxelles
BELGIUM
Tel.
+32 2 219 57 20 - Fax +32 2 223 04 42
Name
and Surname:
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Movement
/Association:
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Address:
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Tel./Fax:
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E-mail:
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- I
will like to participate in the meetings to prepare the «Festival of
Alternatives» on the 23
rd
and 24
th
of October 99
- I
will like to participate in the preparation of the workshops and the plenary
sessions on the following issue(s):
- Macro-Economics
(fiscal policy, unemployment benefits and social welfare), Structural
Alternative Adjustment Programmes and Debt Relief
- Micro-Economic
Alternatives, and alternative groups and life-styles
- Peace
and relationships with the East and the South
- Migrants,
Refugees – Exiles
- Spirituality
of liberation and resistance
- Culture
and Identity and Discrimination
- Other
workshops proposals:
...................................................................................................
- I
will like to receive information material in preparation for the October 99 Event
- I
will like to contribute the sum of ........ Euro towards the realisation of the
”October 99 Event”.
(Bank
details: – CGER Bank, account number: 001 – 3006287-98, Kairos
Europe, avenue du parc royal 2, B-1020 Brussels BELGIUM)
