--Source AEPF
For your information, below are the identified THEMATIC AXES of
the next World Social Forum that will be held in Tunisia in March next year.
In warm solidarity, Tina========================================
THEMATIC AXES
1- For a radical deepening of the revolutionary and decolonization processes in the North as well as in the South, through the development of new social expressions against the political and market dictatorships, and for the restoration of the people's rights to self-determination and to the full sovereignty over their ressources and their destiny.
2-For a world rid of any hegemony or imperialist domination exerted through debt and free trade as tools of impoverishment, riches-grabbing and submission of people by transnational companies and financial capitalism, and free from patriarcal oppression and systemic inequalities, and from the neoliberal social policies as war machines against people.
3- For the building of new universalisms -as response to the civilisational crisis and the commodification of life -, based on environmental justice and universal and sustainable access of humankind to the commons, the preservation of the planet as a life source, in particular land, water, forests, sustainable energy sources and biodiversity, the respect of indigenous, native, original, authochtonous people's rights, and the respect of the diasporas, of their cultures, identities, territories, languages and knowledge.
4- For a human society, based on the principles and values of dignity, diversity, justice, equality between all human beings, regardless of genders, cultures, age, disabilities, religious beliefs, and based on the respect of individual and collective, civil and political, economic, social, environmental and cultural rights ; and for the elimination of all the forms of oppression and discrimination based on racism, xenophobia, caste systems, sexual orientation and others.
5- For the freedom of movement and settlement for all women and men, more especially for migrants and asylum seekers, victims of human traficking, refugees, indigenous, original, authochtonous, traditional and native people, for minorities, occupied people, and populations experiencing war and conflicts, and for the respect of their civil and political, economic, social, environmental and cultural rights.
6- For a cognitive justice : for the inalienable right of people to the humankind's cultural heritage, for the decolonization of thought and the democratization of knowlegde, cultures, communication and technologies ; for the end of hegemonic knowledge and privatisation of knowlegde and technologies, for a fundamental change of the system of intellectual property rights and of the scientific research.
7- For the building of democratic processes of people's integration and union, for the fulfilment of their aspirations for dignity and better-living, which will respond to the strategies of division and hegemony, and for the widespread of solidarity practices and forms that strengthen the cooperation between people.
8- For a world in peace, free from the war as an instrument of economic, political and cultural domination rid of military basis and nuclear weapons, and respecting the people's right to selfdetermination for them and their ressources, and protecting the people living on Stateless, in conflict or occupied territories.
9- For a democratic world, ensuring without any kind of discrimination, the involvement of everyone in life and in the political and economical decision-making processes at all levels, local, national, and international, in the framework of properly democratic institutions and governance models, including the UN system and the IFIs
10-For the build up of alternatives to capitalism and neoliberal globalization, regulated upon the principles of cooperation, fiscal justice and international wealth redistribution, focused on people's fondamental needs, putting forward new ways of producing, consuming and exchanging, using non nuclear renewable energies, and prohibiting tax heavens.
11- The Forum's future : For a collective reflexion on social movements, on the meaning of new struggles and on the World Social Forum process itself, the perspectives and strategies for the future, so as to guarantee the effective fulfilment of another possible and urgent world for everyone.--
Tina Ebro
Coordinator for Asia
Asia Europe People's Forum (AEPF)
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