Beyond ESF - Programme & Timetable
Beyond ESF will be held at Middlesex University,
Tottenham Campus,
White
Hart
Lane (close to white hart lane train station - 2 stops
from seven
sisters),
and on the W3 bus route from Alexandra Palace.
>>BEYOND ESF ? It starts here
5 Days & Nights of Anti-Authoritarian Ideas & Actions
Wednesday 13th - Sunday 17th October
Part conference, part direct action, part celebration
of self-organised
cultures of resistance. This event is supposed to be
as big as you make
it, as important as you want it to be - an opportunity
to create
something
different, inspiring.
Beyond ESF is radically different from the Official
ESF. No government
sponsorships
(GLA & Mayor of London) and no political parties (add
the party of your
choice here!). There will be no ?leading activists?,
?big name
speakers?
or entrance fee. However there will be thousands of
people, from groups
and
collectives from around Europe ? sharing their
experiences in taking
back
their lives. From collectives that are creating free
public transport,
to
subverting the brand culture, migrants occupying
buildings to meet
their
communities needs, to Chainworkers reclaiming
flexibility. It is posed
as
a gathering of those
against hierarchically organised power and who see
that the means of
our
struggle must meet the ends.
During the 5 days, we have called for Beyond ESF to be
a convergence
point
of these struggles. There will be 4 major themes which
we hope people
will
engagé with from Autonomy & Struggle, No Borders &
Migration,
Precarity,
Social control & repression. We see these as being
diverse & common
struggles
to us all. Common because they exist in our global
neighborhoods and at
some point in our lives we are all involved in their
consequences.
Diverse
because of their perceived separation from each other.
As we have all
have
come to find, every thing in life is connected. And by
providing that
connection,
we can facilitate a consciousness that goes beyond the
limitations of
?single
issue? struggles to creating ruptures in the orders of
capitalism.
Beyond ESF will be held at Middlesex University,
Tottenham Campus,
White
Hart Lane (close to white hart lane train station - 2
stops from seven
sisters),
and on the W3 bus route from Alexandra Palace.
Beyond ESF will open on the evening of Wednesday 13th
October with a
'welcome
assembly of autonomous spaces'. On the Thursday,
Friday & Saturday
there
will be a mixture of workshops & presentations from
ongoing struggles
around
Europe; and strategy discussions - aimed not just at a
one-off
conference
but helping to build networks, initiatives, projects
and actions in the
future. Additionally,
there will be ample space to discuss, organise and
conspire against the
summit of the G8 leaders in Scotland 2005 as part of
the Day of
DISSENT!
Every evening there will be an anti-authoritarian
assembly for reports
of
the day?s discussions in the autonomous spaces. These
assemblies will
also
be used to take discussion forward for the following
days.
Every night there will be food, cinema & live music.
All events will be
free and all food will be vegan & donation.
We will close on the morning of Sunday 17th with final
assembly to take
the outcomes of the gathering forward.
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Timetable:
Wednesday Oct. 13th
CONVERGENCE OF AUTONOMOUS SPACES
7pm ? 9pm All Saints Chapel
A welcoming assembly and presentation of all
autonomous spaces of the
European
Social Forum.
Communication rights forum
European Creative Forum
Lab of Insurrectionary Imagination
Life despite Capitalism
Urban City Forum
Ramparts
LARC
Radical Theory Forum
Beyond ESF
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Thursday Oct. 14th
BREAKFAST & MORNING ASSEMBLY
9am-11am (Marquee)
Title: Squatting in England 1649 to date ? 11.00am ?
12.30pm ? Room:
Marquee
Description: a presentation on the history of
squatting in England and
particularly
squatting movements and social space. Hopefully this
will provoke a
discussion
of experiences from different countries, and of how
the
relativelegality
here has helped and/or recuperated the movement.
Group: Advisory Service for Squatters
Theme: Autonomy & Struggle
Title: Supporting Traveller and Roma Self-Defense
11am ? 12.30pm ? Room: Hendrix Lounge
Description: All over Europe Roma and Traveller people
are under
attack,
eg racist murders from Slovakia to the UK; and in the
UK forcible
eviction
from their own land. We aim to bring together Roma and
Travellers, and
activists
supporting them. Films and discussion on what action
people can take to
defeat
this ethnic cleansing.
Group: hosted by Traveller Support Network
Theme: No Borders
Title: European Anti-Repression Network
11am ? 12.30pm ? Room: K410
Description: A Europe wide network supporting
political prisoners &
fighting
for justice against political repression.
Group: European Anti-Repression Network
Theme: Repression & Social Control
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Title: Creating Free Public Transport!
13.30 ? 15.00 ? Room: Hendrix Lounge
Description: In Stockholm, Gothenburg and Helsinki
free public
transports
have been created by the commuters themselves.
Group: Globalisation from below [SWE], planka.nu
[SWE], pummit.org
[FIN]
Theme: Autonomy & Struggle
Title: The Prison Industrial Complex -Towards A
British and/or European
Critical Resistance
13.30 ? 15.00 ? Room: Marquee
Description: Whilst Critical Resistance in America
(
www.criticalresistance.org)
are building an effective anti prison movement,
including P.O.W's
(prisoners
of the class war). The British anti Prison movement
has gone relatively
backwards since the 1970's. Is this a problem in
Europe, and what can
we
do about it?
Group: North East Class War
Theme: Repression & Social Control
Title: Plan Puebla Panama - Resistance in Meso America
13.30 ? 15.00 ? Room: K410
Description: The PPP (Plan Puebla Panama) is not a
Free Trade Treaty,
it
is the consequence of them. The PPP is a massive plan,
that has already
begun that involves gas pipelines, super truck
highways, damns, deep
sea
ports even a 'dry canal' that are intended to create a
massive 'super
poor'
sweatshop zone in
mesoamerica (southern mexico to panama) that exports
the resources but
keeps
in the people. There is a strong movement across the
region to oppose
this
Plan; interviews from resistance gatherings in Chiapas
are a part of
this
presentation.
Theme: Zapatismo
Title: Yomango...because you can?t buy happiness!
15.00 ? 16.30 ? Room: Hendrix Lounge
Description: YOMANGO is a brand name [ Mango is a
popular Spanish
clothing
chain, now spreading all over Europe. YOMANGO, in
Spanish slang means
something
like 'I love shoplifting'], which like all other major
brand names is
not
so much about selling concrete stuff, but more about
promoting a
lifestyle.
In this case, the YOMANGO lifestyle - shoplifting as a
form of social
disobedience
and direct action against multinational corporations
having a really
good
time!. Latest news: videos, actions, tools...
Group: YOMANGO
Theme: Autonomy & Struggle
Title: Autonomy & Coffee: Café Rebelde Zapatista
15.00 ? 16.30 ? Room: tbc
Description: Talk & film about the self-organised
co-operatives in the
Zapatista
communities in Chiapas.
Organised by: Café Rebelde Collective
Theme: Zapatismo
Title: Direct Action / Blockading Training
15.00 ? 16.30 (Marquee)
Description: Want to take direct action to stop
corporate destruction?
This
is a practical workshop on blockading including sit
down blockades and
lock-ons.
Group: Seeds for Change
Title: Dole Resistance, Unwaged Activism And
Precarious Work
17.00 ? 18.30 ? Room: K301
Description: With input from people involved with
claimant?s unions,
unwaged
action and campaigns, we will talk about the
possibilities for
resisting
the state efforts to impose work discipline on the
workless and force
us
into low-paid precarious work that are taking place
across Europe. Will
include a comic look at dole resistance of the past!
Group: WOMBLES, Edinburgh claimants group
Theme: Precarity/Casualisation
Title: Injustice Screening & Q&A
17.00 ? 19.00 ? Room: K145
Description: Film screening on police murders followed
by Q&A with
families
of those killed by police.
Group: Migrant Media/United Families & Friends
Campaign
Theme: Repression & Social Control
Title: Stop ID cards
19.00 ? 20.30 ? Room: K145
Description: Later this year the Government plans to
put a bill bifore
parliament
to introduce Identity Cards and start compiling a
national database of
the
entire UK population. If they get away with this it
will massively
increase
the powers of the state to monitor and control people.
The plans
include
a legal requirement to attend appointments for
fingerprint and iris
scans,
and to notify the government every time you move
address - with a £1000
penalty if you don?t - and a range of other measures
and penalties.
[Although
the Government claims that the scheme will not be
compulsory, the draft
bill itself contains provision for registration to be
made compulsory
at
a later date, and states clearly that this is the
ultimate intention.]
Come
and hear more about the Government proposals, the
implications of the
scheme,
and discuss how we can get organised to defeat these
oppressive plans.
Group: Haringey Solidarity Group
Theme: Repression & Social Control
EVENING ASSEMBLY
19.00 ? 21.00 - Room: All Saints Chapel
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Friday Oct.15th
Breakfast ? 9am ? Marquee
G8 2005: DAY OF DISSENT!
MORNING ASSEMBLY : Day of Dissent
10.00 ? 11.00am (Marquee)
Theme: G8 2005
Day of Dissent! Educational Workshop
11am ? 12.30pm (Marquee)
- Backgrounds and History to G8
- Climate Change, War and Oil
- Food and Agricultural Policies of the G8
- Dissent! and PGA networks
Theme: G8 2005
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Day of Dissent: workshops
13.30-15.00
- Creating Digital Media ? Room: K271 (Alternative
media space)
- Past Mobilisation?s and Experiences - Room: All
Saints Chapel
Theme: G8 2005
Day of DISSENT!
Title: Consensus in large groups
13.30-15.00 ? Room: K304
Description: A practical workshop on how we can make
consensus work in
large
groups and meetings. Try out models for inclusive and
effective
decision-making
in groups from dozens to hundreds of people.
Group: Seeds for Change
Theme: G8 2005
Day of DISSENT!
Title: An Introduction to the Clandestine Insurgent
Rebel Clown Army:
Including
a taster training workshop
13.30-15.00 (Marquee)
Description: The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown
Army (CIRCA), is a
gaggle
of
activist/tricksters, who are developing a method of
political activism
that
brings together the ancient practice of rebel clowning
and the more
recent
practice of Civil Disobedience. CIRCA will be on a
recruitment tour of
the
UK and Europe in spring 2005 and hopes to bring
numerous battalions of
clownbattants to mock the G8.
"the clowns are organising the clowns are organising -
over and out"
Overheard
on Police radio, July 4th action against Menwith Hill
spy base.
Group: Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
Theme: G8 2005
Day of DISSENT! workshops
15.00-16.30
-Trauma and Mass Mobilisations ? Room: K304
- Action Strategy ? Room: K306
- Beyond the G8 ? Room: K408
Theme: G8 2005
Day of DISSENT! Working groups
17.00 ? 18.30
International Networking. ? Room: K144
Legal ? Room: K401
Medical ? Room: K304
Educational Road show ? Room: K408
Alternative Media ? Room: K271 (Alternative media
space)
Theme: G8 2005
Also on Friday:
NO BORDERS ConvergenceI
10.00am ? 12.30pm ? Room: Hendrix Lounge
-Discussion about March 26 global day of action
-Convergence for everyone who wishes to be involved in
No Borders
discussions.
Title: Presentations of Social Centre projects
11am ? 12.30pm ? Room: K408
Description:
Occupied Social Centre Project: Over the last year we
have occupied 2
social
centres in London, resisted eviction for several
months, and had an
impact
on people in the local area. We wish to share our
experiences and
progress
this project further.
Telefonplan Social Center - we squatted for a whole
week* in cold
February,
together with the FSH (Association of Homeless in
Stockholm) which had
a
big impact on the political agenda concerning the lack
of housing. We
communicated
via a homepage
http://ingenbostad.mine.nu/ during this
project; there
is
some pictures and a text in English as well. A week is
long for a
illegally
squatted house in Sweden, usually it takes a couple of
hours before the
cops arrive. Social Center Siperia in Helsinki will
also join the
workshop
and share their experiences.
Group: Globalization from Below/Planka (Swe) / Siperia
(FIN) / WOMBLES
(UK)
Theme: Autonomy & Struggle
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Title: Global Social Centre Action
13.30 ? 15.00 ? Room: K305
Description: To take a building in London together and
create an
international
social centre, with both migrants & non-migrants,
internationals &
Londoners.
When people return home the project will continue and
so will the
international
solidarity.
Group: WOMBLES (UK) & Droits Devants (France)
Theme: Autonomy & Struggle
Title: Resisting the Clash - Building Networks of
Solidarity Against
Colonialism
in the Middle East and the "Clash of Civilisations"
13.30 ? 15.00 ? Room: Hendrix Lounge
Description: Grassroots social movements from the
Middle East and
Europe
are working together in order to combine existing
networks and forms of
action in the struggle against the so-called "clash of
civilisations".
We
want to fight this new repackaging of old racist ideas
used to
legitimise
colonial
domination, while at the same time helping each other
to resist old and
new forms of oppression.
This presentation will be the first in a 5-month tour
across the
continent
and include activists from the following movements:
International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Palastine /
International
Organisation
for Women¹s Freedom in Iraq Israeli Social Guerrilla
Activists
(Maapach,
Conscience Objectors, Green Action, etc)
Lebanese Social Guerrilla Activists (IMC Beirut,
Lebanese Gay and
Lesbian Rights group, etc)
Occupation Watch (UK)
Theme: No Borders
Title: freedom of movement against migration
management - stop IOM
15.00 ? 17.00 - Room: K144
Description: film and short introduction about IOM
(international
organisation
for migration)and the campaign of no border network
against migration
management.
afterwards: debate, why we think, that iom should be
one target in a
common
struggle against global governance.
Group: anti racism office Bremen and no one is illegal
hanau (both
groups
are
part of no border network)
Theme: No Borders
Title: Greenpepper Magazine (Amsterdam) & Mute
Magazine (London)
present:
PRECARITY Ping Pong
15.00-17.00 ? Room: All Saints Chapel
Description: three action-packed rounds, one multiple
and federated
fight
!
A critical forum introducing the spread of new modes
of labour conflict
by rebelling précaires and cognitaires across Europe,
explaining and
tearing
apart the discourse of precarity shaping these
flexfights, and
intersecting
different tactics for demanding new social rights.
- ROUND ONE: n/european labour conflict and strategies
of
self-representation
- ROUND TWO: immaterial labour and the feminisation of
work
- ROUND THREE: from flexibility to flexicurity:
strategies of
appropriation
Featuring: speakers from Chainworkers
[
www.chainworkers.org],
Coordination
Intermittents et Précaires Ile de France], Precarious
a la Derive
[Madrid,
Spanish state], EuroMayDay [
www.euromayday.org], Yo
Mango [Barcelona,
Spanish
state], P2P Fightsharing [Rome, Italy], and more tbc.
Launching: the brand new Greenpepper Magazine -
Precarity issue [edited
and designed by Alex Foti and Zoe Romano,
Chainworkers, Milano]. Hot
off
the risomachines!
Screening: shorts from the brand new multilingual P2P
Fightsharing -
Precarity
DVD (compiled, designed and subtitled by Candida TV
and Guerilla
Marketing,
Rome)
*(Derived from the latin verb precor, PRECARITY
(Précarité/Precariedad/Precarietà) literally means
being forced to beg
and
pray to keep one?s job. Precarity is the social state
of work and being
in the age of high (and mortiferous) neoliberalism. In
our
postindustrial
age, knoweldge and service industries are the two
primary sectors
producing
financial value and global wealth. But it is here that
flex/temp/brain/chain
workers are organising, demanding new social rights
and developing a
new
radical identity: corporations and eurocrats beware!
Organized by: Euromayday.org
Theme: Precarity/Casualisation
Title: Indigenous Sovereignty in North America: Framed
by the FBI, John
Graham - stop the Extradition!
15.00 ? 16.30 ? Room: K401
Description: John Graham is an indigenous activist,
the US government
is
seeking his extradition for a murder committed in
1976. The history of
the
American genocide, the American Indian Movement and
the continuing
Indian
Wars are a part of his story. This presentation is a
part of an
international
campaign to stop his extradition to the US.
Organised by: John Graham Defense Committee.
Theme: Repression & Social Control
Title: "piqueteros" and Argentinean (sub)urban
zapatismo
15.00 ? 16.30 ? Room: K305
Description: How do workless people from poor
neighborhoods of Buenos
Aires
self-organize themselves to create their plants,
libraries, farms,
schools,
mini-hospitals. Why do they try to have public
services out of the
State.
Confrontation with the power and repression. Two
videos in Spanish (one
with subtitles in English) of 20 minutes each one.
Organised by: Federico Amouretti (Marseille Network of
Social
Disobedience)
Theme: Zapatismo
Title: Queers without Borders
17.00 ? 18.30 ? Room: K306
Description: a meeting to gather queer activists of
all sexualities to
discuss
future actions against border regimes and in support
those experiencing
oppression from state, church, or a lack of freedom of
movement. this
meeting
has the goal of strengthening already existing links
with queers in
serbia
and the middle east, and a vision towards of a network
of queers that
can
make coordinated actions.
Theme: No Borders
Title: Caracoles, Autonomous Health And New Paths Of
Resistance
17.00 ? 18.30 ? Room: K305
Description: Autonomous healthcare in Zapatista
communities in Mexico
Organised by: Edinburgh-Chiapas solidarity group
Theme: Zapatismo
Evening Assembly - DISSENT! G8
Room: All Saints Chapel -7.00pm ? 9pm
Convergence of G8 struggles (speakers from VAAG,
GENOA, DISSENT!)
Plenary in the form of a spokes council, working group
feedback,
strategy,
Discussions....
Theme: G8 2005
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Saturday Oct.16th
MORNING ASSEMBLY
Title: The VOICE Refugee Forum London-(in Solidarity
with 10 years of
refugee
selforganisation and restriction ofmovement- The VOICE
Refugee forum
Germany)
All day Saturday 11.00 ? 7pm
All Saints Chapel
Together with asylum-seeker/refugee/migrant activists
from Iran, the
Sudan
(Dafur) and refugee activists from Germany, France and
the U.K. we will
organise a workshop with discussions about repression
in refugee
homelands
and the repression/persecution of refugees in or by
the host-land. We
will
discuss
self-organisation of resistance with the International
Legal Support
Team-London
and make some proposals for practical alternatives and
creative
interventions,
also for further networking and local political
support for upcoming
events
like the Anti-G8, March 26 Solidarity Day against
repression, and
ongoing
pressure to end deportation.
Programme:
11.00-12.30 Discussion on repression and resistance in
refugee homeland
Repression in Iran by Hassan Zendeh Del, Woman
activist Hagir Ahmed of
Sudan(Dafur)
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-16.30 Discussion on the repression and
resistance in refugee host
lands; Germany, UK, France and the deadly practises of
?Fortress
Europe?
being confronted by the Self-organisation of asylum
seekers/ refugees/
migrants/political
activists. Presentation of the International Legal
Support Team.
- The repression and deportation in France in
connection with Sans
Papiers
(without papers) activist, Omeyya from "le M.I.B."
Movement
D'Immigration
De Banlieure(Immigrant Movement in the Suburbs).
-Self-organised refugee resistance in Germany, with
Gaston Ebua.
Celebrating
10 years of active resistance of The VOICE Refugee
forum Germany
demanding
free movement for asylum seekers in Germany against
living 'illegally'
under
a ban on movement.(
www.thevoicefroum.org )
16.30 - BREAK FOR TEA/COFFEE
17.00-18.30 Plenary Discussion
Discussion summary of our workshop for alternatives.
Perspectives for a
structure to strengthen our local refugee network for
political support
involving urgent actions for threatened asylum-seeker
activists:
Focusing
on anti deportation, no border as well as capitalism a
system of
domination
every
where which deports and stops us to move.
Theme: No Borders
Also on Saturday:
Title: Facing the Society of Control
11am-12.30 Room: K145
Description: The development of western capitalism
after the 70's is
accompanied with new kinds of social control. Why and
how has "the
society
of control" emerged? What can we do? Seminar + open
discussion + video
of
an action
Organised by: Anti-Authoritarian Movement
(Thessaloniki)
Theme: Repression & Social Control
Title: Destroy the Arms Trade
11am-12.30 Room: A110
Description film and discussion around direct action
against the arms
trade.Various
people from different campaigns and actions will share
their
experiences
and lessons learnt.We hope lots of people will come
with their own. The
emphasis will be on affinity groups.
Group: hosted by London Disarm DSEi
Title: European mobilization against the Constitution
11.00 ? 12.30 Room: K301
Description: We would like to (briefly) speak about
the Constitution.
And
moreover about, how, at a European level, we can
organize ourselves, us
anti globalization activists. How could we coordinate
actions, and
which
ones.
Organised by: Vamos! - Intergalactique Network
(France) + Xarxa (Global
mobilization network) Barcelona
Theme: No Borders
Title: Bristle magazine ? "showing anger or desire to
resist".
13.30-15.00 Room: A157
Description: A workshop on the Bristle collective's
experiences and
ideas
about producing a self-funded anarchist magazine for
nearly ten years
in
Bristol, with discussion on the continuing need for
printed alternative
media.
Group: Bristle collective members
Theme: Autonomy & Struggle
Title: Precarious work and the informal economy under
neo-liberalism:
Class
composition
13.30-15.00 Room: K145
Description: The new economic experience is one of
precarious work and
work
in the informal economy for large sections of our
populations, and can
be
seen as dynamic occupational practice under
neo-liberalism. The
capitalist
state and corporate strategy is; penal welfare social
policy, and
neo-conservative
social discipline, partly embodied in the New Deal in
Britain.
Group: North East Class War
Theme: Precarity/Casualisation
Title:- Ethical trading and Caterpillar
13.30-15.00 Room:A110
Name of Group: Caterkiller
Brief Description: A workshop examining strategies to
encourage
Caterpillar
to live up to it's claims
Title: Kiptik, solidarity group working in the
autonomous communities
of
Chiapas
15.00 ? 16.30 Room: K157
Description: Experiences and lessons of direct
solidarity work in the
Zapatista
communities in resistance, to contribute to discussion
on our shared
struggle
for autonomy and radical social / ecological change.
Organised by: Kiptik (UK)
Theme: Zapatismo
Title: Plotting Against Industrial Agriculture
15.00 ? 16.30 Room: A110
Description: information and experience sharing for
those
active/interested
in community food growing.
Discussion topics may include comparisons/contrasts
between community
food
growing in different European regions; between urban/
rural areas.
also,
to what extent can community food growers play a role
in wider
anti-capitalist
struggles/ movement?
Group: Organiclea Workers Co-Op
Theme: Autonomy & Struggle
Title: Action Chommage!, unemployed and precarious
workers's network in
France.
15.00? 16.30 Room: K145
Description: presentation of our forms of actions,
(self-reductions,
occupations,
marches...), our way of organising (networking), our
demands for new
rights
(a guaranteed income to be the masters of our own
mobility and as an
answer
to precarity, free access to all forms of commons or
public services:
transports,
energy, culture,...
Organized by: Action Chommage! (France)
Theme: Precarity/Casualisation
Title:- Resisting the draft in Israel ( in Middle East
wars)
17.00 ? 18.30 Room: K145
Brief Description:- Two of the recently jailed draft
resisters Adam
Maor
and Matan Kaminer are coming to London, keen to talk
with other war
resisters
. They can speak about why they refused to fight, how
they challenged
the
Israeli state; how they worked with other prisoners
and detainees, and
what
strategies
are needed to generalise resistance to Sharon within
Israel.
Group:- Shministim/ Jews for Justice for Palestinians
Title: Anti-Olympics
17.00 ? 18.30 ? Room: A110
Description: During the last years we have had some
participation in
the
wider anti2004 movements here, and we would like to
present our
experience
on what the Olympic Games were about (in terms of
social costs, city
life
and police control, environmental damages, etc.).
Group: Virus Collective (Greece)
Theme: Repression & Social Control
Title: Repression and prison support Guadalajara,
Mexico
17.00 ? 18.30 Room: K157
Description: During the anti-globalization protests
against the Latin
American
European Union summit on 28th of May in Guadalajara,
Mexico, 111 people
were arrested, 49 with charges, 17 are still in jail,
and 8 foreigners
were
deported. Police harassment, beatings, physical and
psychological
torture
were the norm
in repressing political dissent. Activist from Mexico
talk of the
repression
and solidarity campaign for those still inside prison.
Theme: Repression & Social Control
First Assembly Of Europe's Precariat (Or Precariat In
Europe)
16.00-18.30 - Perry Hall
Description: Precarity is fast-emerging as the central
social issue in
heavily
flexibilized Europe. Job precariousness and associated
social anxiety
are
spreading all over Europe, from East Germany to
Southern Spain, from
Britain
to Sweden, and lacking a radical leftist outlet it
could well put wind
in
the
sails of assorted fascists, as it has already happened
in Italy,
France,
Germany, Belgium, Holland, and elsewhere. Since
Florence and Paris, and
especially since last year, a transeuropean radical
movement of
precarious
workers, media and labor activists has been taking
shape, culminating
in
the great mayday 004
demos in Dublin, Milano, Barcelona, Helsinki, Palermo.
Young flex and
temp
workers in retail, service, information, knowledge
industries are
starting
to rebel against unacceptable living conditions and
abusive work
contracts
and practices. Neoliberalism is in crisis everywhere
and become
increasingly
authoritarian,
as Rumsfeld's flexible invasion and occupation of !
Iraq constantly reminds us. Time has come for
activists to join forces
and
reverse the free-market tide all over Europe, by
staging strong
transmetropolitan
conflicts in the hubs and sites of postindustrial
accumulation. The assembly is a step in this
direction. Sisters and
Brothers:
let's unite against Barroso, Blair, Berlusconi, and
the gross
inequality
they foster with their mendacious, war-mongering
policies.
organizers: Wombles
participants: Euromayday.org, NAN (Nordic
Anticapitalist Network),
Monsun,
Motkraft, AFA Berlin, Precog, Global Project,
ChainWorkers, YoMango,
Indymedia
Estrecho, Precarias a la Deriva, Universidad Nómada,
Coordination
Intermittents
et
Précaires, Stop précarité, and other collectives and
networks against
precarity.
Theme: Precarity/Casualisation
Radical Ecological Space ? All Day Saturday Room: K144
Title: GM skill share
11am-12.30pm Room: K144
Description: Skill share in GM crops ,
workshop/discussion on GM foods.
Title: New Technologies
13.30-15.00 Room: K144
Description: On the Inside - a skill share on finding
out who's
researching
what, Where and controlling that research
Title: Carbon Trading
15.00-16.30 Room: K144
Description: While the inter-governmental solution to
the climate
crisis,
the Kyoto Protocol, has been an important forum for
action, it does
contain
potentially damaging loopholes. Countries can now
trade emissions
rights,
generate ?carbon credits? in the global South and use
?carbon sinks? to
count towards their targets. Can inter-governmental
bodies such as the
G8,
the UNFCCC or the WTO create real solutions to climate
change? In this
workshop
we will discuss how the Kyoto Protocol has in effect
privatised the
atmosphere
and explore bottom-up solutions to climate change."
Group: Carbon Trade Watch project in the Transnational
Institute and
two
of us
will do the workshop: Heidi & Tami.
Title: Roads to Ruin. The capitalist destruction of
the planet.
17.00-18.30 Room: K144
Description: An open workshop to bring together people
from the
anti-road
movement in order to spread information about
campaigns and hopefully
connect
people to take practical actions. I want to keep it
fairly broad and
open
but also focused on clear examples of where a
capitalist "development"
is
blatantly trashing the environment: so global
deforestation is the
general
theme. The thing is it is roads that are usually the
starting point for
a wider degradation of the surrounding environment, so
it links in.
requirements: projector
Group: DE cymru (EF cymru)
Title: Solidarity South Pacific
18.30-20.00 Room: K144
Description: Why Solidarity?
Throughout the Pacific Rim wild nature and wild
culture are under
attack.
Loggers tear down the forests. Mining corporations rip
open chasms in
the
earth. Free tribal societies are either exterminated
or assimilated. In
this century over half of the earth?s diverse forms of
life are facing
extinction-these
are critical times. Against the death culture,
rebellion grows. The
victorious
eco-insurrection in Boubainville and the strenghtening
indigenous
resistance
in West Papua are just two examples. For Ten years the
British radical
ecological
movement have taken inspiration from Pacific struggles
and in return
carried
out solidarity actions against companies and
embassies. In the middle
of
2002 many of us behind these actions decided we needed
to consolidate
to
make sure we can give more consistant support to
struggling wild
peoples
in this region. We are not an NGO and have no paid
staff or any
significant
funding. We do how ever have determination in bucket
loads.
We aim primarily to aid the West Papuan tribal
resistance, Earth
First!,
plus tribal and ecological struggle in the Phillipines
and to bring
attention
to the revolution in Bougainville. Come along and find
out more.
Group: WILDFIRE
Evening Assembly ? Saturday
19.00-21.00 Room: Perry Hall
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Sunday Oct.17th
Final Assembly ? 10am-1pm - Room: Perry Hall
A roundup of discussions that have happened during the
conference and
any
outcomes.
NO BORDERS Convergence II ? 18.00 ? 21.00 Room: All
Saints Chapel
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>>Alternative media/radio space ? Friday 15th -Sunday
17th - all day
Room: K271
>LIVE MUSIC EVERY NIGHT
Wednesday October 13th
Time: 21.00-23.00 Venue: Hendrix Lounge ACOUSTIC FOLK
MUSIC Feat.
LIGHTNING
TREE
plus DJ?s
Thursday October 14th
Time: 21.00-23.00 Venue: Hendrix Lounge
HIP-HOP & DRUM N? BASS Feat. DJ RUBBISH, DOUBLE
NEGATIVE, DEADLOCK
Friday October 15th
Time: 21.00-24.00 Venue: Hendrix Lounge
ska/punk/hip-hop Feat. DEAD
PLANTS,
SPANNER, CROWZONE visuals by APOLIS
Saturday October 16th
Time: 21.00-23.00 Venue: Hendrix Lounge
INDIE ROCK/DUB RAGGA/SKA Feat. REBELVOICE, HEADJAM +
more
Closing Party ? Sunday 17th
Time: 21.00-23.00 Venue: Hendrix Lounge
The People's Republic Of Disco comes to Beyond ESF .
Together, we can overthrow the tyranny of the
superstar DJ. It's time
to
line the bloated corporate deck-pigs up against the
wall. All we need
you
to do is bring your two favourite tunes (vinyl, CD or
CD-R) and we'll
do
the rest. Any tunes you want - tunes you never thought
you'd hear
played
in a club or never
fail to make you dance.
We won't be happy till the last Mixmag journalist is
hanging by the
headphone
cable of the last superstar DJ.
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>>CINEMA ? every evening 19.00 ? 23.00
Thursday October 14th Time: 21.00-23.00
- TERRORIST (84mins, Swe) A documentary of political
activists arrested
and
imprisoned in Gothenburg during the protests against
the EU.
- A STONE?S THROW AWAY (60mins) Four kids living &
dying in the refugee
camps
of Palestine.
Friday October 15th Time: 21.00-23.00
DISSENT! G8 Films by BEYOND TV
Saturday October 16th Time: 21.00-23.00
THE FOURTH WORLD WAR (76mins) This documentary weaves
together the
stories
of movements against empire from Palestine, Iraq,
Chiapas, Argentina,
South
Africa to Quebec City and Genoa.
Sunday October 17th Time: 21.00-23.00
LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION video shorts
of a weekend of
actions
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