PDF Version WORLD SOCIAL FORUM, NAIROBI
16h-18h, 24 January 2007
Contents:
Declaration of the Social Movements
Assembly
List of actions proposed and
endorsed by Assembly
List of speakers and written
proposals
Summary of interventions from the
floor and written proposals
Chaired by Trevor Ngwane
(South Africa) and Wahu Kaara(Kenya)
Opening declaration of the
assembly read by Wahu Kaara, Kenya organising committee of the WSF:
AFRICAN
STRUGGLES, GLOBAL STRUGGLES
We, social
movements from across Africa and across the world, have come together
here in Nairobi at the 2007 World Social Forum to highlight and
celebrate Africa and her social movements; Africa and her unbroken
history of struggle against foreign domination, colonialism and
neo-colonialism; Africa and her contributions to humanity; Africa and
her role in the quest for another world.
We are
here to celebrate and reaffirm the spirit of the World Social Forum
as a space of struggle and solidarity which is open to all people and
social movements regardless of their ability to pay.
We
denounce tendencies towards commercialisation, privatisation and
militarisation of the WSF space. Hundreds of our sisters and brothers
who welcomed us to Nairobi have been excluded because of high costs
of participation.
We are
also deeply concerned about the presence of organisations working
against the rights of women, marginalised people, and against sexual
rights and diversity, in contradiction to the WSF Charter of
Principles.
The social
movements assembly has created a platform for Kenyans and other
Africans from different backgrounds and communities to present their
struggles, alternatives, cultures, talents and skills. It is also a
space for civil society organisations and social movements to
interact and share the issues and problems affecting them.
Since the
first assembly in 2001, we have contributed to building and
strengthening successful international networks of civil societies
and social movements and reinforced our spirit of solidarity and our
struggles against all forms of oppression and domination.
We
recognise that the diversity of movements and popular initiatives
against neo-liberalism, orld hegemony of capitalism and imperial
wars, is an expression of a world resistance.
[We recognise that the
diversity of movements and popular initiatives against
neo-liberalism, world hegemony of capitalism and imperial wars, is an
expression of a world resistance.]
[We have now to move towards a phase of
effective alternatives. Many local initiatives are already existing
and should be expanded: what is happening in Latin America and other
parts of the world — thanks to the joint action of social movements
— shows the way to establish concrete alternatives to world
capitalist domination.]
As
social movements from all five continents gathering in Nairobi, we
express our solidarity with the social movements in Latin America
whose persistent and continuing struggle has led to electoral
victories for the Left in several countries.
[Additional
text proposed by Samir Amin, and accepted by the assembly]
Actions
-
We are
calling for a broad international mobilisation against the G8 in
Rostock and Heiligendamm (Germany) 2-8 June 2007. -
We will
mobilise in our communities and movements for an International Day
of Action in 2008.
This
declaration was accepted by acclamation
Additional
days of action proposed to, and supported by, the social movements
assembly
LGTB
June
2007: Support the mobilisations for the respect of sexual
diversity to make real the slogan “In a diverse world, equality
is first” which will take place in June 2007 and 2008.
Debt
14-21
October 2007: A Global Week of Action against debt
(15
October – 20th anniversary of the death of Thomas Sankara; 16
October – World Food Day
17 October
– International Day to Eradicate Poverty; 20 October – World
Youth Day; 19-21 October – IMF-WB Annual meetings)
War
and Occupation
February
24: No Trident, Troops out of Iraq Demo, London, UK
(Contact:
campaigns(at)cnduk.org; office(at)stopwar.org.uk)
5-9
March 2007 : International Conference for the Abolition of
Foreign
Military
Bases, Quito/Manta, Ecuador, (Contact: nobases(at)yahoo.com)
17-20
March: Global Days of Action against Occupation of Iraq
- 29
March – 1 April 2007: Fifth Cairo Conference, Cairo,
Egypt
(Contact:
office(at)stopwar.org.uk/02072786694)
2
June 2007: G8 Protests, Rostock, Germany, call for all anti-war
coalitions to put anti-war effort in the centre of the protest
against the G8
15
May 2007: Global Protests marking the Palestine Nakbah
7-9
June: Global Days of Action to protest 40th anniversary of the
Israeli occupation of Palestine Territories
29
November 2007: Call for Solidarity Activities with Palestine
(global)
May
2008: “Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War” 2008,
Tokyo, Japan
(Contact:
article-9(at)peaceboat.gr.jp)
Palestine
9-10
June 2007: Global days of action to mark the 40th anniversary of
the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights,
under the banner “The world says no to Israeli Occupation”
15
May 2007: Global day of action to commemorate the 60th
anniversary of the Palestinian nakbah (catastrophe) and calling for
the implementation of resolution 194 which calls for the right of the
Palestinian people to return to their land.
Water
18-20
March, 2007 – March 2009: Gather at the World Assembly of
Citizens and Elected Officials in the European Parliament in
Brussels, to demand that governments implement the right to water
before the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights,
which is 10 December 2008. From this point, via the global action
month, Blue October, and other mobilisations, we will challenge the
illegitimate World Water Forum, Istanbul March 2009.
Climate
Change
8
December, 2007: International Day of Action on Climate Change
Housing
October:
Launch of the worldwide campaign on “zero evictions” .
18 May,
2007: commemorating the anniversary of the Mugabe government’s
eviction offensive in Zimbabwe.
Haiti
14
August 2007: Social forum in solidarity with Haiti.
Military
Bases
17
February, 2007: March and mobilisation in Italy against the
enlargement of the Vicenza US military base.
Migration
7
October, 2007: Day of action for the rights of migrants and the
free movement of peoples in commemoration of the tragedies of Cueta
and Melilla.
Some
highlights…
From
the Peoples Parliament, Kenya
“For
many of us this is the first WSF. What I like about the WSF is that
it brings the world to me as a Kenyan poor person: not only the world
but the best of the world. In this room, I have met people who
believe in the same things as the Peoples Parliament and people who
are courageous enough to believe that a better world is possible. I
am concerned that there are many Kenyans have not been able to attend
the WSF. We have had to come every single morning to get those doors
open so that ordinary Kenyan citizens can attend the WSF. We believe
the WSF is a conversation by, between, and amongst people. It is not
fair that 90 per cent of the people in the rooms are not Kenyans.
That is not just. We have fought day after day after day to get in.
But we are not just fighting to get in: we are fighting to be
recognized because we are people too.”
From
No Vox, Global
“At
the next forum we want the “have not” movements to be
represented and to be involved in the construction of the forum from
the beginning. We cannot reproduce in our own space that things that
we struggle against.”
From
the Labour and Globalisation Assembly
“The
proposal from the Labour and Globalisation Assembly is to create a
permanent international network jointly with trade unions, social
movements, researchers and research centres in order to strengthen
our work on issues related to work, culture and workers’ rights in
face of neoliberal globalisation’s attack.”
From
Danny Glover, TransAfrica/actor, USA
“We
have to allow the movement of people on the ground — whether they
are women or artisans or labourers — to be the clarion call of what
is to be done. We have to support and encourage that effort. You are
the embodiment of that effort right now: your voice, your vision, is
primary in what needs to be done to stop and defeat the policies of
oppression, the policies which keep us apart, and keep us from
telling the truth about out own existence. You are the essence of
that. Amandla!”
From
the Latin American and Caribbean Social Movements
“…
in the words of the Angolan poet Antonio Netto, to construct this new
world it is not enough that our cause is just and pure: purity and
justice should exist within us. More than words, the fight to
transform humanity needs actions that will bring together our hearts
and our consciousness. Unfortunately this is not what we saw at this
social forum. Because many Kenyan organisations were unable to
participate because of logistical and economic reasons within their
country.”
From
the indigenous forums of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina,
Ecuador, as well as Via Campesina, OCLAE
“…
we are asking to the movements and to leaders and personalities to
launch together the candidacy of Evo Morales for the Nobel prize.”
From
the Africa Water Network
“We
celebrate the launch of the new African Water Network, supported by
activists from more than 40 African countries, plus social movements
from around the world. This new network is committed to work against
the privatisation of water and joins other strong regional water
networks, like Red Vida in the Americas.”
From
the Climate Justice Strategy Group
“Climate
change is an issue of global justice. The only solution is structural
change to dramatically reduce carbon emissions and our dependence on
fossil fuels. We reject carbon trading via free market fraud that
commodifies and further destroys land, water and air.”
List of speakers and written
proposals
Samir
Amin, World Forum on Alternatives, Egypt
- Marcy
Kadenyeka, Kibera Peoples Settlement Network, Kenya - Luseni
Kamara, trade unions, Republic of Guinea - Wangui
Mbatia, Peoples Parliament, Kenya - Rose,
Grass Roots Global Justice, USA - Phumi
Mtetwa, LGTB South-South Dialogue - Salif
Segou, RMDD and Jubilee South, Niger - No
Vox, representing the “have nots” in all parts of the
world: homeless, jobless, nameless, sans papiers, stateless - Sam
Farai Monro, Uhuru Network, Zimbabwe - Camille
Chalmers, PAPDA, Jubilee South, Haiti - Alessandra
Mecozzi, FIOM/CGIL Italy, Labour and Globalisation Assembly - Hassan
Sunmonu, Organisation for African Trade Union Unity - Danny
Glover, TransAfrica Forum, actor, USA - George
Martin, United for Peace and Justice, USA and Anti-war Assembly - Sidiki
Daff, President of the People’s Research Centre for City Action
(CERPAC), Senegal, African coordinator, International Alliance of
Habitants - Antonio
Carlos Spis, CUT, Brazil, for the Latin American and Caribbean
social movements - Paul
Kimba, Kenya - Rubens
Diniz, Latin American and Caribbean Continental Student Organization
(OCLAE) - Al-hassan
Adam, The National Coalition Against Privatisation of Water, Ghana - Ruth
Thomas Pellicer for the Climate Justice Strategy Group (Greenway
International, France; etc group; Durban Group for Climate Justice;
ECO PAX MUNDI, Kenya/UK; Tamilnadu Environment Council) - Jennifer,
health movement, Kenya - Luciano
Resende and Jessica Braitwaithe, International Youth and Student
Forum and OCLAE - Jamal
Juma’, Palestine delegation to the WSF, Stop the Wall (and also
speaking for three other Palestinian speakers who graciously gave
their slot to Jamal in the interests of time( - Immacula,
Haiti solidarity movement: - Mondli
Hlatshwayo, Social Movements Indaba, South Africa: - Fatimetsu,
Coordination of the Saharawi Social Forum - Nicola
Delussu, No Bases, Italia - Maria
Olivia Sant’ana, Brasil - Okinawa
law student - Trevor
Ngwane, Anti-privatisation Forum South Africa - Sally
Burch, ALAI, for the Global Campaign for Communication Rights in the
Information Society (CRIS) - PhilipThornhill,
Global Climate Campaign, Campaign against Climate Change, Greenpeace
International, Friends of the Earth International: - On
Migration (no name) - Hajja
Fatma Abeyd, Kenya Anti-Rape Movement - Azril
Bacal, Paulo Friere Institute, Brazil - Basic
Income Grant ( Proposed: Claudia Haarma, seconded: Keith Vermeulen) - Invitation
to the G8, Dorothea Haerlin and John Holloway - Transnational
Unity in the Struggle for Migrant Workers Rights, Boston Delegation
to the World Social Forum 2007 - Déclaration
sur la dette, Forum social de Nairobi, Kenya.
Summary
of interventions from the floor and written proposals
1.
Samir Amin, World Forum on Alternatives, Egypt:
Proposed
new text:
We
recognise that the diversity of movements and popular initiatives
against neo-liberalism, world hegemony of capitalism and imperial
wars, is an expression of a world resistance.]
We
have now to move towards a phase of effective alternatives. Many
local initiatives are already existing and should be expanded: what
is happening in Latin America and other parts of the world — thanks
to the joint action of social movements — shows the way to establish
concrete alternatives to world capitalist domination.
(Note:
this text has been added to the above declaration)
2.
Marcy Kadenyeka, Kibera Peoples Settlement Network, Kenya:
We
are hoping to work together as a social movements network. We are
ready to work together and have changed our name from “slums”
to peoples settlements. Must work together to get rid of corruption
and high taxes, and to solve these problems: access to shelter, to
land, and an end to evictions. We recommend that we are treated as
Kenyans, as the rest of the people and please invite us to work with
you so that we can work together.
3.
Luseni Kamara, trade unions, Republic of Guinea:
Representing
the working class of Guinea. I am here with another woman leader of
the trade unions. We ask your support for the democratisation of
Guinea, the struggle for social justice in Guinea. We have been on
strike for two weeks with two objectives: rather than opening the
dialogue with us the government has launched a huge repression and
more than 50 comrades and citizens have been killed by the government
in the past ten days of repression. We need your support to liberate
our comrades who are in jail today. We ask the president of the
government to nominate a new prime minister who can open a real
debate with the people who are struggling. If this is not done, we
will ask for the resignation of the president. Please join me in one
minute of silence for the 50 victims.
4.
Wangui Mbatia, Peoples Parliament, Kenya:
I
come from a movement called the Peoples Parliament, a forum where
people can come to discuss their problems. The PP represents the
poorest constituency in Kenya: people who are too poor to get visas
to emigrate to your countries, or too poor to travel to other four
WSFs.
For
many of us this is the first WSF. What I like about the WSF is that
it brings the world to me as a Kenyan poor person: not only the world
but the best of the world. In this room, I have met people who
believe in the same things as the Peoples Parliament and people who
are courageous enough to believe that a better world is possible. I
am concerned that there are many Kenyans have not been able to attend
the WSF. We have had to come every single morning to get those doors
open so that ordinary Kenyan citizens can attend the WSF. We believe
the WSF is a conversation by, between, and amongst people. It is not
fair that 90 per cent of the people in the rooms are not Kenyans.
That is not just. We have fought day after day after day to get in.
But we are not just fighting to get in: we are fighting to be
recognized because we are people too.
We
may be poor materially but we all believed that we had something
substantial to add to the WSF process. As you know, the Kasarani
stadium is some distance from the city centre and from the places
where we live, the informal residences called slums: we come from
Kibera, Korogocho, different areas that we could not walk to get
here. We realized that many people could not afford the entrance fee
or the fare to get here, we organised a platform at Jivanjee Park
where we discussed the same issues that you are discussing here:
housing, unemployment, land issues, the right to social security,
minimum wages as opposed to living wages, we discussed many things
that make could make our world a better world. I am privileged to
share some of the resolutions that we came up with at our forum that
the ordinary citizens of our country could walk to, where they could
find food at a reasonable price made by one Kenyan for another
Kenyan, or for our visitors.
Housing:
It is necessary for the WSF to encompass the right to housing as a
basic human right and to struggle with and alongside those who do not
have decent housing and to work alongside these movements.
Trade:
We resolved that there is an unfair trade practice that creates
imbalances and injustice: we need to inform people about the existing
trade imbalances and work towards the nullification of any treaties
that are punitive to ordinary citizens of any country especially
citizens of developing and emerging nations.
Security
and the war on terrorism: it is a grave injustice to convert our
struggles for freedom struggles into terrorism and to punish our
freedom fighters as terrorists, and we express our solidarity with
the peoples of Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Somalia, and any peoples in
the world living under occupation. It is a grave injustice to put
people under such difficult circumstances and not expect them to
react. Our freedom fighters are not terrorists: lay off them.
Employment,
wages and work conditions: there is a need to work towards
creating jobs that provide people with a living wage, to support
trade unions which have become completely dormant, to address the
disparity in wages that creates one class which is super rich and
another that is absolutely poor, that makes poor people servants of
the rich.
Debt:
There is a need to cancel all debt, for all poor, developing and
emerging countries; not fair that many of us are born poor with a
debt in our hands.
5.
Rose, Grass Roots Global Justice, USA:
Proposed
amendment to the statement: We must take a stand on xenophobia,
racism, all forms of ethnic intolerance and genocide.
6.
Phumi Mtetwa, LGTB South-South Dialogue:
We
co-organized the 4th Social Forum on Sexual Diversity, a permanent
process aiming to position sexual diversity broadly within social
movements’ debates and actions and inviting all social movements to
make the vision of diversity their own. It is also a political space
to discuss
the
strengthening of our international organizations, campaigns, actions
and solidarity.
For the
first time since its launce in 2004, the SFSD had an unprecedented
presence of African participation.
At the
closing this morning there were five points that the comrades wanted
conveyed to this assembly:
- We
reaffirm our commitment to the struggles of the peoples of the world
for social justice, expressed through the diverse social movements
participating in this assembly today, and in its network. - We
express deep indignation at the commercialisation of the social
movements and civil society space, the WSF, and the restrictions to
participation of Kenyan comrades. - Committed
to worldwide solidarity amongst our struggles, we call on all
members of the assembly to support campaigns todecriminalise same
sex conduct in every country. - We urge
you to support the mobilisations for the respect of sexual diversity
to make real the slogan “In a diverse world, equality is first”
which will take place in June 2007 and 2008. - We will
mobilise our movements across the world to actively participate in
the calls expressed in the common agenda for action and during the
global days of action in 2008.
7.
Salif Segou, RMDD and Jubilee South, Niger:
It
was unjust to discriminate against people so that they could not
participate in this Forum. It is necessary to re-think the WSF, we
have to pay attention to what happens in this space. Every day we
fight injustice around the world: the WSF is for the movements, for
the poor, for the marginalised, and we have to ensure that poor
people can take part in the Forum. Niger is one of the poorest
countries in the world and I invite you to visit to seethe real face
of poverty and misery.
8.
No Vox, representing the “have nots” in all parts of the
world: homeless, jobless, nameless, sans papiers, stateless:
We
appreciate that the WSF is in Africa, in Nairobi, and we support all
the earlier statements about the entry fee, the price of food, the
price of water, and the fact that there is a jail inside the Forum.
We support all the solidarity actions of the past days to ensure that
people could not only get into the forum but also eat and drink. We
have to remember that the WSF does not change the world, even though
it is an excellent place to meet: what changes the world are the
struggles of the basic movements, the people who are oppressed. At
the next forum we want the “have not” movements to be
represented and to be involved in the construction of the forum from
the beginning. We cannot reproduce in our own space that things that
we struggle against
9.
Sam Farai Monro, Uhuru Network, Zimbabwe:
We
are a youth movement struggling against the dictatorship and against
the effects of structural adjustment. In the housing sessions we have
agreed on a global day of action on 18 May, to commemorate the
anniversary of the Mugabe government’s eviction offensive.
10.
Camille Chalmers, PAPDA, Jubilee South, Haiti:
Declaration
On Debt: World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya (24th January 2007)
1.
Campaigns, social movements, non-governmental organisations,
community-based organisations, faith-based organisations and
activists from all around the world have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya
for the 2007 World Social Forum. Together, we the undersigned
participants of the World Social Forum are determined to achieve an
end to debt domination. It is a scandal that the rich world demands
hundreds of millions of dollars every day from the South in payment
of ‘debts’ that have emerged from the unjust economic relations
that impoverish the South and enrich the North. Indebtedness is still
robbing the peoples of Africa, Latin America and Asia of their rights
– their rights to independence and political autonomy, as well as
to health, education, water and all the other essential goods and
basic services which should be available to all.
2.
The debt crisis is not just a financial problem for the countries of
the South. It is also a political problem that is based on and
reinforces unequal power relations: debt continues to be used as an
instrument of control, through conditions attached to loans and debt
relief. It is an instrument of leverage used by lender countries and
lender-controlled
institutions
to: aid the entry of their transnational corporations; enforce their
foreign policy options and military and invasive strategies; secure
favourable trade deals; and promote resource extraction from
recipient countries.
3.
It is also a responsibility of the North: their reckless,
self-interested, irresponsible and exploitative lending has fostered
this crisis, and their imposition of policies has deepened it.
Wealthy governments, transnational companies, and institutions such
as the IMF, World Bank, and WTO must all take responsibility for
their roles in creating and perpetuating this situation. We also
recognise the role of unaccountable and corrupt governments of the
South in creating this debt. These governments must make restitution
for their theft from and exploitation of peoples in the South.
4.
We applaud the Norwegian campaigners, working in partnership and
solidarity with Southern movements, who succeeded in convincing
Norwegian government to be the first lender to cancel debts on the
grounds of its own irresponsible lending. We know that their years of
hard work have brought the Norwegian government to this position. We
call on the G8 governments and other lenders to look at the debts
which they are claiming, to question the justice and legitimacy of
these claims, and to recognise their own responsibility. All lenders
– governments, financial institutions and private companies –
must take up this challenge.
5.
We know that our strength lies in the commitment and determination of
social movements, campaigns and individuals working in solidarity
around the world. The challenge to the injustice of debt domination
has come and still comes from these tireless and vocal efforts. This,
over many years, has forced the debt crisis from being an issue that
few knew about, and that many governments did not acknowledge, to
being a subject of debate around the world. It has also brought
successes such as that in Norway, and the realisation of official
debt audits in Ecuador and other countries. We, Southern and Northern
people’s movements and organisations, are determined to work and
raise our voices together until our call for an end to debt
domination becomes irresistible.
6.
Given the human suffering caused by historical and continuing
exploitation of the countries of the South, the imbalance of economic
and political power, and the ecological devastation inflicted on the
South by commercial interests, governments and institutions of the
North, there is no question that the North is in fact in debt to the
South. We assert that the South is the creditor of an enormous
historical, social, cultural, political and ongoing ecological debt.
This must be acknowledged, and restitution and reparations must be
made.
7.
We are calling for just economic relations between and within
countries. We are NOT calling for lender-controlled initiatives to
ease the financial flows of some impoverished countries, or for debt
relief dependent on conditions set by the institutions of the North.
We are calling for rich and powerful countries of the world to
recognise that they are benefiting from and failing to take
responsibility for the exploitation of the South. We assert the
rights of peoples to hold their own governments to account, and call
on governments to uphold those debts. We are calling for official and
citizens’ audits of debt and a citizens’ audit of the
international financial institutions. We are calling for systematic
social control of public indebtedness. We are calling for debt
cancellation without the imposition of conditions by lenders and for
restitution and reparations. We stand in solidarity with governments
who choose to repudiate illegitimate debt. We are calling for the
total elimination of illegitimate, odious, unjust and unpayable debt.
Proposed
calls to action:
A
Global Week of Action against Debt – October 14 to 21
This
week offers campaigners the opportunity to mark:
October
15 – 20th anniversary of the death of Thomas Sankara
October
16 – World Food Day
October
17 – International Day to Eradicate Poverty
October
20 – World Youth Day
October
19-21 – IMF-WB Annual meetings
The
call to governments during the Week of Action will be:
South
– debt repudiaton/North – debt cancellation
Fasts
to protest against debt domination
40-day
rolling fast from September 6 to October 15 (week of action) in USA
‘One
lunch for Africa’: a proposal for African / Southern campaign
groups to fast over one lunchtime, during the rolling fast and for
two days before the G8 meeting.
Use
occasion of governmental summits to raise the call for debt
cancellation
G8,
June 2007: media and via mobilizations in Germany and elsewhere
(Mali)
Commonwealth
Heads of Government, November 2007: mobilisation in
Uganda
Call
for audits
Official/government
and citizens’ debt audits, and a citizens’ audit of the IFIs
Call
for endorsements by prominent individuals
Call
on elected representatives, faith leaders and other prominent
individuals – both South and North – to associate themselves with
these actions and demands
(see
French text at end)
11.
Alessandra Mecozzi, FIOM/CGIL Italy, Labour and Globalisation
Assembly:
First
of all would like to say thank you for this WSF which was a great
event in spite of our obstacles, disagreements, difficulties and
perhaps mistakes. Congratulations also on this social movements
assembly, where we are more than 2,000.
The
workers needs social movements and the social movements need trade
unions to fight neoliberalism. We are all against war, we are all
against occupation, we are against the economic war brought by
neoliberal policies and the multinational companies against the
workers of the world.
The
proposal from the Labour and Globalisation Assembly is to create a
permanent international network jointly with trade unions, social
movements, researchers and research centres in order to strengthen
our work on issues related to work, culture and workers’ rights in
face of neoliberal globalisation’s attack. The aim is to have a
permanent exchange of experiences; to discuss a new and enlarged
understanding of labour (productive and reproductive work, formal and
informal); to strengthen alliances between movements and trade unions
and intellectuals; to go beyond defensive and isolated struggles; to
confront the meaning of production (what to produce and how, for
whom); to map all different labour actors and to enlarge the network.
We
want to establish a permanent collaboration and solidarity to answer
the big challenges for all workers: informal, formal, women and men
workers, child labour. We want to create a new way to think and act
together in our common struggles.
We
will also participate in the Global Day of Action
This
proposal is supported by FIOM, CGIL, CUT, New Trade Union Initiative,
World March of Women, IMF- International Metalworkers Union,
Transform Italia and many other.
12.
Hassan Sunmonu, Organisation for African Trade Union Unity:
On
behalf of the African trade unions and the international unions
present here at the WSF, we ask all the social formations across the
world to support decent work as a global agenda against poverty,
against underdevelopment, so that the world will be a better place.
13.
Danny Glover, TransAfrica Forum, actor, USA:
Amandla!
I am so happy to be here with you, as I listen to your own testimony,
to your own stories, to this assembly of social movements. The
element of that is the everyone has an opportunity to talk and tell
their own stories. To talk about their successes, to talk about their
failures, to talk about their movement. This is critical to our
individual and collective growth. We must always find venues to tell
our own stories.
I
am here representing Trans Africa Forum. TAF is celebrating 30 years
of existence: TAF’s history was carved and solidified through its
engagement with the anti-apartheid movement and through its
engagement with the restoration of democracy in Haiti and the return
of President Aristide to his office in 1994. We are here to be part
of something else that is happening in civil society. Too often we
have allowed the leaders to dictate our actions. We have to allow the
movement of people on the ground — whether they are women or
artisans or labourers — to be the clarion call of what is to be
done. We have to support and encourage that effort. You are the
embodiment of that effort right now: your voice, your vision, is
primary in what needs to be done to stop and defeat the policies of
oppression, the policies which keep us apart, and keep us from
telling the truth about out own existence. You are the essence of
that. Amandla!
14.
George Martin, United for Peace and Justice, Anti-war Assembly:
For a
global mobilisation on the weekend of 20 March
Call
against the global non-ending US pre-emptive war
Adopted
at the anti-war assembly 24 January 2007, Nairobi, Kenya.
1.
STOP THE WAR AND BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME!
No
Control of Iraq Oil!
Close
all the US bases in Iraq!
Compensation
and Justice for Iraqi victims and detainees!
2.
STOP THE REGIONAL WARS!
End
the Israeli Occupation of Palestine!
Strengthen
boycotts, sanctions, and divestments against Israeli occupation!
Stop
the threats to Iran!
Troops
out of Afghanistan!
Stop
bombing Somalia!
Stop
US support for warlords and other US backed surrogates in Africa!
Support
for peaceful resolution to Darfur crisis! No military intervention!
Stop
violations of civil liberties and human rights in the name of
anti-terrorism!
Peace
and love!
CALENDAR
OF ACTIONS:
February
24: NO TRIDENT, Troops out of Iraq Demo, London, UK
(Contact:
campaigns(at)cnduk.org; office(at)stopwar.org.uk)
5-9
March 2007 : International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign
Military
Bases, Quito/Manta, Ecuador, (Contact: nobases(at)yahoo.com)
17-20:
Global Days of Action against Occupation of Iraq
- 29
March – 1 April 2007: Fifth Cairo Conference, Cairo, Egypt
(Contact:
office(at)stopwar.org.uk/02072786694)
2
June 2007: G8 Protests, Rostock, Germany, call for all anti-war
coalitions to put anti-war effort in the centre of the protest
against the G8
15
May 2007: Global Protests marking the Palestine Nakbah
7-9
June: Global Days of Action to protest 40th anniversary of the
Israeli occupation of Palestine Territories
29
November 2007: Call for Solidarity Activities with Palestine (global)
May
2008: “Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War” 2008, Tokyo,
Japan
(Contact:
article-9(at)peaceboat.gr.jp)
15.
Sidiki Daff, President of the People’s Research Centre for City
Action (CERPAC), Senegal, African coordinator, International Alliance
of Habitants
We
have to globalise our struggle against injustice and for that purpose
we have two concrete proposals:
The
first is the denunciation of exclusion from housing. We would like to
engage in a worldwide campaign on “zero evictions” which
will start in October. Even today as I am talking to you, expulsions
and evictions are continuing in this country.
We
are also calling for a coordination between movements — those who
are fighting against debt, those who are fighting for housing, and
those who are fighting for workers — to co-ordinate their struggles.
ZERO
EVICTIONS CAMPAIGN
Proposal
to establish a popular fund for the right to decent housing through
debt cancellation with the monitoring and active participation of
civil society it is possible to pressure the creditor governments for
the operation of debt cancellation and the following investments in
housing programmes. But they have to be monitored and administered by
management committees and control committees composed of civil
society of both the governments, as is already happening in Guinea,
Zambia and recently Kenya.
Proposed
by International Alliance of Habitants, Local Authorities Forum,
Comboni Missionaries, Nairobi Campaign, AITEC.
(cesare.ottolini(at)libero.it, smarcuz(at)libero.it) (from written
text)
16.
Antonio Carlos Spis, CUT, Brazil, for the Latin American and
Caribbean
social
movements
The
participation in this Social Forum reflects the growth of an
anti-imperialist conscience which is spreading throughout the planet,
confirming the necessity to construct new economic, political and
social relationships based on peace and solidarity. Our organisation
and humanity rejects the neo-colonial system which has aggravated the
conditions of many people and which is erasing sovereignty in
countries where profit and power is concentrated in transnational
companies and financial capital. So, in the words of the Angolan poet
Antonio Netto, to construct this new world it is not enough that our
cause is just and pure: purity and justice should exist within us.
More than words, the fight to transform humanity needs actions that
will bring together our hearts and our consciousness. Unfortunately
this is not what we saw at this social forum. Because many Kenyan
organisations were unable to participate because of logistical and
economic reasons within their country.
For
the social movements of Latin America and the Caribbean, the actions
and mobilisations necessary to bring together this social forum as an
expression of our good will for the people are to;
- define
a global calendar of demonstrations that will fight for peace and
against war and defend social rights and the environment, in March
2007 - guarantee
within the WSF the realisation of the assemblies of the social
movements - and
to bring together the various movements to bring us forward to the
next forum - bring
together all the organisations and information centres even when the
social forums are not in operation - construct
an international mission for human rights to Mexico and - remove
the troops from Haiti
17.
Paul Kimba, Kenya
This
day will go down in history as an event that will stay in people’s
memories. The Kenyans need the support of this community to remove
this government from power. We need solidarity from all over the
world, the government of Kenya has to go home: its time has come.
18.
Rubens Diniz, Latin American and Caribbean Continental Student
Organization (OCLAE)
The
Indigenous Peoples Forum is proposing Evo Morales for a Nobel prize.
The indigenous forums from Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina,
Ecuador, as well as Via Campesina, OCLAE, we are asking to the
movements and to leaders and personalities to launch together the
candidacy of Evo Morales for the Nobel prize. This would be the first
time in history that an indigenous leader, a leader of a popular
movement, would be nominated; he is totally committed to the people
of his country. Viva solidarity with Ecuador, Viva Evo Morales.
19.
Al-hassan Adam, The National Coalition Against Privatisation of
Water, Ghana:
Representing
water activists from across Africa, and across the globe
Building
on principles from previous gatherings and the declarations of
previous World Social Forums, including Caracas, and the
International Forum for the Defense of Water in Mexico City, we
commit to the following principles and priorities for advancing the
struggle for water for all:
Principles:
1.
Water is a human right and a common good to be sustainably managed
for people and nature
2.
Water must be managed by participatory processes and through
democratically and socially controlled public systems
3.
Governments must implement sufficient financing to achieve water for
all
Priorities:
1.
We celebrate the launch of the new African Water Network, supported
by activists from more than 40 African countries, plus social
movements from around the world. This new network is committed to
work against the privatisation of water and joins other strong
regional water networks, like Red Vida in the Americas.
2.
We will advance Public-Public Partnerships to improve access to, and
quality of, public services including, concretely, the Latin American
initiative of progressive public water companies and movements.
3.
We commit to mobilise all our networks for the decentralised day of
action of the World Social Forum in January 2008.
4.
We, the diverse actors of the movements, will gather at the World
Assembly of Citizens and Elected Officials, March 18-20 2007, in the
European Parliament in Brussels, to demand that governments implement
the right to water before the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration
of Human Rights, which is 10 December 2008. From this point, via the
global action month, Blue October, and other mobilisations, we will
challenge the illegitimate World Water Forum, Istanbul March 2009. We
pledge to replace this illegitimate forum, controlled by the
undemocratic and corporate-biased World Water Council. The movements
will collectively propose and organise a truly democratic and
representative Global Water Assembly.
20.
Ruth Thomas Pellicer , for the Climate Justice Strategy Group
(Greenway International, France; etc group; Durban Group for Climate
Justice; ECO PAX MUNDI, Kenya/UK; Tamilnadu Environment Council):
Climate
change is an issue of global justice. The only solution is structural
change to dramatically reduce carbon emissions and our dependence on
fossil fuels. We reject carbon trading via free market fraud that
commodifies and further destroys land, water and air.
Climate
change offers us a platform that can gather local struggles and make
them global struggles, that can bring many struggles together: on
land, food and water sovereignty, the external and the ecological
debt, women.
Call
for an International Day of Action on Climate Change, 8 December
21.
Jennifer, health movement, Kenya
These
are not proposals, they are demands:
- Must
provide clean water to people living in slums and rural areas - Must
provide garbage collection in urban areas and in slums, in a timely
and efficient matter - Must
provide better and free care services by increasing hospital staff,
building new facilities, and introducing mobile clinics to remote
areas - Drugs
should be free or cheap and available, especially anti-retroviral
drugs seeing that over a million people in Kenya are living with HIV - Provision
of land and housing for people displaced by the Nairobi so-called
beautification project and similar projects in other areas: if you
cannot resettle them do not move them. - Monitor
and enforce legislation on female genital mutilation, and finally - A
warning the WHO that Africans and Asians are not your guinea pigs:
do not come here to test your drugs on us.
22.
Luciano Resende amd Jessica Braitwaithe, International Youth and
Student Forum and OCLAE
Students
have historically participated in all progressive movements. We are
calling on the socialist movement to ensure that young people to
become real protagonists in these movements. Students and young
people are showing their growing willingness to participate in these
movements, especially in the social forums.
The
International Youth and Student Forum calls for:
- free
access to education at all levels, and expanding the fight against
carving up of education by neoliberal policies - free
access to all kinds of knowledge and information - autonomy
of students as a social subject and their emancipation from the
market - right
to education for all those under occupation and in war - will
fight against any kind of imperialism and stand shoulder to shoulder
with our brothers and sisters in occupied territories - right
to mobility for asylum seekers and students to cross borders
We
saw the power and vibrancy of the student movement in the anti-war
movement. We are fighting today for a better tomorrow.
(Written
text follows)
We
propose that all students fight against the neo-liberal agenda and
imperialism of our education. Also, that we fight as a united student
movement to ensure another world is possible. We call for an
international student day of action on 17 November 2007.
23.
Jamal Juma’, Palestine delegation to the WSF, Stop the Wall, and also
speaking for three other Palestinian speakers who graciously gave
their slot to Jamal in the interests of time:
We
appreciate the statement from the anti-war assembly this morning. We
would like to add the global days of action for Palestine. We are
calling for your support.
We
are determined to build the movement for boycott, disinverstment and
sanctions against Israeli occupation and apartheid and call for:
- Global
days of action on 9/10 June 2007 to mark the 40th anniversary of the
occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights,
under the banner “The world says no to Israeli Occupation”
- Global
day of action on 15 May to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the
Palestinian nakbah (catastrophe) and calling for the
implementation of resolution 194 which calls for the right of the
Palestinian people to return to their land.
24.
Immacula, Haiti solidarity movement:
We
are here to call on the social movements of the world to be present
in Haiti — an African population in the middle of the Americas. We
are proposing a social forum in solidarity with Haiti to be held 14
August 2007. The objective of the world forum is that all progressive
social movements will be present in Haiti to denounce the occupation
by the military, and to demand that France cancel the debt of Haiti,
a debt of 22 billion dollars which we will use to reconstruct our
country. We are asking at the WSF that all of you present form an
international solidarity committee of all the countries of the world
to overthrow the imperialism of Haiti and to free humanity from the
imperial blade.
25.
Mondli Hlatshwayo, Social Movements Indaba, South Africa:
The
network of South African social movement agreed on the following in
Durban in December:
- We
are committing ourselves to a struggle against NEPAD and noting that
South Africa is playing an imperialist role in the African continent - We
are aware that South Africa companies are recolonising the
continent. - We
will fight xenophobia - We
are opposed to any form of privatisation - We
support 20 March as a global day against war and US imperialism,
Israeli occupation, and against the wars in Africa
26.
Fatimetsu, Coordination of the Saharawi Social Forum
I
am from Western Sahara a country which for the past 320 or more
years has been divided into two, one part occupied by Morocco. One of
the few countries still under occupation. I have lived for more than
20 years separated from my family, in a refugee camp, surrounded by
land mines and tanks and soldiers.
We
have just one call to the international community:
No
to the occupation of Western Sahara. Support the self-determination
of the peoples.
Written
proposal to the World Social Forum
The
undersigning organisations participating to the 7th World Social
Forum and movements of the Saharawi civil society members of the
Coordination for a Saharawi Social Forum.
Propose
the organisation of a thematic social forum on refugees and their
rights under the title “A new world is possible, a world without
refugees”, which will be organised in the Saharawi refugees
camps.
We
will inform you later about the exact dates, thematic list and other
technical details concerning this event.
27.
Nicola Delussu, No Bases, Italia:
NO
TO THE ENLARGEMENT OF VICENZA BASE!
Resolution
Adopted at No Bases session, World Social Forum
(from
written text)
The
Assembly Organised by the International Network for the Abolition of
Foreign Military Bases held in the World Social Forum on January
22-23 gives its solidarity to the people of Vicenza and to all the
mobilisations against the enlargement of the American military base
there. This enlargement, approved by the Italian government,
represents a challenge for the people of this town and more
generally, for all movements against war.
The
enlargement of the Vincenza base transformed the town into the host
of the biggest US military base in Europe. This development comes out
once again from the logic of servility to the Politics of Bush and
his idea of the Permanent War that goes on to provoke death all over
the world, from Iraq to Somalia. The majority of the Italian people
said No to the war yet the enlargement of this base represents
instead Italy’s consent and support for policies and military
actions which allow civilian populations to be bombed.
The
Assembly expresses its full solidarity to the march and mobilisation
of February 17th and commits itself as much as possible towards
solidarity action.
No
to the enlargement of Vinceza base; American military bases out of
Italy
28.
Maria Olivia Sant’ana, Brasil
My
name is Maria Olivia Sant’ana and I represent the black movement in
Brasil. I am here at the social forum to make sure that the social
forum takes up the fight against racism: we cannot fight against
neoliberalism if we don’t fight against racism. I want to establish a
new world order, to repair the damage that has been done, to develop
the autodependence of peoples in Africa. For only half of the 20th
century have black people in Africa succeeded in liberating
themselves from the colonisers: we need liberty, self rule and
equality for black people.
29.
Okinawa law student
We
denounce the military production done in our communities in war time
as well as in peace time. We need to solve military related
environmental problems.
We
must work to:
- End
the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon, Palestine, - Build
an international coalition against military production - Collect
information about military environmental issues to strengthen
communities and build international awareness - Convey
information to decision-makers - Encourage
local governments, states and international organisations to develop
more practical polices to deal with military environmental issues,
especially contamination
30.
Trevor Ngwane, Anti-privatisation Forum South Africa
We
note especially the days of action on against war, in support of
Palestine, the G8. These and all the proposals will be presented to
the WSF international council.
Comrades,
let us go home and continue the struggle. Remember the WSF is
important, but it is only an event: the work is on the ground. We
must link up with the millions and millions of people who are
oppressed and exploited by the bourgeoisie and the capitalists.
Comrades,
let us go home. To the Kenyan we say fare thee well: we had a good
time, we appreciate your friendliness and your humanity, in spite of
the capitalism which make you live in the mud.
We
must defend the WSF as a space of resistance and keep the bosses out
of our Forum.
OTHER
WRITTEN PROPOSALS
31.
Sally Burch, ALAI, for the Global Campaign for Communication Rights
in
the
Information Society (CRIS)
At
a convergence session convened on 24 January, the following agenda
items were agreed on:
1.
Communications rights are fundamental to democratic processes, to the
organisation and struggles of social movements and to the exercise of
all human rights
2.
Information, communication and knowledge must be recognized as common
goods and public services, not commodities
3.
We therefore call on all social movements:
–
to claim communications rights to be enforced in public policy,
information, communications and knowledge should be kept out of trade
agreements
–
to claim the electrical/radio spectrum and Internet as public goods
which must be open, free and accessible to all
–
to mobilise on the common day of action in January 2008 around the
issues and to link them to other social struggles
(Contact:
Sally Burch, info(at)alainet.org)
32.
PhilipThornhill, Global Climate Campaign, Campaign against Climate
Change, Greenpeace International, Friends of the Earth International:
We
support international demonstration in December 2007 for climate
justice and an effective emissions reduction treaty.
33.
On Migration (no name)
We
denounce the European security policies on migration. We will fight
for the right of migrants and for the free movements of all people;
We
propose a day of action for the rights of migrants and the free
movement of peoples on 7 October 2007, in commemoration of the
tragedies of Cueta and Melillla.
34.
Hajja Fatma Abeyd, Kenya Anti-Rape Movement
Many
children are being sexually exploited, both boys and girls. They are
also abused by tourists. Call: to end exploitation by urging all
police stations to extend child protection units to the people on the
ground and to protect schools.
35.
Azril Bacal, Paulo Friere Institute, Brazil
Along
with out identification of shared struggles ahead, we also commit
ourselves to reclaim all the planetary resources, natural, social,
cultural and scientific — for the equal use of all inhabitants of
our generous blue planet in an equal and sustainable way.
36.
Basic Income Grant
Workshop
on the Basic Income Grant (South Africa) held at the
7th
World Social Forum held Sunday 21st January 2007 Nairobi, Kenya
The
7th World Social Forum, meeting under the theme “Another world is
possible”, 20-25 January 2007, in Nairobi, Kenya, recognizes
research, advocacy and policy work done by various stakeholders in
South Africa and elsewhere on comprehensive social security and
especially the introduction of a Basic Income Grant in order to
address chronic poverty and gross inequality inherited from
successive apartheid regimes.
The
Forum also recognises that three countries, namely Brazil, Namibia
and South Africa, have similar high GINI coefficients of wealth
distribution include deepened levels of poverty and joblessness and
therefore have made compelling cases for the introduction of a
universal income grant/social transfers as an integral part of
comprehensive social security. These contexts indicate the presence
of fertile soil for the implementation of a Universal Income Grant
(or Basic Income Grant, as referred to in South Africa) as an urgent
and speedy measure of redress for past and inherited social
structures of inequity and therefore of economic injustice.
The
7th World Social Forum resolves, therefore, to:
1.Place
the issue of Universal Income Grant (or cash transfers and or a Basic
Income Grant) as part of comprehensive social security on its future
agenda;
2.Send
a message of support to campaigners and advocacy groups supporting a
Basic Income Grant as well as to members of the ruling African
National Congress of South Africa. The Social Forum commends the
advocacy, research and policy work already done on a Basic Income
Grant and calls on all role players and stakeholders to strengthen
and deepen their efforts in order to advocate government to introduce
the speediest measures for its introduction; and
3.Commends
the above decisions to the World Council of Churches and All Africa
Conference of Churches on a Basic Income Grant for consideration and
further discussion on their platforms.
Proposed:
Claudia Haarman
Seconded:
Keith Vermeulen
37.
Invitation to the G8, Dorothea Haerlin and John Holloway:
Many
of us met in Porto Alegre in 2005 and have kept in touch since then
through an e-mail list (“ants”). Only a few of us have met since
then, but we have certainly multiplied many times over.
In
June 2007 we have an opportunity to come together again. At the
beginning of June the supposedly most powerful 8 Gangsters (G8) are
meeting in Heiligendamm, near Rostock, Germany. We know that many
are already thinking about how to give these Eight and appropriate
welcome. In Genoa the slogan was “you are 8, we are
6,000,000.000!”
We
are going to be there too and are planning a new meeting with as many
of you as possible, you who are already trying to live in dignity
in-against-and beyond capitalism, wherever you may be on this planet.
We think it would be a good idea to show ourselves at this meeting,
to make our daily rebellion visible and, coming from as many corners
of the earth as possible, to give ourselves new energy and strength
for going further.
We
look forward to seeing you and to hearing your ideas for this
meeting.
CONTACT:
dorotheahaerlin(at)gmx.de
38.
Transnational Unity in the Struggle for Migrant Workers Rights
Boston
Delegation to the World Social Forum 2007
Monday,
January 22, Moi International Sports Center – Nairobi
We
propose that May Day 2007, International Workers Day, be dedicated to
the rights of migrant workers of the world and that the call for
freedom and respect for migrant workers rights be heard in all the
countries of the world.
39.
Déclaration sur la dette, Forum social de Nairobi, Kenya, 24
janvier 2007
1. Mouvements
sociaux, campagnes, organisations non gouvernementales, organisations
de communautés, organisations religieuses et militants du
monde entier, se sont rassemblés à Nairobi, au Kenya
pour le Forum Social Mondial 2007. Ensemble, nous sommes déterminés
à stopper la domination du mécanisme de la dette. Il
est inacceptable que les puissants du Nord demandent des centaines de
millions de dollars chaque jour au Sud pour le paiement d’une dette
qui a été formée lors de relations économiques
injustes, qui ont appauvri le Sud et enrichi le Nord. L’endettement
prive les peuples d’Afrique, d’Amérique Latine et d’Asie de
leurs droits fondamentaux: droit à l’indépendance,
droit à l’autonomie politique mais aussi droit à la
santé, à l’éducation et aux autres biens
essentiels et services de base.
2. La
crise de la dette n’est pas seulement un problème financier
pour les pays du Sud. C’est aussi un problème politique basé
sur des relations de pouvoir inégales. Le mécanisme de
la dette continue d’être utilisé comme un instrument de
contrôle au travers des conditionnalités des prêts
et des annulations de dette. C’est une arme utilisée par les
pays prêteurs et les institutions pour faciliter l’entrée
des multinationales, pour renforcer leurs stratégies
militaires et leurs politiques étrangères, pour assurer
la sécurité des contrats favorables aux
multinationales, pour promouvoir l’extraction des ressources
naturelles des pays emprunteurs.
3. C’est
aussi une responsabilité du Nord: Son inconscience, ses
intérêts, ses prêts irresponsables ont favorisé
cette crise. Les gouvernements riches, les multinationales, et les
institutions comme le FMI, la Banque mondiale, l’OMC doivent
reconnaître leurs responsabilités pour le rôle
qu’ils ont joué dans la création et la poursuite de
cette situation.Nous reconnaissons aussi le rôle des
gouvernements corrompus du Sud dans la création de cette
dette. Ces gouvernements doivent restituer ces sommes volées
aux peuples exploités du Sud.
4. Nous
applaudissons les campagnes et militants norvégiens qui,
travaillant en partenariat et en solidarité avec les pays du
Sud, ont réussi à convaincre le gouvernement norvégien
d’être le premier prêteur à annuler des dettes
illégitimes. Dans un souci de justice, nous appelons les
gouvernements du G8 et les autres créanciers à analyser
leurs comptes et à reconnaître leurs responsabilités.
5. Nous
savons que notre force repose sur l’engagement et la détermination
des mouvements sociaux, campagnes et individus qui travaillent
solidairement à travers le monde. Les mouvements sociaux
doivent relever le défi de l’annulation de la dette. Il est
fondamental que la crise de la dette soit connue de tous et qu’elle
devienne un véritable sujet de débat. Notre engagement
a abouti ces dernières années à quelques succès,
notamment à l’annulation (mentionnée plus haut) de la
dette par la Norvège ou à la réalisation
d’audits publics en Equateur et dans d’autres pays. Nous, peuples,
organisations, mouvements du Sud et du Nord, sommes déterminés
à travailler et élever nos voix jusqu’à ce que
notre appel pour la fin de la domination de la dette se réalise
enfin.
6. Les
souffrances humaines ont été causées par
l’exploitation historique et continue des pays du Sud, le
déséquilibre du pouvoir politique et économique
et le ravage écologique dicté par des intérêts
commerciaux et les politiques des gouvernements et institutions du
Nord. Nous affirmons que le Sud est créancier d’une énorme
dette historique, sociale, culturelle, politique et écologique.
Cela doit être connu et faire l’objet d’une réparation
et d’une restitution.
7. Nous
exigeons des relations économiques justes entre les pays et à
l’intérieur même de ces pays. Nous n’appelons pas à
des initiatives contrôlées par les pays prêteurs
pour faciliter la circulation des capitaux des pays pauvres, ou pour
un allègement de dette sous conditions imposées par les
institutions du Nord. Nous appelons les pays riches et puissants du
monde à reconnaître qu’ils ont bénéficié
de l’exploitation du Sud et ont échoué dans leur prise
de responsabilité. Nous affirmons le droit des peuples à
obtenir des gouvernements qu’ils rendent des comptes sur les tenants
et aboutissants de leur dette. Nous appelons à des audits
officiels et citoyens de la dette ainsi qu’à un audit citoyen
des institutions financières internationales. Nous appelons à
un contrôle social systématique de l’endettement public.
Nous appelons à l’annulation inconditionnelle de la dette, à
des restitutions et à des réparations. Nous soutenons
les gouvernements qui ont choisi de répudier cette dette
illégitime. Nous appelons à l’annulation totale de
cette dette odieuse, illégitime, injuste et impayable.
Appel
à des actions:
Semaine
d’actions globales contre la dette du 14 au 21 octobre 2007
Cette
semaine marque:
le
15 octobre, le vingtième anniversaire de l’assassinat de
Thomas Sankara (président du Burkina Faso)
le
16 octobre, la journée mondiale de l’alimentation
le
17 octobre, la journée mondiale pour l’éradication de
la pauvreté
le
20 octobre, la journée mondiale de la jeunesse
le
19-21 octobre, la rencontre annuelle de la Banque mondiale et du FMI.
Cette
semaine d’actions appelle les gouvernements du Sud à répudier
la dette et les gouvernements du Nord à annuler cette
dette.
Un
jeûne pour protester contre la domination de la dette
40
jours de jeûne continu et tournant, du 6 septembre au 15
octobre (semaine d’actions) aux Etats-Unis.
«
Un repas pour l’Afrique », proposition à concrétiser.
Utiliser
les rencontres et les sommets des gouvernements pour appeler à
l’annulation de la dette
Juin
2007, G8, mobilisations et communication médiatique en
Allemagne et dans les autres pays (Sommet des peuples au Mali pendant
le G8).
Rencontre
des chefs de gouvernement du Commonwealth, novembre 2007,
mobilisation en Ouganda.
Appel
pour des audits
Audits
officiels et citoyens de la dette et audit citoyen des institutions
internationales financières.
Appel
pour un appui des leaders et représentants
Appel
aux élus, aux leaders religieux et autres leaders et
représentants, du Sud comme du Nord, de s’associer à
ces actions et à ces appels.
