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INDYMEDIA
SUPPLEMENT :
Solidarity Village: Conway Hall (Red Lion Square) and
LSE Clement House, Aldwych, 13-17th October 2004, holistic
practitioners, vegans, small-holders, green and pagan
activists, anthropologists, home-schoolers, fair-traders,
artists and performers are co-operating to show that "Another
Economy is Possible". Spaces include The Land Cafe,
Wellbeing Space, Artspace for Kids of All Ages (Creche),
Local Social Forums Area, and "The Commons"
Internet Cafe. SUSTAIN! includes story-board presentations,
leaflets and stalls. Programme highlights: Friday: "Filling
the Vacuum" (on affordable housing); "LETS Dance"
with Basque Country street musicians, "Rethinking
Social Policy" (new documentaries by Women Film Makers),
and the LSE Debate: "Iraq, Democracy and Global Civil
Society". Saturday: "Dalinowa" exhibition/forum
on the Impact of Globalisation on Local Cultures, "The
Moon Room", "Pagan Magikal Activism", "Lets
Co-operate" Open Space with "Lets Play LETS",
"Tools for Change", "Altruistic Economics",
"Disability Awareness", and open Human Rights
plenary with death row survivors. Sunday: Local Neighbourhood
Forum, "New Forms of Democracy" Debate, "Creating
the Commons" (Open Source) Question Time, and screening
of rough-cut ESF Video. Entrance by donation: (£10
membership +£10/£5 per day). Bureau de Change
sterling/euro/links. See: www.solidarityvillage.org. |
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The
following paragraphs were submitted for inclusion in the
official ESF PROGRAMME. We have received translations
of some of them in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
The links alongside will indicate which languages have
been covered. PLEASE SEND TRANSLATIONS IN ANY LANGUAGE
AND WE WILL LINK THEM: admin@solidarityvillage.org
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Programme
Entry:
SOLIDARITY VILLAGE:
Conway Hall, Red Lion
Square, London
WC1R 4RL (nearest tube Holborn).
Open from Wednesday 13th Oct 6pm day and evening until
Sunday 17th 5pm. An Open
Space for the green, ethical, co-operative and local
economy: Solidarity Cafe food is Living, Organic, Vegan,
and Raw plus fair-trade refreshments. Kids Artspace/Creche.
Wellbeing Centre: Shiatsu & Reflexology sessions;
Yoga & Chigung Tasters. Day and Evening Conferences
& Workshops (concessions
for ESF ticket holders): see
updates on www.solidarityvillage.org.
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Programme
Entry:
SOLIDARITY VILLAGE:
Clement House,
LSE, Aldwych, London
WC1R 4RL (nearest tube Holborn).
Open Thursday evening 14th October and
from Friday 15th 6pm day and evening until Sunday 17th
9pm. Interleaved
academic and technical conferences and participative
seminars on the themes of Another Economy is Possible,
Common
Ownership, Direct Democracy, and Human Rights. "SUSTAIN!"
is an exhibition of projects in the green, ethical,
co-operative, local and social economy. Entry
by donation for for food
vouchers. Downloads
of papers and full details of our still developing
programme are being updated daily on www.solidarityvillage.org.
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Programme
Entry: LETS
Co-operate at the Solidarity Village:
Thursday and Sunday at Conway Hall,
Saturday at LSE Clement House: Open
Space and individual workshops on Local Exchange Trading,
Community Currencies, Green, Local and Co-operative
Projects: www.solidarityvillage.org
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Programme
Entry: FILLING
THE VACUUM in Housing Policy:
Open Day Conference Friday 15th October
2004 9.30-5.30pm at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, nearest
tube Holborn. Chaired by
Antonia Swinson with contributers include: Robina Rafferty
MBE on Housing Justice, Rev Peter Challen of
CCMJ on Monetary Justice, Iqbal Asaria, Chairman
of the Economics Committee of the Muslim Council of
Great Britain on Ethical Finance, Professor Sian
Griffiths of the Royal College of Physicians on the
Effects of Housing Stress on Health, Bill Dunster
of the BedZED Housing Project on Ecological Living,
Toby Lloyd of the Henry George Foundation on Land,
Affordable Housing, and Taxation, David Rodgers
of Common Ground on Cooperative Housing Development,
Chris Cook & Bill Powell of Partnerships Consulting
on Strategies for Common Ownership. Professor
Peter Ambrose of the Zacchaeus 2000 Trust will draw
the conclusions of afternoon working groups together
on the Political, Practical and Academic steps needed
to achieve a Fair Housing Policy. Entry by sliding
scale: £5-£150. www.solidarityvillage.org
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Programme
Entry:
DALINOWA - Saturday 16th October 2004
9.30am-3pm at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, nearest tube
Holborn, A day in Friendship,
a day in Celebration, a day in Culture! Performances,
Displays & Debate 1-3pm on The Impact of Globalisation
on Cultural Diversity: with Clare Dixon OBE Head of Latin
America and the Caribbean at CAFOD, Hassan Arero Keeper
of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum, Brendan Callaghan
SJ Superior at Heythrop Jesuit College London, Stephen
Correy Director of Survival International, Tariq Ramadam
(tbc) Internationally renowned islamic philosopher, Noval
Lambo Subanon Tribal Chief from the Philippines, and Director
of HSBC 's Community Affairs (tbc). Proceeding at about
3pm with the Carnival Forum to join the ESF Seminar "Culture
as a Weapon of Mass Construction" and dancing till
late at Synergy Club. Full details on www.solidarityvillage.org |
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Programme
Entry:
Creating the Commons
Saturday 16th and 17th October at LSE
Clement House: Rooms D402 & D502 (Saturday all day)
and the Hong Kong theatre (Sunday 12.30pm onwards). Academic
& Technical Conference with two parallel strands.
"Tools for change" - a series of software projects
both proprietary and open source, and "Creating the
Commons", focusing on community decision making tools,
legal aspects, project management tools, and alternative
compensation systems. Both strands will culminate in a
seminar "Closing the Circle" which will distil
discussions and questions gathered through the workshops,
presenting them to a top-level panel members with a film
screening of Creative Commons content, involving live
remixing from source. Guests include: Mikael Nordfors,
Simon Tzu, David Bovill), and Daniel Harris (Kendra),
Creative Commons UK (tbc), BBC Creative Archive (tbc),
Gavin Starks, Chris Cooke, Christian Jacken, and surprise
key international presenters. Full details available on
www.solidarityvillage.org. |
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Programme
Entry:
New Forms of Democracy
Seminar:
Sunday 17th October 10am-6pm at LSE Clement House, Rooms
D202, D206, D209, D211. Campaign
for Direct Democracy in Britain with Reports from Switzerland,
Netherlands, Poland and Italy, organised by the Citizens
Initiative and Referendum. Seminar/Debate & Workshops:
www.solidarityvillage.org. Contributors include Michael
MacPherson (UK), Ombretta Ingrasci (Italy), Gregor Hackmack
& Angelika Gardiner (Germany), Filia den Hollander
(Netherlands), Radoslaw Gawlik (Poland), Roland Erne
(Switzerland).
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Programme
Entry: HUMAN RIGHTS
Saturday 16th October: workshop
11.30am-1pm and Open Plenary 2-4pm:
Individual Accounts of Human Rights Abuses including
exonerated death-row prisoners: Ray Krone, William Nieves,
and Nick Yarris: www.solidarityvillage.org
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Programme
Entry: PROUT's
Socio-Economic Vision:
a presentation on Sunday 17th October
at Clement House, LSE. Four
consecutive workshops based on the work of Prabhat Ranjan
Sarkar's
Progressive Utilization Theory, a socio-economic model
that responds to the question“What kind of world
do we want?” PROUT proposes economic democracy, with
an economy of the people, by the people and for the people,
through cooperatives ( www.prout.org):
1. Co-operatives and the private sector. 2. After Capitalism:
Prout’s Vision for a New World - new book launch
3. Reclaiming the European Union from Big Business. 4.
The right to live! Guaranteed food, shelter, clothing,
education and medical care for all. Presenter Jyotirmaya
Hull of Proutist Universal. The book's foreword is by
Noam Chomsky; contributors: Marcos Arruda, Frei Betto,
Leonardo Boff, Ravi Batra, and Johan Galtung e Sohail
Inayatullah. For further details see ww.solidarityvillage.org |
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First
Call
E.S.F. SOLIDARITY VILLAGE
... Another Economy is Possible ...
Inspired by the UK LETS Co-operate Conference in 2002
and the Village Economie Social et Solidaire (VESS)
at the ESF 2003 in Paris, we propose a Solidarity Village
for the ESF 2004. We invite you to join us in creating
a special area within the ESF for co-operative projects
in response to social inequalities due to the capitalist
(neoliberal) system. We present options towards a sustainable
economy at the service of humanity, answering to human
rights and environmental needs, not the profit motive.
The Social & Solidarity Economy proposes a more
equal distribution of wealth: If you think that another
world is possible, know that another economy is already
happening!
We
want to create a dynamic and participative “Open
Space” to provide information about practical projects.
We will also debate wider topics of the Economy, including
Community Banking, Co-operatives, Social Housing, Sustainable
Development, Transport and Energy, Recycling, Organic
and Fair Trade Produce, and in particular, Local Currencies
and Monetary Reform. We hope to demonstrate Computer
Access & Uses for Community Networking and Trading,
as well as reinforcing the Social & Solidarity Economy
networks.
The
Solidarity Village runs from 13th-17th October at Conway
Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL which
is home of the South Place Ethical Society, and a favourite
venue for alternative political debate. Due to the enormous
response in terms of topics for discussion, the project
has now expanded into Clement House, at the London School
of Economics, 15 minutes away: both are near Holborn
Tube on the Piccadilly and Central lines. More venues
will be added if there is demand.
We
plan to include: “Open Space” • Talks
• Seminars • Workshops
• Films & Videos • Discussion • Performance
• Stands • Posters • Papers
• Leaflets • Books & Magazines •
Cafe • Wellbeing Space • Creche
This
is an autonomous project within the main ESF and will
be included in the main programme. We are developing
our own space because of the complexity and sensitivity
of the monetary reform agenda, to nurture the positive
aspects of co-operation and solidarity, and to create
a caring community within the ESF, which is a major
event where 30,000 participants are expected at venues
in North London, Bloomsbury, and Holborn.
The
programme is in the making. Some events have been decided,
others are still being developed. We need sponsorship
in cash or kind to support the costs of venue hire and
publicity. We invite your participation with all aspects
of the planning, academic and practical, to propose
specific items at any level, and to coordinate continuous
spaces. The project is being logged as it develops and
further details of how to participate will be posted
there. Please indicate your interest by replying to
admin@solidarityvillage.org
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