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List of autonomous or differenciated spaces that are in preparation for the ESF 2008 Malmö - September:

1) ESF2008 Action Network
2) Camp promoted by Friend of the earth and Via Campasina
3) European Peace Action
4) Migrant labour and precarity Meeting
5) European Security Architecture
6) Youth German Metal Trade Union Confederetion (DGB)
7) No Vox Network
8) Open space and Media&Memory Lab provided by the ESF

• 1) ESF2008 Action Network (Autonomous): It is based on different autonomous groups in relation to the official ESF. Plans include action, mobile soup-kitchen, radical assemblies, workshops, lodging and entertainment for free. See updates on the official site www.esf2008action.net . Place: Utkanten (youth house), Glassfabriken (café), Smalands (Student housing, Lund). MORE ABOUT the ESF 2008 Action Network including infos on Convergence centers, Infopoints, Assemblies, Actions, Demostrations and Publications. 
   

• 2) Camp promoted by Friend of the earth and Via Campasina where to celebrate seminars and activities and also be a camp for living. They have a place 15 km from Malmö, nevertheless they are also considering to find an other place instead inside Malmö. 

  The European youth of Via Campesina organizes a camp from the 17th to the 21st September in Malmö, Sweden, parallely to the ESF. Through this camp, we want to contribute to the dynamic of the European Social Forum, linking more theoretical debates with more practical alternatives. During the camp, we will propose workshops and debates on sustainable family farming, food sovereignty and ecology (visit of local farms, workshops on how to set up community supported agriculture, on anti-GMO actions, on self-building of houses, on land occupation, on how to produce energy, etc...).  This camp will be organized in an autonomous way, which will require the participation of all people staying there (collective cooking, daily assembly to discuss the life of the group...). We wish to implement as much as possible food sovereignty and will thus cook with local season products.
  Staying in the camp will be free of charge. A voluntary fee will be asked for the meals.
  The space there should allow to have about 200 people staying there.
  Youth camp opened : 16 - 22 September
  Activities : 18 - 21 september
  Contact Via campesina
  If you wish to receive more information, please subscribe to the newsletter : ....vcampmalmoe@lists.openesf.net ..........
  If you wish to take part to the organization of the camp, you can contact: ...smekens.m@hotmail.com ....
  Contact Friend of the Earth: Contact: ellie.cijvat@gmail.com 

• 3) The European Peace Action plans a special space where to celebrate seminars and organize actions.
  In 2008 the ESF, European Social Forum, will be arranged in Malmö, Sweden. We will grab this opportunity to bring together different active peace movements from all over Europe. We will organise a European peace forum, European Peace Action, which will create a network of European peace groups for direct action. Our goal is to develop common strategies and campaigns. The forum will run between the 17- 21 September 2008 and the programme will contain presentations, discussions, practical work and networking. The forum will focus on 4 themes: NATO and the militarisation of the EU, nuclear weapons, militarisation of space, and the international military industrial complex. The over-reaching theme for the entire forum will be how to strengthen our resistance against militarisation. During the forum there will also be possibilities to do direct actions against arms companies in the region. The forum welcomes anybody who is interested in peace work, not only people who are already active but also those who don't have any previous experience at all in peace activism. If you have any questions about the forum, if you want to have a look at the preliminary programme or get active in other ways, contact on: 

  forum@europeanpeaceaction.org  

  http://www.europeanpeaceaction.org  and http://www.ofog.org

   

• 4) Migrant labour and precarity Meeting :  This kind of meeting should probably be organized in a space outside the Esf in September in Kopenhagen, and if more people are interested to participate in the preparations, please let us know / justice for janitors - global campaign amsterdam, tavolo migranti italy, euromayday hamburg, no one is illegal hanau.                                                                                                                                     Explanation of the idea: After the conference „Migrant / Media / Metropolis - New labour struggles in the global city“ in Amsterdam last february some activists came together and discussed first time the idea to organize a kind of assembly on precarity and migrant labour in the days of the next European social forum in Malmö in september. we are actively involved in various transnational networks and all of us could imagine, that a coming together on this topic from at least three approaches would be very interesting: from euromayday, from union  organizing campaigns and from the migrationrelated networking. we agreed in the needs and in the potentials to deepen such a cross-over debate in order to strengthen common struggles. We believe that  migration policies and migrations management are a crucial perspective in order to understand the contemporary transformation of labor and the whole process of precarization. Starting from different experiences of organization and struggle against precarity and exploitation, it would be possible to make a step forward, particularly on a transnational scale. This kind of interaction already took place in Europe: for euromayday 2008, in the call and in the parades of many cities the demands of migrants have been a crucial part, and in Milano migrants had built first time the front of the mayday demonstration, which was focused on the political centrality of migrant labor in the process of precarization. At the same time, migrant labour was one of the crucial topic within the frame of the Transnational Chain of Migrationrelated Actions, which is actually going on in Europe and beyond Europe. So the base is even better now to promote a process of political discussion and communication focused on the issues of migration and precarity. We want to use the wider participation in the next esf to organize a coming together, where also new people and groups can be involved. It should be the occasion to share, on the one side, our various experiences and approaches and to deepen, on the other side, the questions related to the interaction between migrant labor and precarization, and to the necessity – and difficulties – of a process of transnationalization of the struggles.

• 5) European Security Architecture: We (a bunch of people in germany and netherlands) try to strenghten at the ESF and also the autonomous forum to discuss more about the so called "european security architecture", that mixes inner and outer security, such as military and police, leading to more european surveillance, repression and war.We will make a proposal in malmö to take the NATO-summit in france/germany 2009 as a reference to struggle against new police- and army-collaboration in europe. One of our aims is to focus more networking between groups in other countries that are working on that issues. So please feel invited to join the preparations for the workshops in malmö!
  To get an impression about what people from scandinavia want to discuss, what was
  and is going on see:
  www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/Goeteborg_2001/5045.html. it talks also about the discussions in sweden after gothenburg EU-summit 2001.
  Find a summary on institutions, agreements and techniques on
  http://gipfelsoli.org/Multilanguage/English/4819.html or see the
  presentation for workshops (as pdf) on
  http://euro-police.noblogs.org/gallery/3874/euro-police-networking.pdf. 

• 6) The Youth German Metal Trade Union Confederetion (DGB) plans a special space to celebrate seminars on labour issues.
  
  

• 7) No Vox (France) is expecting to have their own space at the ESF in order to organise activities (movies project and exhibition of photographs about struggles of the network) and create a exchange space. 

   

• 8) There will be an “Open space” provided by the ESF. The Open space is based on a meeting space without activities planned beforehand but announced on the spot during the ESF. The Open Space will be at Sofielunds Folkets Hus.

  The Open space will be close to the Media&Memory Lab of the ESF. The working group taking care of building the Media & Memory Lab is: http://openesf.net/projects/documentation-esf-2008/project-home

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Other infos useful for self-organise activities:

• The Nordic Organiser Committe assumes that the logistics (rooms etc) of the auronomous spaces are self-organised. Nevertheless for the coordinate on the logistics with the ESF 2008 office you must write to: logistik@esf2008.org

• Information on activities at the autonomous spaces will also included at the programme publication that will be facilitated to the ESF participants.  Deadline to send the information to be included at the official program: 15 June. The information has to be sent to: program@esf2008.org and info@esf2008.org 

• The www.openesf.net provides online space for any project and iniciaties including own subdomain, wiki, task tracker, blogs, e-lists, etc. It is not necesary that the project is linked to the ESF 2008 “event”, but to a continouus process.

  Ellie (Friend of the Earth) is availeble to facilitate information that could be relevant for spaces organization. She is based at Malmö - Sweden: ellie.cijvat@gmail.com
  

   

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