We invite you to join us in Monastir, from the 12th to the 17th of
July, where we will launch together the process towards the World
Social Forum 2013.
At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, Tunisian people, quickly
joined by Egyptians, have launched a global wave of protests,
insurrections, revolutions, indignation and occupations, which spread
all over the world.
From Maghreb to the Middle-East, this wave has initiated a deep
political upheaval. In Europe, it is a source of inspiration for all
those who struggle against austerity. In the United States of America,
it questions the power of financial institutions, of banks and of the
weight of debt (be it households’ or students’ debt). In Chile, Quebec
or Mexico, it takes the shape of mass mobilizations for the free
access to education. In Senegal, it has definitely planted the claim
for a real democracy, which would put an end to corruption,
prevarication and nepotism.
Everywhere, they articulate the desire for a real and direct democracy
with the violations of fundamental rights caused by zombie-capitalism.
They all share the certitude that another world is possible, based on
our struggles and the alternatives we are exploring on a daily basis.
The economic, financial, social, ecological and climate crisis are
not, in any way, fatalities. Debt and austerity do not represent the
impassable horizon of our future. We won’t pay a debt that is not
ours: public or odious, it was imposed to us by financial
institutions, by banks, by financial advisors seeking for their
personal enrichment (and the one of their shareholders), even if it
ends up destroying the planet and our lives. We’re not condemned to
undergo violations of the freedom of movement, nor to accept that
European and North-American countries turn into fortresses, built on
racism and inequalities. Against any form of occupation, colonization
and war, we can fight for the rights of the people, and their freedom
to decide for their destiny, their borders and their future.
From the streets of Kasserine to those of Montreal, through Tahrir
Square, Puertal del Sol, Zucotti/Liberty Square, Syntagma square,
etc.: this is the other world that we, the 99%, are currently
building.
We invite you all to join us in Monastir, from the 12th to the 17th of
July, for a global preparatory Assembly to the next World Social
Forum, which will also take place in Tunisia, in March 2013.
We’ve already planned a series of meetings and discussions with
Tunisian organizations involved in the 2011 revolution. We will also
welcome an international flotilla expressing its solidarity with
migrants, which will join Monastir from the European shores through
Lampedusa; have meetings between the young actors of the revolution in
the Maghreb/Mashreq region and indignados, occupiers and activists
from the Senegalese Y’en A Marre movement, etc.; host an assembly of
Maghreb/Mashreq social movements; have a seminar on welfare policies
and common goods; host a meeting of the council of the African Social
Forum and the International Council of the WSF, etc.
For more information:
http://www.fsmaghreb.org/
talbi2001sa@yahoo.fr
hsoubhi@alternatives.ca
nicolas.haeringer@gmail.com