Call for local assemblies (EN)
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Call for regional forums for shaping of another Europe from below
(Participative assemblies for another Europe)
After the failure of the ratification process of the Constitutional Treaty in the referendums held in France and the Netherlands, the failure of the past European politics has become apparent. Quite obviously, we need a new politics in Europe, since the European elites ever more clearly threaten our common future. The unification of Europe must therefore be taken into its hand by the Europeans itself.
By way of the idea of assemblies from below, "participative workshops", decentralised, all over Europe, on the same day, we want to reach a first stage on the way towards a more social, peaceful, feminist and ecological Europe.
On this way, we want to reach the following goals:
- actions and mobilisations against European neoliberal policies
- proposals for real democratic institutions
- development of ideas for another Europe.
We propose
To develop creative projects for the future for another Europe from below:
- in regional, self-managed initiatives all over Europe,
- with broad participation of social movements from globalisation-critical, ecological, feminist, peace-policy, church, development aid organisational, trade union, artistic and other contexts,
- in an open process
As far as content is concerned, we could discuss in common the following topical areas, for example
- democracy, participation, fundamental rights in the EU
- fundamental conditions for European economic and financial policies
- the fundamental prerequisites of social justice in Europe
- European policies for maintaining the ecological fundaments of life on this planet
- the contribution by Europe to peace in the world?
- The institutions and structures that we need to that end?
Planning
- Synchronisation with the process of the ESF at the EPA in Istanbul on 23rd-25th September, 2005
- Regional forums by November 2005
- On March 4th, 2006 an international Action Day of the regional forums all over Europe, synchronised with the ESF process
- ESF in Athens in April 2006: adoption of a "strategy of Athens" which will build a counter point to the "strategy of Lisbon" and which would incorporate the results of the discussion processes of the regional forums.
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Also look at the Charter of Principles of another Europe or the European Petition
