[WSMDiscuss] Towards the online meeting around the future of the World Social Forum, on Saturday May 23 2020
gustave massiah
massiah at wanadoo.fr
Sat May 23 13:52:39 CEST 2020
very dear Kin Chi
sorry, in my previous email, I forgot the attached files
warmly
gus
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
*The World Social Forum in movement… !, **Movements in movement…,
**Ideas in movement…, The world in movement…*
Greetings, all !
I’m writing now further to earlier exchange on this list
about having an online Call meeting to critically discuss the World
Social Forum and its future.
(Please, everyone on this list, note that this meeting is
of course open to anyone and everyone on this list, and not only to
those who have already said they will join !)
As per my mail of May 12, this is to confirm that the call
is taking place as scheduled, *this coming Saturday, May 23, at 11 am
EDT* (Caracas/Montreal) *or 5 pm* (Paris/Maputo), *for just two hours*.
I have set up this meeting on behalf of the WSMDiscuss,
Please go to the event at
https://www.viralopenspace.net/en/activities/looking-ahead-revisiting-the-world-social-forum/,
and then click on the link at where it says ‘Online meeting’; and with
luck, you’ll be on !
As you will see there, we’re doing the meeting on Skype – but don’t
worry if you don’t have skype on your computer. When I set up the
meeting, Skype told me that it will open up Skype for you on the web.
(But please note that when I tried this, I learned that it doesn’t like
Firefox (which I use) and prefers “Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome to
access Skype for Web. Alternatively, you can use Skype Web Control
<https://support.skype.com/faq/FA34704/> - or download Skype on your
desktop computer.”)
Please also note also that given that we’re organising the
call on the VOS (Viral Open Space), /our meeting will be/ /open to
others to join/ – just as is the case of the World Social Forum itself.
So it is at least possible that the participants will not be restricted
to people on this list. In addition, and as you may recall, Ole
Pedersen of the Norwegian Social Forum had written in to say that he
would be happy to invite the participants in the discussions that they
had already been organising, to participate in the proposed meeting.
*Towards our discussion,* I’m attaching the following documents here :
1. *A **Discussion Note* for the Call that has Gustave Massiah and I
have prepared, based on his original note as posted on this list,
and now titled ‘A Note towards opening fresh discussion on the
future of the World Social Forum, at this world-historical juncture’
2. *An Agenda for our Call*
3. *Two recent WSF documents* already circulated on this list, but
re-posted here so that you have them at hand :
1. ‘Summary of the Consensus of the Meeting of the WSF
International Council, Porto Alegre, January 25 and 26 2020’
2. ‘Another World Is Possible, Urgent, And Necessary !’. Pre-call
for movements, networks, and organizations of the international
civil society toward the WSF2021 in Mexico’ (issued by the WSF
International Council. It is undated, but since it talks about
the pandemic, I think it was perhaps prepared in April 2020.)
4. *The WSF’s Charter of Principles*, dating from back in June 2001.
Please note that we have only two hours for our meeting, and so we are
going to have to be very economic and efficient with our time ! I have
suggested a time break-up in the Agenda. I acknowledge that Items 3-5
in the agenda are critically important, and ideally, each needs much
more time; and ideally, we in fact need to keep talking about each of
these issues, and perhaps even follow-up with further such calls, to
share more and to deepen our understandings. But right now, on
Saturday,/*the core of our meeting and focus has to be Point 4*, as
given below/.
*Here then are the objectives of the meeting*, as I see them :
1)To critically discuss the Discussion Note that Gus and I have prepared
for the Call, in relation to the documents recently circulated by the IC.
2)To broadly agree on conclusions for Point 4 in the Agenda :
*What then, in the above contexts – of the actually-existing and
emerging world, and of* *alterglobalism and emerging world social
movement within which the WSF exists and of which it is one constituent
part –, can and should the WSF now try and become ? How should it
re-define itself ?*
3)To come up with recommendations and proposals from our side, in
relation to :
a.The future of the World Social Forum and its International Council
b.The WSF event proposed to be held in Mexico in 2021
c.In relation to a review of the WSF’s Charter of Principles.
4)To agree on a drafting group of 2-3 people who we will empower to
draft and circulate to all participants a draft report from the meeting,
by May 30; and where we should aim to collectively finalise our report
by say June 6 - towards forwarding them to the WSF’s International
Council and to members of the International Council.
5)To agree on *how we want to submit this to the IC : Whether just by
email or whether we would like to request members of the IC, perhaps
even from among the participants in the Call, to table our Note at the
IC and to represent us at the its meeting coming up in June ?
Last – but not least -, a crucial matter, of volunteers for being
rapporteurs ! I would like to request volunteers from this list to act
as rapporteurs for the meeting. I would think we should have 2-3
rapporteurs, so that those who are rapporteurs can also take part in the
meeting, and we can then draw on the notes each one contributes for
preparing our recommendations from the call. Would volunteers please
speak up ?! Thanks !
In solidarity,
Jai
att
Gustave Massiah and Jai Sen, May 2020 - A Note towards opening fresh
discussion on the future of the World Social Forum, at this
world-historical juncture ~ gm note 080520 mdfd js d1 180520 d2 2005 ACA
rvwd gm2005 F js200520 TC ACA
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