Crisis of Civilisation Conference AIDC and the Peoples Dialogue

DAY 1 18 October 2010

8.30 – 9.00

Registration

9.00 – 9.30

Opening Session

Cultural activities Music, Dancing, etc

9.30 – 10.30

Crisis of Civilization and the alternative

Camille Chalmers and Miguel Palacin

10.30 – 11.30

Social Movements and popular encounters with the crisis of civilization;

Carlos Aguilar – (Cry of Excluded);
Phumi Mtetwa: (Gay and lesbian movement);

Des d’ Sa: (Environmental movement);

Nilza Iracy (AfroWomen’s movement)

Ayanda Kota (Unemployed People’s Movement)

11.30 – 12.00

Tea

12.00 – 13.30

Crisis of capitalism  as civilisational crisis

Alfredo Saad Filho (Brazil)

Jean Mpele (Congo)

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 16.00

Crisis of civilization as a multi-dimensional crisis:

Ecological;

Climate change

Food

Social and Urban

Edgardo Lander (Venuezela),

Lilian Celiberti (Uruguay),

Mamadou Goita (Mali)

Lorena  Zarate (Urban Movements)

16.00 – 16.30

Tea

16.30  – 18.00

Crisis of civilisation

Commission discussion

Day 2 Tuesday 19  October

8.30 – 9.30

Reports from day 1

9.30 – 11.00

Panel discussion:

New utopias, visions and strategies for building anti-capitalist alternatives, solidarity and hope.

Camille Chalmers (Haiti)

Sam Moya (Zimbabwe)

Jacklyn Cock (South Africa)

11.00 – 11.30

Tea

11.30 – 13.00

New utopias and visions

Commissions

13.00 -14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 16.00

Alternatives strategies, perspectives for movement  building:

• Economic alternatives
• Transitioning from fossil fuels
• Food sovereignty
• Ensuring the right to work

Alfredo Saad Filho

Edgardo Lander;
Via Campesina

Brian Ashley

16.00 – 16.30

Tea

16.30 – 18.00

Alternatives strategies:

Commissions

Day 3 Wednesday 20 October

9.00 – 10.00

Report from Day 2

10.00 – 11.00

Rebuilding the global justice movement

Towards Dakar WSF, Cop17 and Rio +20

Moema Miranda

Trevor Ngwane

Mercia Andrews

11.00 – 11.30

Tea

11.30 – 13.00

Commissions: Building the global justice movement

13.00 -14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.00

Reports

15.00 – 16.00

Closure