Crisis of Civilisation Conference AIDC and the Peoples Dialogue

PROGRAMME – 2nd DRAFT

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