---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Hill" <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Fw: ALTER DAVOS - EN Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:53:32 -0800 -----Original Message----- From: Laurent JESOVER <•••@••.•••> To: ATTAC MAILING <•••@••.•••> Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 06:05 Subject: ALTER DAVOS - EN For the past twenty years, financial globalisation has increased economic insecurity and social inequality. It bypasses and reduces the choices of people, democratic institutions and the sovereign states responsible for the common interest. In the name of global change presented as a natural law, citizens and their representatives are prevented from deciding their destiny. It is criticical that this process be stopped by creating new regulation and control instruments, at the national, regional, and international level. To face the dual challenge of social implosion and political dispair requires the creation of a civil and grassroots movement. On the occasion of the World Economic Forum, which will be held on 29 January to 1st February 1999 in Davos, the ATTAC association is initiating, in Paris and in numerous cities in France, a series of actions with the aim of advancing and promoting alternative proposals than those of the "market" and its political relays. Furthermore, ATTAC has associated itself to other international resistance networks (Coordination Against the MAI, World Forum of Alternatives, SAPRIN) to widen the development of alternatives to the dictatorship of "mad money", to reconquer the space lost by democracy at the benefit of the financial sphere, to oppose all new relinquishing of the freedom of States in the name of the so called "right" of investors and merchants. In short, to create, world-wide, a democratic area. We invite all citizens from around the world to be heard, whether they are members of NGOs, unions, networks... or simply desire to become engaged in a collective thinking through ALTER DAVOS. ALTER DAVOS : an international citizen forum. Stage 01: Starting from 9 January, texts will be made available to readers on the ATTAC website <http://attac.org/alterdavos/>. We invite you to discuss them in your networks. This introductory discussion will allow you to become familiar with existing texts and to prepare the work which will take place on the Internet network. Stage 02: Starting from 15 January, 16h00 GMT, until Sunday 17 January, 16h00 GMT, we are organising a discussion forum on the Web. We invite you to join this forum in any public or private place and to raise the awareness of the greatest number of citizens. The objective is to achieve, at the end of these debates, the elaboration of a comprehensive proposal of an international citizen agreement on investment and wealth. Stage 03: Saturday 30 January, Davos. A press conference in which the above-referenced four networks will participate, as well as representatives of international movements, will allow the work thus realised to be made public. Please feel free to distribute this message widely: The success of this forum depends on everyone's support and participation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ an activist discussion forum - •••@••.••• To subscribe, send any message to •••@••.••• A public service of Citizens for a Democratic Renaissance (mailto:•••@••.••• http://cyberjournal.org) Help create the Movement for a Democratic Rensaissance To review renaissance-network archives, send any message to: •••@••.••• To subscribe to the the cj list, which is a larger list and a more general political discussion, send any message to: •••@••.••• A community will evolve only when the people control their means of communication. -- Frantz Fanon
