Italian radical trade unionist speaks about the European Social Forum this Friday

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday September 16, 2002 12:30 by Marshall Rock - Irish to ESF

Irish to ESF meeting with Luciano Mulhbauer from COBAS

The Irish mobilising committee for the European Social Forum are hosting a meeting on Friday 27th September, at 7.30 in the Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2. The meeting will be addressed by Luciano Mulhbauer from the Italian Social Forum and the independent trade union COBAS and by Colm O'Cuanachain, the co-ordinator of Comhlamh – Development Workers in Global Solidarity.

The meeting will focus on the grassroots movement in Europe which has already brought thousands together to fight for the right to have a
say in the way our Europe is being run. The movement in Italy has been going from strength to strength, and we hope to bring a large contingent from Ireland to the event which will take place in Florence from 7th – 10th November 2002.

Michael D. Higgins TD
Mike Allen (Gen. Sec. Labour Party)
John Gormley TD
Deidre de Burca (Green Party)
Joe Higgins TD (Socialist Party)
Socialist Workers Party
Joe Moore (Cork Council of Trade Unions)
Des Derwin (candidate for Gen. Sec. of SIPTU)
Mick Martin (President Insurance Finance Branch SIPTU)
Globalise Resistance
AFRI
The Irish Anti-War Movement
Khalid Ibrahim (One World Society TCD)
Frances O'Donohue (Community activist, North Strand Dublin

World Social Forum Call of the Social Movements
Resistance to neoliberalism, war and militarism: for peace and social justice

In the face of continuing deterioration in the living conditions of people, we, social movements from all around the world, have come together in the tens of thousands at the second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. We are here in spite of the attempts to break our solidarity. We come together again to continue our struggles against neoliberalism and war, to confirm the agreements of the last Forum and to reaffirm that another world is possible.
http://www.mobilise.org.uk/twiki/bin/view/ESF/AboutWsfCall