2020

• April
• April 30 2020 Global Dialogue for Systemic Change

  Thursday 30 April 2020 from 15:00 to 18:00

  Our first webinar: What world after the pandemic?

  On Facebook or by following this Zoom

  April 30th, 09:00 EST, 15:00 CET, 18.30 IST, 21:00 Indochina Time.

  Panelists:

  • Maristella Svampa (Argentina)
  • Ashish Kothari (India)
  • Geneviève Azam (France)
  • Laura Flanders (USA) - Moderator

  Interpretation in English, French and Spanish.

  A panel discussion and audience questions on topics including:

  • How to strengthen solidarity and resistance against the multiple crises triggered by COVID-19?
  • How do the various grassroots struggles intersect?
  • What programme of reconstruction and longer-term alternatives are movements proposing?
  • What are the common elements of grassroots solidarity initiatives?
  • What are the obstacles and risks for social movements going forward?

  Others webinars will be organised.

  Provisional themes include :

  • The assault on our rights and the risks for democracy
  • Covid 19 and inequality Solidarity and the new agenda of social movements
  • Territories, biodiversity and climate
  • Repressive state, migration, imprisonment
  • Covid 19, patriarchy and racism
  • State, public, autonomy
  • Conflicts, war, militarism, sanctions
  • Economic deglobalization and political globalization
  • Network assembly
• May
• May 7 2020 Rightwing government threat to democracy in Brazil, India & USA

  Thursday 7 May 2020 from 15:00 to 17:00

  18h00 Dehli, 15h00 France, Belgique et Suisse, 14h00 Tunisie et Cameroun, 13h00 Maroc et Sénégal, 9h00 Québec et Haïti

  In the United States, Brazil, India and elsewhere, extreme right-wing political forces have catalyzed, popular discontent against inequality, social injustice and lack of prospects produced by neoliberal globalization. With an articulated policy of hatred, xenophobic nationalism, racism, misogyny and intolerance, they were to take the state by storm. They have systematically attacked democracy, rights and the environment. These governments have been displacing liberals, social democrats and progressives from strategic centres of power. Leaders like Trump, Bolsonaro, and Modi are exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to deepen these attacks. In this webinar, our panelists will discuss to respond to these attacks, and how to resume the construction of systemic alternatives.

  WIth:

  • Prabir Purkayastha from India
  • Eliane Brum from Brazil
  • John Feffer from the USA

  Simultaneous interpretation into English, French and Spanish.

  You can watch the webinar in our Facebook page. If you want to participate in the webinar, you must first register here. After you register at the above link, you will receive a confirmation email, with the final instructions for joining the webinar.

• May 21 2020 Hot & Cold Wars: Militarism and the Pandemic

  Thursday 21 May 2020 from 15:00 to 16:30

  The pandemic has changed almost everything, yet the “global war on terror” (GWOT) wanted by the United States continues to shape the national and international policies of many countries, the militarization of the borders increases, the immigrants are confronted at even more serious threats, the risk of a new cold war returns, and the relationships between authoritarianism, neo-liberalism and militarism have never been stronger.

  Tomorrow follow the webinar:

  By Zoom or by Facebook Live on our page.

  With:

  • Sukumar Muralidharan (journalist in New Delhi, works on media, war, and nuclear threats)
  • Khury Petersen-Smith (member of the Institute for Policy Studies and activist for international solidarity, notably with Palestine)
  • Tobita Chow, (Director of Justice is Global and People’s Action, he is organizing a progressive internationalist alternative to the growing tensions between the US and China)
  • Moderator : Phyllis Bennis, (Director of IPS’s New Internationalism Project and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute)