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Sozialforen rund um die Welt How to organize your own social forum:(source: http://www.nycsocialforum.org/howto.html)(Links im Anschluss) Organizing a Social Forum is as simple as contacting a wide variety of groups and inviting them to sit down and talk about what a Social Forum could mean to them. Some simple steps: 1. Make some calls and attend some meetings. Face to face contact with other groups is crucial to "socializing" the process of building the social forum. Simple sending out email announcements of a meeting already decided is taking a little much for granted, although conditions may be different depending on the political climate and such. 2. Organize a sit down meeting with these groups you have contacted. Ask them their concerns about this meeting: do they feel that proper facilitation is important? Do they have a preferred location? Focus on diversity. 3. Start large, but not to large. Organize a city wide Social Forum first, finding all those groups and individuals who may be interested in working on it. But don't stop there. Focus on branching out to smaller communities, like specific neighborhoods in your city (South Side Social Forum, North End, etc). Make it a local thing by getting those groups that work within the specific community to attend and participate. 4. If you come from a privileged position within society, consider this as evident to non-privileged participants. Don't take things for granted. Be conscious of power dynamics. And be respectful. 5. Pull together, if possible, a wide variety of groups, such as housing advocacy, prisoner rights, etc. But try to stay local. Social Forums, if anything, are the germinations of local, popular forms of power, and as such should reflect the struggles and interests of those who are effected, directly by their conditions within the community. 6. Be open minded: dispense with attitudes that limit one to a particular set of beliefs or political "schools". Social Forums should be noted for their "pluralism", that is, a broad chorus of voices, engaged in principled dialogue, with no particular voices taking center stage. 7. Be aware that the process by which you organize the Social Forum is crucial in the attitudes of those that will take part (or will be reflected in the number of groups that stay away!). If the Organizing Committee, Organizing Working Groups (or whatever you decide to name it) is a closed affair, with one or two groups monopolizing all decisions, then the social forum as a locus for pluralism will be hamstrung from the beginning. If people don't identify it as a space where their interests and struggles are respected and taken seriously, they won't show up. And if they don't show up, it's not a Social Forum! 8. The actual structure of a Social Forum can vary depending on the particular circumstances, but bear in mind that the most important point is that it become an open space for respectful and practical dialogue between many groups. This way people will "get something out of it". Workshops / panels are, of course, an excellent way to bring certain issues to the attention of many people, but they are also a great way to share resources and skills, to "cross-fertilize" struggles, and communicate common concerns and such. 9. Organize your workshops to reflect the local conditions in which you work. Are there particular issues your communities face in fighting injustice, exploitation, or oppression? Are there solutions that need support? Are is there more than one group in your community doing similar work, that would be interested in co-sponsoring a workshop?
Links zu bereits bestehenden SozialforenHinweise bitte an christian.apl@kabsi.atDas deutschsprachige Informationsportal zur weltweiten Sozialforum-Bewegung: http://www.weltsozialforum.org
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