Help needed for World Social Forum
Another funding appeal…
I have been asked to attend the World Social Forum in Caracas in January, and to serve on a panel discussing resistance to imperialism. Tentative calculations show that I will need to raise around $2,500.
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Polycentric World Social Forum 2006
The sixth edition of the World Social Forum will be polycentric, which means that it will be decentralized, taking place in different parts of the world, in January 2006. Up to now, three cities will host the 6th WSF: Bamako (Mali-Africa), Caracas (Venezuela – Americas) and Karachi (Pakistan-Asia). The decision of having a polycentric WSF in 2006 was made during the International Council (IC) meeting held from January 24th and 25th 2005, in Porto Alegre (read here the report on the meeting).
Thanks in advance to any who can help. Send checks to Stan Goff at:
PO Box 90691
Raleigh, NC 27675
or donate by PayPal
Laurent:
Hello Stan
For your readers that live outside the USA, would it be possible that you let us have your full bank details?
Bank Name, Address, Zip, BIC, SWIFT and IBAN codes.
Electronic bank to bank transfert is the most efficient and economical mean of money transaction.
You could also let us have a Paypal window.
I know that you despise being mercantile, but you trully deserve financial reward…and no, you don’t have to become as keen as FTW…
27 November 2005, 11:56 pmozfeminsta:
Stan
good luck getting to Caracas – there’s hope for the future of our world yet with examples like Venezuela -
thought you might be interested in the newest attack on free speech in australia – perhaps has something to do with the rise in discontent expressed publically by many – including army and intelligence (smile) officers current and former – and 600,000 workers recently marching in the streets – australias biggest ever workers mobilisation…………….
Sedition laws to stay, says Ruddock
Tuesday Nov 29 22:03 AEDT
The federal government’s sedition laws will not stop creative expression unless someone “artistically” encourages another person to overthrow a democratic institution, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says.
Speaking during debate on the government’s anti-terror legislation in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night, Mr Ruddock said sedition was not well understood but the public would support the concept.
He said there were provisions that provided protection for a free and open media as well as creative and artistic expression.
“Unless of course somebody says `my urging of somebody to overthrow a democratic institution by force or violence was expressed artistically’,” he said.
“I’ve seen some suggestions that if you express it artistically it’s alright.
“If you’ve got people with diminished capacity or who are impressionable and young that you know may be influenced by those sorts of urgings it seems to me that it is a matter of some moment.”
Mr Ruddock rejected repeated calls from Labor and a government-dominated Senate committee to drop sedition laws from the legislation.
He said the public understood that it was wrong for someone to encourage another to overthrow democratic institutions.
“Now you drop the word sedition out and I tell you, if you went out to the Australian public and said do you agree or not agree that it should be an offence for a person to urge another to overthrow our democratic institutions by force or violence they would say that certainly should be an offence,” he said.
Mr Ruddock said a review of the legislation would be appropriate if fine tuning was required but Australia needed the capacity to make sedition an offence now.
Opposition legal affairs spokesman Nicola Roxon said it was “silly and incompetent” to make laws that would come under an immediate review.
“There’s no point in putting half-baked laws on our statute books,” she said.
“We were here only a number of weeks ago debating a bill to change “the” to “a”.
“This just shows how important in this area drafting is and it’s a nonsense for the attorney to say that these provisions could be improved but at some later time.”
©AAP 2005
29 November 2005, 8:37 am