SUNDAY, JULY 23

8:30 AM - 3 PM Session #14, SITE TRIPS - meet at Biblioteca

5:30 - 7 PM Session #15 , SPECIAL PRESENTATION El Recreo Cultural Center

MONDAY, JULY 24
ALL SESSIONS AT THE BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA, Sala Quetzal except evening event at El Recreo

9AM - 5 PM REGISTRATION

9-11:30AM Session #16 , DEMOCRACY & SOCIAL JUSTICE

12:00 noon -1:30PM Session #17, ENVIRONMENTALISM & ECOFEMINISM

1:30-3PM LUNCH Quinta Loreto

3-4:30PM Session #18 , ENVIRONMENTALISM & THE LEFT CRITIQUE OF SCIENCE

6:30-8PM: DINNER on your own

8-9:30PM: EVENING EVENT El Recreo Cultural Center

TUESDAY, JULY 25

9AM - 5 PM REGISTRATION

9-9:30AM Session #20, PRISONS -BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA, Sala Quetzal

12:30-1:30 PM - Memorial to Ana Roy, Jackie Mosio Sala Quetzal

1:30-3PM LUNCH Quinta Loreto

3-4:30 PM Session #22, PLENARY - BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA, Sala Quetzal

5 - 6:30 PM Session #23, : BUSINESS MEETING Quinta Loreto

6:30-8 PM DINNER on your own

8-9:30PM EVENING EVENT El Recreo Cultural Center

9-11AM Session #24, Business Meeting - BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA Sala Quetzal

7PM ON TWENTY SIXTH OF JULY FIESTA Quinta Loreto TV Room

SUGGESTED SESSION QUESTIONS  

WSF & THE BAMAKO APPEAL: Has the World Social Forum outrun its original premise? Should the Forum "go political" in the sense of a "front" or "international" or should it continue as a forum of social movements that stays out of electoral politics? Is there a 3rd way: supporting solidarity economy without endorsing political parties? BACK

WORKER CONTROL: Is self-management the best tool for community development? Are worker owned & controlled enterprises private property, social/public property, or state property? Can worker control replace capitalism as a mode of production/distribution/investment or will it be co-opted by corporate capital? BACK

MIGRATION: What are the causes and consequences of migration in the global South? What are the collective or national alternatives to the lack of development that drives the individual solution of emigration? What do immigrants to the US have to contribute culturally as well as economically to the US ?   BACK

WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM CUBA ABOUT 21st CENTURY SOCIALISM: How to build socialism amidst imperialism? How is power made to come "from below" without endangering a capacity for strategic decisions "from above"? Do indigenous and inherently socialist traditions speak to our conception of 21st century socialism? How to make good on a socialist commitment to full employment amidst economic aggression?  BACK

IMPERIALISM: What is new in the imperialism of our time? Is globalization necessarily imperialistic?  BACK

NATION-STATE: Is globalization weakening or ending the nation-state being or just globalizing it? To what extent should global justice movement strategies be situated in or against the nation-state? Can social movements reclaim democracy through the state, making it a means for advancing popular interests?   BACK

RESISTANCE: What transformative praxis is socially & ecologically sustainable? What can actually lead to a better world? How can social movements' leaders be kept from becoming a new ruling elite? How does struggle educate the educators?   BACK

DEMOCRACY & SOCIAL JUSTICE: How can social movements reclaim the radical content of often abused concepts of democracy, justice and socialism -overcoming their debasement by political elites? Is a genuine political democracy even possible without economic democracy? What moral values are necessary to sustain democracy, justice and socialism? Are these realizable on a local, national, or global scale?   BACK

ENVIRONMENTALISM & ECOFEMINISM: Is free-enterprise capitalism ecologically sustainable? Is it possible to convert from commercial agriculture to small scale local and green agriculture and still support the world's growing population? Are women & indigenous people the natural trustees of the environment?  BACK

ENVIRONMENTALISM & THE LEFT CRITIQUE OF SCIENCE: To achieve socialism is it enough to bring industrial production as endorsed by science under popular control, or must industrialization itself and the class-neutrality of science be upset lest they foster capitalism in new forms? If health systems merely cure and don't prevent -- by ending environmental toxins -- won't universalizing them leave causes of illness untouched?   BACK

PRISONS: How has neoliberal globalization contributed to the growing encarceration rate? How can sanity be maintained and the art of living be acquired in such total institutions? What are the lessons from this for those of us outside the walls who are yet walled in by the institutions of capitalism?   BACK

POPULAR EDUCATION: How to update popular education -- conscientization for social change, invented during the Cold War -- for transforming a unipolar world dominated by transnationals? How can it be adapted e.g. to formal settings, so as to uproot patriarchy, decolonize knowledge, and start South-South dialogue, empowering the excluded in building "another world" BACK

CUBA BONUS

Wed, July 26
1-5 PM, BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA, Sala Quetzal

Thurs, July 27
10-2 PM, EL RECREO

Orlando Cruz, Instituto de Filosofía

Miguel Limia, Consejo Ciencias Sociales

Luis Guerra Chacón, Universidad de la Habana

Maura de la C. Salabarría Roig Sociedad Cubana de Investigaciones Filosóficos

Rosa López-Oceguera, Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos

Raul Rodriguez Rodriguez, Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos

Olivia Miranda, Instituto de Filosofía

López Díaz, Nancy, Universidad de la Habana