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Start Date & Time
July 1, 2010
All day event.

End Date & Time
July 4, 2010
All day event.

Location
Varoious venues close to Taksim square
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Event Cost
10-40 euro

Event URL
http://www.esf2010.org/

RSVP Info
Name: August Nilsson

Categories
Globalization
Peace & Conflict
Human Rights

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Posted By: August Nilsson. Rating: 5 / 5.


Intensive 6th European Social Forum! I took part in many of the events organised by the european Attac-network, mostly discussing how we can change the financial system.

Here is the final declaration agreed on by many of the attending movements:

Final declaration from the Final Assembly of the 6th European Social Forum

1- 4th July 2010

We, the participants at the Istanbul ESF, affirming that we have a strong engagement against all war and occupation and that we are for a political resolution of the Kurdish issue, have made the following resolution:
Act together in Europe against the crisis

In the context of a global crisis and faced with the EU, the governments and the IMF offensive to impose austerity and social regression policies, the social movements which have gathered in the ESF in Istanbul issue a call to act together in Europe.

Mobilisations and resistance movements are developing across Europe to challenge these policies. It is urgent to build, on the long term, a convergent struggle in Europe, which brings together social movements, trade unions, associations, organisations, and citizen networks. This is why we issue a call for a first step on the way to developing mobilisation across Europe, on the 29th of September and the surrounding days.

We must impose alternative policies, which enable us to fulfil social needs and ecological requirements.

All social movements call for a European assembly on the 23-24th of October (or 13-14th of November) in Paris to further our mobilisation and the coordination of our movements and also to make valuation and discuss the future of the ESF.