[Ssf] International Youth Camp Porto Alegre 2005

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Intercontinental Youth Camp, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Only a few weeks left and the fifth edition of the
Intercontinental Youth Camp will find its realisation
in Porto Alegre, Brasil from 24th to 31st of January.
While the organizational process has been going on for
many months, these days the first campers are already
arriving in Parque Harmonia, on the shore of Lake
Guaíba in the heart of the city of Porto Alegre, to
join in with the construction of the camp. Having
surged during the first World Social Forum in January
2001, the camp rapidly developed its own dynamics and
concepts and grew quickly counting over 25.000
participants in Porto Alegre in 2003 and more than
4.000 in Mumbai, India in 2004. It joins political
discourse and action with practical approaches of
convivencia (living together) in a huge laboratory.


Political process and structure

The political process can be characterized by ideas
such as self-management, horizontality, diversity and
creative resistance, experimenting and proposing
alternatives that oppose capitalist and neoliberal
hegemony. The term Youth in the camps title refers to
its new approaches to political practice rather than
to a group of a defined age and so all people from
diverse social, political and cultural backgrounds
will find a place to live, participate and interact in
the camp during the last week of January.

The organizational process is based on a
horizontal-hierarchical hybrid structure with ten
commissions and the COA (Organizing Committee of the
Camp) as the main organs of articulation and
collective decision making. All decisions are made by
consensus and the commissions have a high degree of
autonomy in order to decentralize the process as much
as possible. The participants of the process are
individuals as well as representatives of groups,
organizations and social movements, most of them
Brazilian, yet without leaving aside the focus on
international issues.

Everyone is welcome to participate

Activities for the camp week can be registered by
anyone, independent of being of an organized entity or
not, – a big difference from the World Social Forum,
where being organized is the basic condition to offer
activities. Thus, expecting more than 300 activities
from participants of many different countries from all
the continents, the camp will be a huge space of
exchange, networking, debate and convergence of the
most diverse forms of social, political and cultural
activism while at the same time functioning as a
laboratory for reflection and reinvention of political
relations and social life in general.
Bio-construction, solidarity economy, free knowledge
are some of the many concepts making the IYC an
impressive laboratory of alternatives.

There will be seven centres of action (capacity up to
500 people,) besides various other smaller spaces to
host the activities, spread out over all of the camp
area. The centres represent different main topics and
struggles (Cultural Resistance, Health and Culture,
Communication and Free Knowledge, Social and Student
Movements, Human Rights and Sexual Diversity,
Environment, Global Struggle and Direct Action), yet
as all the other spaces are open to other kinds of
themes as well. Pre-Registration for activities and
individuals (Fees of 12 R/30 R$ for people from the
“geopolitical” global south/north) will be possible
until the 15th of January, after that upon arrival on
the camp site. There will also be three spaces of free
occupation (ELOs) without a fix program for
spontaneous activities.

Self-managed camp life

Beyond this the poli-centric spatial set-up of the
camp-territory in opposition to the centralist logics
of most of the cities in the world will create many
spaces of spontaneous and free encounter of the camps
inhabitants. Sixty small neighbourhood centres
(barrios) will be the main unit for the campers to
self-manage co-existence in the camp. The building of
the camps structures is realised based on the
contribution and knowledge of different social
movements.

Financially the camp is dependant on the World Social
Forum, which does not impede a high degree of
political autonomy and will not undermine its critical
position in relation to the forum, which will be
spread out just north and south of the camp area – a
great difference from 2003, when the forum was located
far more distant in other city areas.

After the all resistances-camp in Quito, Ecuador
during the first Social Forum of the Americas the
fifth Intercontinental Youth Camp will be another
important landmark bringing together and strengthening
the diverse forms of global resistance struggle. Once
more over 20.000 people will opt to live together in
the camp, creatively and powerfully showing face to
the dominant powers of our neoliberal world.

More information: www.acampamentofsm.org
Contact:  acampamento at acampamentofsm.org
Program Committee:  programacao at acampamentofsm.org

To participate as a volunteer: 
voluntarios at acampamentofsm.org

call for activities
Desde el mundo hasta Porto Alegre y desde Porto Alegre
hasta el Mundo
Llamada para acciones [24 a 31 de enero.2005]

ESPANOL:

Es una llamada de actividades en distinctas partes del
mundo durante el
5º Campamento Intercontinental de Juventud, enero de
2005.
A partir de la decada de 90 nuevas formas de luchas
internacionales
estan ocurriendo. Grandes encuentros y protestas cómo
contrapuntos a
los
acuerdos económicos de los paises dominates mostraram
uma nueva cara
para esos nuevos rumos del movimiento alterglobalista.
Adentro de esse
processo diversos campamentos ocurrieron para dar
espacio a encuentros,
articulaciones y vinculaciones, y a lo mismo tiempo
experimentar otras
formas de convivio.

Venimos de un processo de contestación mundial contra
los efechos
negativos del neoliberalismo, tenendo cómo uma de las
formas de acción
y
creación de ´campamentos de juventud´ por el mundo,
mucho adelante de
dos Foros Sociales Mundiales de porto Alegre y Mumbai.
Exemplos de eso
son las acciones realizadas en Quebèc, Tübingen,
Londres, Zimbabwe, Rio
de Janeiro, Paris, São Paulo, Quito, Evian, los
campamentos de
frontera,
los foros regionales y tematicos de Argentina,
Uruguay, Quito, y tantos
otros. Este encenario tiene un tiempo de vida bastante
nuevo, y podemos
currer el riesgo de decir que esta moviminetacion de
campamentos em
esse
contexto tem ocurrido desde 2001. Desta manera existe
hoy, claramente,
una larga red de activistas sociales, organizados em
las mas distintas
maneras, y com dimension de acción mundial, sim
fronteras. La
convergencia ocurre em el espectro de la acción
propositiva, em el
empeño de transformar las realidades través de las
practicas del
cotidiano, em níveles tanto micro como macropolíticos.

El Campamento Intercontinental de Juventude (AIJ –
 http://www.acampamentofsm.org) que va ocurrir por la
quinta vez va a
seer mas uno momiento de cristalización de mucho de
eso. Cómo el evento
em si en Porto Alegre no deve seer restricto a los que
tengan
possibilidad de viajar hasta la em enero, proponemos
aqui actividades
diluídas por el mundo durante la ultima semaña de
enero (desde 24 hasta
31), cuando estará ocurriendo el AIJ en Porto Alegre.
Desde seminários
informativos, fiestas, acciones directas, hasta
manifestaciones, todo
puede ser y es possble. Una idea es de divulgar mas
las perspectivas y
los conceptos de esse “movimiento alterglobalista” y
sus distintas
formas de articulación y acción.
Para conectar y articular los “quienes, cómo y dónde”
va seer utilizada
la lista de e-mail de la RRG (Red de Restências
Global), que nasció em
el 3º AIJ en 2003. Ex uma red sin dueño, abierta y
horizontal. Para
inserir-se em la lista accesse


http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rrg

Esta lista existe para dar una continuidad a los
processos de luchas
globales y campamentos por el mundo, tanto para la
trueca de
informaciones, conocimientos y experiências cómo para
la organización
de
acciones y luchas internacionales. 2005 va a seer mas
un año
importante,
mostrando cara a los poderes del mundo. Esta es uma
invitación para
empezar este año com gritos diversos e altos, por el
mundo, sea donde
for. Vamos concretizar los contactos y las redes.
Vamos articularnos,
ativarnos. Atuaremos.


Timo – Tübingen, Alemanha Julia – Porto Alegre, Brasil
 timo.bartholl at web.de  juliac at riseup.net


ENGLISH:

>From Porto Alegre to the world and from the world to
Porto Alegre
Call for action [24th to 31st of January, 2005]

This is a call for activities in different places of
the world during
the 5th Intercontinental Youth Camp, January 2005.

Since the nineties new forms of international activism
and struggle
have
surged. Great meetings and protests opposing to the
economic meetings
and agreements of the dominant countries gave body to
these new forms
of
alterglobalist movement. Within this process different
camps took place
to offer space for meeting, exchange, articulation and
convergence and,
at the same time, experiment new and different forms
of convivencia
(living together/coexistence).

A process of global upraise in opposition to the
negative effects of
neoliberalism can be observed with the
“Intercontinental Youth Camps”
as
one form of action and creation. Beyond these camps,
which so have
taken
place three times in Brazil and one time in India,
many other camps and
meetings with similar ideas and goals and of different
dimensions have
taken place in different parts of the world such as
Zimbabwe, Quebec,
London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Quito,
Evian, Florence,
Tübingen. These camps, which are nourished by
experiences from many
other camps and activities that have taken place
before or in other
contexts, have become part of the international agenda
of activism
since
the beginning of this millennium and many people from
different
countries and backgrounds have thus been able to get
in contact and
exchange experiences, views and knowledge as well as
plan and realise
activities together. Different networks, loose or
organized, can be
seen
as one result of these dynamics – networks of
activists of diverse
organizational social and political background
widening the dimensions
of struggle beyond cultural or social differences and
national
boundaries. One of the convergences is the spectrum of
positive and
creative dimension of action, spanning the range of
strive for change
from day-to-day reality to the questioning of and
struggling against
micro- to macropolitical contexts.

The Intercontinental Youth Camp (IYC – 
http://www.acampamentofsm.org)
taking place for the fifth time from 24th to 31st of
January will be
another phase of crystallisation of the described
dynamics. As an event
itself it should not be and is not restricted to the
locality of Parque
Harmonia in Porto Alegre, where it will take place,
but yes its
activities and participants reach out to other places
in the world.
That
is why we propose decentralized activities in
different places of the
world in the last week of January in 2005, when the
camp will take
place. From informative seminaries, parties, direct
actions to
manifestations, anything can be and is possible. One
of the motives is
to spread further and reflect more deeply the ideas
and concepts of the
alterglobalist movement with its diverse forms of
struggle,
articulation
and action.

To get in contact and coordinate the “who, where and
how” will be used
the email list RRG (Rede de Resistencis Globais –
Global Resistance
Network), which was initiated during the third IYC. It
is a network
without owners and bosses, open and horizontal. To
make part of this
list just go to this site:

http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rrg

This list exists to give continuity to the processes
of the global
struggles and camps of different parts of the world.
>From exchange of
information, knowledge and experiences to the
organization and
articulation of international action and struggle – it
is just what the
participants make of it. 2005 will be another
important year, to oppose
to the powers of this world. This is an invitation to
start this year
with loud and diverse shouts wherever it and you may
be on the globe.
Let´s concretize and activate our contacts and
networks. Let´s
articulate. Let´s take action.

Timo – Tübingen, Alemanha Julia – Porto Alegre, Brasil
 timo.bartholl at web.de  juliac at riseup.net


PORTUGUES:

Do mundo a Porto Alegre e de Porto Alegre ao mundo
Chamada para ações [24 a 31 de janeiro. 2005]

Se trata de uma chamada de atividades em diferentes
partes do mundo
durante o 5º Acampamento Intercontinental da
Juventude, janeiro de
2005.

A partir da década de 90 novas formas de lutas
internacionais têm
acontecido. Grandes encontros e protestos como
contrapontos aos acordos
econômicos dos países dominadores deram cara para
esses novos rumos do
movimento altermundista. Dentro desse processo
diversos acampamentos
aconteceram para dar espaço a encontros, articulações
e ativações, e ao
mesmo tempo fomentar um convívio auto-gestionário.

Viemos de um processo de contestação mundial contra os
efeitos
negativos
do neoliberalismo, tendo como uma das formas de ação a
criação de
acampamentos da juventude pelo mundo, bastante além
dos Fóruns Sociais
Mundiais de Porto Alegre e Mumbai. Exemplo disso são
as ações
realizadas
em Quebèc, Tübingen, Londres, Zimbabwe, Rio de
Janeiro, Paris, São
Paulo, Quito, Evian, os acampamentos de fronteira, os
fóruns regionais
e
temáticos da Argentina, Uruguay, Quito, e tantos
outros. Este cenário
tem um tempo de vida bastante novo, e podemos arriscar
dizer que esta
movimentação de acampamentos nesse contexto tem
ocorrido desde 2001.
Desta forma existe hoje, claramente, uma grande rede
de ativistas
sociais, organizados das mais diversas formas, e com
dimensão de ação
mundial, sem fronteiras. Nossa convergência se dá no
espectro da ação
propositiva, no empenho em transformar as realidades
através das
práticas do cotidiano, em níveis tanto micro como
macropolíticos.

O Acampamento Intercontinental da Juventude (AIJ –
 http://www.acampamentofsm.org) que vai acontecer pela
quinta vez e será
mais um momento de cristalização de muito disso. Como
o evento em si no
local de Porto Alegre não deve ser restrito para quem
tenha a
possibilidade de ir para lá em janeiro. Propomos aqui
atividades
espalhadas pelo mundo durante a última semana de
janeiro (de 24 a 31),
quando acontecerá o AIJ em Porto Alegre. De seminários
informativos,
festas, ações diretas, até manifestações, tudo pode
ser e é possível.
Uma idéia é de divulgar mais as perspectivas e os
conceitos desse
“movimento alterglobalista” e as suas diversas formas
de articulação e
ação.

Para conectar e articular o “quem, como e onde” será
utilizada a lista
de e-mail da RRG (Rede de Resistência Global), que
nasceu no 3º AIJ em
2003. É uma rede sem dono, aberta e horizontal. Para
se inserir na
lista
entre em


http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rrg

Esta lista existe para dar uma continuidade aos
processos de lutas
globais e acampamentos pelo mundo, tanto para a troca
de informações,
conhecimentos e experiências como para a organização
de ações e lutas
internacionais. 2005 será mais um ano importante,
mostrando cara aos
poderes do mundo. Este é um convite para começar este
ano com gritos
diversos e altos, pelo mundo, seja onde for. Vamos
concretizar os
contatos e as redes. Vamos nos articular, nos ativar.
Atuaremos.

Timo – Tübingen, Alemanha Julia – Porto Alegre, Brasil
 timo.bartholl at web.de  juliac at riseup.net



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