Disability is also explicitly mentioned in section (4)Exclusions,
Discrimination, Dignity, Rights and Equality Nation, State, citizenship, law
and justice.
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Subject: Re: Rhetorics of inclusion or we just take it.
Hi
In each area disability is relevant. There are at 4 issues
where disablement is inherent :
Genocides and crimes against humanity
Genetic Engineering, Patenting life forms
Access to knowledge for the third world
Information Technology: Opportunities and Challenges
I don't recall the exact quote, but an Italian CO in the1960/70 Danielo.
Dolci said that if the leaders don't invite you, you just go. Don't bring
guns, bring bread (or seeds). (he was making reference to an ongoing fight
in Sicily. Those of you who want/can go, go bring your knowledge, force
the issue, share the knowledge.
Maria
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: Rhetorics of inclusion
So much for inclusion
I reproduce the list of suggested themes for world social forum iv
The word disability is conspicuous by its absence
Anita ghai
The broad themes and sub-themes for WSF 2004 will be:
1) Militarism, War and Peace
· US Militarist Agenda and Resistances
· Against global and permanent war
· Identities and Peoples Right to Determination
· Growing militarisation of society; impact on women
· Imperialist war and control of resources
· Role of United Nations and war
· Agression on Iraq and consequences
· Palestine: a continuing war
· Building culture of peace
· Genocides and crimes against humanity
· Global disarmament and nuclear weapons
· International law and war
· Peace, well being and regional cooperation
· Self determination and nationalities
· State terrorism: Civil and Political Rights
2) Media, Information, Knowledge and Culture
· Against merchandising information, culture and media
· Media concentration and loss of pluralism
· Media and the commodification of women
· Sponsorship and Censorship
· Alternate media
· War and media - manipulation of images and "embedded" journalism
· Art and social transformation
· Culture of dissent
· Role of culture: youth and the marginalised
· Privatising science and knowledge
· Community's loss of knowledge through patenting
· Genetic Engineering, Patenting life forms
· Access to knowledge for the third world
· Information Technology: Opportunities and Challenges
· Media as an instrument of exclusion and a space for democratic
struggle (social audit of old and new media, changing content and form,
state-owned media vs. public broadcasting)
3) Democracy, Ecological and Economic Security
Debt, finance and trade
· Critical examination of the IMF, WB, WTO - Institutions of
Capitalist Globalisation
· Scope of selective de-linking with respect to national development
· Breaking the power of financial markets
· Politics of Aid
· Illegitimacy and Burden of Debt
· Bilateral and regional trade, investment processes and its impacts
· NAFTA and other bilateral treaties
· Fair trade
· Participatory economics
· Solidarity Economics
· Agreement in Agriculture (AOA) and Food Sovereignty
Sustainable and democratic development
· Land and agriculture
· Privatising basic services: energy, water, transport and
telecommunications
· Livelihoods and Natural resources - access, entitlements, etc.
· Climate change - Kyoto Protocol
· Bio-safety and GM foods
· Governance, accountability and peoples resources
· Dumping of hazardous wastes
· Biodiversity
· Peasantry and village economy under globalisation
· Urban development and displacement of the poor
· Feminisation of Poverty and immigration
· Innovative models of sustainable livelihoods
· Forests, Land, Air, Water: Democratic control of common goods
· Regulation and de-regulation: removing democratic controls
· Corporate Accountability
World of Labour and Work in Production and Social Reproduction
· Creating and distributing wealth differently: monetary, budgetary
and fiscal policies in favour of employment
· Work and the logic of profit
· Closing of industries, relocation of production and the trade union
movement
· Trade union movement and the informal and small scale sector
· Migrant labour and protectionism
· New technologies of product automation: impact on women and men
workers
· End of work and other theories
· Abolishing the wage system: liberatiing workers or liberation from
work
· Valuation of social reproduction and housework
· The trade union movement within the construction of the global
social movement
Social sectors -- food, health, education -- and social security
· Impact of service sector liberalisation/GATS
· Entitlements, social security and the "safety net": ensuring
universal access
· Social Security, pensions and medical welfare
· The marginalized and their access to social security and the safety
net
· Privatisation of and Merchandising health and education
· Child Rights
· Politics and agenda of population control and use of reproductive
technologies
· Food Security of communities and households and public distribution
· Employment, Job Security, Pension Schemes, VRS
· Reproduction, Health and Sexual Rights
4) Exclusions, Discrimination, Dignity, Rights and Equality
Nation, State, citizenship, law and justice
· State, Civil Society and the disadvantaged (Dalits, indigenous
peoples, religious/ethnic/linguistic minorities)
· Changing institutional and legal frameworks for labour and peasant
rights in the context of globalisation
· Loss of economic sovereignty under globalisation
· Privatisation, Liberalisation and impact on the disadvantaged
· Rise of the right, legitimisation of majoritarianism and
intolerance of minorities
· Race, migration and citizenship
· Effect of globalisation on legal and institutional frameworks of
decision making
· Militarising the state and erosion of civil liberties/human rights
· Disability and discrimination
· Trafficking in women and children
· Refugees, displaced persons, IDP, cross-border migration, racism
and human rights
· Alternative visions, practical experiments and struggles for
inclusive, plural and radical democracy
· Autonomy, separation, reconciliation
Caste, race and other forms of descent/work based exclusions
· Caste, race and other work/descent based discrimination: exclusions
in the market and in governance
· Community/group specific (dalits, indigenous peoples, tribals and
ethnic religious, national and other minorities): analyses of the new and
emerging forms of exclusions
· Gender related exclusions and 'double' exclusion of women from
marginalised communities
· Ending affirmative action in education and work
· New voices in social movements
Religion, culture and identities
· Communalism -- Religious sectarianism and exclusions -- and
religiosity
· Globalisation, homogeneity and pluralism
· Cultural imperialism and shaping subordinate identities
· Globalisation and cultural resistance
· Fundamentalism and Sexual Identities
· Re-enforcement of stereotypes
Patriarchy, Gender and Sexuality
· Patriarchy and capitalism
· Law and women: the global scenario
· Personal, constitutional law and human rights
· Women and men: from equality within the law to equality in reality
· Against the sexual division of labour
· Liberty of women within society
· Forms of resurgrnt patriarchy
· Right to sexual orientation: from claims for rights to the
assertion identities
ita ghai
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