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THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER 1999
Opening Welcome
Fiona Dove
Globalisation and its Contradictions
Keynote Speaker: Fred Halliday
Chairperson: Susan George
NATO after Kosovo: Out-of-Area Operations: Enlargement and European Security
Opening Address: Cora Weiss
Interviews:Karel Koster
Speakers: Veton Surroi, Luke Hill, Alexander Nikitin and Otfried Nassauer
Chairperson: Phyllis Bennis
US Hegemony and EU Alignment: Strategic Options for Regions in the South
Speaker: Samir Amin
Discussant Panel: Dot Keet, John Saxe Fernandez, Candido Gryzbowski, Gareth Api Richards
Chairperson: Brid Brennan
An Afternoon with Ariel Dorfman
Readings by Chilean writer, Ariel Dorfman, live and on video:
"My House is on Fire": A filmed suspense story of migrant children caught in a globalisng world
"Dead Line": Bono, Emma Thompson and others animate this Channel 4 film based on Dorfman poetry.
A special session entitled Ten Years On: The Crisis in the CIS - A Worker's Point of View
Speaker (with translation into English): Alexander Bukhvostov, President of the Belarussian Automobile Union and the Belarussian Workers' Party.
NATO After Kosovo: Nuclear Policy
Participants include: Carl Niehaus, Peter Weiss, Praful Bidwai, Dan Plesch
Chairperson:Klarissa Nienhuys
Europe Incorporated: Exposing the Political Power of Big Business
Speakers: Erik Wesselius, Jessica Woodroffe, Sarah Anderson, with additional comments by Celia Mather
Chairperson: Olivier Hoedeman
Talking Art and Contemporary Politics
Animated by: Ariel Dorfman, Ari Sitas, Saul Landau, Hein Marais and James Early
The United Nations at the Edge of the 21st Century: Iraq, Kosovo, East Timor and Beyond
Speakers:Jose Ramos Horta, Phyllis Bennis, Mario Pianta
Chairperson: Cora Weiss
FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER 1999
Pinochet Case: Implications for International Human Rights Law
Speaker: Geoffrey Bindman
Discussant Panel: Juan Garcés, John Dugard, Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Chairperson: Peter Weiss
Humanitarian Intervention and Contemporary Wars
Panel: Francisco Rey, David Sogge, Dan Smith
Chairperson: Mariano Aguirre
Global Transformations
Panel: Andre Gunder Frank, Samir Amin, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Peter Waterman
Chairperson: Barry Gills
Global Environmentalism: Seeking Common Ground
Panel: Agus Sari, Daphne Wysham, Ranil Senayanake
Chairperson: Hermann von Hatzfeldt
Plus: short presentation of Forests for the Future (Both Ends/Zed Press, 1999) with Paul Wolvekamp (ed)
What Future the Nation State?
Panel: Boris Kagarlitsky, Marcos Arruda, Jochen Hippler, Tom Nairn
Chairperson: Dan Smith
The Next Intervention? Colombian Conflict and International Responses
Speakers: Alfredo Molano, Coletta Youngers, Gregorio Wolff, Martin Jelsma, Theo Roncken
Chairperson: Jenny Pearce
ATTAC-Netherlands Workshops (Dutch)
An inaugural workshop to discuss a proposed five point action plan:
a) implementation of a Tobin Tax on international currency transactions;
b) a democratic say over national capital flows;
c) the removal of tax breaks for companies;
d) effective taxation on capital returns;
e) corporate accountability.
Launch of ATTAC Netherlands (Dutch & English)
Public Launch of the Dutch (and 20th national chapter) of the Association pour une Taxation des Transactions financiers pur l'Aide aux Citoyens (ATTAC). For more information, contact attac@xminy.nl or search http://www.attac.org
Speaker: Susan George
Dutch Complicity in US Intervention in Colombia
Round table discussion led by Gregorio Wolff, Martin Jelsma, and Theo Roncken
Mobilisation Against Corporate Globalisation: Focus on World Trade Organisation
Speakers: Walden Bello, Susan George, Ilka Schroeder and Sarah Anderson
Chairperson: Marcos Arruda
Cultural Globalization: Homogenization or Hybridization?
Debate: James Early versus Hein Marais
Moderator: Jan Nederveen Pieterse
América Latina: los retos de la democracía y la izquierda (Democracy and the Left in Latin America)
Broadcast via the Spanish World Service of Radio Nederland
Led by: Carlos Vilas, Jenny Pearce and others
Chairperson:Kees Biekart
SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER 1999
USA Politics Today: A View from Inside
An interview with Marcus Raskin, who will address such questions as US omnipotence and the psychology of impotence; the politics of entertainment or poli-tainment; is the US being isolationist or nationalist; and is there any change of a liberal or left alternative in the US.
Social Movements in Search of a New Politics?
Panel: Carlos Vilas, Melay Abao, Raymond Suttner, Francis Lee
Chairperson: Achin Vanaik
Temporary Autonomous Zone
An ongoing catwalk of activist projects from Amsterdam to Zimbabwe. This multi-media environment will highlight inspiring initiatives and facilitate unexpected encounters with only one limit: a maximum of 15 minutes exclusive exposure!
On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century:The Lugano Report
Howard Wachtel interviews Susan George on the publication of her latest book.
The Third Way & the Need for a New Politics
Panel: Anthony Barnett, Joost Lagendijk, Jochen Hippler, Marcus Raskin
Chairperson: Hilary Wainwright
King: A Street Story
A reading by John Berger and his daughter, Katya Andreadakis, from the story of King, a voice for the poor and marginalized millions who daily live the effects of neo-liberal globalisation. Delivered in English and French, King's lyrically furious homage to the homeless demands to know what YOU are going to do about it?
Towards a New Internationalism: Closing Plenary
Fundraiser for the Case Against Pinochet
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