Activities 2000 - 2005

12-19 December 2005

At the occasion of the WTO's 6th Ministerial Meeting, TNI (co-)organises:
- Forum on Trade and War Militarism and Neo-liberalism: A Two-headed Monster?
- Seminar on WTO and bilateral FTAs: Complementary Agents of Neoliberalism
- Roundtable Resisting Economic Partnership Agreements in Africa and the Caribbean
- Forum Iraq: Ground Zero of Globalisation and War?.
- TNI also participates in the International Day of Protest on GATS and Privatisation on 14 December and the Concert to Celebrate International Migrants' Day and People's Solidarity Against the WTO on 18 December. Hong Kong.

7-9 December 2005

IOC meeting for the Asia-Europe People's Forum 6. Helsinki, Finland.

1-5 November 2005

Meeting of the Enlazando Alternativas 2, III Cumbre de Los Pueblos de America, Mar del Plata, ArgentinaIntegration for and from the People is Necessary and Possible: Final Declaration [PDF document] - Programme of the meeting [Spanish PDF document] - III Cumbre de Los Pueblos Website.

8-9 July 2005

First Meeting of the EU-LA Network Working Group for the Enlazando Alternativas 2. The Enlazando Alternativas 2/Linking Alternatives 2, a Social Encounter that will be held in Vienna on May 10-13 2006, is building on the process of the bi-regional network launched in Guadalajara in May 2004. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

26-27 May 2005

IOC Meeting on Asia-Europe People's Forum 6. Meeting with the National Organising Committee (NOC) of Finnish NGOs. Helsinki, Finland.

23-24 May 2005

Seminar Another Europe Is Possible. How do we build it? Amsterdam, TNI Office.

12-14 April 2005

Annual General Meeting. Copenhagen Initiative for Central America (CIFCA). Brussels, Belgium.

8-10 April 2005

Preparatory meeting on Asia-Europe People's Forum 6. Held on the occasion of the Finland Social Forum. Helsinki, Finland.

29 March 2005

Public debate World Social Forums in Development From the Global to the Local De Balie, Amsterdam.

27-29 March 2005

TNI hosts the WSF IC Commissions' Meeting. TNI office, Amsterdam.

28 February-1 March 2005

Second Dialogue Forum Between Civil Society and the Mexican Government & the European Union Mexico City, Mexico.

13-16 February 2005

Seattle to Brussels Network. Budapest, Hungary.

4-5 February 2005

IOC Meeting Asia Europe People's Forum Amsterdam.

26 January 2005

Workshop Elite Politics and Democratic Movement in Indonesia with Olle Törnquist (Oslo University) and Anu Lounela (Helsinki University). Organised by TNI with the Indonesia House, the Finnish Indonesia Society and Stichting Duurzame Solidariteit. TNI Office, Amsterdam.

25-31 January 2005

TNI's Alternative Regionalisms Project organises three seminars at the World Social Forum 5: Alternative Regional Integration, People's Dialogues & Regional Integration, and Reclaiming Public Water. Porto Alegre, Brasil.

17 December 2004

Strategy Meeting of Movements from the EU and Latin America. European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.

30 November 2004

Sign-on letter Statement of European NGOs on Mercosur and "Free Trade"..

26-28 November 2004

EU Service Directory. Strategy Meeting on GATS. Dutch Social Forum, Amsterdam.

23 November 2004

Public debate At your Service: The Global Sell-Out of Public Services Felix Meritis, Amsterdam.

15 November 2004

Experts' Meeting with Parliament on EU-service directive. Brussels, Belgium.

22 October 2004

Sign-on letter Declaration from the Social Movements and Civil Society Organisations from the Mercosur.

15-17 October 2004

TNI's Alternative Regionalisms Project organises five seminars at the European Social Forum 3: Water: Politics Power and Public Services, EU-Latin America in the Eye of the Storm: People's Action and Linking Alternatives, Stop the EU Forcing "EPA" Free Trade Agreements on Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific, Reclaiming Public Water: Beyond the State and Corporations, and Strategy Meeting of Social Movements from the EU and Latin America. London, UK.

7-10 September 2004

The People's Dialogue Johannesburg, South Africa.

6-9 September 2004

Asia Europe People's Forum 5Hanoi, Vietnam.

6-7 July 2004

Third Preparatory Meeting of the ASEM5 People's Forum International Organising Committee. Hanoi, Vietnam.

25-26 June 2004

Workshop on EU Service Directory. Globalisation Festival, Amsterdam.

16-18 June 2004

ASEF Workshop Connecting Civil Society of Asia and Europe Barcelona, Spain.

25-29 May 2004

Linking Alternatives European, Latinamerican and Caribbean Social Encounter. Organised by TNI with RMALC, REDGE, ASC, Otro Mayo Guadalajara, ATTAC, Latin American Collective and CIFCA. Guadalajara, Mexico.

10 May 2004

Forum Activists' Exchanges organised by TNI. A Forum with activists from Latin America and the EU to discuss the neo-liberal agenda of the Trade Agreements. TNI office, Amsterdam.

May 2004

Second Preparatory Meeting of the ASEM5 People's Forum International Organising Committee. Hanoi, Vietnam.

21 April 2004

Public Meeting on Africa and Globalisation Felix Meritis, Amsterdam.

March 2004

First Preparatory Meeting of the ASEM5 People's Forum International Organising Committee. Hanoi, Vietnam.

17-19 January 2004

World Social Forum Mumbai, India.

• Workshop Globalisation and Militarisation. Linking Global Peace and Justice Movements
• Workshop Financing Public Water for All!
• Workshop Europe and the World. Role and Responsibilities
• Strategy Meeting of the Globalisation and War Assembly
• Workshop Another Regionalism is Possible If...

• Seminar on Alternatives to Water Privatisation People-centred Water Management is Possible!

12-14 January 2004

People's World Water Forum. New Delhi, India.

15 November 2003

Seminar In Search of Lost Democracy organised by TNI, Punto Rosso, Forum Mondial des Alternatives, Transform!, Terre des Hommes, Peoples' Law Project and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

14 November 2003

Seminar Commercialisation vs Public Services, Round 3Taking Action. The Role of Citizens. Campaign Strategies against the Privatisation of Water.

13 November 2003

Seminar Cancún Express Derailed. Movements Challenge the EU Agenda in the WTO and Free Trade Agreements organised by TNI, Seattle to Brussels Network, ATTAC, CEO, Campaign for the Reform of the World Bank, World Development Movement, Focus on the Global South and RMALC.

13 November 2003

Seminar Transnational Migrant Workers and Social Organisation organised by TNI, RESPECT Europe-wide Network of Migrant Domestic Workers, Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era, Kalayaan, Tavolo Migranti dei social forum Italiani, Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers, Kein Mensch ist Illegal, Kanck Attak and Act-up.

16-18 October 2003

Strategy Meeting onWater Privatisation in the South Amsterdam.

18 October 2003

Public debate Struggles against Water Privatisation in the South Amsterdam, organised by TNI and CEO.

19-21 May 2003

Strategy Conference Iraq and the Global Peace Movement Jakarta, Indonesia.

22 March 2003

International Seminar Advancing Alternatives to Water Privatisation Kyoto's Seika University, Japan. Co-organised by TNI with Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO, The Netherlands), Monitoring Sustainability of Globalization (Malaysia) and ATTAC (Japan).

22-27 November 2002

Towards a EU-Mexico Social Observatory Joint Civil Society Advocacy Initiative. Red de Organismos Civiles CIFCA-RMALC Civil Society Network (Copenhagen Initiative for Central America-Red Mexicana Ante el Libre Comercio) Brussels, Belgium.

8 November 2002

TNI Seminar European Union & Corporate Globalisation. Where are its Trade Policies and Trade Agreements Leading to? European Social Forum, Florence, Italy.

3 February 2002

TNI Workshop Social Movements, Emerging Resistances and Counter-strategies in the Regions of the South and North World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brasil.

November 2001

Brid Brennan speaks at a Mexican-European Union civil society conference on trade and investment liberalisation, co-organised by RMALC, Equipo Pueblo and CIFCA.

October 2001

In preparation for TNI's participation in WSF2, Brid Brennan attends the WSF International Council meeting held in Dakar, Senegal.

May 2001

TNI and the University of Amsterdam's Research Centre for International Political Economy (RECIPE) co-organise a seminar on New Regionalisms. Brid Brennan, Kees Biekart and Fiona Dove participate.

16-21 April 2001

Second People's Summit of the Americas organised under the banner of the Hemispheric Social Alliance. Quebec, Canada. The Alternative Regionalisms websection is launched to coincide with the Summit.

January 2001

Workshop Regionalisms from Below. Dot Keet, Walden Bello and Manuel Peréz from the Alternative Regionalisms project speak. World Social Forum 1, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

29-30 November 2000

Relations between Africa and the European Union in the 21st Century Civil Society Declaration to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of SADC and the EU. Meeting in Gaborone.