https://www.facebook.com/events/700058380890318

„The European Spring is Necessary“

Prague & online, the 5^th + 6^th of December 2020

Organized by: Prague Spring 2 – European network against right-wing extremism and populism – together with UNITED for Intercultural Action, transform! europe, Activist for Peace, Sweden, Alliance for Labour and Solidarity (Spojenectví práce a solidarity – SpaS), Czechia, International Young Naturefriends (IYNF), Young European Environmentalists (YEE), Organizers for the Left (A Szervezök A Baloldalért – SzAB) and ATTAC Hungary.

Aim: – bringing social, peace and environmental movements together, especially those from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), involved in seeking for solutions to the global threats against peace, climate and equality
– focusing on interdependence of these issues of the highest importance
– preparing European participation in the hybrid World Social Forum 25 – 29 January 2021

Programme:

Saturday, 5th December

Central and Eastern European perspectives on Peace, Climate and Equality

13:00 – 13:15 Registration of participants, welcome and organisational remarks
13:15 – 15:00 Rise of Wars and Military Spending and Climate Crises, how to address growing environmental concerns and conflicts in the CEE region. Chair: Igor Gotlib

• Belarus: Alexander Oparin and Valeriy Derkach,
• Ukraine: Yury Dergunov (Donetsk), Andrey Kochetov (Lugansk), Nina Potarska (Kiev)
• Southern Caucasus: Bahruz Samedov (Azerbaijan), Aram Amirbekian (Armenia)
• Poland: Nina Sankari, feminist

Action proposals.

15:00 – 15:15 coffee break

15:15 – 15:40 “Budapest cuisine” – Hungarian cabaretists (video special performance for European Spring with subtitles)

15:40 – 17:25 Social justice, ecological solutions to the climate crisis and building peace in the CEE region, chair Vera Zalka

• Bálint Josa, UNITED, Europe/Hungary
• Nelli Gishyan, No Hate Speech network, Armenia
• Igor Gotlib, Russia
• Ágnes Gagyi, Adjunct Professor ELTE Univ. Budapest, Hungary
• Mirek Prokeš, Alliance for Labour and Solidarity (SPaS Czechia) and WSF Int’l Council

general debate

17:25 – 17:30 Cultural ending

Sunday, 6th December

All-European mobilization for Peace, Climate and Equality

09:30 – 10:15 Registration of participants
welcome Jewish partisan song
introductory remarks, Neringa Tumenaite, Tord Björk, Mirek Prokeš
presentations of action proposals:

• Ecosocial transformation through universal disarmament and nuke-free Europe
• Mock COP 26 youth climate initiative
• Central and Eastern European action proposals from previous day
• Stop repression and Western biased history (Tord Björk, Activists for Peace) and György Droppa (SzAB)
• European Forum,
• Altersummit,
• International People’s Assembly
• Other action proposals
• World Social Forum 2021, Leo Gabriel (Prague Spring 2 and WSF Int’l Council, Austria)

10:15 – 11:45 Towards an ecosocial peace movement.
Chair: Bálint Josa

• Aaron Bastani, Labour/Novara media, UK (tbc)
• Amos Wallgren, climate justice activist, Finland
• Károly György, MASzSz Hungarian trade union
• Kristine Karch, IPB and No to NATO, Germany
• Sina Franz, Int’l Young Naturefriends, tbc

11:45 – 12:00 coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 General debate on the European and WSF process
chair: Leo Gabriel

• Neringa Tumenaité, UNITED for Intercultural Action, Lithuania
• Alexander Buzgalin, Alternativy, Russia (tbc)
• Marko Ulvila, Finnish Social Forum

13:30 – 14:00 Conclusions, closing ceremony

Register here (at no cost): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaHhR5jc10GNlZ4rasn8UYcFxZ6h3_4Ot-1HOm6y0gnPrwGg/viewform?gxids=7757

Action proposals and activities:

European/Prague Spring – webinars
25 Apr 2020 – 26 Apr 2020
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/conferences/conference-archive/united-co-conference-europeanprague-spring-25-26-april-2020/

World Social Forum 2021 January 25 – 30
https://wsf2021.net

Ecosocial transformation through universal disarmament, end of April
http://www.ipb.org/uncategorized/build-back-better-again-for-peace

Global Day of Action on Military Spending, GDAMS
http://www.ipb.org/global-campaign-on-military-spending

Action Day against Military Bases
https://www.no-to-nato.org/2020/09/declaration-of-the-4th-international-congress-against-militarybases-and-war/

Nuke Free Europe petition
https://www.nukefreeeurope.eu

Mock COP 26 youth climate initiative
https://www.mockcop.org

COP26 Coalition
https://cop26coalition.org

Central and Eastern European action proposals from previous day

Stop repression and Western biased history writing
Odessa solidarity May 2 2021
https://solidaritywithodessa.wordpress.com
Holocaust and the rewriting of History, Prague Spring 2 webinar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpnTQMBD6Fo&t=26s

European Forum
https://europeanforum.eu/online-2020/programme-2020

Altersummit
http://www.altersummit.eu

International People’s Assembly
https://antiimperialistweek.org

More information on the Prague event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/700058380890318

BRINGING THE REVOLUTION TOGETHER