Genova 2011: Seminars on Basic Income, Citizenship and Water

In July we will see a strong – at least so we hope –  mobilization in Genoa, in an effort to re-connect social movements, unions, associations after ten years of antiglobalization struggles  and of  strong efforts to propose alternatives. The financial, economic, and social crisis has provoked the centralization of power in the EU, in parallel with the bail-out of the banks and the financial systems and the destruction of  social rights, the reduction of wages and pensions, the casualization of  work, the social dumping, the privatization of public assets, the war against  migrants. We are watching, and supporting, the Arab democratic revolutions,  and opposing the war against the Libyan people.

In Europe, in spite of  the general strikes and  mass demonstrations, the situation is socially  and politically  very difficult.  Above all, we are not able to connect the struggles at a European level, therefore the social movements are constrained in the national borders. The last meetings in Paris and the mobilizations against the G8 are important steps, but we should increase  the occasions to discuss and to forge coalitions in order to fight the policies against the peoples decided by the governments and the European elites in Brussels.

‘Genoa 2001-2011’ will be useful if people from all Europe can come, so this will become an occasion to deepen our discussion and to build alternatives.

In the frame of  ‘Genoa 2001-2011’ some of us, who are engaged in the FSE and in the process of the Charter of Another Europe, are organizing three seminars and an assembly on some European issues. Representatives of unions, associations, magistrates, etc. are all involved in the organization of these meetings.