Attendees: Ashish Kothari, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Pierre Beaudet, Feroz Mehdi, Rosy Zuniga, Franco Augusto, Francine Mestrum, Marco Ulvila, Justin, Shrishtee Bajpai, Christophe Aguiton, Yousef Habache
23rd| 2-3 minute video for the opening day: The different processes + asingle message (Ashish to share draft text of his opening points -Next stepsLogos to be shared by everyone) Onevideo for the opening panel will be from 2-4 pm UTC.
-Other videos through at different times through the days Rosy The videos must be 2-3 minutes long including music, scenes from social actions.
-Should be a group of people on screen, not only one person talking in camera; The context being the 24hrs march, which will include the opening panel Deadline for videos: Next week; 13th or 15th; To be sent to: forumvirtual@wsf2021.net
-Registration for SessionsDeadline is 7th or 8th January
-Official panels do not need to be registered; self-organised ones do, but deadline not clear
26th | Education, Culture, and Communication 12pm UTC Dialogue about education, democratic processes and alternatives | Varsha, Rosy, someone from GTA core team (?)
28th | 2 consecutive panels: Democracy and Fascism Panel: 6 am to 8 am Mexico time (Action: Make official panel) | Srishtee, Franco, Justin, Rosy Ashish: swing towards fascism as well as radical efforts to resist Francine: Risk of focusing only at grassroots level and allowing for national anti-democratic policies.
Varsha and Mehdi: Make it about sharing lessons in resistance from an internationalist perspective
Rosy: Someone from Brasil?
Yousef: Someone from Palestine/Egypt region? Francine: perhaps Boa Ventura?
Social Justice Panel: After the Democracy one (Prep already underway) |
Francine to inform if there is any slot available To confirm: A potential third panel on solidarity and social action?
Mabrouka / Ana Cecilia to inform
29th | Ecology and Climate Community resilience | Vasna, Franco, Christophe Conversation with community organizers to share how they've been planning and learning through Covid Panel discussion action: Vasna and Franco to follow up with Christophe and Justin
30th | Assembly of all processes Ashish: Open call for other global processes to join us Format: A form of relay and some shared thoughts and continuity by capturing the discussion from the first and using it as the basis for starting the second; 2 different time zones to accommodate all regions: 2 hour sessions at 6am UTC; 6pm UTC
Hamouda, Ashish, Marco, and others to brainstorm and get back to the group
Next steps: Teams to circulate a short note in the next 2-3 days Deadline for registering self-organized sessions? There is no deadline, but we should try to it before 15th Announcements.
Communication regarding all the events should go out soon
next meeting 18th January, 2 pm GMT
through the year as part of WSF Initiatives; and preparation for presencial WSF in Mexico, 2021: to be discussed in next meeting to also present at Assembly sessions on 30th