Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

 THURSDAY, MARCH 26

Forum of Anti-Fascist Leaders

Venue : Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul – Praça Marechal Deodoro, 101 – Centro Histórico
Plenarinho Room – 3^rd floor – Capacity: 100 seats

2:00 PM – Opening of the Forum of Anti-Fascist Leaders: MP Pepe Vargas, MP Luciana Genro, MP Bruna Rodrigues.

Welcome from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

2:30 PM – Government Panel: “The role and limits of institutional action in the democratic struggle”

Moderated by: MP Maria do Rosário and MP Daiana Santos.

Speakers: Senator Humberto Costa (Former President of Parlasul/Brazil), Senator Oscar Andrade (General Secretary of the PCU), MEP Ana Miranda (Spain), MEP João Oliveira (Portugal), MP Thomas Portes (France), Abdul Razak (City Councilor, Connecticut/USA), MP Glauber Braga (Brazil), MP Erkan Bas (Chair of the Workers’ Party of Turkey), Vilma Rippol (Former MP, Argentina).

4:00 PM – Political Roundtable: “Experiences of deepening democracy in people’s governments”

Moderated by: MP Stela Farias and MP Matheus Gomes.

Speakers: Maurizio Fabbri (President of the Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region/Italy); Fernando Rojas (Director of Casa de las Américas/Cuba), Daniel Jadue (Former Mayor of Recoleta/Chili), Mayor Luiz Fernando Mainardi (Bagé/RS, Brazil), Dani Brizolara (Vice-Mayor of Pelotas/Brazil), Mercosur MP Franco Metasa (RI La Campora Argentina), MP Blanca Eekhout (President of the Simon Bolivar Inst. for Peace and Solidarity with the Peoples, Venezuela).

5:30 PM – Closing

6:00 PM – OPENING MARCH OF THE 1^st INTERNATIONAL ANTIFASCIST CONFERENCE FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF PEOPLES

Venue: Largo Glênio Peres (in front of the Public Market) | 6:00 PM

 FRIDAY, MARCH 27

8:00 AM – Breakfast at UFCSPA – Welcome by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

9:00 AM – 1^st CONFERENCE: The Global Far-Right Offensive: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges

Moderated by: Brenno Almeida (President of the Perseu Abramo Foundation).

Speakers: MP Sâmia Bonfim (SP/Brazil), Éric Toussaint (CADTM, Belgium), Jorgelina Matusevicius (Vientos del Pueblo, Argentina), Ricardo Abreu de Melo “Alemão” (FMG, Brazil), Thomas Portes (MP, LFI, France), Walter Pomar (PT/Brazil).

Commentary 1: Gabriel Portillo (Coordinator of the León Duarte Union Front, Uruguay).

Commentary 2: City Councilor Giovani Culau (Social Scientist, former leader of UNE and UJS).

11:00 AM – 2^nd CONFERENCE: The Struggle Against Milei’s Ultra-Neoliberal Fascism

Moderated by: MP Luciana Genro (Brazil).

Speakers: Claudio Lozano (Unidad Popular), Isaac Rudnik (Libres del Sur), Julio Gambina (ATTAC CADTM), Sergio Garcia (MST Argentina).

Commentary 1: Juçara Dutra (Education International, Former President of CNTE).

Commentary 2: Thomas Battagliano (Argentine University Federation).

2:30 PM – 3^rd CONFERENCE: Workers’ Resistance to Neoliberalism and Fascism

Moderated by: Fatima Silva (CNTE)

Speakers: Quintino Severo (CUT), Adilson Araújo (President of CTB), Hugo Godoy (CTA, Argentina), Carlos Martinez (WFTU Southern Cone, Int. Sec. of UNTMRA and Int. Dept. of PIT-CNT Uruguay), Aitor Murgia Fatima Silva (CNTE) (ELA Emergency Liquidity Assistance
ELA Emergency funds loaned to the private banks by the Eurozone central banks. , Basque Country), Humberto Montes de Oca (Mexican Electricians Union SME), MEP Leila Chaibi (LFI, France).

Commentary 1: Jair dos Santos (Metalworkers Union of Campinas).

Commentary 2: Danilo Serafim (Teachers Union CEPE/RJ).

5:00 PM – 4^th CONFERENCE: Brazil Under the Threat of the Ultra-Right and Imperialism

Moderated by: Historian Raul Carrion (Former MP, SRI PCdoB).

Speakers: Professor Jana Silverman (USA), MEP João Oliveira (PCP, Portugal), Nádia Campeão (President of PCdoB), Tarso Genro (Former Governor, Instituto Novos Paradigmas, PT representative), Paula Coradi (President of PSOL), Beto Albuquerque (President of PSB-RS).

Commentary 1: MP Leonel Radde (Brazil).

Commentary 2: Tica Moreno (World March of Women).

7:00 PM – 5^th CONFERENCE: Solidarity Among Peoples and the Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Moderated by: MP Maria do Rosário (Brazil).

Speakers: Socorro Gomes (CEBRAPAZ, Former President of the World Peace Council), Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental, India), Fernando Rojas (Casa de las Américas, Cuba), Sushovan Dhar (CADTM, India), Rafael Bernabe (Former Senator, Puerto Rico), Patrícia Pol (Attac, France), Jorge Arreaza (National Assembly Member, Former Vice President of Venezuela).

Commentary 1: Olívio Dutra (Former Governor, Former Minister/Brazil).

Commentary 2: Pedro Cesar Batista (Antifascist International, Brazil Chapter).

Venue: UFCSPA (R. Sarmento Leite, 245 – Historic Center – Porto Alegre).

 SATURDAY, MARCH 28

9:00 AM to 1:00 PM – Self-organised activities

2:00 PM – 6^th CONFERENCE: Palestinian Resistance to Genocide and the Oppression of the State of Israel

Moderated by: Gabi Tolotti (President of PSOL-RS and Global Sumud Flotilla participant).

Speakers: Ualid Rabah (FEPAL), Breno Altman (Ópera Mundi), Marwan Jebril (Ambassador of Palestine), Ibrahim Alzeben (Ambassador of the Arab League), Thiago Ávila (Global Sumud Flotilla), Muna Mohamed (UNB), Mauren (BDS).

Commentary 1: Sayid Marcos Tenório (IBRASPAL).

Commentary 2: Ahmed Mulay (Polisario Front).

4:30 PM – 7^th CONFERENCE: The Combat Against Fascism in the Americas

Moderated by: Misiara Oliveira (SRI of the PT).

Speakers: Mônica Valente (FSP), Benigno Perez Fernandez (Consul General of Cuba), Atílio Borón (Argentina), Cyn Huang (DSA/USA), Pietro Alarcón (Pacto Histórico International Commission), Senator Oscar Andrade (General Secretary of the PCU), Dr. Alexis Cortés (Sociologist, Univ. Alberto Hurtado, CC of the PC of Chile), Tania Diaz (Vice President RI PSUV) or Rander Peña (Antifascist International, Venezuela Vice-Chancellor for Latin America, Gen. Sec. ALBA), Javier Miranda (Former Minister of HR, Former President of Frente Amplio Uruguay).

Commentary 1: Amanda Harumy (Former Exec. Sec. OCLAE, SRI PCdoB).

7:00 PM – 8^th CONFERENCE: The Struggle Against Climate Denialism and for Agrarian Reform in the Context of the Environmental Crisis

Moderated by: Lara Rodrigues (MST).

Speakers: João Pedro Stédile (MST), Vânia Marques Pinto (CONTAG), Michael Löwy (NPA, France), David Otieno (Kenyan Peasant League), Zé Correa (WSF).

Commentary 1: Annie Hsiou (USP).

Commentary 2: Jairo Boelter (UFRGS).

Venue: UFRGS (Av. Paulo Gama, 110 – Farroupilha – Porto Alegre) | Grand Auditorium of the Rectory (Salão de Atos).

  SUNDAY, MARCH 29

9:00 AM – 9^th CONFERENCE: Anti-racism, Feminism, and Civil Rights in the Struggle Against Fascism

Moderated by: MP Fernanda Melchionna (Brazil).

Speakers: Mireille Fanon (Jurist, France), Pénélope Duggan (NPA France, member of the Fourth International bureau), Danielle Costa (Political Scientist, SEPIR/Bahia), Ideli Salvatti (Humaniza SC), Luana Alves (São Paulo City Councilor – PSOL), Pastora Filigrana Garcia (Action Against Hate, Spain), Auricélia Arapiun (Indigenous Peoples).

Commentary 1: Letícia Carolina Nascimento (Author and Pedagogue – UFPI).

Commentary 2: MP Laura Sito (Brazil).

11:30 AM – 10^th CONFERENCE: Education, Science, and Technology for the Sovereignty of Peoples

Moderated by: MP Sofia Cavedon (Brazil).

Speakers: Márcia Barbosa (Rector of UFRGS), Senator Teresa Leitão, Former Senator Gloria Ramirez (Colombian Federation of Teachers), Bianca Borges (President of UNE), Sonia Alesso (Education International), Cláudio Mendonça (President of ANDES), Wellinton Silva (President of PROIFES).

Commentaries: Hugo Silva (President of UBES), Fátima Silva (President of CNTE), Rozane Zan (President of CPERS), Sandro Pimentel (Education Coord. FASUBRA Union).

2:30 PM – 11^th CONFERENCE: Resistances, Solidarity, and Democratic Alternatives

Moderated by: Damian Hazar (World Social Forum).

Speakers: Zoe Konstantopoulou (Former President of the Hellenic Parliament), Manon Aubry (MEP LFI France, Vice-Chair of The Left group), Fernanda Gadea (ATTAC Spain), Ana Maria Prestes (SRI PCdoB), Roberto Robaina (City Councilor and President of PSOL Porto Alegre), Valter Pomar (Perseu Abramo Foundation).

Commentary 1: Liége Rocha (CI WSF, WIDF).

Commentary 2: Former Mayor of Porto Alegre, Raul Pont.

4:30 PM – General Assembly and Adoption of the Porto Alegre Charter

6:00 PM – Closing