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The 2nd summer university of CADTM Europe, the highlight of the year, was held from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd July at Wépion (Belgium) and was a great success with over 300 participants, including the sun.
This moment was important to look back upon past, and forward to coming, events as well as our responses and analyses, in a relaxed atmosphere.
The diversity of discussed issues (European crisis, environmental debt, neocolonialism, feminist struggles, etc.) and guest speakers met all expectations.
In our first summer university (2009) we had developed a collective analysis about the global crisis of capitalism and the resistances and alternatives which could be opposed. As in 2009, and even more so, the 2nd summer university of CADTM Europe gave us an opportunity to examine the development of the international crisis and build a much needed response against the debt and austerity measures at a European level. Indeed, with the help of the IMF and the European Commission, Capital and the leaders of European countries are determined to have the majority of workers and unemployed pay for their crisis.
More than 300 participants and 25 workshops analyzed the crisis that hits EU countries, the US, Japan, Iceland. Was also addressed the new forms of colonialism 50 years after declarations of independence in African countries, current developments in Asia (China, Thailand,…), alternatives implemented in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. We considered issues related to the defence of the environment, women’s struggles, human rights, the legal foundations for debt cancellation, current social struggles, and many others. Our summer university was also an opportunity to share our pedagogical tools and practices.
You will soon find below, the reports of the workshops in various forms (slide shows, mp3, videos ...) and photos. |
Interviews réalisées par Chris Den Hond au cours de l’université d’été
Friday 1st July
| 9.30-11.00 - Welcome of the participants | |
| 11.00-12.30 -Opening Plenary
With Eric Toussaint (president of CADTM Belgium), Sonia Mitralias (CADTM Greece)
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| Lunch | |
| 14.30-16.30 : parallel workshops | |
| Public debt in France and Belgium
With Pascal Franchet (CADTM France), Olivier Bonfond (CADTM Belgium)
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| Ecological debt : global approach
With Eric De Ruest (CADTM Belgium), Jean Gadrey (ATTAC France)
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| Why should we still be feminist today?
With Céline Caudron, the group "Féminismes" of CADTM Belgium, Khadija Ounchif (Solidarity association with arab women), Laure Jouteaux (Osez le Féminisme, Belgique), Monika Karbowska (CADTM France) |
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| Island, Ireland : from heaven to hell with the financial markets
With Yvette and Mike Krolikowski (CADTM France), Andy Storey (UCD Dublin), Jerome Duval (Patas Arriba/CADTM Spain)
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| Which financing for which development ?
With CADTM, Gérard Karlhausen (CNCD, National Center for Cooperation to Developpement, Belgium), Virginie de Romanet (CADTM Belgique)
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| Break | |
| 17.00-18.30 : parallel workshops | |
| Let us clip the wings of vulture funds!
With Nick Dearden (Jubilee Debt Campaign, UK), Renaud Vivien (CADTM Belgium)
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| Alternatives implemented in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia
With Eric Toussaint (CADTM Belgium), Gonzalo Gomez (Aporrea.org, Marea Socialista), Manuel Sutherland (Asociación latinoamericana de Economistas Marxistas-ALEM, CADTM), Paulino Nunez (CADTM Venezuela) |
FR-ESP |
| China, big winner of the crisis ?
With Jean Sanuk and Danielle Sabai
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| String game on debt
Pedagogical tool |
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| The United States public debt
With Daniel Munevar (CADTM AYNA) |
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| Lunch | |
| 20.00 : Discussion on arabs revolutions | FR-ENG-ESP |
Saturday 2nd July
| 9.30-12.30 : parallel workshops | |
| Debt crisis in Europe
With Pascal Franchet (CADTM France), Darius Zalega (journalist with Monde diplomatique, member of CADTM Poland), Giorgos Mitralias (CADTM Greece), Nick Dearden (Jubilee Debt Campaign, UK)
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| Asia (Bangladesh, Thailand, ...) and public debt of Japan
With Jean Sanuk, Danielle Sabai, Daniel Munevar (CADTM AYNA)
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| Ill-gotten gains
With Claude Quémar (CADTM France), Thomas Borrel (SURVIE), André Rothenbühler (Action Place financière Suisse)
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| World Social Forum ? And after
With Olivier Bonfond (CADTM Belgium), Monica Karbowska, Josie Riffaud (Via Campesina)) |
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| Sudestan
Pedagogical tool on debt |
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| Lunch | |
| 14.30-16.30 : parallel workshops | |
| Alternatives to debt crisis in Europe
With Eric Toussaint (CADTM Belgium), Jean-Marie Harribey (ATTAC France)
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| Lumumba and Sankara: revolutions in the past and social movement in the present
With Antoine Souef (SURVIE), Bruno Jaffré (author of a biography of Thomas Sankara), Pauline Imbach (CADTM Belgium/Collectif Mémoires coloniales) |
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| Instrumentalisation and recuperation of the feminine and feminist Movements by the International institutions
With Stéphanie Treillet (Master of conference, IUFM-Paris XII Créteil, NPA), Group Féminismes of CADTM Belgium |
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| Land grabbing and plundering exploitation of natural resources
Emmanuelle Breiner, Josie Riffaud (Via Campesina) |
FR-ESP |
| The need to file a suit against the WB and the IMF!
With Renaud Vivien (CADTM Belgique), Jérôme Duval (Patas arriba/CADTM Espagne)
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| 17.00-18.30 : Plenary | |
| Mobilizations against the debt and austerity measures in Europe
Jean-Marie Harribey (ATTAC France), Andrej Hunko (député Die Linke, Achen) Allemagne, Darius Zalega (Pologne), Esther Vivas (Gauche anticapitaliste, Catalogne), Giorgos Mitralias (CADTM Grèce), Giorgos Galanix (Coalition of Resistances, UK), Eric Toussaint (CADTM Belgique)
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| Lunch | |
| 20.00 : Music! Party time | |
Sunday 3rd July
| 9.30-12.30 : parallel workshops | |
| Impact of austerity measures on women. Feminist alternatives to debt
With Monika Karbowska, Sonia Mitralias (CADTM Greece), Christine Vanden Daelen (CADTM Belgium), Judith Morva (economist, coordinator of Le Monde Diplomatique in Hungary)
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| From independence to political sovereignty : ALBA, Bank of the South
With Daniel Munevar (CADTM AYNA), Franck Gaudichaud(France Amérique latine, co-author of Le Volcan latino-américain)
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| Freedom of movement for people: a fundamental right, what European policies?
With France Arets (spokeperson of the Collective for Resistance to the Close Centers for Aliens - CRACPE), Olivier Stein (Progress Law), Benoit Vander Meerscheen |
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| Legal arguments to cancel public debts
With Renaud Vivien (CADTM Belgique)
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| World Bank and « green funds »
With Jérémie Cravatte (CADTM Belgium), Nicolas Sersiron (CADTM France), Eric De Ruest (CADTM Belgique-GDE)
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| Lunch | |
| 14.30-16.30 : Plenary | |
| For a Europe based on solidarity
With Myriam Bourgy (CADTM Belgium), Samir Abi (ATTAC-CADTM Togo, member of the coordination of CADTM Africa network)
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Thematic Axis
We propose you various thematic axis according to your wishes, expectations and centres of interest,..!
Axis « Debt and austerity in the North »
Saturday Sunday |
Public debt in France and BelgiumAxis « Getting out of colonialism! »
Saturday Sunday |
Axis « Ecological debt »
Saturday |
Axis « International law, an instrument in our struggles »
Saturday Sunday |
Axis « Feminist struggles »
Saturday Sunday |
Agenda mobilisations communes 
