The Second Intercontinental Gathering For Humanity and against Neoliberalism
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Took place in the Spanish state in the last week of July and the first week of August 1997, some 3000 people attended from 50 countries includingItaly, Spain, Mexico, Switzerland, France, Germany, Denmark, Canada, USA, Finland, Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Greece, Austria, Portugal, South Africa, Chad, Cameroon, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Morocco, Turkey, Israel, India, Bangladesh, Australia, and Indonesia, as well as nearly every country from South America. |
Reports from the second encounter
Dreaming of a Reality where the past and present meet the future
Andrew Flood's report on the second encounter
Report on encounter and issues around it
from Monty Neill
Zapatista Delegation Travels to Spain
Article by Cecilia Rodriguez
Zapatismo News Update reports on the start of the encounter
Reports sent direct from the encounter as it was in progress
Photos and more reports from the encounter
Attempted eviction of Barcelona occupied house used during the encounter
Web-based interactive foro for discussion of the Encuentro
The table reports
[These are reports and documents drawn up by the particapants as the tables]
Table 1
- Report of Madrid Mesa 1a, Work and the Means of Production,
and 1b, Creating Conditions for a Life with Dignity
Table 3:
- Reports from Nous Barris Information Table (3c)
Table 5 : Struggle For the Land and Environment
The lead up to the encounter
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Some papers submitted in English to the second gathering
There is a much larger collection of papers here
The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle
by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
On the struggle of the Zapatista women
by the EZLN
Our resistence
by the EZLN
Neoliberism in Europe
by Claudio Molteni, Laura Disilvestro, Marina Merlini, Franco Roman [Italy]
The politics of denial and refusal in the working class of the Australian state
by Bruce Lindsay, Australia
Resistance to Neoliberalism: A View from South Africa
by South African comrades for the encounter
How can we a make a network of local struggles?
from Red-Red Switzerland
Provoking meetings using networks, building networks through meetings
Claudio Albertani, Paolo Ranieri June, 1997
And with the Indians, what now
by Guillermo Michel Grupo Rosario Castellanos Mexico
UK Flexploitation and Resistance Beyond Waged Labour
by fHUMAN London Committee
Toward the New Commons: Working Class Strategies and the Zapatistas
by Monty Neill, with George Caffentzis and Johnny Machete, of the Midnight Notes Collective
Net- which Net?
by Group 2828
Reclaiming our lives
by Paul Gravett of London Greenpeace
Maastricht and neoliberalism
by Koordinadora de Kollectius del Park Alcosa
Andalusian nationalism in solidarity against neoliberalism
by Miguel Moya Guirado y Mariano Junco Gonzalez, Nacion Andaluza activists.
From "S.O.S. -tainability" to self-management
Genetic manipulation and transgenic food
by Albert de Germinal, Consumption of Eco-Biological Products Cooperative
Independance and the raising of standards of living in the '3rd World'
Closing words of the EZLN to the 2nd Encounter
We want to thank you for the great effort of hope and harmony in our hearts
Our struggle - which is also yours, men and women of the world - is going to triumph
Contacts
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Some of the history of preparation for the second gathering
- The Swiss Zapatista group proposed a meeting to begin planning for the European hosted "Second Intercontinental Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism". Their was feedback on their letter then the meeting was held on the 22 Dec 1996.
- A second meeting was held in Barcelona in Februray of 1997
- A European meeting was held in Prague in March a consulta had been prepared to get many opinions on how the second encounter should be organised
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