CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL DE GOVERNOS E MOVIMETOS SOCIAIS

International Conference of governments and social movements “Regional Integration: an opportunity to face the crises”

21 and 22 July 2009 (9am-20pm), PRODEPA, Sala 1, Consejo Nacional del Deporte, Asunción del Paraguay

Watch here live on internet the debates (on 21 July at 9am (Paraguay time) the live streaming will start)

Co- Organisers
Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA), Iniciativa Paraguaya para la Integración de los Pueblos, People’s Agenda for Alternative Regionalisms (PAAR), Focus on the Global South and Transnational Institute (TNI)

In cooperation with
Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (CSA-TUCA), Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN), People’s SAARC, Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy (SAPA), TWN Africa, Trade Strategy Group, Jubilee South, REBRIP, Transform Europe, ATTAC France, Coalition for comprehensive democracy - Vasudhaiva Kutumkakam and Ecologistas en Acción

Supported by
Paraguayan Presidency Pro-tempore of Mercosur

 

21 JULY
09:00–09:30

Opening: Greeting from organisers
Enrique Daza, Executive Secretary, Hemispheric Social Alliance, Colombia
Brid Brennan, TNI/Peoples’ Agenda for Alternative Regionalisms, Netherlands
Guillermo Ortega, Base IS, Iniciativa Paraguaya por la Integración de los Pueblos, Paraguay
Héctor Lacognata, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paraguay

 

09:30–11:30

Systemic Crisis, impacts of the crisis on regional integration processes

Victor Baez, Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, Brazil
Juan Gonzalez, MOSIP, Argentina
Walden Bello, Member of Parliament, Philippines
Tetteh Hormeku, TWN/ATN, Ghana
Moderation
Cecilia Olivet, TNI, Netherlands

 

11:30 - 13:30

Regional responses to the crises

Amenothep Zambrano, ALBA representative, Venezuela
Juan Castillo, Secretary for International Relations PIT-CNT, Uruguay
Demba Moussa Dembele, African Forum on Alternatives, Senegal
Joy Chavez, Focus on the Global South, Philippines
Frederic Viale, ATTAC France
Moderation
José Miguel Hernández, CTC Nacional/ CC-ASC, Cuba

 

13:30 - 15:00
Lunch

 

 

15:00 - 17:30

Regional Integration: Re-thinking the development model. Complementarity versus competition. Integration and Asymmetries

Jorge Lara Castro, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paraguay
Oscar Laborde, Government Argentina
Tomas Palau, Base IS, Iniciativa Paraguaya por la Integración de los Pueblos, Paraguay
Graciela Rodriguez, REBRIP, Brazil
Dot Keet, SAPSN, South Africa
Charles Santiago, Member of Parliament, Malaysia
Moderation
Gonzalo Berrón, ASC/CSA, Brazil

 

17:30 - 18:00
Coffee break

 

 

18:00 - 20:00

Development Model and Infrastructure

Guilherme Carvalho, Rede Brasil sobre Instituições Financeiras Multilaterais, Brazil
Ricardo Miranda, Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB), Bolivia
Michelle Pressend, Trade Strategy Group, South Africa
Moderation

Ximana Centellas, Directora General de Gestión Pública, Viceministerio de Coordinación y Gestión Gubernamental, Bolivia

 

22 JULY
09:00 - 10:45

Energy Crisis and Climate Change: the challenge to find regional solutions

Government Venezuela
Walden Bello, Member of Parliament, Philippines
Pablo Bertinat, Cono Sur Sustentable, Argentina
Roberto Colman, Coordinadora Soberanía Energética, Paraguay
Tom Kucharz, Ecologistas en Accion, Spain
Moderation
Fernando Rojas, Decidamos, Iniciativa Paraguaya por la Integración de los Pueblos, Paraguay

 

10:45-11:00
Coffe Break

 

 

11:00-13:00

Production model and Food Sovereignty
Juan José Dominguez, Member of Parliament, MPP–FA, Uruguay
Rabindra Adhikari, Member of Parliament, Nepal
Indra Lubis, La Via Campesina, Indonesia
Lodwick Chizarura, SEATINI, Zimbabwe
Francisca Rodriguez, CONAMURI/CLOC, Chile

Moderation
Sebastián Valdomir, Redes Amigos de la Tierra, Uruguay

 

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 16:00

Finances and development model: New financial structures: (Bank of the South, regional currencies, etc)

Pedro Paez, President of the Ecuadorian Presidential Technical Commission for the New Regional Financial Architecture and Bank of the South, Ecuador
Beverly Keene, Jubilee South, Argentina
Ivan Lukas, Glopolis, Czech Republic

Moderation
Veronique Sandoval, Espace Marx, France

 

16:00-17:00

Regional Peace, Democracy and Human Rights
Lee, Seung-Heon, Chief External Relations Department of the Korea Democratic Labor Party, South Korea
Camille Chalmers, Campaign for Demilitarisation of the Americas, Haiti
Meena Menon, Focus on the Global South, India
Thomas Wallgren, Coalition for comprehensive democracy - Vasudhaiva Kutumkakam, Finland
Pezo Mateo-Phiri, SAPSN, Zambia

Moderation
Ramon Corvalan, SERPAJ Paraguay/ Iniciativa Paraguaya por la integracion de los Pueblos, Paraguay

 

17:00 – 17:30
Coffee break

17:30 – 20:00

Regional Integration: challenges for the movements and the governments

Round Table:
Edgardo Lander, Universidad Central de Venezuela/TNI, Venezuela
Meena Menon, Focus on the Global South, India
Nalu Farias, World March of Women, Brazil
Brid Brennan, TNI, Netherlands
Tetteh Hormeku, TWN/ATN, Ghana
Chacho Alvarez, President Committee of Permanent Representatives of MERCOSUR, Argentina
Ana Cristina Betancourt Garcia, Ministerio de Autonomía, Bolivia
Gustavo Codas, Government Paraguay
Moderation
Héctor de la Cueva, RMALC, México