Tokyo Social Forum

"Get together, Talk, and Go! - Another World is Possible!"
Contact: Yamaura@nishoren.org, ppsg@jca.apc.org, allies@crux.ocn.ne.jp, attac-jp@jca.apc.org
Website: http://tokyo.socialforum.jp/

Date & Time: January, 24, Sunday

9:30 - 17:45 Individual workshops

17:30 - 18:00 Live performance

18:00 - 20:00 Plenary

Venue: Tokyo Korean YMCA

2-5-5 Sarugaku-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

(See the map: http://www.ymcajapan.org/ayc/jp/map1.htm)

Participation fees: \800 (The pass is available for all workshops, live performance and plenary.)

Registration: 3F and 9F of Tokyo Korean YMCA

Workshops

For more information on workshops, see the blog:

http://tokyo.socialforum.jp/Entry/20/

9:30-12:00

Biodiversity and food security

Organizers: Consumers' Union of Japan, No to WTO/FTA Coalition, No GMO Campaign, Forum on Peace, Human Rights and Environment

Neo-liberalism, it's enough - Our alternatives to financial crisis

Organizers: ATTAC Japan, Society of St Columban Region of Japan

Discuss issues of privatization of local governments and public contract ordinances - What should our own public services be like? -

Organizers: ATTAC Japan Public Services Unit

12:30-15:00

Neo-liberalism v Labor movements

Organizers: Labor Movements Section (1)

Seeking an alternative way at the field of agriculture and food sites

Organizers: Consumers' Union of Japan, No to WTO/FTA Coalition, No GMO Campaign, Forum on Peace, Human Rights and Environment

Listen to South voices at climate change talks!

Organizers: ATTAC Japan

Thinking about the alternative society from a gender perspective (1)

Organizers: People's Plan Study Group

Discussing Another World through Le Monde Diplomatique, focused on the Arabic Middle East

Organizers: Volunteers of the Japanese version of Le Monde Diplomatique

15:15-17:45

Neo-liberalism v Labor movements

Organizers: Labor Movements Section (2)

Can't survive in capitalism

Organizers: Group organizing Can't Survive in Capitalism

Cross-border solidarity of non-regular workers for No Poverty and Right of Residence

Organizers: Organizing Committee of International Solidarity of Have-nots (No-vox International)

Special Session on Japan-US Security Treaty and Okinawa

Organizers: Associe for Change (KOZA Committee)

Thinking about the alternative society from a gender perspective (2)

Organizers: People's Plan Study Group

Forming an incorporated non-profit organization Jacrimed promoting the participatory and cooperative society

Organizers: Preparatory Committee for forming Jacrimed

17:30-18:00 Music Live

Folk songs in Amani Island (a small island near Okinawa)

Singers: MABURI (standing for soul locally)

18:00-20:00 Plenary session

Ten-years WSF - Twenty-years neo-liberalism

Our response to crisis

Moderators:

Yasuaki Yamaura, Consumers' Union of Japan

Fumi Suzuki, Space Allies

Keynote speakers:

Yoko Akimoto, Secretariat of the Organizing Committee of Tokyo Social Forum and ATTAC Japan

Ten-years WSF continuing to challenge for another world

Kenji Ago, Professor of global economy and illegitimate debts at Seinan Gakuin University

Thinking neo-liberalism from a perspective of developing countries

Mami Nakano, Attorney at Law and Representative of the Network for Addressing Issues of Dispatch Work

Deepening insecurity of employment and neo-liberalism