AUT: SA GLOBALISATION CONFERENCE PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

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FWD:  GLOBALISATION CONFERENCE PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

SOUTH AFRICA CONFRONTS GLOBALISATION:
BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY ALLIANCES

Many of South Africa's leading civil society organisations,
including unions, civic, student and women's organisations,
church and rural groups and environment, health and media
NGOs, have come together in a Planning Committee to
organise this conference. It is unique in bringing such a wide
range of organisations together around the growing impact of
globalisation.

Must we succumb to international pressures and jettison the
RDP? Is South Africa compelled by the new global environment to
take the GEAR route? Or are there alternatives?

The aims of the conference are to contribute towards a growing
understanding and critique of economic issues, to consider a
variety of alternatives and to stimulate the building of
alliances across organisations of civil society around key issues
and campaigns.

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PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 12 MARCH

6.00 p.m. REGISTRATION

7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. OPENING SESSION

BREAKING NEW GROUND - CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE

GLOBALISATION, THE UNIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY - COSATU REPRESENTATIVE

GLOBALISATION, THE RELIGIOUS SECTOR AND THE POOR - BISHOP
DANDALA

INDEPENDENT CIVIL SOCIETY POLITICS - CAMILLE CHALMERS, PAPDA,
HAITI

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FRIDAY 13 MARCH

8.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. GLOBALISATION AND RESISTANCE

DEMYSTIFYING GLOBALISATION: THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES -
PROF. MAHMOOD MAMDANI, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:
BAD DIAGNOSES, WORSE MEDICINE
- JOE HANLON, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR ON SOUTHERN
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE

GLOBALISATION, FOOD, LAND AND HOUSING IN ZIMBABWE -
TENDAI BITI, LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, ZIMBABWE

THE ZAMBIAN EXPERIENCE:
THE IMF, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, PRIVATISATION AND ALTERNATIVES -
AZWELL BANDA, GENERAL SECRETARY, ZAMBIAN DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS

WOMEN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
PROGRAMMES AND NEO-LIBERALISM IN HAITI -
REPRESENTATIVE, KAY FANM, HAITI

DISCUSSION

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2.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON SOUTH AFRICA

COMMISSIONS

1. GLOBALISATION, FISCAL CONSTRAINTS, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND
JOBS

2. GLOBALISATION, TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES, TRADE, TARIFFS
AND LABOUR

3. GLOBALISATION, PRIVATISATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND
WATER

4. THE WORLD BANK, IMF, POLICY, LOANS AND IDEOLOGY

Each of these commissions will explore the way in which workers, women,
students, youth, rural people, other marginalised sectors and the
environment are affected by corporate-driven globalisation and its agents.

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7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.

"BREAKFAST IN AMERICA" SLIDE SHOW

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SATURDAY 14 MARCH

8.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. PANEL

GROWING WORLDWIDE RESISTANCE:
GLOBAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AGAINST GLOBALISATION

   Updates on international initiatives
   Debate on strategies

   SOUTH AFRICAN MUNICIPAL WORKERS UNION (SAMWU)
   ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NETWORKING FORUM (EJNF)
   INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE'S HEALTH COUNCIL (IPHC)
   DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (DRI)

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11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSES

COMMISSIONS CONTINUE

In each of the commissions, how workers and communities can
develop alternatives and strategies to implement alternatives.

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2.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.

PLENARY

1. GLOBALISATION, FISCAL CONSTRAINTS, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND
JOBS
- NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE NETWORK
(NPPHCN)

CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSE - COMMISSION 1 REPORT BACK

2. GLOBALISATION, TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES, TRADE, TARIFFS
AND LABOUR -
NATIONAL UNION OF METALWORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA
(NUMSA)

CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSE - COMMISSION 2 REPORT BACK

3. GLOBALISATION, PRIVATISATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND
WATER -
SOUTH AFRICAN MUNICIPAL WORKERS UNION (SAMWU)

CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSE - COMMISSION 3 REPORT BACK

SUNDAY 15 MARCH

8.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.

4. THE WORLD BANK, IMF, POLICY, LOANS AND IDEOLOGY -
SOUTH AFRICAN NGO COALITION (SANGOCO)

CIVIL SOCIETY RESPONSE - COMMISSION 4 REPORT BACK

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11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. PANEL

MAKING OUR VOICES CLEAR AND LOUD:
IDEOLOGY, ECONOMIC LITERACY AND MEDIA

   Deepening understanding in our organisations
   Articulating positions in the progressive and commercial media
   Building alliances and campaigns

   ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (AIDC)
   NATIONAL COMMUNITY MEDIA FORUM (NCMF)
   NATIONAL THEATRE GROUP
   CAMILLE CHALMERS, PAPDA, HAITI

1.00 p.m. CLOSURE

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PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS

- Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC)
- Campaign Against Neo-Liberalism in South Africa (CANSA)
- Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU)
- Communications Workers Union (CWU)
- Development Research Institute (DRI)
- Disabled People of South Africa (DPSA)
- Eastern Cape Socio-economic Coordinating Council (ECSECC)
- Ecumenical Service for Socio-economic Transformation (ESSET)
- Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF)
- Initiative for Participatory Development (IPD)
- International Labour Resource and Information Group (ILRIG)
- Joint Enrichment Project (JEP)
- National Theatre Group
- National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
- National Progressive Primary Health Care Network (NPPHCN)
- National Community Media Forum (NCMF)
- National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)
- National Land Committee (NLC)
- Paper Pulp Wood and Allied Workers Union (PPWAWU)
- Rural Development Sector Network (RDSN)
- South African Communist Party (SACP)
- South African Agriculture Plantation and Allied Workers Union
(SAAPAWU)
- South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU)
- South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO)
- South African Students Congress (SASCO)
- South African National Civic Organisation Gauteng (SANCO
Gauteng)
- Transport and General Workers Union (T&GWU)
- Trust for Christian Outreach and Education (TCOE)
- Womens National Coalition (WNC)

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VENUE - Dunedan Hotel, Edenvale, Johannesburg

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COST

Organisations: Enquire at contact numbers below

Individuals:
   Salaried, accomodated at venue                       R1 400
   Salaried, own accomodation                           R  600

   Workers, students, unemployed accomodated at venue   R  700
   Workers, students, unemployed, own accomodation      R  300

(NUMBER  SUBJECT  TO CAPACITY OF  THE  CONFERENCE  VENUE)

For further details, phone David Letsie at (011) 331 5958, fax
(011) 331 5957, email beijing@xxxxxxxxxx, sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or
george@xxxxxxxxxx
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Sociology of Work Unit
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University of the Witwatersrand
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