The 2001 World Assembly Process
People and groups participating
in the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
form a movement in which everyone speaks on his/her behalf
without denying his/her identity in search of collective
alternatives to the present models of world, society and
human being. In 1999 we elected an International Facilitation
Team whose task was to articulate and facilitate relationships
among allies and their initiatives in order to take together
steps forward to consolidating alliances with all movements
and proposals that represent transformative experiences
for a responsible, plural and united world. One of the agreements
was to organize a World Meeting in 2000 and 2001 designed
as a series of thematic and continental meetings whose highest
point would be the World Citizens' Meeting to be held in
Lille (France) on December 2001.
Five continental meetings
will be held from the 17th to the 26th of June, 2001. These
meetings will be the geocultural contribution of the Alliance
members to the World Meeting. All five meetings will have
on common the 21st of June as an occasion for linking all
continents.
Accordingly, the Alliance
members from the continent met in Sao Paulo (Brazil) on
September 2000 and formed four regional groups: North
(United States and Canada); Central
(Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America); Andean
(Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile);
and South
(Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brasil). Each region defined
its own guidelines and methods for action until June when
a continental meeting in the half or the world (Quito) prepares
a synthesis of the actions undertaken and designs the future
process.
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Each region determined its working areas according to its
specific situation and topics of interest. Such guidelines
and areas will structure each regional meeting: in the North:
Anti Quebec summit, Continental Integration (Canada, April
2001); in Central America and the Caribbean: Social Movements,
Indian Peoples, Solidarity Economy and Interculturality
(Mexico, June 2001); in the Andes: Social Movements, Indian
Peoples and Interculturality (Bolivia, February 2001); and
in the South: Continental Integration (Paraguay, May 2001).
The Geocultural path
The Alliance for a Responsible,
Plural and United World promotes the opening of spaces for
reflection, discussion and construction of ideas and proposals
concerning different alternatives of participation and action
in thematic, collegial and geocultural aspects. The America
2001 Process.
works on the geocultural path, which focuses its work on
the interests, needs and perceptions of a specific territory
considering its own cultural particularities and potentialities.
From the geocultural perspective, the 2001 World Assembly
is based on a process of reflection, debate and coming out
of ideas and commitments according to specific aspects of
each continent, its particular world views, cultural references
and styles of action.
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