The Assembly of The Social Movements, while not exactly a part of the World Social Forum, is the place where action gets agreed and a statement of intent is issued.

Focus on the Global South has compiled a report and the call of the Social Movements is published here. For more detail please visit their site.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM, NAIROBI

16h-18h, 24 January 2007

Contents:
Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly
List of actions proposed and endorsed by Assembly

Chaired by Trevor Ngwane (South Africa) and Wahu Kaara(Kenya)

Opening declaration of the assembly read by Wahu Kaara, Kenya organising committee of the WSF:

AFRICAN STRUGGLES, GLOBAL STRUGGLES

We, social movements from across Africa and across the world, have come together here in Nairobi at the 2007 World Social Forum to highlight and celebrate Africa and her social movements; Africa and her unbroken history of struggle against foreign domination, colonialism and neo-colonialism; Africa and her contributions to humanity; Africa and her role in the quest for another world.

We are here to celebrate and reaffirm the spirit of the World Social Forum as a space of struggle and solidarity which is open to all people and social movements regardless of their ability to pay.

We denounce tendencies towards commercialisation, privatisation and militarisation of the WSF space. Hundreds of our sisters and brothers who welcomed us to Nairobi have been excluded because of high costs of participation.

We are also deeply concerned about the presence of organisations working against the rights of women, marginalised people, and against sexual rights and diversity, in contradiction to the WSF Charter of Principles.

The social movements assembly has created a platform for Kenyans and other Africans from different backgrounds and communities to present their struggles, alternatives, cultures, talents and skills. It is also a space for civil society organisations and social movements to interact and share the issues and problems affecting them.

Since the first assembly in 2001, we have contributed to building and strengthening successful international networks of civil societies and social movements and reinforced our spirit of solidarity and our struggles against all forms of oppression and domination.

We recognise that the diversity of movements and popular initiatives against neo-liberalism, orld hegemony of capitalism and imperial wars, is an expression of a world resistance.

[We recognise that the diversity of movements and popular initiatives against neo-liberalism, world hegemony of capitalism and imperial wars, is an expression of a world resistance.]

[We have now to move towards a phase of effective alternatives. Many local initiatives are already existing and should be expanded: what is happening in Latin America and other parts of the world -- thanks to the joint action of social movements -- shows the way to establish concrete alternatives to world capitalist domination.]

As social movements from all five continents gathering in Nairobi, we express our solidarity with the social movements in Latin America whose persistent and continuing struggle has led to electoral victories for the Left in several countries.

[Additional text proposed by Samir Amin, and accepted by the assembly]

Actions
We are calling for a broad international mobilisation against the G8 in Rostock and Heiligendamm (Germany) 2-8 June 2007.
We will mobilise in our communities and movements for an International Day of Action in 2008.
This declaration was accepted by acclamation
Additional days of action proposed to, and supported by, the social movements assembly

LGTB
June 2007: Support the mobilisations for the respect of sexual diversity to make real the slogan “In a diverse world, equality is first” which will take place in June 2007 and 2008.

Debt
14-21 October 2007: A Global Week of Action against debt
(15 October - 20th anniversary of the death of Thomas Sankara; 16 October - World Food Day
17 October - International Day to Eradicate Poverty; 20 October - World Youth Day; 19-21 October - IMF-WB Annual meetings)

War and Occupation
February 24: No Trident, Troops out of Iraq Demo, London, UK
(Contact: [email protected]; [email protected])
5-9 March 2007 : International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign
Military Bases, Quito/Manta, Ecuador, (Contact: nobases(at)yahoo.com)
17-20 March: Global Days of Action against Occupation of Iraq
29 March - 1 April 2007: Fifth Cairo Conference, Cairo, Egypt
(Contact: [email protected]/02072786694)
2 June 2007: G8 Protests, Rostock, Germany, call for all anti-war coalitions to put anti-war effort in the centre of the protest against the G8
15 May 2007: Global Protests marking the Palestine Nakbah
7-9 June: Global Days of Action to protest 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Palestine Territories
29 November 2007: Call for Solidarity Activities with Palestine (global)
May 2008: “Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War” 2008, Tokyo, Japan
(Contact: [email protected])

Palestine
9-10 June 2007: Global days of action to mark the 40th anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights, under the banner “The world says no to Israeli Occupation”
15 May 2007: Global day of action to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian nakbah (catastrophe) and calling for the implementation of resolution 194 which calls for the right of the Palestinian people to return to their land.

Water
18-20 March, 2007 - March 2009: Gather at the World Assembly of Citizens and Elected Officials in the European Parliament in Brussels, to demand that governments implement the right to water before the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which is 10 December 2008. From this point, via the global action month, Blue October, and other mobilisations, we will challenge the illegitimate World Water Forum, Istanbul March 2009.

Climate Change
8 December, 2007: International Day of Action on Climate Change

Housing
October: Launch of the worldwide campaign on “zero evictions” .
18 May, 2007: commemorating the anniversary of the Mugabe government’s eviction offensive in Zimbabwe.

Haiti
14 August 2007: Social forum in solidarity with Haiti.

Military Bases
17 February, 2007: March and mobilisation in Italy against the enlargement of the Vicenza US military base.

Migration
7 October, 2007: Day of action for the rights of migrants and the free movement of peoples in commemoration of the tragedies of Cueta and Melilla.