18-20 april zagreb croatia action days against imf, world bank

"Another World Is Possible" is an initiative founded by individuals from different groups and NGOs. The manifestation organized by the initiative will include a conference which will cover many topics concerning economic globalisation and its consequences as well as alternatives. The conference will be held on April 18, 19 and 20, 2002 on the premises of the Faculty of Political Sciences (Zagreb, Lepusiceva 6) and multimedia center m.a.m.a. (Zagreb, Preradoviceva 18). Participants of the conference will be different scientists, scholars, professors and journalists.
This will be a round table conference where each participant will present his/her case within 15min. time limit. Discussions can take place after the presentations.
April 18, 2002, Thursday, 14:00 - 19:45
1.Prof. M. Jost: "Genetic engineering in agriculture"
2. V. Lay: "Agents for sustainable development in Croatia"
3. D. Plecko: "Local community in solving local problems: the case of Samobor"
4. D. Muvrin: "Organic farming offers new possibilities"
April 19, 2002, Friday, 14:00 - 17:00
1. I. Malbasic, Bankwatch Network, Budapest: "World Bank and reconstruction of the Balkans"
2. L. Gabriel, anthropologist and journalist, Vienna: "The Porto Alegre
process and the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC)"
3. B. Horvat, Ph.D.: "Self-government"
4. Prof. A. Grubacic: "PARECON - participatory economy"

17:00 - 20:00
1. Prof. Z. Puhovski: "NATO?"
2. Prof. A. Dajkovic, USA: "Political economy and ideology of global militarism"
3. Prof. V. Golubovic: "Another world is possible with revolution?"

this is "theoretical" part, in saturday we will meet at central square, there will be various info-points (about imf and wb policies, against nato's bases in croatia, about new croatian laws regarding workers and gmo,anti-war campaigne, anarchist collectives...), food not bombs, "take it or leave it" fair (with flyers about consumerism and alternatives, like LETS e.g.), performances, press conference, political comics,etc. there will be march through the center of the town towards imf office. there's no israeli embassy in croatia, and we decided to ignore the U.S.A., we've been there many times and now police & press expect us to do that, but we don't want to give them any more legitimacy... there will be concerts and party in clubs "attack!" and "mocvara" (in the same building, ex-factory "jedinstvo", trnjanski nasip bb.) on monday, april 22, in m.a.m.a. multimedia center will be presentation of zapatista's struggle and communities in chiapas, with guests from slovenia who recently returned from mexico.

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