The Second Intercontinental Gathering For Humanity and
against Neoliberalism
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Took place in the Spanish state in the last
week of July and the first week of August 1997, some 3000
people attended from 50 countries including
Italy, Spain, Mexico, Switzerland, France,
Germany, Denmark, Canada, USA, Finland, Ireland, Britain,
Belgium, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Greece, Austria,
Portugal, South Africa, Chad, Cameroon, Rwanda, Senegal,
Togo, Morocco, Turkey, Israel, India, Bangladesh, Australia,
and Indonesia, as well as nearly every country from South
America.
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Reports from the second encounter
Dreaming
of a Reality where the past and present meet the future
Andrew Flood's report on the second encounter
South
African report
Report on encounter and issues
around it
from Monty Neill
Zapatista Delegation Travels to
Spain
Article by Cecilia Rodriguez
Zapatismo News Update reports
on the start of the encounter
Reports
sent direct from the encounter as it was in progress
Photos
and more reports from the encounter
Attempted eviction of Barcelona
occupied house used during the encounter
Web-based
interactive
foro for discussion of the Encuentro
The table reports
[These are reports and documents drawn up by the
particapants as the tables]
Table 1
Table 3:
Table 5 : Struggle For the Land
and Environment
Some papers submitted in English to the second gathering
There is a
much larger
collection of papers here
The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global
Jigsaw Puzzle
by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
On
the struggle of the Zapatista women
by the EZLN
Our
resistence
by the EZLN
Neoliberism in Europe
by Claudio Molteni, Laura Disilvestro, Marina Merlini, Franco Roman
[Italy]
The politics of denial and refusal
in the working class of the Australian state
by Bruce Lindsay, Australia
Resistance to Neoliberalism: A View
from South Africa
by South African comrades for the encounter
How can we a make a network of
local struggles?
from Red-Red Switzerland
Provoking meetings using networks,
building networks through meetings
Claudio Albertani, Paolo Ranieri June, 1997
And with the Indians, what now
by Guillermo Michel Grupo Rosario Castellanos Mexico
UK Flexploitation and Resistance
Beyond Waged Labour
by fHUMAN London Committee
Toward the New Commons: Working Class
Strategies and the Zapatistas
by Monty Neill, with George Caffentzis and Johnny Machete, of the
Midnight Notes Collective
Net- which Net?
by Group 2828
Reclaiming our lives
by Paul Gravett of London Greenpeace
Maastricht and
neoliberalism
by Koordinadora de Kollectius del Park Alcosa
Andalusian nationalism in
solidarity against neoliberalism
by Miguel Moya Guirado y Mariano Junco Gonzalez, Nacion Andaluza
activists.
From "S.O.S. -tainability" to
self-management
Genetic manipulation and transgenic
food
by Albert de Germinal, Consumption of Eco-Biological Products
Cooperative
Independance and the raising of
standards of living in the '3rd World'
Closing words of the EZLN to the 2nd Encounter
We want to thank you
for the great effort of hope and harmony in our hearts
Our struggle - which is also yours,
men and women of the world - is going to triumph
Contacts
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Some of the history of preparation for the second gathering
- The
Swiss
Zapatista group
proposed
a meeting to begin planning for the European hosted "Second
Intercontinental Encounter for Humanity and Against
Neoliberalism". Their was
feedback
on their letter then the meeting was held on the
22 Dec 1996.
- A second meeting was held in Barcelona in Februray of 1997
- A European meeting was held in
Prague in March
a consulta had been
prepared to get many opinions on how the second encounter should
be organised