ICC No to War - No to NATO

NATO Counter Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, November 19th- 21st 2010

NO to the new NATO-Strategy! Getting Active for Global Peace, Disarmament

and the End of NATO

Location: Escola Secundária de Camões, Lisboa

11/19/2010 - Friday

11.00-11.15 Welcome

Natália Nogal (for PAGAN)

Reiner Braun (for ICC)

11.15-13.00 Lectures

Moderation / Chair:

Arielle Denis, Mvt. Paix / Andreas Speck, WRI

• War and Peace (Sandra Monteiro, Le Monde Diplomatique, Portugal)

• The new NATO Strategy and Global Crisis (Vitor Lima, PAGAN, Portugal)

• Nuclear weapons in the new NATO-Strategy (Joseph Gerson, AFSC, USA)

• Relations between Russia and NATO (Vitaly Merkushew, Eurasian Network of Political Research, Russia)

• NATO and Missile Defense (Jan Majicek, No BASES Network, CR)

• NATO’s War in Afghanistan (RAWA, Afghanistan) (TBC)

14.00-22.30 Workshop Blocks

14.00-16.30 Workshop Block I

Discussion of the NATO Strategy

• NATO and Nuclear Weapons (convenor: Dave Webb, CND)

• NATO, War and Global Crises (convenor: Jacques Fath, PCF)

• NATO and Afghanistan (convenor: Reiner Braun, INES / Joseph Gerson, AFSC)

• NATO and EU (convenor: Michael Youlton, IAWM / PANA)

• History of NATO (convenor: Erhard Crome, RLS)

• Non violent resistance (convenor: Andreas Speck, WRI)

short coffee / snack break

17.00-19.00 Workshop Block II

War, Militarization and Peace

• Feminism and Militarization (convenor: Kristine Karch, INES)

• Portugal and Militarization (convenor: Nuno Moniz, PAGAN)

• The Military Industrial Complex and the Privatization of War (convenor: Rae Street, CND)

• NATO and Bases (convenor: Elsa Rassbach, DFG-VK – GIs and U.S. Bases / Jan Majicek, NO BASES Network)

• Youth and Militarization (convenor: Nuno Moniz, PAGAN)

• From neutrality to NATO – Scandinavia in Partnership for Peace (convenor: Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Council)

one hour dinner break

20.00-22.30 Workshop Block III
Peaceful, Just and Social Alternatives

• Alternative Security Systems (convenor: Erhard Crome, RLS)

• Actions for Peace (convenor: Monty Schädel, DFG-VK / Lucas Wirl, INES)

• Human security and other concepts (convenor: António Dores, PAGAN / Tobias Pflüger, IMI)

• Nuclear Weapons Convention (convenor: Reiner Braun, IALANA Europe)

• Disarmament for development (convenor: Ben Cramer, IPB)

22.30 Peace Party

11/20/2010 – Saturday

10.00-12.00 Public Event in the City of Lisboa

NO to War – NO to NATO

Moderation / Chair: Joseph Gerson (AFSC) / Irina Castro (PAGAN)

Discussion in the centre of the city, open for the general public and interested people. With Politicians and Activists:

• Willy Meyer, Member European Parliament GUE/ NGL, European Left, Spain

• Jeremy Corbyn, Member of Parliament, Labour Party, GB

• Colonel Mario Tomé, PAGAN, Portugal

• Arielle Denis, Mouvement de la Paix, France

• Christine Hoffmann, pax christi Germany, Germany

15.00 International Anti-NATO demonstration

Location: Praça Marquês de Pombal

11/21/2010 – Sunday

10.00-10.45 Introduction Lectures: Lessons Learnt

Portugal and NATO (Ricardo Robles, PAGAN)

NATO and Latin America (Eduardo Melero, UAM, Spain)

Peace Assembly – Anti-War Assembly:

How to continue acting for a world without war and NATO

Moderation: Arielle Denis, Dave Webb, Tobias Pflüger

10.45 – 11.15 Reports from the Working Groups

Reports of anti-NATO-activities in Lisboa

short coffee / snack break

11.45 – 14.00 Open Microphone: 3 min. reports and discussion on activities and future plans against NATO

Agreements on common activities

14.00 Presentation of the Declaration of the ICC and Conclusions

Remarks by Reiner Braun

Organizational information:

a) Program:

The convenors are responsible for organizing the workshops. The ICC takes care for the Plenary Speakers. The full program with the speakers of the workshops will be published after November 1st.

b) Registration:

For further information about and to register for the conference, please send an email to: Kongress@IALANA.de

Registration starts on October 18th and is necessary for a successful preparation and arrangement of the conference.

c) Conference donation:

The conference is organized by activists for activists, we ask you to support our conference. Voluntary conference fee: 10 € which may be paid at the conference

d) Accommodation:

For private accommodation, please contact: accommodation.lisbon2010@gmail.com

Cheap hotels and hostels close to the counter summit:

 www.pensaoportuense.com/default.aspx

 www.lisbonloungehostel.com/

 www.lisboacentralhostel.com/index.php

 www.costta.com/

e) For any further questions:

Please contact: kongress@ialana.de

or check out the webpage:  www.no-to-nato.org