Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 08:53:23 AST
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*European Feminist Forum Letter
*EFF Call for Affinity Groups - Extended Deadline
Contact for EFF: EFF@iiav.nl
http://www.neww.org.pl/en.php/news/news/1.html?&nw=3033&re=2
Affinity Groups for the European Feminist Forum
Source: www.iiav.nl
Europe is living through a phase of rapid change and transition due to
multiple forces both within and outside Europe. There is the process of
European enlargement, the decline of the national state, new trends in the
movement of people in the search for jobs, changes in identities and
communities.
For many women there is growing poverty and increasing
marginalisation. For others, new avenues have opened up. Gains made by women
’s rights movements are under threat and many new concerns for women are
emerging.
The European Feminist Forum (EFF) is a space for discussions on how to
re-politicize the feminist movement in Europe and to explore feminist
agendas needed in today’s Europe. EFF aims to engage all interested in a
broad forum on key issues for feminists across Europe, however they wish to
define Europe. EFF aims to build collectively a programme for a revitalized
feminism in Europe through an on-going process leading to a European-wide
face-to-face meeting in Central Europe that will launch renewed feminist
political engagement in all of Europe. The main vehicle to launch this
initiative is affinity groups as a non hierarchical, open and participatory
and innovative process to explore topics EFF participants see as key to
their political vision as feminists.
Some of these topics could be:
• What is a feminist alternative to the economic mainstream; can we
build a vision for a more just economics,
• How as feminists working in different European countries and
networks can we work collectively to fight the growing threats to abortion
laws,
• How as feminists living in Europe do we see migration in our lives,
as migrants and as women supporting migrants,
• What does the EU enlargement offer for women and how can feminists
ensure it offers positive opportunities for women, across the different
geographic national borders, etc.
We are currently calling for topics and coordinators of up to 15
affinity groups. Affinity groups are invited to work in which ever medium
they chose, in cyberspace, face-to-face meetings, across all European
countries, within one country, in which ever language and media. The
affinity groups findings set the agenda for EFF in the future. In the next
months the outcomes of affinity group discussions and activities will shape
the face-to-face meeting of the European Feminist Forum planned to take
place in a Central European country September 2007.
There is nominal financial support available for affinity groups to
prepare discussions papers, videos, podcasts and other outcomes for the EFF
face-to-face meeting.
We invite all interested in the EFF to form a group under the topic
you wish to work on and to apply as a coordinator of the affinity group for
funding. Please see below the questions which we would like you to consider
when applying, particularly in relation to the time line and the design of
the affinity group process. Affinity group coordinators will also be invited
to participate in shaping the EFF programme process.
If you are interested in coordinating an affinity group, please send
to the EFF organising Group (EFF@iiav.nl) the following information:
1. Topic of the group, short description of issue and name of contact
person (coordinator)
2. Persons to be involved/represented (age group, interest, national
location(s), gender etc.)
3. How does your affinity group plan to include new individuals who
are interested in the topic of your group (if at all)
4. The proposed process for organising the affinity group
5. Language of the affinity group and outcome to be produced
6. How the discussions will be presented at the EFF (theatre, video,
paper, workshop etc.)
7. Time line of the affinity group
8. Do you have access to broadband internet yes/no
9. Do you have (access to) a webcam yes/no
10. Which conferences or meetings (regional/international) are you
planning to visit before September 2007, where you could give information
about the EFF
Please contact us for any further information on affinity groups or
any aspect of the EFF process.
EFF Organising Group
EFF@iiav.nl
News author: EFF Organising Group 2006-10-30 14:01:24
Source: www.iiav.nl
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