9th International Symposium Against Isolation- together against racism and oppression.

international | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday November 16, 2010 14:10 by IPAI - IPAI

9th International Symposium Against Isolation

International Symposium Against Isolation will be holding its 9th symposium in Vienna/Austria this year. From 3-5 December 2010.

9. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AGAINST ISOLATION
together against racism and oppression

Dear friends,

this year, the 9th International Symposium against Isolation will be held in Vienna, from 3-5 December 2010.
Once again dozens of international representatives are expected to come and to report on recent developments in their countries.
NGO's, political and social movements in struggle for workers' and basic rights, intellectuals, lawyers and artists from different countries of the world are invited.
In past years the annual symposiums were joined by at least 45 representatives from over 30 countries.

The issues dealt with are not only repression against political struggles and isolation/torture of prisoners in different countries, but also the increasing racism against migrants at the EU level and the isolation of countries, which have been confronted for decades by embargos and aggression, while the peoples of these countries have to bear the consequences and are deprived of their basic rights.

The symposium aims at advancing solidarity with oppressed people and their legitimate struggles, as well as the exchange between already existing structures in the areas of alternative art, trade union rights and struggles for democracy and independence.

This year we have invited representatives from Honduras, Chile, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Cuba, Venezuela, USA, Greece, Germany and other European countries.
We will not only learn about massive human rights violations and interventions in/against these countries, but also about the resistance, from alternative culture and revolutionary art, which has been developed from social opposition.

Besides reports from the above- mentioned countries, issues like democratic basic and human rights on the political and legal level within working groups will be dealt with, under the titles "Political prisoners and state repression", "Sovereignty and Independence", as well as "Legal Struggle against the Undermining of Rights", and concepts will be worked out for common projects.

In an open plenary with the title "solidarity projects", there can be made proposals for improvement of coordination on the area of public and medical work, which are followed by concrete action plans.

On Saturday, the 4th December, the international programme will be underlined by musical performances, with Irish, Anatolian, Arab, Latin American and other bands. There's also a common performance of Latin American groups with Grup Yorum from Turkey planned.

We invite all progressive and interested forces to support the symposium actively in order to expand the solidarity network.

In solidarity, for the

INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM AGAINST ISOLATION
isolation@post.com www.ipai-isolation.info