Towards a World Citizens Movement
at the World Social Forum in Tunis
How can social movements, NGOs and concerned citizens connect to a powerful and transformational world citizens movement that provides alternatives to the systematic exploitation of people and planet and overcomes the paradigms of growth, consumerism, markets and competition?
After two global conferences in Johannesburg in 2013 and 2014, that united 400 global citizens from all over the world, we want to take the process to a new level at the World Social Forum in Tunis, building on the vision of the Johannesburg compass, and the bounty of learning and linking we had the privilege to experience in this journey.
We propose two opportunities in Tunis to work on systemic change through a world citizens movement:
- An open assembly, part of the World Social Forum programme, that will test and enrich current initiatives in a dialogue with a boarder audience (tentatively planned for 25 March)
- A strategy workshop that will bring together 150 change makers from social movements, NGOs and various fields of activism, to assess and further develop attempts to globalise citizens voices as a transformational answer to the systemic crisis (planned for 26 March).
