6TH ANNUAL CAIRO CONFERENCE : Cleveland IMC (((i)))

27-30 6th Cairo Conference – 4th Cairo Forum - Press Syndicate 27 – 30 March 2008

Thursday 27 March 2008
5.00 – 6.00 Registration
6.00 – 9.00 Opening session (Theater – 1st floor)

Friday 28 March 2008
Hall 10.00 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00
3rd floor Peasants Forum: Building alliances between peasants and fishermen Women Forum: Women.. from strike to disobedience Forum against Dictatorship (1) Forum against Dictatorship (2)
4-main Coordination
meetings of
different groups
and
regional alliances
(Optional Against the Israeli and Zionist project: Political views Workers Forum: Free unions and fair wages Forum against Torture: Torture and resistance Art performances
4-1 Sawaseya Center: Legitimacy of military trials Towards an international network for academic boycott of Israel Labor party (Egypt) Human right violations in Egypt Karama party (Egypt): Reflections on the proposed terrorism law
4-2 People's association against corruption (Egypt): Necessity and legitimacy of civil disobedience Mediterranean agency for international cooperation (Morocco): For the release of Arab and Palestinian prisoners of war HOC (Front of the Rights and Liberties) (Turkey): American Imperialism is the Common Enemy of the Peoples of the World Hands off Venezuela campaign (Belgium): The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela and the struggle for socialism
4-3 Socialist newspaper (Egypt): Class struggle in Egypt Food without borders (Libya): Siege for a siege Tadamon (Egypt): Lessons of popular struggle International Jewish Solidarity Network: Against the Pending Holocaust in Gaza
4-4 Poetry Contest Brothers, friends and colleagues of Jose Couso campaign (Spain): The media and the war: the battle of control information Jafra Palestinian cultural forum: Apartheid wall Forum of Palestine Solidarity Committees (Egypt): Revival of the role of resistance in support of the Palestinian people
4-5 Moslem sisterhood students (Egypt): Western culture and its impact on youth "We are grown ups" alliance (Egypt): Violence in Egyptian universities Justice Supporters Center (Egypt): Economic crisis and its impact on youth Socialist Thought Forum (Jordan): Outside the smoke screen: The Palestinian Question Revisited
4-6 Film shows Art Exhibition Film shows

Saturday 29 March 2008
Hall 10.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00
3rd floor Against all forms of racism Forum against privatization: Health services Forum against privatization: Water and housing Forum against privatization: Education
4-main Struggle against Israel and Zionism: testimonies

Iraq: The humanitarian tragedy under occupation Students Forum: 100 years of student activism National unity forum: against religious discrimination in Egypt Art performances
4-1 Moslem Brotherhood students: 100th anniversary of Cairo university Islamic parliamentarians Socialist Studies Center (Egypt): The struggle against Zionism – which direction. The one state solution. Wasat Party (Egypt): Party's vision in politics and society
4-2 Students Islamic Alliance (Palestine): Testimonies from within and the role of youth Arab media watch (UK): Informing the west about the Arab culture Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Answering Palestinian call for boycott: results & prospects Ajras El Awda (Palestine): One democratic state for all its citizens on all Palestinian land
4-3 Karama newspaper (Egypt): Freedom of Press Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine: Latest developments on the Palestinian scene Sawaseya center (Egypt) Creative means of resisting despotism Hewar center (Egypt): Role of literature in the struggle against the US Zionist project
4-4 Maram center (Egypt): Women against globalization Arab Palestinian Democratic Union (Italy): Suggestions to commemorate el Nakba Women from Palestine: Women against the siege Egyptian Studies Center (Egypt): Creative means in the resistance of despotism
4-5 Committee for defense of pensions (Egypt): Where did the pension money go? "Intifada" (Greece) + ISM (France) +Campo Anti-Imperialista (Europe): Role of International Anti-war Movement in Supporting the Resistance Nation's memory group: Colonialism 1798 - 2008 Bent Jbeil organization (Lebanon): Bent Jbeil – the Arab victory

4-6 Film Shows

Sunday 30 March 2008 (4th floor – Main Hall)
10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00
Strategies for struggle against Israel and Zionism Towards an international campaign against war in Lebanon, Iran, Syria and Sudan Closing session Meeting of international coordinating committee Closing ceremony with Tanbura Band

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