Sabir Maydan al FMS Tunisi 2015
“Sabir Maydan”, the first forum on the Mediterranean citizenship, organised for the first time in Messina last September, was presented again in Tunis, during the World Social Forum (22nd-28thMarch 2015). A symbolic place for the Mediterranean citizenship, where the shout “ Bread, freedom and social justice”, coined at the beginning of the Tunisian revolution of 2011, has allowed the citizens of several countries to occupy the squares in order to recover the common goods, public spaces and civil and social rights that have too often been violated.
Since then, Mediterranean countries and territories have been at the centre of many and extraordinary movements of social fight and popular protests. Despite this extraordinary mass mobilisation, now many countries and communities have to face a growing frustration due to the incapacity of traditional structures of the formal democracy to deal with the challenges claimed during the Arab revolutions. Indeed, it usually faces these mobilisations with the intent to repress these movements with the force or through the propaganda.
Some of the activists met the last September in Messina, came again in Tunis for the Sabir Maydan II, and they discussed about many issues investigated during the first Sabir: how can we share the vision of a united Mediterranean space? Which policies, strategies and tools are needed to build it through the citizens’ initiative? The organised workshops in Tunis have also addressed more concrete and practical issues to carry on a real process to build a “Mediterranean multiple citizenship”, such as the social, political and cultural aspects to firstly face and the priority projects to achieve. In these pages you can find a detailed report of the debates, proposals and many questions that are still open.
The promoters of Sabir Maydan at the World Social Forum are: COSPE Italia, Forum Tunisien pour les Droits Economiques Sociaux Tunisia, Civitas Academy Palestine, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Turkey, Citizens for Syria, Alternatives Maroc .
Sabir Maydan II was dedicated to Alaa Adbel Fattah, Egyptian blogger in prison since more than one year, to Padre Paolo dall’Oglio, kidnapped in Syria in 2013, and to Wafae Charaf, Moroccan activist recently imprisoned.
The complete program of Sabir Maydan in Tunis you can download here
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