Launch of CACIM Delhi Demos Bulletin, reporting worldwide on the simultaneous dharnas (sit-in demonstrations) and then hunger strikes by the Bhopal and Narmada movements at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, from March 17 – April 18 2006, along with reports on simultaneous actions by movements in Delhi against demolitions and evictions....
Proposed organisation of four events at the World Social Forum in Karachi, Pakistan, and coordinating a 16-member team of participants (students, activists, and research scholars); but all four events cancelled on account of the majority of CACIM team members not getting visas to go : Day 1, March 25, 2:00 to...
Launch of a worldwide debate on The Bamako Appeal, a document issued by a meeting at held in Bamako, Mali, on January 18 2006, just ahead of the World Social Forum held there January 19-23, that made a major call for (and put forward a major 10 point programme for) an...
Co-organisation, along with Sarai, CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies), of a seminar-discussion on ‘Internet and a Culture of Openness’, at Sarai, Delhi...
Publication of Nayi Rajniti, the Hindi edition of the first volume of the Are Other Worlds Possible ? series (English title Talking New Politics), by Prakashan Sansthan, Delhi; for launch at the World Social Forum at Karachi. First volume in a new series to be published by Prakashan Sansthan, the Samrajyon Se Sangharsh (‘Challenging Empires’)...
Launching of WSF Discuss, an unmoderated list serve for open discussion of the World Social Forum and related aspects of the civil politics; issuing of ‘Some Hard Questions About the WSF’, an open letter on WSFDiscuss (also available @ http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/3824.html, http://www.countercurrents.org/wsf-sen110106.htm)...
First CACIM Colloquium The First Colloquium was organised in November 2005 at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi with a select list of invitees and potential CACIM Fellows. AGENDA Monday, November 14 2005 6 pm : Consultation begins Welcome and Introduction to meeting Self-introductions, discussion of experience Discussion and finalisation of design and agenda...
Launching of CACIM’s first cyber-intervention, ‘Chennai Open Space Action’ project, including a listserve, the ‘Chennai Open Space Action List’, [email protected] and the related use of OpenSpaceForum for making available documents and as a potential blogspace, all in relation to a sudden meeting called in Chennai by WSF India in October 2005; accompanied...