Pjäsen Etnoporr har regisserats upp fått två nya skådisar och haft turnépremiär i Göteborg.
Missa den inte om den kommer till din stad, här är turnén
Det blev en riktig succévecka med fem stycken utsålda föreställningar på Pustervikteatern. Efter i stort sett alla föreställningar har det varit samtal och på fredagen och lördagen var det panelsamtal.
det här boken måste ni läsa
och lyssan på det här samtalet
15.00-16.15 Spionaffären Enbom
I slutet av 1951 berättade Fritiof Enbom, före detta journalist vid den kommunistiska dagstidningen Norrskensflamman vid en middag att han gick under kodnamnet Mikael och var ledare för “Grupp Norr” i en stor spionring som lämnade hemliga uppgifter till Sovjet. Enbom greps, erkände och angav därefter en hel rad personer, de flesta med anknytning till Sveriges kommunistiska parti, som medhjälpare och dömdes till livstids fängelse.
När journalisten Tomas Bresky började gräva i affären Enbom trädde många märkliga förhållanden fram- men också en bild av Sverige då det kalla kriget var som allra mest kylslaget.
Medverkande: Journalisten och författaren Tomas Bresky i samtal med dramatikern America Vera- Zavala
Arrangör: ABF Stockholm
Tid: 16.45 – 18.00 Hur ska vi förstå staden?
År 2005 lever för första gången i historien fler människor i städer än vad det gör på landet. Städerna växer, och så också begreppen för dem, megastäder, mångmiljonstäder.
Men i Sverige verkar alla ha problem med staden. Kärleken till staden är mycket sällsynt i svensk politisk debatt. De gamla folkrörelserna har problem med staden. Engagemang och valdeltagande är lågt och sjunkande i förorter där det bor svensk arbetarklass, inte bara i de med epitetet invandrartäta. Frågan om staden bryter igenom vallarna för vad som normalt uppfattas som höger och vänster. Göran Greider och America Vera-Zavala samtalar om hur vi ska se på staden och vad som är en radikal politik för städer idag.
Arrangör: ABF- Stockholm
Självklart är det enda som folk på högerkanten klarar av att diskutera efter European Social Forum är våldet, och sen från det drar man svepande slutsatser, slår vilt omkring sig, och är så ofokuserad att det är imponerande att de ens kan ta sig själva på allvar
PJ Anders Linder som brukar vara ute och försvara kriminella före detta ministrar, för skattebrott och andra brott som han tycker är ok är ok, han skriver om mig, och har uppenbarligen så lite underlag att det räcker till 1 rad
A social forum is supposed to be rooted and not only land somewhere. In places like Porto Alegre where the model of the participatory budget and a successful PT local government was well known the root were obvious. Here many people are asking me; Where are we?
In the centre of the European Social Forum is Folkets Park. It was there where the inauguration was held and where you pass by several times a day on your way from or to a seminar or a cultural event. Folkets Park in Malmö is the oldest Folkets Park in Sweden. The Swedish Labour movement is built upon the income from those parks. The Labour movement built it and held social and cultural events there. Working class people more than hundred years ago paid entrance and were allowed into a social space where the rules on clothing was less strict and where a working class culture was emerging. The Labour movement owned it for almost 90 years and sold it to the Malmö municipality in the 80s. In the beginning of the century people’s parliaments were organised at the Folkets Park. Working class women and men without the right to vote held huge meeting and showed that democracy was not real without giving them the right to vote and participate.
Swedish media are more or less ignoring the ESF. The few articles I have seen talk about that they were expecting more people, or at least that is the story they let other people tell. At the same time the prime minister has been in Rosengård in Mölmö and I don´t know how many journalist have written ridiculous articles about the prime minister boxing among kids with immigrant background. The ESF is 100 times more impressive than that but still either they expect us to be violent or they think we are not enough.
But that is not the case. We are everywhere.
Today I started with a trip to Rosengård. By bus (I am sure the prime minister went by limo). There I listened to a seminar on urban activism with people and groups from Berlin, several cities in Russia and Istanbul. Then I have been walking around enjoying the forum. All the people, faces, friends, squares, maps, signs. It is wonderful to be here.
I meet my wonderful friend Jai Sen at Nya Tröls and he tells me to blog, the first thing he does. We haven´t met for at least a couple of years since the last social forum in Mumbai or maybe the globalisation conference in Oslo. Jai Sen is an activist from India, Delhi and he is the editor, along with Peter Waterman of the book Challenging Empires. A new edition of the book will be launched tomorrow at one o´clock at Babels, Jerico café, the same place where the seminar will be Friday morning.
Jai wants to know where he is. He is in Malmö, Sweden, and it is day one of the European Social Forum, but that is not enough for him and I can see what he means, what is the political mapping today of Malmö and what is the history.
I tell him that one thing I know is that at the famous Möllevångstorget, there was riots during the spring of 1917. That spring was the closest Sweden ever came to a revolution. There was hunger and protests, riots and marches all over the country. At Möllevången there was riots, women were asking for bread.
Same evening, same bar. I am talking to my friend Tan Mogul, from Istanbul, urban activist. He will be speaking at a seminar tomorrow morning at 9.30 in Rosengård. So I ask him, do you know Rosengård, yes yes he tells me and points it out at the map. No, the history? He has no clue he will be speaking at the Swedish Saint-Denis. The suburb, centre for problems, immigrant problems, social problems, unemployment problems, all kind of problems. The place where Zlatan is from. They all get impressed when I tell them that. No one from Istanbul asks me if it is dangerous to go.
I have been on stage for hours this evening.
It is the opening evening of the Euro Social Forum and I have been the facilitator of the inauguration program. I am happy that it has started. Speakers have made their visions come through. Vandana Shiva gave a fantastic speech about the hope, Enron gone, Monsanto will go and by saying those words she made anti-capitalist struggle real.
Folkets Park was filled with people. And when the first part of the inauguration program was over I ran to inaugurate the Latinamerican park a few blocks away. Maybe 500 persons listening to me, Ignacio Ramonet and latinamerican music. Back to Folkets Park and the artists. Friends ask me who is singing.
Who is Mikael Wiehe, well he is the Swedish Bob Dylan.
I think this is the way to explain things to our activists guest from around the world.
