Each Activity and Action can be declared related to some of the following broad Thematic connection space TCS
( fields to be added in Activity and Action update form)
TCS1 Peace & War & security
TCS2 Economic Justice
TCS3 Communication Education Culture
TCS4 Society Diversity ( women and youth empowerment and fight against discriminations)
TCS5 Democracy & People movements
TCS6 Social Justice
TCS7 Climate & Ecology & Transition
TCS8 Future of Social movements of WSF & civil society organizing
TCS9 Agrarian Struggles
TCSs : Thematic Connections Spaces in ASPF process
Choose your thematic connection spaces / groups 1/ through the online form link in the invitation page - or through direct following of links to whatsapp groups shared in the Asia WSF mobilizing group
A Thematic Connections Space Group (TCS) in APSF process is conceived as an “open space “and not as an organic body (so no expression in the name of a TCS)
It is not obligatory, to join thematic connections spaces to take part in the APSF event, while it is probably informative and useful
In a TCS, participants can get organized (*)to have effective on line intercommunication sessions and consistent chatting in between those sessions where to exchange expectations, goals of participation, and intentions for activities and actions, and based on this shared info proceed on functions 1 2 3 below the image.
(*) there can be facilitators appointed “in the group” to care about the quality of this exchange process and its documentation etc )
Image below : case of use of thematic connnections Spaces (in bright light blue) by participants in the generation of activities and actions and build up of the program of the february 2022 event
TCS Spaces are permanently usable for exchanges and connections
4 Explored Functions for each TCS space during build up of February 2022 event
1/ EXCHANGES LEADING TO IDENTIFYING PROXIMITIES AND POSSIBLE JOINT SELF ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES AND ACTIONS
Based on these intercommunication sessions, TCS participants can decide to engage, or not, with other specific participants of their choice, with whom they have identified proximities and common intentions, in building some self-organized activity or public action date, included in mid term lines of action, that one of them will be entrusted to register in the ASF website for the january event. (maybe they can be creating specific smaller groups indepently of the TFG for those exchanges)
2/ PREPARING a preliminary workshop ( as was done on 21st January)
The workshop is a participatory round of discusion where proactive participating organizations state some views and their intention of preparing activities/workshops for the February events and of announcing actions for 2022
3/ PREPARING A PANEL ( as was done on DAY 1 (18th) or 2 (19th ) of February APSF event )
Each thematic focus group is proposed to define an inclusive facilitating group for preparing, as a self organized activity (in the name of wide array of organizations present in the TCS but not in representation of the TCS), a “thematic panel” with duration 1h30 during the event ( 9 such panels), where to invite panelists and invite them to describe their views on issues and challenges. This panel is didactic and mediatic and is not programatic, as TCS are spaces and not organic groups
4/ PREPARING A NEXT STEPS SHARING ASSEMBLIES ( NSA) (as was done on DAY 3 (20th February) of february event)
Next steps can be suggestions for the continuity of the APSF process or announcement or announce some actions taken up by some organizations described in the action pages
Participants in some thematic Contact Space can define an inclusive NSA facilitating group for preparing, as a self organized activity,(in the name of wide array of organizations present in the TCS, but not in representation of the TCS);
The actions shared or proposed by participants in this Next Step Assembly are expected to be registered and made visible as Action by their initiators in Action page
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