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spectacular start of the Alternative Summit : Ziegler provides new planetary civil movement

So full was probably long outgrown the church. The Rostock St. Peter's Church was bursting at the seams, as last night by the G8 Alternative Summit was opened with much more than the 1500 expected participants. For two days, the attention will now be directed to substantive debates, exchange of experience and the development of concrete alternatives to the currently dominant form of globalization. He had great respect for the power and dynamics, with the development of the German civil society, Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said in the morning already in several television interviews. Countless panels, workshops and seminars, the organizers - a German NGO in the history rarely broad range of organizations and initiatives - Prepared for the two conference days. Whoever comes here, the interest the serious discussion, not the protest as L'art pour l'art.

Speaking Jean Ziegler (see photo of Simon Kremer) coined three consistent themes. There is no inevitability of daily massacre (in which a child dies every few minutes). All global ills are man made and can be reformed by people radically. And: We are at a crossroads at which a new planetary civil society - the "new historical subject" - and breaks up, starting with the negation of the existing world order, look for alternatives. But there is no prefabricated models: "The way to make your feet yourself," said Ziegler, a wealth of historical examples and philosophical quotations, but also concrete cases from the world of (almost) all-powerful corporations and the global political oligarchy of the G8 was ready for his ideas to . explain It was important to the speaker, the distribution of optimism, but he forbade the realism, the clear answer to the question: who wins, the jungle or grounded in the Enlightenment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reason? - How much Ziegler is in the end, radical pragmatist, his response revealed to the question about his role as UN special rapporteur. He firmly believed in the Declaration the United Nations, and in his everyday work, there is both hope and bitter defeats, such as if he can prevail on the UN for the first time the establishment of a land registry in Guatemala (which are many small farmers a guarantee of their land) or if it an international right to stay wants to impose on hunger refugees from Africa, the EU makes him but then a spanner in the works.

The subsequent panel discussion at the Thuli Makama (Friends of the Earth Swaziland), Madjiguene Cissé (sans paper, Senegal) and Annelie Buntenbach (DGB) attempted the ambitious topic of the opening panel (think globalization differently ") break to the level of real movements and experiences down - admittedly a difficult task for Ziegler fireworks. Perhaps it would have been better if the moderator, Ulrich Brandt of the University of Kassel, where the participants more room to articulate their own experience, would rather restructure process and issues only to their own preferences. But that should the curiosity of the participants on new proposals and concrete alternatives, did after switching to the criticism of the G8 and our own local issues not diminish.

Note A team of young journalists, correspondents of the MDG, the German branch of the UN Millennium Campaign sent to Heiligendamm. find your reports are >> here> . An audio podcast the start of the G8 Alternative Summit Simon Kremer can >>> here be heard.