Table name: Political parties

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Table namePolitical parties
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Topics of discussion

• What is the contribution that political parties
  can, today, give to the revolutionary process?
• To what revolution are political parties aiming
  at today?
• What type of relationship should political
  parties maintain with social movements and
  grassroots organizations?
• How can the action of national political parties
  be combined with the process of regionalization
  of political and social events?

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We divided the work into four sub-tables

• 1. Inclusion of the young people in the
  decision-making structures
• 2. Contribution of our political parties to the
  disarmament campaign
• 3. Contribution of our political parties to the
  creation of a Universal Human Nation
• 4. Design of political campaigns

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1. Inclusion of the young people in the
decision-making structures

• Conflicts
• Control of decisions and initiatives
• Young people decide only for secondary aspects
• Obstacles for the generational change
• Youth qualities
• Rebellion Creativity
• Strength Dynamics
• Proposals
• 1. We should work closer with platforms of young
  people
• 2. Strengthen our action fronts with young people
  deciding and organizing and connecting these
  fronts closer to our political parties
• 3. Follow more the proposals of the young people

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2. Contribution of our political parties to the
disarmament campaign

• Conflict
• Current armament efforts by the leading world
  countries
• Proposals
• 1. Clarification campaign about the current world
  armament situation underlying the difference in
  our point of view from the other political
  parties
• 2. Look for the legal possibilities to denounce
  and stop the armament efforts of the governments
  and the EU
• 3. Try to identify one country that could have a
  demonstration effect in unilateral disarmament

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3. Contribution of our political parties to the
creation of a Universal Human Nation

• Conflicts
• European regionalization is only formal, there is
  no common aspiration or common project
• The system expresses itself very strongly (formal
  democracy, concentration of capital, manipulation
  of mass-media, inter-generational conflict and
  individualism)
• Proposals
• 1. To make a public appeal to the moral
  responsibility of every European for this
  situation considering our historical process
  related to other regions
• 2. Strengthen the common campaigns of the
  European parties
• 3. Help to create a common spirit that will give
  birth to a new culture combining its different
  cultural identities

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4. Design of political campaigns

• Conflict
• No space in the mass-media
• Proposals
• 1. Use more the latest technologies in the
  campaigns web-sites, internet TV, on-line
  petitions, email lists, SMS, etc.
• 2. Establishing a closer relationship with other
  social and political organizations on specific
  conflicts
• 3. Better information sharing among the different
  humanist parties in Europe
• 4. Develop active and creative campaigns
  connected to the action fronts

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Calendar of Proposals

• 18. March 2007
• Common European/World action for disarmament
• October/November 2007
• Open Congress of the European Region of the
  Humanist International