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Trump-Putin: Ukraine is not for sale! * No to partition! * Russian troops out!
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Wednesday 26-March
De Markten, Rue du Vieux Marché aux Grains 5, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium (Metro De Brouckère)
NOTE ON TRANSLATION: Simultaneous interpretation is planned between Ukrainian, French and English for all plenary sessions and the first of the multiple sessions. It may be available for other sessions if interpreters can be found. If you wish to help with interpreting contact Adam Novak on +421 904 232 129
09:00-09:15 Welcome, announcements (Spiegelzaal)
Host: Thomas Weyts (Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine)
09:15-10:45 Challenges facing Ukraine (Spiegelzaal)
Threat of a Trump-Putin deal * The view from Ukraine * European responses
Chair: Julie Ward (Former MEP for UK Labour Party). Speakers: Tanya Vyhovsky (US State Senator for Vermont), Jonas Sjöstedt (MEP for the Left Party, Sweden), Vitaly Dudin (Social Movement, Ukraine), Judith Kirton-Darling (General-Secretary, IndustriALL)
10:45-11:00 Break (refreshments, Spiegelzaal)
11:00-12:30 Multiple sessions
Trump - Putin deal? (Spiegelzaal)
Chair: Sacha Ismail (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, England and Wales). Opening comments: Li Andersson (MEP for Left Alliance, Finland), Zofia Malisz (RAZEM, Poland), Christopher Ford (Secretary, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, England and Wales)
State of Ukraine’s economy (Middenzolder)
Chair: Bev Laidlaw (Deputy President, Public and Commercial Services Union, UK) Opening speakers: Yuri Levchenko (People’s Power (Narodovladdia) Labour Party), Yuliya Yurchenko (Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Greenwich, UK), Vitaly Dudin (Social Movement, Ukraine)
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Spiegelzaal)
15 EUR/person, pay online or at the conference reception.
13:30-15:00 What peace? (Spiegelzaal)
Territorial integrity and no population transfers * Armaments and security guarantees * Debt, reparation and natural resource sovereignty
Chair: Catherine Samary (French Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine) Speakers: Mounir Satouri (MEP for Les Écologistes, chair of the Human Rights Sub-committee of the European Parliament), Oleksandr Kyselov (Social Movement, Ukraine), Søren Søndergaard (MP for Red-Green Alliance, Denmark), Simon Pirani (writer, historian and energy researcher, England), Yuri Levchenko (People’s Power (Narodovladdia) Labour Party, Ukraine)
1500-1515: Break (refreshments, Spiegelzaal)
15:15-17:00: Multiple sessions
Military and non-military aid (Spiegelzaal)
Chair: Mariana Sànchez (French Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine) Opening comments: Adrià Guevara (Secretary for International Relations, Republican Left of Catalonia), Mira (Solidarity Collectives, Ukraine)
Civil resistance in occupied territories (Middenzolder)
Chair: Simon Pirani writer, historian and energy researcher, England) Opening comments: Mykhailo Romanov (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Ukraine)
Russian anti-war opposition (Achterzolder)
Chair: Peter Veltmans (SAP-Antikapitalisten/Gauche anticapitaliste and trade union activist) Opening comments: Maria Menshikova (Doxa), representative of Feminist Antiwar Resistance (FAR), Dmitrii Kovalev (Left for Peace without Annexations)
Stop LNG/fossil fuels campaign (Spiegelzaal)
Chair: Peter Cooper (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland) Opening comments: Isaac Levi (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air)
17:00-17:30 Report back from workshops (Spiegelzaal)
18:00-20:00 Dinner (Restaurant Maison des Anciens at the Free University of Brussels)
20:00: Solidarity concert (Bar and cafe, Free University of Brussels)
Host: Thomas Weyts (Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine)
Music: Lena Ivanova and Alain Vanclooster
Thursday 27 March
Pianofabriek, Rue du Fort 35, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels
NOTE IN TRANSLATION: Simultaneous interpretation is planned between Ukrainian, French and English for all plenary sessions and the first of the multiple sessions. It may be available for other sessions if interpreters are available.
09:00-09:15 Welcome, announcements (Zabriskie)
Host: Thomas Weyts (Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine)
09:15-10:45 Organising solidarity (Zabriskie)
Trade union and labour movement * Russia: boycotts and sanctions * Supporting progressive military * Supporting civil liberty organisations
Chair: Laurent Vogel (Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine) Speakers: Yulia Yurchenko (representative of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine in UK), Dmytro Mamaev (International Secretary, SD Platform), Mykhailo Romanov (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group), Bernard Dréano (Chairperson of the Centre for Initiatives and Studies on International Solidarity, France)
10:45-11:00 Break (Zabriskie)
11:00-12:30 Multiple sessions
Labour solidarity (Zabriskie)
Chair: Elaine Jones (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, England and Wales, National Executive Member, UNISON) Speakers: Sacha Ismail (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Trade Union Liaison Officer, trade union activist), Cati Llibre (Vice-president, General Union of Workers (UGT), Catalonia), Felix Le Roux (Solidaires, France)
Feminist struggles in Ukraine (Arenberg—projection room)
Chair: Julie Ward (Former MEP for UK Labour Party) Opening comments: Ivanna Vynna (Bilkis)
Labour and democratic struggles in Georgia (Abrunheira)
Chair: To be confirmed Online presentation by Raisa Lapetaliani, Vice-President, Georgian Trade Unions, followed by discussion
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Zabriskie and bar)
15 EUR/person, pay online or at the conference reception.
13:30-15:00 Which reconstruction? (Zabriskie)
Social protection * What macroeconomic model? *What integration with the EU? * Post-war ecological recovery and paths to sustainability
Chair: Natalie Kopytko (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, England and Wales. Deputy Director of the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds) Speakers: Vasyl Andreiev (Vice-President, Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine), Yuliya Yurchenko (Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Greenwich, UK), Adam Novak (European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine).
15:00-15:15 Break (Zabriskie)
15:15-17:00 Multiple sessions
Women’s role in reconstruction (Zabriskie)
Chair: Oksana Koslova (Lecturer, Free University of Brussels) Speakers: Oksana Slobodiana (Be Like Us (formerly Be Like Nina), Ivanna Vynna (Bilkis), Heddy Riss (Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine)
NEW (combined presentation): Western economic relations with Russia and the campaign against Russian fossil fuel exports (Charleroi)
Chair: Peter Cooper (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, Scotland) Speakers: Isaac Levi (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air), Thomas Weyts (Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine), Connor Beaton ((Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, Scotland) and Christian Zeller (editor, emanzipation)
17:00-17:30 Report back from workshops (Zabriskie)
17:30-19:00 Break
19:00 – 21:00 Public meeting (Free University of Brussels)
Co-Chairs: Graham Campbell (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland, Scottish National Party (SNP) Councillor, Glasgow, Co-convener SNP Socialists), Aude Merlin (lecturer in political science, Free University, Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine) Speakers: Tanya Vyhovsky (US State Senator for Vermont), Oksana Dutchak (editor of Commons Journal of Social Criticism, Ukraine), John McDonnell (Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, former shadow Minister of Finance, UK), Ivanna Khrapko (Chair, Youth Council of Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine), Tea Jarc (Confederal Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation), Lydia Mutyebele (Parti socialiste, Belgium), Natalia Ostach (President of the Union of Ukrainian Women in Belgium)
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