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>From: "Liane Greeff" <liane@kingsley.co.za>
>Subject: Invitation to send Solidarity Messages
>To: <Undisclosed.Recipients>
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>Dear All
>
>On 11 and 12 November, we are holding the Southern African Hearings for
>Communities Affected by Large Dams in Cape Town, South Africa. This is the
>first event of its kind, and many of the small rural communities who have
>been displaced or otherwise affected by these large dam developments, are
>unaware of the global nature of their dilemma.
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>To this end we would like to invite messages of solidarity from civil
>society organisations and NGOs from throughout the world to give support to
>Communities who coming from neighbouring countries, including Zambia,
>Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Namibia, as well as from many communities from within
>South Africa.
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>We believe that there are two good reasons for doing this:
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>1. It is a useful strategic technique used by a number of civil society
>organisations when "lobbying" forums such as the UN, the OAU, SADC etc is to
>show that one has the support of organisations/people across the globe;
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>2. It is also useful to show "affected communities" that their struggle is
>shared by similar communities very far away, many of whom they would never
>have heard of - "our struggle is your struggle"; "our struggle is one
>struggle" etc.
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>In any event, to counter (or counter-balance) globalisation of politics and
>capital civil society needs to engage at a "cross-border" or transnational
>level; civil society needs to globalise.
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>The message can be simply a "best wishes" for the hearings; we are thinking
>of you as we have faced the same problems etc. The messages of solidarity we
>will refer to during the opening section of the Hearings.
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>We thank you for your support.
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>Regards
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>Liane
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>Liane Greeff
>Environmental Monitoring Group,
>PO Box 18977 Wynberg, South Africa, 7824
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Aviva Imhof
South-East Asia Campaigner
International Rivers Network
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