The limits to inequality:Seeking a sustainable society

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An international non-profit foundation, CAF was designed to establish independent platforms of cooperation, research, innovation and advisory in order to shape alternative solutions and empower global citizens to address contemporary issues.

CAF is presided over by Wadah Khanfar -the for-mer Director General of Al Jazeera - and enjoys the support of an accomplished Advisory Board, with members including: Javier Solana, former Secre-tary General of the NATO; Celso Amorim, Brazil’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Ayo Obe, Co-Vice Chair of the International Crisis Group; John Ralston Saul, President Emeritus of PEN Interna-tional; Eduardo Barcesat, founding member of the American Association of Jurists; Emad Shahin, Ed-itor in Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics; and Arlene Clemesha, Director of the Arab Center for Studies at Sa~o Paulo University.

With the theme “Τhe Limits to Inequality: seek-ing a sustainable society”, this year’s forum will approach increasing inequalities from the per-spective of how citizens have been presented with new forms of control, accumulation, solidarity and freedom as a result of the advent of globalization and the information society.

The Common Action Forum is pleased to celebrate its third annual Forum and welcome all of its guests to Madrid.

The 1970s ushered in the acceleration and expan-sion of productive processes that led to the so-called phenomenon of globalization. This prompt-ed important questions concerning “the limits to growth,” primarily in the field of economics, and examined by organizations like the Club of Rome. At the time, the world was essentially divided into two blocs, preserving borders and territories to fur-ther expand modes of production. Geopolitically, there was still a substantial movement to address the tension between freedom and equality, within a labour society that had reached a comfortable equilibrium in most wealthy countries.

The ensuing decades heralded the era of the in-formation. Growth unavoidably encroached on territorial and ecological boundaries, and more-over expanded into financial and virtual realms, disposing of metanarratives. Currently on a path that will inevitably reach the planet’s limit in terms of material resources and the volatility of the virtu-al ones, our societies now face inequality as the most imminent threat against both establishment and marginalized groups. This reality is not simply confined to economic considerations, but affects fundamental aspects of everyday life.

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Given this trajectory, forty top intellectuals, politi-cians, academics, artists, activists and journalists will participate in the Common Action Forum 2017, seeking innovative proposals that policy makers, civil society, institutions and relevant actors can implement. Beyond the current dispute between cynicism and rancor, the Forum intends to lever progressive dynamics for sustainable relations.

For the first time, an opening event will take place at Casa de América, on November 3rd at 19:00, and will feature the renowned philosopher Antonio Escohotado in a thought-provoking 90-minute dis-cussion with Wadah Khanfar (open to the public). The gathering, which will be given in both Spanish and English with simultaneous translation, will con-tinue on Saturday the 4th and Sunday 5th at the Wellington Hotel with four round-table sessions, also available via live stream.

The 1st Session, “Facing the mirror: what remains of the battle between equality and freedom,” addresses key political dimensions within the context of a deceptive choice that remained an ongoing theme in our modern societies. Citizens have been faced with an ideological dichotomy between ‘equality’ and ‘freedom,’ with totalitarian and neoliberal regimes manipulating both terms to legitimize the rhetoric of left and right wing appara-tuses. The powerful and unprecedented nature of globalization seemed to reinforce and exacerbate these fault lines and manifest the purest liberal and progressive doctrines, while at the same time par-adoxically ignoring that now, more than ever, we are all in the same boat.

The 2nd Session, “Beyond entrepreneurship: real alternatives to the labour society,” considers how labour has had a major historical influence on in-dividual and collective identities. However, new dynamics of production and consumption have transformed, and new challenges now surface. The entirety of accumulated development over re-cent decades and the new place that the work will occupy in citizens’ lives will require new economic policies to improve the quality of social measures, to regulate the appropriation of common goods and to provide balance to a system that may be on the verge of collapse.

The 3rd Session “From facts to fake, from fake to facts: when news become a symptom,” faces the power of information and its relation with the facts. Facts, in this case, are quotidian or existential real-ities that can be objectively explained within both a descriptive and interpretive logic of social reper-cussions. Via a reflexive dynamic, news can trans-form into the repercussive effect of facts. How-ever, the paradox of this dynamic stems from a multidirectional framework of communication that is indeed capable of jeopardizing its fundamental logic. This situation leads to questions like: what can be done today to prevent information from be-coming a populist weapon, and how can it instead be employed as a means of emancipation?

The 4th Session, “Another idea for a universal his-tory from a cosmopolitan point of view,” aims to be politically and cosmologically provocative. In 1784, Immanuel Kant wrote “Idea for a Universal Histo-ry from the Cosmopolitan Point of View,” where in nine fundamental thesis, he illustrated human society’s place in history and nature. Two centu-ries later, the root of many problems faced by to-day’s globalized societies lies in the hegemony of a Western point of view, its anthropocentrism and the drive to maintain security as a central notion. Now, in order to face the current inequalities and reformulate power structures, a real cosmopolitan pact might be required, and it will need to include ecology, technology and a new place for human societies in history.

CAF’s team wishes all participants a very pleasant three-day event, and hopes that the debates will offer everyone new ideas and that many encoun-ters can serve as the beginning of collaborations

to build a more sustainable future.

Rafael Heiber Director & Co-founder

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Forum venue & accommodationThe Forum will take place at the Hotel

Wellington and accommodation in the

same hotel will be provided to those

guests who are not from Madrid and

who will be travelling to Madrid for the

Forum, except otherwise instructed

by them. Rooms have been booked

according to each guest’s travel and

forum dates.

We have provided the Hotel with

the list of guests to be lodged in the

Hotel and their estimated check-in

times. Therefore, when you arrive at

the hotel, please give your name at

the reception and they will assign you

a room. Please keep us informed of

any change on your scheduled arrival

time, so that we can properly inform

the hotel.

For those early arrivals, please

be advised that although the hotel

will do its best to accommodate each

guest as soon as they arrive, they

cannot guarantee immediate check-in.

CAF is not responsible for extra

guests, unless approved by our

team in advance. Adittionally, mini-bar

expenses are not included in the guest

room package.

Hotel Wellington Calle Velazquez, 8 28001 Madrid

How to get to the hotelThe Hotel Wellington is situated in the Madrid district

of Salamanca, at 8 Velazquez Street, near the Museo

del Prado, the Museo Thyssen and the Centro de Arte

Reina Sofia, and just a short stroll from the Parque del

Retiro. Distance from the airport 12km, from Atocha Train

Station 2,15km, and from the closest underground stop

300m.

FROM THE AIRPORT • Terminal 1-2-3 & Terminal 4

(At the Airport an internal bus connects Terminals 1-2-3 to Terminal 4)

Recommended:

By car/taxi: The hotel is 20 minutes by car from the

airport. Fixed price: €30

By train: Airport Express from Terminal 4.

Stop at Recoletos Station (22min), then 7min walk

to the hotel. There are 2 trains per hour departing

from T4 at hh:27 and hh:57. Price: €2,60

Other options:

By Underground/Metro: Line 2 (Retiro), Lines 2 and 9

(Prίncipe de Vergara) and Line 4 (Velazquez), all of them

at 5 minutes walking distance from the Hotel.

By bus: Lines 19, 1, 53 and 74.

Bus stop in front of the hotel main entrance.

Breakfast, lunch & dinnerAll guests will have breakfast

served at the hotel throughout

their stay. On the 4th and 5th,

we recommend that guests finish

breakfast by 09:30h.

Lunch will only be available during

the Forum on November 4th and 5th and will consist of a casual

finger buffet served in the Cibeles Room from 12:00 to 14:00.

Dinner has been arranged for

participants in the evening of 4th November at 20:00. It will be held

in the Claridge Room.

Please inform us if you are NOT

attending the dinner OR if an extra

seat is needed.

If you gave any dietary requirements (vegetarian, gluten-free, etc), please let us know.

The forum sessionsThe four round-table sessions will be held in the Duke Wellington Room from 10:00 to 16:00 both days.

logistical information

Dear CAF2017 Guest,

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Madrid on November 3rd to our Forum. Below you will find useful logistical information for the forum and for your stay in Madrid.

FOR ANY FURTHER LOGISTICS INFO

Mercedes Bellavista: +34 607 02 97 29 mercedes.bellavista@commonactionforum.net

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program

November 4th 2017

Session 1 10:00 - 12:00 Duque Wellington Room (A)

Facing the mirror: what remains of the battle between equality & freedom

Lunch 12:00 - 14:00 Cibeles Room (B)

Session 2 14:00 - 16:00 Duque Wellington Room (A)

Beyond entrepreneurship: real alternatives to the labour society

Coffee 16:00 - 17:00 Cibeles Room (B)

Dinner 20:00 - 22:00 Claridge Room (C)

Concert: Diego Jascalevich & Carolina Stefani

Saturday

Opening Session 19:00 - 20:30 Casa de América

The limits to Inequality: seeking a sustainable society

November 3rd 2017Friday

November 5th 2017

Session 3 10:00 - 12:00 Duque Wellington Room (A)

From facts to fake, from fake to facts: when news become a symptom

Lunch 12:00 - 14:00 Cibeles Room (B)

Session 4 14:00 - 16:00Duque Wellington Room (A)

Another idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view

Coffee 16:00 - 17:00 Cibeles Room (B)

Sunday

Carolina Stefani & Diego JascalevichCarolina Stefani (German-Greek, vocals) and Diego Jascalevich (Argentinian-Italian, charango) share a passion for vibrant rhythms and teasing melodies that transcend cultural borders and times. Stefani, a classically-trained singer with a warm, deep voice, and Jascalevich, an accomplished charango player and composer, collaborate in providing concerts that embody playful, multilingual time travel. Their work includes a mixture of elegant melodies and dramatic elegies from around the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, a blend of shimmering Arabian rhythms, hot-blooded Latin Amer-ican ballads, timeless French chanson, a hint of German caba-ret, Italian canzoni, Portuguese fado and the earthy folk music of Greece that is full of high lyricism and deep pathos. Both artists have been journeying throughout the world, performing in various events, festivals and live radio transmissions. While Carolina also chose a second career as peace and conflict scientist, Diego re-mains a cultural and musical cross-border artist, and has recently accompanied Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.

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the opening session

Common Action Forum President and renowned Spanish philosopher will analyse global inequalities Friday, November 3rd from 19:00 at Casa de America in Madrid,a thought-provoking gathering open to the public.

The Common Action Forum (CAF) Foundation is hosting Wadah Khanfar, CAF Presi-

dent and former Director General of Al-Jazeera, and Antonio Escohotado, a renowned

Spanish philosopher and social scientist, to inaugurate its third annual Forum,

The Limits to Inequality:seeking a sustainable society

As a plenary session, the event will consist of 90 minutes discussion open to the pub-

lic, where both experts will approach increasing inequalities from the perspective of

how, with the advent of globalization and the information society, citizens have been

presented with new forms of control, accumulation, solidarity and freedom. The gath-

ering, given in both Spanish and English with simultaneous translation, will be mod-

erated by Arlene Clemesha, Professor at Sa~o Paulo University and TV commentator.

The encounter will serve as the opening act for the two-day conference, which will

continue on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th at the Wellington Hotel, available

via live stream. The Forum will convene forty top intellectuals, politicians, academics,

artists, activists and journalists to collaborate and seek innovative proposals for a

sustainable society that policy makers, civil society, institutions and relevant actors

can champion and pursue.

CAF’s team will be at the

reception of the Wellington

Hotel from 17:30 until 18:30 to

provide transportation or guided

9 minutes walk until Casa de

America. Guest will be offered

the same from Casa de America

to Wellington Hotel between

20:30 and 21:00

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thematic sessions

The Forum will adopt a round table format where 42 partic-ipants will sit in one concentric table for deep discussions and collective exchange.

The sessions will be moderated by Sami Zeidan, Al Jazeera Senior Presenter, and each session will have a total duration of 120 minutes. In the first half of the sessions, four speakers will deliver a 10 to 12-minute speech each. This will be fol-lowed by 10 minutes of conversation between two commen-tators. Then, the debate will be open to all members of the table for 50-60 minutes, so they can exchange ideas with the speakers. Finally, the commentators will provide reflections during the last 10 minutes, before the moderator closes the session.

Our Program Assistants (please see our team on page 13) will help all speakers and commentators find their seats in each session. Extra seats are available for additional guests who will participate in the sessions.

Sami ZeidanSessions Moderator

Sami Zeidan is a Senior Presenter with Al Jazeera English. He has covered conflict zones and several seats of power including the United Nations, the White House and the European Commission.

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Facing the mirror: what remains of the battle between equality and freedom.

This panel addresses key political dimensions within the context of a deceptive choice that remained an ongoing theme in our modern soci-eties. Citizens have been faced with an ideological dichotomy between ‘equality’ and ‘freedom’, with total-itarian and neoliberal regimes ma-nipulating both terms to legitimize the rhetoric of left and right-wing apparatuses. The powerful and un-precedented nature of globalization seemed to reinforce and exacerbate these fault lines and betray the pur-est liberal and progressive doctrines, while at the same time paradoxically ignoring that now, more than ever, we are all in the same boat.

However, thanks to reflection, prog-ress and a new consciousness that a forced and rigid choice should no longer be the sole option, we can begin to work beyond this obsolete division and take time to analyse and consider a range of viable perspec-tives that truly embrace principles that can promote an equitable and sustainable society.

session 1

Emad El-Din ShahinCommentator

Edam Shahin is Dean of the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, as well as is visiting professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Editor in Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics.

Marcelo EbradCommentator

Marcelo Ebrard is a Mexican politician and current President of the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities. He has previously served as Mexico DF’s former Head of Government and as Minister of Public Security as well as Social Development of the Mexican Capital.

Cheryl CarolusSpeaker

Cheryl Carolus is a South African politician who served as South Africa’s High Commissioner in London, as well as the chief executive officer of SA Tourism (SATOUR). She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group.

Natascha van WeezelSpeaker

Natascha Van Weezel is a Dutch journalist and filmmaker. Her recent work has examined minority groups in the Netherlands, which resulted in the publication of her book ‘Meeting the Enemy’.

Júlia López VenturaSpeaker

Julia Lόpez Ventura from Barcelona is Regional Director for Europe at C40, a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change via knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Liia HänniSpeaker

Liia Hänni is a former Estonian politician and public figure known for her work in pursuing Estonian statehood. She is currently Senior E-democracy Expert at the E-governance Academy, where she advises in digital democracy and civil society.

Collen BolandCoordinator

Colleen Boland, Program Associate at Common Action Forum, is a doctoral student in the sociology of migration at Complutense University of Madrid, and formerly worked as a journal editor at Johns Hopkins University.

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session 2

Beyond entrepreneurship: real alternatives to the labour society.

Labour has had a major historical in-fluence on individual and collective identities. Etymologically, the Latin word tripalium is associated with punishment, suffering and slavery. Throughout history, the notion has evolved, purporting to incorporate values of dignity in conjunction with modes of production and modes of existence. Today, work as a social amalgamation suffers erosion, due to the new dynamics of production and consumption. This in turn, trans-forms, for example, classes once de-fined as “the proletariat” into a pre-carious multitude. Simultaneously, two individual and structural effects can be identified. First, a certain type of labour skill no longer serves as protagonist in how the contempo-rary subject constitutes its identity. Secondly, the capitalization of labour ceases to be exercised solely via an external, collective apparatus, but is instead entangled within the indi-vidual in a self-exploitative process. In other words, ideologically, labour has once again deprived itself of the maximum notion of honour that characterized it, and entrepreneur-ship emerges as the new paradigm to pursue.

As such, a new challenge now sur-faces. The entirety of accumulated development over the last decades and the new place that the work will occupy in the life of the citizens will require new economic policies to improve the quality of social forces, to regulate the appropriation of com-mon goods and to provide balance to a system that may be on the verge of collapse.

Arlene ClemeshaCommentator

Arlene Clemesha is a professor of Arab History and Director of the Arab Center for Studies at Sa~o Paulo University. She is also a commentator at the Brazilian television channel TV Cultura and author of several books.

Ayo ObeCommentator

Ayo Obe is a legal practitioner and Co-Vice Chair of the International Crisis Group. She was President of the Civil Liberties Organisation and Chair of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy.

Eduardo SuplicySpeaker

Eduardo Suplicy is a Brazilian professor, economist and politician. One of the founders and leaders of the Brazil’s Workers Party, Suplicy served as Senator from Sa~o Paulo during 25 years.

Bob BlackSpeaker

Bob Black is an American philosopher known for his work on anarchism. The author of various books and numerous political essays, he specializes in the sociology and ethnography of law.

Joaquín Nieto SainzSpeaker

Joaquίn Nieto Sainz serves as Director of the International Labour Organization Spanish office. He has founded several organizations, including Sustainlabour, ISTAS and Renovables Foundation.

Steve KeenSpeaker

Steve Keen, professor of Economics at Kingston University, is a post-Keynesian economist and critic of neoclassical economics. An expert on Minsky’s “Financial Instability Hypothesis,” he used this theory to warn of the 2007 economic crisis.

Andrés LomeñaCoordinator

Andrés Lomen~a is Program Associate at Common Action Forum. He holds degrees in Journalism and Literary Theory, as well as a PhD in Sociology. He has published several books, teaches Philosophy and writes for the Huffington Post.

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session 3

Wadah KhanfarCommentator

Wadah Khanfar is the Co-founder and Chairman of Common Action Forum. He previously served as the Director General of Al Jazeera, transforming it from a single channel to a media network.

John Ralston SaulCommentator

John Ralston Saul is a Canadian award-winning philosopher, novelist and essayist. Author of ‘The Collapse of Globalism’, which predicted the 2008 economic crisis. He is co-chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and President Emeritus of PEN International.”

Haroon SiddiquiSpeaker

Haroon Siddiqui is an Indo-Canadian award-winning journalist, columnist and former editor of Press Trust of India and emeritus editor of Toronto Star. He serves on the boards of the Canadian Club of Toronto, and the Ryerson University School of Journalism.

Patricio CabelloCoordinator

Patricio Cabello is professor at UAHC, Chile, with a research focus on participation, childhood, youth and media. He is Coordinator at Kids Online Chile and Research Associate at Common Action Forum.

From facts to fake, from fake to facts: when news become a symptom.

The power of information, including the tendency toward propaganda that news can sometimes assume, is nei-ther novel nor surprising. Facts, in this case, are quotidian or existential real-ities that can be objectively explained within both a descriptive and interpre-tive logic of social repercussions. Nor is it unprecedented that, via a reflex-ive dynamic, news can transform into the repercussive effects of facts. The entirety of the underlying logic perme-ating our information society corre-sponds to a discursive construction, generally hegemonic, that sustains certain visions of the world and reaf-firms a purported state of things.

However, the paradox of this dy-namic stems from a multidirectional framework of communication that is indeed capable of jeopardizing its fundamental logic. That is, such com-munication’s drive for the increased consumption of information can lead to disinformation that shapes and affirms opinions remote from facts. Faced with this situation, there is a consensus among both left and right-wing parties and NGOs that a debate about post-truth or fake news can serve as an effective strategy to en-courage engagement and participa-tion. These situations lead to ques-tions like: what can be done today to prevent information from becoming a populist weapon, and to instead to employ it as a means of emancipa-tion? what is the role of new activist media and grass root-media? how digital technology is helping to over-come boundaries of hegemonic me-dia allowing to unveil inequalities, so-cial process and crisis? how can we work to encourage a new pluralistic and ethical journalism?

Peter LuntSpeaker

Peter Lunt, professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, studies media audiences, public participation in popular culture, media regulation, consumption research and the links between media and social theory.

Ivana NenadovicSpeaker

Ivana Nenadovic is a producer at the National Theater of Belgrade. She is currently a member of DiEM25’s Coordinating Collective as well as an associate of DiEM25-Belgrade. She also works with “Don’t drown Belgrade”, an urban social movement.

Orit KopelSpeaker

Human rights lawyer Orit Kopel is the Co-founder of WikiTribune. She is also the CEO of the Jimmy Wales Foundation for Freedom of Expression, advocating for bloggers and social media users who are persecuted for speaking out.

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session 4

AliciaPuleoSpeaker

Alicia Puleo is a philosopher known for her work in ecofeminism. Pro-fessor at University of Valladolid, Puleo focuses on gender inequality and feminism. She serves on the Board of the Institute for the Study of Feminism at Complutense Uni-versity of Madrid.

Celso AmorimCommentator

Celso Amorim is a Brazilian diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations under both President Itamar Franco and President Lula da Silva. He was also Minister of Defence (2011-2014) under President Dilma Rousseff.

Rafael HeiberCommentator

Rafael Heiber is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Common Action Forum. He is geographer and holds a PhD in Sociology from the University Complutense of Madrid. His work focuses on territorial and political implications of sociotechnical systems.

Heidi FigueroaSpeaker

Heidi Figueroa is a social psychologist, professor at the University of Puerto, Rio Piedras Campus. Her research deals with the relationships between digital technologies, the transformation of everyday life, subjectivity and embodiment.

Carlos MoyaSpeaker

Carlos Moya is an emeritus professor of Sociology at UNED. He holds a BA in Law from the University of Valencia and studied Sociology at the University of Cologne. In 2010, he recieved the Spanish National Prize for Sociology and Political Science.

José Olives PuigSpeaker

José Olives Puig is Dean of Humanities at the International University of Catalonia, where he teaches Tough and fundamental socio-political theory. He is a specialist in urban studies and applies the humanities in different fields,

Rafael MoyaCoordinator

Rafael Moya is Global Alliance Manager at the Common Action Forum. His expertise includes past work experience at UNCHR Spain, and he holds a Master in International Relations from the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals.

Another idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view.

This session aims to be politically and cosmologically provocative as well as intends to provide a thorough analysis of classical dilemmas, such as changes in the formulation of free-dom, equality and fraternity as con-cepts that have been guiding West-ern society since the XVIII century.

In 1784, Immanuel Kant wrote “Idea for a Universal History from the Cos-mopolitan Point of View,” where in nine fundamental thesis Kant illus-trated human society’s place in his-tory and nature. Two centuries later, the root of many problems faced by today’s globalized societies lies in the hegemony of a Western point of view, distant from any cosmopol-itan essence. In fact, in the practical sense, contemporary cosmopolitan-ism could be associated to a cos-metic device championing logics of diversity, abundance and unilateral accumulation, meanwhile security seems to replace fraternity as one of the fundamentals of modern democ-racies.

To really face present inequalities, a new pact at a social scale is re-quired. This pact needs to adopt a much more complex, ecological and technological approach to un-derstand and create new collective solutions based on diversity and a reformulation of the power struc-tures that shape gender relations, media concentration, consumption, authoritarianism and individualism in our present society.

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press area, interviews & meetings

Internal CAF interviews will be conducted at the Recoletos Room, right next Velazquez Room.

Finally, next to Recoletos Room there is the Alcala Room, which will be used for the Advisory Board Meeting and further CAF Meetings (the members of those meetings will be informed individually.

CAF has prepared a Press Area where interviews can be conducted after each session. Located in the Velazquez Room (1st Floor), it will be open on Saturday and Sunday until 20:00h. Coffee and water will be available for all guests and media.

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FOR ANY FURTHER INFO

Maribel Mateos: +34628403730maribel.mateos@commonactionforum.net

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COORDINATOR SESSION 2 Andrés Lomen~aandres.lomena@commonactionforum.net

COORDINATOR SESSION 1Collen Boland colleen.boland@commonactionforum.net

ASSISTANT SESSION 4Fabio Praderafabio.pradera@commonactionforum.net

COORDINATOR SESSION 3Patricio Cabellopatricio.cabello@commonactionforum.net

ASSISTANT SESSION 2Sara Lian~osara.liano@commonactionforum.net

ASSISTANT SESSION 1Sofia Gohlkesofia.gohlke@commonactionforum.net

COMUNICATIONS MANAGERMaribel Mateos maribel.mateos@commonactionforum.net

LOGISTICS MANAGERMercedes Bellavistamercedes.bellavista@commonactionforum.net

DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDERRafael Heiberrafael.heiber@commonactionforum.net

COORDINATOR SESSION 4Rafael Moyarafael.moya@commonactionforum.net

ASSISTANT SESSION 3Irene Mejίasirene.mejias@commonactionforum.net

CAF 2017 team

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