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For more than ten years, the "Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World" has organized a large number of meetings and debates among organizations and among citizens involved in a variety of organizations, professions, or functions, as well as in national or local bodies. The work accomplished within these many networks has resulted in proposals, which in essence are scenarios of alternatives for the planet. More than 400 distinguished persons from 125 countries and 25 different social and professional spheres are in Lille (France) to discuss these scenarios within a general forum from December 2 to 10, 2001. This is not a summit meeting, but a broad deliberation among participants from different regions and socioprofessional cultures, not to negotiate their interests, but on the contrary to share their thoughts, their projects, and their expectations. They are all joined by the same concern: to promote "another form of globalization," which is responsible, plural, and united in solidarity and which is designed on the basis of citizens' interests. The debates in Lille were prepared at a number of previous theme-based
or regional meetings. The socioprofessional groups drafted proposals.
These are summarized in documents called "breakthroughs," which
are available on the Alliance Web site This is the first of a series of daily releases. A summary of the debates and of the proposals will be published here every day. It will be produced by a group of student observers and journalists who will be continuously attending the debates.
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