INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WASTE PICKERS

The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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Schedule (english): Waste pickers at Rio+20 & People’s Summit

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Back to Rio+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development & The Peoples’ Summit. On preparation. Check the Portuguese version. Rio+20 & Cúpula dos Povos. Junho 2012. Río de Janeiro. Participation of the waste pickers of MNCR, Red Lacre, the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and the Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers. The locations of » read the post


Back to Rio+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development & The Peoples’ Summit.

On preparation. Check the Portuguese version.

Rio+20 & Cúpula dos Povos. Junho 2012. Río de Janeiro.

Participation of the waste pickers of MNCR, Red Lacre, the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and the Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers.

The locations of these events will be updated as soon as we know the details.

June 15 – Friday

9 am
Arrival of the caravans

11 am
Launch of the waste pickers’ recycling center 

2 pm
Political plenary – the closing of open dumps in Brazil
– MNCR – RJ
– National Association of Public Defenders – ANADEP
Facilitator: MNCR

4 pm
Judicial Aspects of the National Recycling Policy 
– Prosecutor Margaret Mattos MP-PR
– Public minister – Sergipe
– Prosecutor Sebastião Donizete MP-SP
– Silvano Silvério Secretario de Recursos Hídricos/MMA Mediação:MNCR

18.30h
Acolhida + mística

June 16 – Saturday

9 am
Analysis of the national situation for waste pickers
-Alex Cardoso, MNCR

11 am
Analysis of the Global Situation for waste pickers
– Sylvio Ruiz – Red Lacre
– Lucía Fernandes – WIEGO
– Sushila Vittal Sabale – KKPKP – Índia
Facilitator: MNCR

2 pm
Resisting Incinerators – social control mechanisms 
– Virgílio – Attorney with MDV
– Carlos Bocuhy – Proam
– Public Defendor
Faciliation: MNCR

4 pm
Resisting incinerators around the world
– Mirko Moskat, Coalición Argentina Anti incineración (Anti-Incineration Coalition, Argentina)
– Red Ambiental Indígena, to be confirmed
– Eduardo Pérez, Uruguai, REDLACRE
– MNCR (National Brazilian Waste Pickers’ Movement)
Facilitation: GAIA

6:30 pm
Launch of Zero Waste case studies
– Sushila Sable, SMS Mumbai, India
– Alex Kelty, San Francisco, United States
– Magdalena Donoso, GAIA
Facilitation: MNCR

June 17 – Sunday

9 am

Resisting incinerators: technical and environmental aspects
-Dan Moche – specialist
– Eduardo Raccioppi – Institute Aruandista
– André Abreu – France Libertés
– ???
Facilitation:

11 am
Resisting incinerators – Brazil
– Maria Mônica- MNCR
– Prosecutor Fábio – Waste and Citizenship Forum – Maringá
– Ronei MNCR-DF
Faciliation:

2 pm
Alternativas e Experiências de inclusão
– Matilde Ramos, Ourinhos – SP
– Minas Gerais
– Tibagi – PR
Facilitation:

4 pm
Alternativas Sustentáveis para tratamento dos resíduos
– Elizabeth Grimberg – Polis
– Cicero Bley – Fundação Itaipu
– Adriana Charoux – IDEC
Facilitation:MNCR

6:30 pm
Atividade cultural 

June 18 – Monday

9 am
National Brazilian Movement’s proposals for Rio+20
– Carlos Alenncastro – MNCR-PR

11 am
Panel – People’s Summit
Organizing committee
Facilitation: André Abreu

2 pm
Direct action – Coalition 

4 pm
Direct action 

6:30 pm
Cultural activity

June 19 – Tuesday

9 am
Latin American and Caribbean Network of Waste Pickers
– Eduardo Perez, International Secretariat of Red Lacre
– David Narvaez, Red Nicaragua
– Denisse Moran – Gender Committe, Red Lacre
Facilitation: Madalena Duarte – MNCR

11 am
Waste pickers’ organizations in India
– Sushila Vittal Sabale, Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers
– Jyoti Mhapsekar, SMS, Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers
Facilitation: MNCR

2 pm
Resisting urban cleansing/hygienization of urban centers
– StreetNet
– Robson de Aguiar – MTST
– Mov. Nacional de Luta por Moradia (national movement for the right to housing)
– Mov. Nacional de Pop em Situação de Rua – MNPR (national movement of street dwellers)
Facilitation: Alex Cardoso – MNCR-RS

4 pm
Gender and work
– Monica da Silva – MNCR-SP
– Denisse Moran – RedLacre
– Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas
– Marcha Mundial de Mulheres (national women’s march)
– Sonia Dias – WIEGO e UFMG
Facilitation: Irineide Souza – MNCR-AM

6:30 pm
Filme e debate socioambiental
Lixo Extraordinário + curtas

June 20 – Wednesday

9:00 am – 6:30 pm
Direct Action – Global

6:30 pm
Film and socio-environmental debate
À Margem do Lixo (On the banks of the trash) + short films

June 21  – Thursday

9 am
Working in networks and economic solidarity strategies 
– Roberval Prates – Catasampa
– Marilza Aparecida – Cataparaná
– Ronel Alves – Centcoop – DF
– Daniel Tygel – Tecnologia da Informação para Movimentos Sociais
Facilitation: MNCR

11 am
Avanço da Cadeia Produtiva da reciclagem
– Gilberto Warley – Cataunidos
– Ubiratan Lomanto – Catabahia
– Graziela Soares – Cadeia Solidária do PET
– Nelsa Nespolo – Gov. Rio Grande do Sul
Facilitation: MNCR

2 pm
Waste pickers as service providers & Reverse Logic (companies paying waste pickers to recycle)
– Roberto Laureano – MNCR-SP
– André Vilhena – Cempre
– Nábil Bouduk – specialist
Facilitation: MNCR

4 pm
Working groups 

6:30
Film and socio-environmental debate
– “Estamira” and other short films

June 22 – Friday

9 am
Social security
– Cido Gonçalves – Insea
– Dep. Arnaldo Jardim
– Dep. Leonardo Monteiro
– Dep. Luiza Erundina
Facilitation: Rônei Alves – MNCR-DF

11 am
Partners in social inclusion – Solidarity and Cataforte
– BNDES
– Petrobrás
– FBB
– Insea, Ancat, L&C, Luteranos, Pangea
Facilitation: MNCR-MG

2 pm
Human rights for street dwellers and waste pickers
– SEDH/Governo Federal
– Centro Nacional Direitos Humans População de Rua e Catadores (National Center for Human Rights and Street Dwellers)
– Jucilei MNCR – MG
– Eduardo MNCR – SP
Facilitation: MNPR

4 pm
New inclusive technologies for waste pickers
– Technological platform Itaipu
– MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
– Renault de Freitas Castro – Abralatas
– David Romeros, UFSJ/Catafácil
Facilitator:

6:30 pm
Cultural Activity

June 23 – Saturday

9 am
MNCR Presentation: Planning
– Roberto Laureano – MNCR-SP

11 am
Planning – working groups

2 pm
Workshop on how committees and state coordination works (working groups)

4 pm
Final Plenary – Declaration

6:30 pm
Departure of the caravans