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Tentative Agenda for
the Okinawa International Forum for People's Security

29 June - 2 July

at Urazoe-So, Urazoe City, Okinawa
(3rd draft, Muto, May 5)



Day 1 (29 June):

* Morn/afternoon	Exposure Trip in Okinawa
* Evening		Reception



Day 2 (30 June):

09:00-10:00	Greetings by former Okinawa Governor Ohta
Opening presentations
Walden Bello and Muto Ichiyo

10:00-12:00	Plenary I: Okinawa: Struggle against Militarism
              and Human Dignity
		Arasaki Moriteru
		Takazato Suzuyo

12:00-13:00	Lunch

13:00-15:00	Plenary II: US Strategy & Globalization
(Joseph Gerson, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Mushakoji Kinhide, Kim Yong Han)

15:00-15:30	Coffee Break

15:30-18:00	Plenary III:	War and colonial legacies
	(Lee Jung Ok, Matsui Yayori, Taira Osamu, Tessa Morris-Suzuki,
	Chen Kuan Hsing)

18:00-19:00	Dinner

19:00-21:00	Group meetings for the sharing of subregional problems
	Group I: Northeast Asia - Japanese militarism, Korean peninsula,
	Taiwan Straits
Group II: Southeast Asia
Group III: South Asia
(Chen Kuan Hsing, Roland Simbulan, Jeannie Manipon, Kalamat Ali, Syed
Hussein Ali, Corazon Fabros, Green Korea United, Carolyn Hau, Harsono
and others are asked to take  the lead in the group meetings.)



Day 3 (1 July):

09:00-11:30	Plenary IV:	Regional Mechanisms for Peace
	Reports from previous day group meetings
Panel: Hiro Umebayashi, Nick Mclellan (Joe Camilleri), Tao Wenzhao,
North Korea, Kim Seung-kuk (Lee Sam-Sung)

11:00-13:30	Plenary V:	People's security vs. militarization,
deprivation, & environmental destruction
	Melani Budianta (or Ace woman), Chirawattana Charoonpatarapong,
	Urashima Etsuko,  Surichai Wangheo, Ui Jun

13:00-14:00	Lunch

14:00-16:00	Simultaneous workshops on action and alliance formation
	a) People's own ways of conflict resolution and military intervention
	   in regional affairs
	b) People's action networks against militarization and economic
	   "globalization," national, regional and beyond

16:00-16:30	Break

16:30-19:00	Final Plenary
	Presentation, discussion, and adoption of resolutions and conference
	declaration

(Day 4	Afternoon; an open public forum convened by the Okinawa groups)


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