Saturday, October 23, 2010

ESTABLISH THE MOVEMENT

Aims:

  • Establish consensus on the historic importance of the ODS movement
  • Decide on the structure and organization of the movement
  • Begin to build a shared vision of the ODS movement in world politics

9:00-9:30 AM INTRODUCTION: Why we are here

Establish the need for a ODS Movement and unity around a shared vision.

9:30-10:30 AM Historic Dimensions of the ODS Movement

Review current conditions and pressures in Palestine and internationally that drive the ODS movement: including political, legal, economic, cultural, psychological, demographic, & military; inside ‘48, inside ’67, refugees/diaspora and right of return.

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45 – 1:00 PM LAUNCHING THE MOVEMENT

  • Affirm the Declaration
  • Decide on the structure of the movement: administration, chapters, coordination
  • Adopt a Plan of Action
  • Discuss potential movement politics and how to handle them.

1:00-2:00 PM LUNCH

2:00-4:00 PM ODS and the UN/”Peace Process”

Is the law on our side? Positioning ODS in terms of UN declarations, international law, the PA, and two-state diplomacy. (If the US and everyone else is focused on two states, what does this mean legally and strategically for the one-state movement? What it means to say Israel is an ‘apartheid state’, and how this matters to the ODS Movement.)

4:00-6:00 PM OPEN: free discussion among participants

6:30 -7:30 PM DINNER

7:30 Optional: Slide History of South Africa’s Triumph over Apartheid

DAY 2:

Sunday, October 24, 2010

BUILDING CONSENSUS ON THE DECLARATION:

Aims:

  • Clarify the principles and goals of the Declaration
  • Develop a strategy to address Movement politics and global networking
  • Identify needs and key/talking points for ODS Movement activism

9:00-09:15 AM INTRODUCTION: The Declaration as a Freedom Charter

9:15-10:15 AM THE PRINCIPLES: DISCUSSION

Review the principles that will underpin the ODSM: human rights, anti-racism, equality, freedom, democracy. These may seem easy, but what do they really mean? How does Palestinian cultural nationalism fit in ODS? How does Jewish nationalism fit, or does it? How do conservative religious sects, who may have different views about these matters, fit and can they be incorporated into the ODS Movement?

10:30-12:30 PM THE GOALS: DISCUSSION

Discuss and agree on what is meant by “one democratic state”: for example, the secular/religious debate; the nature of the state (federal/unitary/bi-national); the name of the state. What are the issues around these and other topics that may divide people’s view of ODS or their participation in the ODS Movement? How do we prevent these differences from becoming stumbling blocks? Can we persuade people, including ourselves, to agree to disagree? What is our role and strategy as a movement regarding taking positions on these issues and/or serving as leaders to over-arch differences?

12:30-1:30 PM LUNCH

1:30-2:30 PM SESSION TWO: The ODS Movement and the World

  • How the ODS Movement will relate to the big players—the PLO, PA, Hamas, Palestinian parties, Jewish solidarity groups, other orgs. It is particularly sensitive that the PA does not support ODS: what does this mean to the Movement? How is it best handled, in the interests of long-term unity?
  • How the ODS Movement should relate to the solidarity community: To NGOs, to Palestinian and Jewish peace groups, to the BDS coalition and other cross-cutting alliances?
  • The rest of the world: How the ODS movement will relate to historic Palestinian and Arab nationalism; the Arab League; the ‘war on terror’; democracy; great-power interests & interventions (the ‘great game’); the global South.

2:30-5:00 PM SESSION THREE: “The Way Forward”

ACTION PLANNING SESSION

Aim:

  • Determine pragmatic “next steps” for building the ODS Movement
  • Establish a one-year plan for the ODS Movement

10:00-1:00 PM FINAL SESSION: WORKING GROUPS

Determine needs and next steps:

  • Identify potential ODS chapters;
  • Identify speakers for speaking tours and teaching/education sessions;
  • Plan a sequence of ODS meetings and conferences with geographic spread;
  • Identify sources of funding and other support;
  • Develop a strategy for media & publicity.

5:00-6:30 PM OPEN DISCUSSION/BREAK

6:30-11:00 PM PUBLIC DINNER

  • Keynote speaker(s):
  • Reading of Declaration
  • Buffet Dinner & cultural activities
  • If need be- SESSION THREE: “The Way Forward” Continued.
 
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