HAGAR ROUBEV ROOM
Perspective Café - by Sofie Verscheure, Inis Gallant and Mips Meyntjens

PURPOSE: to open new perspectives, to set concrete little steps and big steps AND to engage us for those steps
METHODE: Perspective Café
We formulate three strong challenges. Around those challenges we work for 30’ in little groups of maximum 10 around a table, afterwards we move to a new table, new women, new theme.
Course conversation: 3’ to think and to note ; 20’ conversation ; 7’ conclusiontime : note in 3 sentences …

CHALLENGE 1:
" There was greenham common, then woman in black, now we are 2014 … When we don’t find connection with young people and their methods of action, WIB can bury herself between now and 10 years. "
We live in a society that changes continuingly. Revolutions are activated by social media . If we want to activate young people, we need to grow and change as movement. We need to find new formulas for 'protest' and we have to train ourselves in working with the new media.
QUESTIONS FOR THE CONVERSATION:
What about the future, rejuvenation/succession within your WIB group?
How do you work locally to interest young people and / or to broadening?
Which evolution is needed within WIB to be still a powerful and influencing movement for changing the world in 2030
CONCLUSION QUESTION question: Specify three strategic advices for WIB as a movement which opens perspective for the future

RESULTS of the round tables:
1. Internationalism is our strength and political reflection. Go for better communication via website.
2. More meetings to understand issues and recflect on ourselves. Key new issues and ourselves
3. Join other movements without losing our identity or essence
4. Share experiences and write about them, using social networking
5. Work on affection network to keep women together
6. We must open the movement to the young. We must go to the neighborghouds, to the university, spread information
7. Strengthen the network of information and exchange between groups with similar goals
8. Find new artistic forms of making resistance
9. We must listen to the young and evicted, the people suffering the consequences of the war in everyday life
10. Young people organize summer feminist peace camp
11. Use social media
12. Let go power
13. Connect to other social movements local, regional, international agenda’s
14. Expect that young women want to do things in their way according to their concrete context
15. But make alliances with others with our feministic perspectives
16. To turn back to our first issue : a just peace between Israeli and Palestinians
17. It’s also important for the European societies, who are multi-cultural with important arabic-islamic minority : to let them understand that this first issue of the WIB can be the basis of all JUST society.
18. We want to make ideas grow, not our group : we want to maintain our long experience, feminist, antimilitarist and spread it
19. We have to empower ourselves with new technology, use them as new tools of communication, for example twitter
20. We need street actions who are creative, making positive proposals for a new vision of the world, that can include / change every day live.
21. Get closer to youth movements and work together with them.
22. Participate with other groups for punctual actions and concrete subjects.
23. Use the alternative press and protest in front of the press that manipulates information.
24. Activate our other engagements with transnational networks on shared commitments - asylum, anti-racist and human rights groups
25. Send out information through WIB networks about global actions in solidarity with future/current work
26. Educate young people through different media on issues reflected by WIB peace/social justice
27. To make alliances/coalitions with other women’s organization and movements (student, migrant, mothers, … )
28. Reflection and analysis starting with appre