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Our local committee Paris Center consists of Attac France members who live in the 1st - 7th District of Paris. Over several years the average membership is betwen 200 and 250 members of which in any given year 30 are actively engaged. Attac Paris Center implements on a local level the objectives of Attac France; it turns popular education into political action. A problem of the committee is that the members move a lot within in Paris.

There are two monthly meetings in two different locations where lectures are mixed with actions, film projections, public debates on general subjects like the European Constitutional Treaty, Bolkenstein Directive,WTO, World and European Social Forum and special subjects with local relevance like the Paris Social Forum, housing and participation in 'District Committees'. The lectures are mostly given by the members and concern news topics or specialised topics to do with environment, health, public service, globalisation, representative and participative democracy, technical progress and labour, WTO, Worldbank, IMF....etc.. We have a number of specialised working groups, the one dealing with Europe is particularly active. This group is looking to organise the twinning with other European Attac groups.

The committee together with other committees in the Paris region takes part in organising banners for demonstrations, street theatre...etc.. Members of the committee are represented in national commissions of Attac France and participate in international reunions such as the World - and European Social Forum and World - and European Attac meetings. We have an internet site (http://www.local.attac.org/parisctr), and two electronic information and discussion lists parisctr@attac.org.....in French.