We won’t pay for your crises - it is time for change!
Face à crise, a sociedade civil e os movimentos sociais europeus organizam-se
150 representantes de movimentos sociais, de sindicatos, ONGs ambientais, de desenvolvimento, dos direitos das mulheres, e de outros diversosos movimentos sociais, provenientes de 25 países europeus, reuniram-se em Paris de 9 a 11 de Janeiro para estudar formas de se organizar para fazer face à crise financeira, económica, social e ecológica.
Estavam presentes, entre muitos outros, Amis de la Terre Europe, ATD Quart Monde, Attac da Europa, a CCFD, o CRID, a Ligue des droits de l’homme, Oxfam, o Secours catholique, Via campesina Europa, os sindicatos CGIL, CGT, FSU, Solidaires, Verdi.
Desta reunião saiu a Declaração de Paris que apela para que se faça da próxima cimeira do G20 em Londres, no dia 2 de Abril de 2009, um grande momento de mobilização social por toda a Europa em torno da palavra de ordem «Nós não pagaremos pela vossa crise»
No dia 28 de Março realizar-se-á ainda uma jornada internacional com manifestações e acções que defendam verdadeiras alternativas. Simultaneamente decorrerá uma manifestação em Londres. Esta campanha prosseguirá por toda a Europa até ao dia da reunião do G20, com destaque para o dia 1 de Abril dedicado a denunciar as manobras sujas das finanças e das instituições financeiras, sob o lema de «Financial Fools’ Day»
Os participantes da reunião decidiram ainda reunirem-se nos dias 18 e 19 de Abril para discutir o prosseguimento das mobilizações.
Paris Declaration ( excerto)
“As the financial and the economic crises intensify, millions of women and men are losing their jobs, houses and livelihoods. Tens of millions more are forecast to join the 1.4 billion people already living in extreme poverty. The crises worsen the social, ecological, cultural and political situation of the majority of people on our planet.
Despite the evident and foreseeable failure of the current economic model, world leaders are responding by trying to preserve the system that is responsible for the crises. Governments have been quick to bail out bankers, corporate share holders and their financial backers with hundreds of billions in public money. To solve the problem, they put into place bankers and heads of corporations: the same actors that created the crises. The workers, the jobless, the poor – all those affected have received no help in their daily struggle to make ends meet, and to cap it all, they are now supposed to pay the bill.
Governments´ proposals to deal with the unfolding economic crisis do not address the other dimensions of the crisis we face today – global justice, food, climate and energy – and with it the need to transform the economic system towards one that allows us to satisfy the basic needs of all people, to implement all human rights and to restore and preserve the ecological basis of life on our planet.
It is time for change!
We can build a system that works for people and the environment, a system to serve the needs of the many, a system based on the principles of public benefit, global equity, justice, environmental sustainability and democratic control.As a first step, immediate measures must be implemented to address the social impacts on people, whilst supporting the ecological conversion of the economy.We call upon all social movements in Europe to engage in a process of change.”
