OTHER ECONOMY IS POSSIBLE
Business leaders from around the world, senior executives and American government officials met in Santiago on 25 and 26 April, as part of a conference convened by the World Economic Forum.
Published in Diario La Nación (April 27), Electronic Journal The Desk (April 25), Journal of Civil Society (April 25).
Solidarity Economy Network is calling for a path of integration among peoples.
This meeting seeks to provide analysis on business and investment in Latin America to the large mining companies, agribusiness and financial exploit our resources, enabling increase their profits.
is a moment that makes visible the power of the market, where governments impose decisions already taken by multinationals, which aim to raise labor and environmental deregulation, ownership of public services and press for privatization.
face of the great free-market agreements that drives this kind of forums, we postulate a model of regional integration not only commercial but also cultural, social, economic and political, that emphasizes the people and that has as its main foundation and cooperative ties fraternity.
The Solidarity Economy Network firmly believe economy is another possible, focusing on people and having as its main objective the satisfaction of social needs. Understand an economy with a focus on production autonomy, based on grassroots organizing, self-management participation, ecological sustainability and community association. For this reason, we demand a change in priorities and focus of attention of governments, parliaments and local authorities in Latin America.
urgently implement specific policies and programs for the promotion and development of social economy, collecting their contributions and valuing their role in overcoming poverty and social inequality. It is possible to develop alternative models if they valued the experience of rural and urban development, based on joint production lines, with sustainable management and socially appropriate technologies. Furthermore, it is urgent to think about mechanisms to better distribute the wealth, making it more equitable tax structures of our countries.
Meetings such as the World Economic Forum expressed ideas and positions that prevent democratic debate, so that reaffirm the exclusive nature of the neoliberal model.
urgently restore democratic practices to allow the implementation of supportive strategies for sustainable development. Solidarity Economy Network
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arises Solidarity Economy Network in 2001 in Santiago, from an international seminar "Building trust for an economy of solidarity" organized by the Vicariate of the Pastoral Social. It consists of different types of institutions fighting for a conscientious and ethical consumption, assessing the community factor and defending the proximity between producer and consumer.
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