Cross Networking Space to face the Global Crises
Since the end of 2008 the Seattle to Brussels Network, together with many other Networks and organisations from many different countries in Europe and worldwide, is promoting the building of a Cross Networking Space to coordinate the actions of civil society and social movements facing the different elements of the current multiple crisis. The last result of this process is the following document
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO THE GLOBAL CRISES - EUROPEAN ACTION, NOT EUROPEAN RHETORIC!
"The financial crash has afflicted the planet for over a year. It has severely affected the real economy and the worst impacts for ordinary people are still to come. Unemployment is soaring everywhere, insolvencies are reaching unprecedented levels, and social systems are under extreme pressure. This crisis affects all humanity, in particular the most vulnerable groups such as workers, jobless, farmers, migrants and women. The crises of the food and energy systems are other dimensions of the malfunction of the current economic system. People in the South are again taking the heaviest brunt of these unprecedented crises.
The crises are the consequence of a system of production and consumption based on free market economies and laissez-faire, pushed by corporate lobbies, resulting in unequal redistribution of wealth, the transfer of income from labour towards capital, an unjust trading system, the perpetration and accumulation of irresponsible, ecological and illegitimate debt, natural resource plunder, the dismantling of social protection and the privatisation of public services such as pensions, housing and health services. This model must be overturned (...)"
Read or download the all document and see the list of the Signatories
To sign this call or join the Cross Networking process write to info@s2bnetwork.org