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BREAKING: The @ProgIntl has announced a new working group on global Debt Justice, convening academics, advocates, and organizers to dismantle an economic paradigm that has empowered a tiny class of creditors against the debtors of the world.
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Debt has moved centre-stage in the struggle for international, intersectional, and intergenerational justice.
Students in Chile march for debt relief. Protestors in Lebanon demand an end to austerity. @KCTenants organize rent strikes during Covid-19. 2/ https://progressive.international/movement/campaign/covid-19-tenant-organizing-4d9213aa-3873-48a9-b45a-67dd9a1fa036/en/
Students in Chile march for debt relief. Protestors in Lebanon demand an end to austerity. @KCTenants organize rent strikes during Covid-19. 2/ https://progressive.international/movement/campaign/covid-19-tenant-organizing-4d9213aa-3873-48a9-b45a-67dd9a1fa036/en/
As Working Group member @Jayati1609 points out, this crisis is not a product of a single policy failure, but of an entire economic paradigm.
To fix it, then, we will need a blueprint of a new paradigm, and a planetary struggle to deliver it. 3/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/80b03a68-68ca-4322-a3ad-c91775f167b9-jayati-ghosh-how-to-build-the-global-green-new-deal/en
To fix it, then, we will need a blueprint of a new paradigm, and a planetary struggle to deliver it. 3/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/80b03a68-68ca-4322-a3ad-c91775f167b9-jayati-ghosh-how-to-build-the-global-green-new-deal/en
To do so, the Debt Justice Working Group connects activists and thinkers across geographies and areas of expertise.
These include local organizations like @advocaid, fighting for debt justice in Sierra Leone.
Read their statement now: 4/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/647a46cd-4cbc-4102-98c6-6af658cd840c-jakema-davis-debt-gender-in-sierra-leone/en
These include local organizations like @advocaid, fighting for debt justice in Sierra Leone.
Read their statement now: 4/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/647a46cd-4cbc-4102-98c6-6af658cd840c-jakema-davis-debt-gender-in-sierra-leone/en
These include leading scholars like @KatharinaPistor, @ingridharvold, Melinda Cooper, and Z. Fareen Parvez.
Read Parvez's statement on the crisis of debt in Telangana, India, and the need for a new solidarity movement to address it: 5/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/9f9e5b59-8acd-4d0d-9073-2960d2f09aa9-parvez-a-new-international-movement-for-debt-justice/en
Read Parvez's statement on the crisis of debt in Telangana, India, and the need for a new solidarity movement to address it: 5/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/9f9e5b59-8acd-4d0d-9073-2960d2f09aa9-parvez-a-new-international-movement-for-debt-justice/en
And they include activists and members of international advocacy networks like @AFRODAD2011, @dropthedebt, @Make_TheShift, and @StrikeDebt.
Read @StrikeDebt's Hannah Appel's call for debtors of the world to unite: 6/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/365e30f1-8c88-4299-a534-341704b05b49-appel-debtors-unions-reparative-public-goods-and-the-future-of-finance/en
Read @StrikeDebt's Hannah Appel's call for debtors of the world to unite: 6/ https://progressive.international/blueprint/365e30f1-8c88-4299-a534-341704b05b49-appel-debtors-unions-reparative-public-goods-and-the-future-of-finance/en
Together, the members of the PI working group on global Debt Justice will develop the principles of a new international financial system — egalitarian, decolonized, and prosperous — and the concrete policy interventions to get us there.
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