Santiago Declaration

Some very good news. Funny how this didn't make any corporate news.

"An international coalition made up of more than 200 trade unions and progressive advocacy groups on Thursday published the Santiago Declaration, a manifesto for 'a complete overhaul of our global economic system.'

The undeniably anti-neoliberal document proclaiming that 'our future is public' is the product of a meeting held in Chile—the 'laboratory of neoliberalism' where Milton Friedman and his University of Chicago acolytes' upwardly redistributive economic model was first imposed at gunpoint by Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military junta.

From November 29 to December 2, more than 1,000 organizers from over 100 countries gathered in Santiago and virtually to germinate a left-wing movement against 'the dominant paradigm of growth, privatization, and commodification.'"

"We commit to continue building an intersectional movement for a future that is public. One where our rights are guaranteed, not based on our ability to pay, or on whether a system produces profit, but on whether it enables all of us to live well together in peace and equality."