OFiP Day 3 - Workshop: Economic, Tax and Debt Justice
The daily struggles of peoples around the world — for food, housing, healthcare, employment — are completely tied to the rules that govern the global economy. And if we want to confront deep injustices and asymmetries, global systemic solutions are urgently needed.
The perfect storm created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency lays bare the incompatibility of our current economic systems with the safeguarding of life itself. People the world over, especially in the Global South, continuously struggled with limited access to healthcare and vaccines, loss of jobs, unpaid care work, and mounting debt burdens. Meanwhile, countries in the Global North hoarded vaccines, corporations reaped massive profits and billionaires saw their wealth increase.
The purpose of this conference is to connect different movements and organizations, to build stronger alliances and collective campaigning capabilities to help achieve our common goals. Along these lines, this workshop will focus on discussing how campaigning and fighting for economic justice is essential to the fight for universal public services in every sector.
Following two days of sectoral discussions and a panel on Economic Justice, this open workshop will be a moment to expand on the connections between economic justice, other cross-cutting themes and different public services movements.
By dividing participants in multiple groups, we will discuss key topics defined during the first two days of meetings as crucial entry points for further alliance building and collective action across economic justice groups and the other movements present in Chile. These topics will include key political spaces/moments for joint action (e.g. 4th UN Financing for Development Conference and/or Tax Convention process, CSW, COP), current issues/sticky subjects we need to address (e.g. economic justice and climate) and potential campaigns where economic justice demands can intersect with the public services agenda.