The southern eco-social pact

The southern eco-social pact corresponds to a holistic proposal that aims to combat inequality and the abuses of the extractive capitalist model, being an alternative that emphasizes pending social, gender and ethnic justice throughout the region.

The pact includes the proposals of the territories struggle with eight specific points:

1-      A solidary tax transformation that changes the current inequitable and regressive system, putting a tax on great fortunes, inheritance and as a transitory measure a tax on industries for damage to territories.

2-      The cancellation of the external debt of the States and the historical repair of the ecological debt built by the central countries since colonial times.

3-      Universal basic income for people, unifying social policy through an income for all.

4-      Place the care paradigm (contribution of feminisms) at the center of the agenda, installing the sustainability of life at the center of societies, with care being the responsibility of the State and private in consultation with the communities.

5-      Construction of post-extractivist models to protect ecological and social diversity, transition to a democratic, decentralized and not commercialized energetic system.

6-      Food sovereignty prioritizing the development of policies that aim at redistribution of land, guaranteeing access to water by applying reform policies to the agrarian model.

7-      Sustainability of local societies respecting their autonomy and protecting community experiences of all kinds (urban, ethnic groups, among others), recovering the information spaces currently dominated by the media and social networks.

8-      Rethink integration that favors exchange systems at the Latin American level, being other alternatives to corporate monopoly

You can find more information by going to the page https://pactoecosocialdelsur.com/ and signing to support this proposal.

I found out about this pact from the interview with Maristella Svampa, Sociologist, writer and researcher who in her work addresses the conflicts resulting from the neo-extractivist development model in the region, addressing the impact at economic, political, social and environmental level This being a proposal that at least all of us should review.