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World Day of Social Justice, Feb. 20
The global union movement will mark Feb. 20 as the World Day of Social Justice by calling for a new economic model that emphasizes jobs, not profits.
The current system of globalization has created the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Social justice has been denied to millions of men and women hit by unemployment or marginalized into the ranks of the working poor, says Guy Ryder, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
If anything, the global crisis has served to show up the serious fault lines in the current model of huge capital accumulation through risky, unregulated financial transactions, and its failure to spread the wealth in a fair and sustainable way, through the creation of decent jobs and livelihoods for all.
The ITUC supports a new global economic model built around the principles in the International Labor Organization’s (ILO’s) Global Jobs Pact, which include comprehensive measures to stimulate employment growth and provide basic protections for workers and their families.
You can read the ITUC statement here.
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It warms the cockles of my heart that there is something called “The World Day of Social Justice,” but it’s about as meaningful as a Valentine’s Day card from an unfaithful spouse.
Let’s stop “aknowledging” our suffering; let’s stop wallowing in self-pity. Let’s get out there and do something!
We should march on Washington – and stay there until we get what we need.
“The global union movement will mark Feb. 20 as the World Day of Social Justice by calling for a new economic model that emphasizes jobs, not profits.”
There is a “new economic model” that goes well beyond “jobs, not profits”. That “new economic model” is called SOCIALISM.
Socialism is simply and briefly defined in this graphically illustrated article
now posted on Peace and Freedom Party, the only socialist party “on the ballot” in California.
The article is by Michael A. Lebowitz called:
Socialism: the Goal, the Paths and the Compass
http://peaceandfreedom.org/blog/?p=2114#more-2114
I would urge all workers in California change their voter registration to the Peace and Freedom Party, in preparation for the election in November 2010 and in 2012.
Both the Democratic and Republican Parties are hostile to the needs of working people. For decades as the organized labor movement has refused to organize working people into a new national political party. Unless and until such a new party comes into existence, at least the Peace and Freedom Party can offer a choice on election day that represents the needs of working people.
More importantly, all working people should also think of running for political office on the Peace and Freedom Party ballot, at every local, State or Federal office level. School teachers concerned about the destruction of public education should run for office. So should health care workers! So should laid of state employees! We need to bring the needs of increasingly impoverished working people to the ballot box to make a choice.
The AFL-CIO and organized labor is missing a tremendous opportunity to lead the people in this time of economic and social calamity brought on by the decline and collapse of U.S. capitalism.