This initiative, launched in early June 2020, is promoted by a group of people and organizations from different Latin American countries. We are motivated by the urgency of building social dynamics to respond (and counteracting) the dynamics of capitalist rearrangement, concentration of wealth and destruction of ecosystems in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. We seek to build, together with those who wish to join us, a collective horizon of transformation for ‘Our America’ that guarantees a worthy future. More information: https://pactoecosocialdelsur.com/
For a long time, the elites told us that the market and the great machine of capitalist accumulation cannot be stopped. But it turns out that it can – that it is possible to activate the emergency brake when life is deemed to be at risk.
The crisis laid bare by the pandemic has worsened inequalities and shows that our future is at stake. Some people are under lockdown; others are facing contagion, repression and hunger. Indigenous and Afro-Latin American peoples are exposed to a new wave of extermination; patriarchal and racist violence and femicides have increased. Meanwhile, powerful groups both old and new are taking advantage of the emergency to make sure that “the return to normality” or “the new normal” does not deprive them of their privileges.
