{"id":80,"date":"2014-05-29T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T08:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ripess.eu\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2014-06-27T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:45:02","slug":"manifesto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/governance\/manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

MANIFESTO OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY EUROPE NETWORK<\/strong>
\nTHE GLOBALISATION OF SOLIDARITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER 2011<\/p>\n

LIMA 1997, QUEBEC 2001, DAKAR 2005, LUXEMBURG 2009<\/strong> are the dates of the key\u00a0meetings that mark the creation of the international solidarity economy network. The process is\u00a0currently visiting and meeting in Barcelona, the city named the \u201cRose of Fire\u201d by the worker\u2019s\u00a0movement in the early 20th century. The aim of this meeting is the birth of the Solidarity Economy\u00a0Europe network, (RIPESS EUROPE \u2013 R\u00e9seau Intercontinental de Promotion de l\u2019\u00c9conomie Sociale Solidaire, Europe).<\/p>\n

We, the representatives of Belgian, Catalan, French, Hungarian, Italian, Luxemburg, Portuguese,\u00a0Spanish, Swiss and Romanian networks, sectorial and inter-sectorial networks as well as people\u00a0from Germany, declare that after three fruitful days\u2019 work and exchange on the 8th, 9th and 10th of\u00a0September 2011, we have created the RIPESS EUROPE Network. The network has Articles of
\nAssociation, and we have elected representatives to the Coordination Committee for the next two\u00a0years.<\/p>\n

The creation of the RIPESS EUROPE Network is a reminder to us all, that we have travelled a long\u00a0road of struggles and experiences that have marked the social and political history of Europe.\u00a0Whenever men and women in the smallest village of the Old Continent have come together and\u00a0developed a collective, emancipatory response to their needs, they have contributed to the\u00a0progress of the social and solidarity economy. Cooperatives, self-help organisations, organizations\u00a0of resistance movements, associations, Credit Unions and trade unions as well as poplar education\u00a0circles and universities, encyclopaedia centres, workers\u2019 libraries, choirs, theatre companies\u2026 they\u00a0have all progressively become part of our social and cultural heritage; we are both the children\u00a0born of this heritage and those who intend to continue bearing these ideals forward to the future.<\/p>\n

The creation of the RIPESS EUROPE Network provides us with the opportunity to highlight the fact\u00a0that the current political, economic and social model of organisation is characterised by a desire to\u00a0achieve profit, competition, individualism and violence against people. Contrary to this, the\u00a0position of Solidarity Economy aims to overcome the impacts of the current crisis and to promote organizational\u00a0approaches from local to global that support freedom, reciprocity, solidarity and egalitarian\u00a0exchange. We reject both the causes and the consequences of the current crisis. This crisis is the\u00a0result of speculation on uncontrolled financial flows and an equally uncontrolled economic model\u00a0that makes people poorer and excludes an increasing number of people and territories. It does so\u00a0by destroying both the natural and cultural heritage of the whole world.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, thousands of concrete experiences that identify with solidarity economy exist both in\u00a0Europe and elsewhere in the world. Self-managed producers\u2019 cooperatives, solidarity markets,\u00a0responsible consumption and food sovereignty, alternative finance, time banks and proximity\u00a0services, environmental and ecological initiatives, projects that include gender balance and that\u00a0are pedagogical, fair trade, local development associations and sustainable social enterprises\u2026 In\u00a0all spheres of economic life, production, commercialisation and consumption as well as finance,\u00a0new organisations are constantly emerging. They are opening up new paths and want to overcome\u00a0the logic of individual profiteering of capital and trade-based economy, the bureaucratization and\u00a0hierarchy of the public sector. The determination and ways of articulating and coordinating this\u00a0increasing number of initiatives is increasing; we can witness the creation of representative\u00a0platforms, consortia, federations and networks. This is the perspective in which the present
\ncreation of the RIPESS EUROPE Network is situated.<\/p>\n

These are the values and the experience upon which we can build, and that we intend to use to\u00a0build an economy and society that are both fairer, less predatory and more inclusive.\u00a0We realise that this will be no easy task. We shall have to face complex and important challenges\u00a0in the future. Democracy needs to become part of economic life; we need to strengthen and\u00a0extend our experience, to become less marginal and more visible, and integrate the multitude of\u00a0economic, social and environmental initiatives at territorial and vertical levels. We also need to\u00a0develop our critical approach to the traditional economy as well as well as the theory of solidarity\u00a0economy, to fight poverty, exclusion and inequality, improve the quality of life, respect nature,\u00a0defend peoples’ culture and their right to self-determination, to do away with corporative logic,\u00a0and promote the general interest of citizens. We also need to call upon and mobilise the public\u00a0sector, to build alliances and networks with the actors in other social movements. We must assert
\nour legitimacy and gain recognition and become accepted in dialogue with local, regional, national\u00a0and European authorities. Finally, we do not wish to be limited by European borders, we want to\u00a0play an active role, and participate in the globalisation of solidarity.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the creation of the RIPESS EUROPE Network provides us with the opportunity to\u00a0assert that it is possible to build a future that is different from the current uncontrolled economic\u00a0model, and that it is possible to build another world.\u00a0We are of the firm conviction that not only is another world possible, but that it is increasingly\u00a0necessary.<\/p>\n

May the fire of the rose shine on the solidarity economy. From Barcelona we proclaim:
\n\u201cLong live the solidarity economy of the whole world!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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