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The mobilization and protest
against the immense injustice of poverty should be determined and constant. Let’s make the World Day for the Eradication
of Extreme Poverty a daily reference of action, of
mobilization.
Make
it a daily reason
to get up early and guide our behaviour:
it is unacceptable that everyday thousands of people,
mostly children from one to five years, die of hunger, exclusion and abandonment while over 3 billion
dollars are invested in weapons and military spending.
"I
feigned not knowing / ... and now
my conscience remains / sleepless
/ night and day”.
We know. And we will make the
struggle against social injustice, exclusion and poverty our permanent reason for living.
Zero poverty!
Jean Ziegler says, "hunger
is the most active and dreadful weapon
of mass destruction." We are
well prepared, with great benefits
for producers of military devices, for protection
against potential enemies. We are
not facing hunger, extreme poverty and diseases that affect only to those living
in inhumane conditions. The solution is to share, is to look after the key priorities that an effective democratic multilateralism may establish and seek: food, water, health, environment, education and
peace...
Instead
of increasing development aid, instead of contributing to national and international
relevant supports, the appropriate grants
have been "cut back" -what
a shame!-... in Europe and in Spain as well as in
the United Nations’ Program for Development.
It is obvious that there is nothing to
expect from the plutocratic groups who have imposed the globalizing neoliberalism.
The time for silence is over. Now we can express ourselves freely. Let us join our voices to demand justice for the victims, of those who survive in extremely precarious conditions.
“No one left
behind. Think, decide and act together against extreme poverty"
is the motto of ATD Quart Monde.
Keep all together with NGOs and other national and international institutions in order to relieve
and heal the situation of many of
our brothers.
