The Progressive
International's open call was just revealed at the first-ever Sanders Institute
Gathering
Icelandic Prime Minister
Katrín Jakobsdóttir this week announced her
support for Progressive
International—the just-launched global
movement calling
for all progressives to fight together for a "shared vision of
democracy, prosperity, sustainability, and solidarity."
A brainchild of the U.S.-based Sanders Institute and
Europe's DiEM25—groups founded by Jane
O'Meara Sanders and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis,
respectively—the Progressive International's open call was unveiled Friday at
the inaugural
Sanders Institute Gathering, a three-day congregation of hundreds of
progressive leaders tackling issues including "full-throated
economic populism," Medicare
for All, and a
vision "for a world that works for the children of this world,
not for a handful of billionaires."
The feminist and
environmentalist Jakobsdóttir, who's been described as
"the anti-Trump," wrote on her Facebook
page that the Progressive International represented "the struggle
for general welfare, security, and dignity for all people," and that a
trans-border network of those on the left would help "alleviate social and
economic inequality, make changes to the global financial system, turn away
from the arms race, and stop climate change," according to a Google
translation of her post.
The open call from the
Progressive International warns of a "network of right wing factions
[that] is spreading across borders, working to erode human rights, silence
dissent, and promote intolerance."
"Not since the 1930 has
humanity faced such an existential threat," it continues.
"To defeat this
Nationalist International, we cannot simply go back to the failed status
quo." Rather, "The time has come for progressives to form a
grassroots movement for global justice: to mobilize workers, women and the
disenfranchised all around the world behind a shared vis ion of democracy,
prosperity, sustainability, and solidarity."
To hear more about the
Progressive International, watch the following video released by the group,
which declares, "It is time for progressives of the world to unite. Let us
begin today building a better tomorrow."
https://vimeo.com/303783796
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