XMAS MARCHES FOR JUSTICE

CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN 

NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS

"You shall not kill" God

MARCHES AGAINST THE CAUSES OF HUNGER, UNEMPLOYMENT AND CHILD SLAVERY

15 December at 19h, in Getafe, Madrid

From the City Hall Square to General Palacios

16 December at 19h, in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid

From Mayor Street to Cervantes Square

23 December at 18h in MADRID

From España Square to Puerta del Sol

Organised by Christian Cultural Movement, SAIn Political Party 
and Solidarity Youth Path

Communiqué

CHRISTMAS SOLIDARITY MARCHES FOR JUSTICE

Campaign for Justice in North-South Relations

AGAINST THE CAUSES OF HUNGER,

UNEMPLOYMENT AND CHILD SLAVERY

You shall not kill (God)

Every day over 100,000 people die of starvation; half of them are children.

“HUNGER, UNEMPLOYMENT AND CHILD SLAVERY ARE POLITICAL CRIMES.”

In the European Union 89 million tonnes of food are thrown away yearly. One hundred people could be fed with the food thrown out by supermarkets. Meanwhile, each day 100,000 people die of starvation on a planet full of natural wealth. Hunger crushes 85% of the world population.

In the midst of the reorganization of the imperialist economic system – the so-called "crisis", the wealth of humanity has increased, but hunger and the gap between the rich and the impoverished have also soared. The richest 10% owns 83% of the world’s wealth, with the top 1% alone accounting for 43% of global assets.

Speculation on food commodities markets: in 2007, pension funds, insurance, banks, etc. sought another source of profitability and found it in food. In Africa alone, mutual funds and multinational companies invested in 41 million hectares of arable land. Speculation on food results in an immediate increase in prices. In 2010, wheat rose by 130%, rice by 74% and corn by 31%. What do international agencies do about this crime? They keep quiet and hide the truth. What do we do? Speculation on foodstuffs is a crime we cannot tolerate.

HUNGER IS NEITHER A PROBLEM OF FOOD PRODUCTION NOR OF OVERPOPULATION; IT IS A PLANNED ROBBERY.

The IMF and the World Bank have been the enforcers of structural adjustment plans that have now reached Europe, but which have been impoverishing Latin America, Asia, Africa... for over 25 years. These adjustments are causing increasing unemployment, precarious work, exploitation, the death of immigrants in our borders, evictions… But, this situation also brings us a step closer to the understanding of what impoverished people have been suffering for decades.

Official Development Assistance and NGOs have aggravated the problem of hunger. NGOs which have been financed by subsidies are disappearing because they have ceased to be of interest to the powerful rulers. Assistencialism from the rich is no solution either. There must be an associated and permanent fight against the causes that generate hunger.

Instead of eradicating hunger, which is their first duty, the UN seeks to exterminate the hungry by promoting the business of contraception and abortion, under the name of 'sexual and reproductive health'. This is proved by the fact that there have been more than 2 billion aborted babies in the world in the past 25 years.

The Christian Cultural Movement has been denouncing and fighting against the causes of Hunger, Unemployment and Child Slavery for over 25 years. We forcefully yell that we are facing a veritable war of the powerful against the weak.

In these 25 years we have been stating that hunger will continue as long as we don't fight the causes that generate it:

- Economic relations dominated by the powerful: transnational companies, major financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO).
- International trade based on profit, the slavery of children and adults and the plundering of all kinds of resources for the benefit of a minority.
- A scientific and technological monopoly excluding the majority of the world population.
- An international financial organization favouring speculation and usury.
- Major non-democratic international bodies, such as UN, UNICEF, ILO, serving as accomplices to the powerful.

Hence, we demand that rich countries should stop stealing from impoverished countries, the respect for the inalienable dignity of every human being, that treating any human being as a commodity should be considered an attack against humanity and an extremely serious crime.

We defend true solidarity internationalism. We are here to say that it is time for a radical change, for moral political behaviour and a moral political agenda.

Therefore, the Christian Cultural Movement, SAIn Political Party and Solidarity Youth Path would like to invite you to join us in our over 30 solidarity marches in Spain and Latin America during the month of December, to make the voice of the impoverished heard in the streets and assert that hunger and these attacks against life can be eliminated if there is political will to do so.