The Pope: "Give vaccines, forgive debts". "We need a universal wage and a reduction in working hours"

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October 16, 2021Changing "our socio-economic models, so that they have a human face, because so many models have lost it". The Pope said this in a Message at the meeting of Popular Movements. "I want to ask everyone in the name of God. To the big laboratories, that they liberalize patents. Make a gesture of humanity and allow every country, every people, every human being, to have access to the vaccine".

"I want to ask, in the name of God, financial groups and international credit organizations to allow poor countries to guarantee the basic needs of their people and to forgive those debts" made against the interests of the peoples.

The Pope, in the video message to the Popular Movements, calls into question all those who can change the economic system: "I want to ask, in the name of God, the great mining, mining, oil, forestry, real estate, agri-food companies, to stop destroying woods, wetlands and mountains, to stop polluting rivers and seas, to stop poisoning people and food. I want to ask, in the name of God, the big food companies - continues the Pope - 'to impose monopolistic structures of production and distribution that inflate prices and end up keeping the bread of the hungry. war".

A thrust also against big-tech: "I want to ask, in the name of God, the giants of technology to stop exploiting human frailty, the vulnerabilities of people, to obtain profits, without considering how hate speech increases, grooming , soliciting minors on the internet, fake news, fake news, conspiracy theories, political manipulation. I want to ask, in the name of God, the telecommunications giants to liberalize access to educational content and interchange with teachers through internet, so that poor children can receive an education in quarantine contexts ".

The Pope also addresses the world of communication: "I want to ask, in the name of God, the media to put an end to the logic of post-truth, disinformation, defamation, slander and that sick attraction for scandal and the troubled; that they try to contribute to human fraternity and empathy with the most wounded people ". The Pontiff calls for an end to "aggressions, blockades and unilateral sanctions against any country in any part of the earth. No to neo-colonialism. Conflicts must be resolved in multilateral bodies such as the United Nations".

"This system, with its relentless logic of gain, is escaping all human control. It is time to brake the locomotive, an out of control locomotive that is taking us towards the abyss. We still have time", is the appeal of Pope francesco. Finally, the Pope asks governments to "be at the service of the peoples who ask for land, housing, work and a good life".

To change the economic model it would be necessary to introduce "the universal wage and the reduction of the working day". The Pope said this in the video message at the meeting of Popular Movements. "A minimum income or universal salary, so that every person in this world can access the most elementary goods of life", is the Pope's proposal, and "it is the task of governments to establish fiscal and redistributive schemes so that the wealth of a part is shared with equity". The Pope then asks to "work less so that more people have access to the labor market". The Papal defines "necessary measures" but "not sufficient". 

"We are not condemned to repeat or to build a future based on exclusion and inequality, on waste or indifference; where the culture of privilege is an invisible and irrepressible power and exploitation and abuse are a habitual method of survival". The Pope said this in a video message at the meeting of Popular Movements.

 The changes linked to the pandemic must push us not to go back to the patterns of the past. Speaking to the Popular Movements, and referring to the last meeting six years ago, the Pope underlined: "In this time many things have happened, many have changed. These are changes that mark points of no return, turning points, crossroads where humanity is called to choose ". "The whole world" needs to find "moments to reflect, discern and choose. Because returning to previous patterns would be truly suicidal and, if you allow me to force the words a little, ecocidal and genocidal. I'm forcing!".

 Pope Francis 'blesses' the Black Lives Matter movement. "Do you know what comes to mind now, together with popular movements, when I think of the Good Samaritan? Do you know what comes to mind? The protests for the death of George Floyd", said the Pope in a video message to the Popular Movements .

"It is clear that this type of reaction against social, racial or male chauvinist injustice can be manipulated or exploited by political machinations or such things; but the essential thing is that there, in that demonstration against that death, there was the ' collective Samaritan ', who was not stupid at all! That movement did not pass by, when it saw the wound of human dignity struck by such an abuse of power. Popular movements are, as well as social poets,' collective Samaritans' ".