Economic justice
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE I. ... The institutions and governments promulgating the dominant economic policies of today are powerful, but they are not all-powerful. ... community-based environmental and economic justice struggles are increasingly internationalizing their analysis and their work. ... We are very committed to strengthening the Center for Economic Justice (CEJ) to serve and bolster those struggles, to increase the frequency of those victories, and to create new models that will inspire others. ... support to complement their efforts by (1) advocating for policy changes; (2) improving coordination between global justice groups in the North and South; and (3) assisting global South organizations with access and resources. Beverly Bell, a long-time organizer in international economic justice struggles, fielded the requests and launched the organization. ... CEJ is making a difference, moving the balance of power in economic policy-making towards the people most critically affected by those policies. ... To make economic policies more human-centered and pro-poor; 2. To make the process of economic policy-making more democratic, where those most directly impacted have power and participation. ... have voice in national and international economic policy-making. ... have greater information, participation, and power in the process; ü Within the international movement to advocate economic justice, the voices, analyses, and experiences of those in the global South are dominant in all discussions, actions, and positions. All of CEJs programs have the ultimate goal of helping movements create concrete change in economic policy. ... Organizational Principles: CEJ is governed by these principles: · Its focus is as much on supporting citizens movements around the world for just and humane economies as it is against corporate globalization; · In addition to changing policies, CEJ addresses the fundamental cause of poverty and inequality, which resides in the unequal distribution of power; · The struggle against corporate-led globalization and for new economic policy is as relevant to U. ... CEJ also provides local vehicles through which people can act on this understanding and get involved in working for changes in current economic systems. ... 2003 PROJECTS World Bank Bonds Boycott The World Bank Bonds Boycott initiated by the Center for Economic Justice is a powerful tool to bring movements from the North and South together to work in solidarity. ... Because peoples own funds are implicated through their taxes, union dues, and college tuitions, the boycott makes the largest global economic institutions relevant at the local level. The World Bank Bonds Boycott is one of the most effective responses to a major challenge of the growing global justice movement: the need to create local handles for organizing around the largest structural problems of the global economy, and to bring the issues home to people in a way that makes sense in their own lives. ... Boycott Goals: Like CEJ overall, the Boycott seeks to change economic policies, and make the process of economic policy-making more democratic. ... about globalization, and to build a broad and powerful movement that links issues of local economic justice with global justice issues; 3) To strengthen Southern struggles for economic justice gain power and make policy change; 4) To help unite previously disconnected organizations and campaigns within and across borders, building strength through coordinated action; and 5) To promote the practice of socially conscious investing and democratic investment decisions. ... The campaign thus builds pressure for fundamental reform of the World Bank; gives common citizens power over decisions made with their own tax dollars, tuitions, church collections, and union dues; and helps strengthen the global justice movement. ... --Bertha Caceres, International Liaison, Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras CEJs Building Power Project was launched to address the limited access, funding, and information that often render the voices of global South peoples unheard in the process of developing economic policy, and that constrain their ability to make macro-level change.