Economics for everyone

Economic rights are fundamental to the establishment of Justice, Tranquillity, the promotion of the general Welfare and securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Economic rights are fundamental human rights. Yet half a century after President Roosevelt proposed an Economic Bill of Rights for the U.S. and the U.N. adopted the Declaration of Human Rights, including economic rights, the welfare and justice of people are being sacrificed for the liberty of global corporations. Two decades after the U.N. adopted a Declaration and Program of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order respecting national sovereignty and dedicated to the redress of inequalities and injustices, most of the world has come under the domain of the Global Corporate Order in which people and nations are merely means to further elite profit. “Free trade” agreements such as NAFTA and GATT can be understood as economic bills of rights for corporations. So can the Republican Contract With America. We must come together nationally and internationally to promote an economic bill of rights for people. Democracy cannot survive, much less thrive, in a world where people are secondary to corporate power

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• Global Dreams

  Richard J Barnet•Global Dreams•1995

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