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8. The Network understands economic and technological
development not as an end, but as merely a
means at the service of human, social, ethical
and environmentally sustainable development.
9. The Network understands Society, particularly
the dimension of work, production and consumption
in solidarity, as the leading agent of its
own development. The State and multilateral
governance organizations should be subsidiary
actors of development self-managed by Society.
It is the mandate of the State, serving Society,
to assure that the democratically formulated
development project is carried out harmoniously,
and to implement public policies that guarantee
access for all to productive and reproductive
goods and resources and the just distribution
of income and wealth.
10. The Network asserts that working women
and men are also consumers. The way we consume
defines the type of society we have. The first
step towards constructing a Solidarity Socio-Economy
is for us to consume ethically, responsibly
and in solidarity. Once the needs and wishes
of individuals and communities are defined,
that provides the basis for planning what
is to be produced, with what technology, in
what quantity and with what quality,
while maintaining ecosystems in balance and
promoting ethically exercised public, personal
and social freedoms.
11. The Network seeks to interlink, among
diverse modes of organisation, at least seven
fields of socio-economic activity:
i. Ethical consumption in solidarity;
ii. Self-managed, eco-sustainable production
in solidarity;
iii. Ethical fair trade in solidarity;
iv. Solidarity finances and social currencies;
v. Sharing of knowledge and technology;
vi. Cooperative education and culture; and
vii. Communication in plural dialogue.
12. The criteria for participation in the
Network include at least:
i. The ethical and political commitment to
participatory, self-managed democracy in solidarity;
ii. The promotion of equal rights, with no
discrimination as to gender, ethnicity, religion,
generation and sexual orientation;
iii. The commitment to adopting practices
conducive to maintaining ecosystems in balance,
reducing waste and promoting ecologically
sustainable consumption, reuse and recycling;
iv. The absence of practices in which human
work is exploited;
v. The defence of common assets (water, land,
air and biodiversity) as assets that cannot
be privatised, nor commodified; and vi. The
practice and promotion of education in the
values of self-management and solidarity.
Participants in the 2nd Assembly of the
Brazilian Network for a Solidarity Socio-Economy
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