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Brothers, sisters, dear social poets,

1. Dear social poets

This is what I like to call you: social poets. You are social poets, because you have the ability and the courage to create hope where there appears to be only waste and exclusion. Poetry means creativity, and you create hope. With your hands you know how to shape the dignity of each person, of families and of society as a whole, with land, housing, work, care, and community. Thank you, because your dedication speaks with an authority that can refute the silent and often polite denials to which you have been subjected, or to which so many of our brothers and sisters are subjected. But, thinking of you, I am convinced that your dedication is above all a proclamation of hope. Seeing you reminds me that we are not condemned to repeat or to build a future based on exclusion and inequality, rejection or indifference; where the culture of privilege is an invisible and insurmountable power; and where being exploited and abused are common methods of survival. No! You know how to proclaim this very well. Thank you.

Thank you for the video we have just seen. I have read the reflections from the meeting, the testimonies of those who lived in these times of tribulation and anguish, the summary of their desires and their proposals. Thank you. Thank you for including me in the historical process that you are going through, and thank you for sharing with me this fraternal dialogue that seeks to see the great in the small and the small in the great, a dialogue that is born in the peripheries, a dialogue that reaches Rome and wherein we may all feel invited and engaged. “If we want to encounter and help one another, we have to dialogue”, [1] and how much!

You felt that the current situation merited a new meeting. I felt the same. Although we have never lost contact, it is already five years, I think, since the general meeting, isn’t it? A lot has happened in that time; a lot has changed. These changes mark points of no return, turning points, crossroads at which humanity must make choices. And new moments of encounter, discernment and joint action are needed. Every person, every organisation, every country, and the whole world, needs to look for moments to reflect, discern and choose, because returning to the previous mindsets would be truly suicidal and, if I may press the point a little, ecocidal and genocidal.

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PRAYER

WORLD DAY FOR DECENT WORK

(7th OCTOBER 2021)

FOR HELPING US IN THE PRAYER

Lord, You God of JUSTICE, on this world day for decent WORK, we would like to ask for your SUPPORT, so that we can be men and women with COURAGE, especially in these times of crisis!

Lord, You God of GOOD, on this world day for decent WORK, we want to beg your FAVOUR, so that we be activists, ever WITNESSES OF YOUR LOVE

Lord, God of PEACE, on this world day for decent WORK, we want to express OUR PRAISE for all the actions and decisions taken in favour of social protection to workers. Help us to recognise the SIGNS OF YOUR SPIRIT.

Lord, You God of LOVE, on this world day of decente WORK, we want to tell OUR HOPE for a better world where every worker can receive a basic wage that allows him/her to live in dignity. Support those who take economical, political or union decisions to be PROPHETS in this world you love.

Toghether with all the believers in the world, we want to say to you: OUR FATHER…LET YOUR KINGDON COME!

WMCW CHAPLAIN - BERNARD ROBERT

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Unfortunately, the current work goes back even more with the denial of labour rights, the deterioration of democracy, the violation of human rights, the denial of social justice, the rejection of pluralism, the eliminaion of secularism, the promotion of political hatred and the maintance of fundamentalism.

International Labour Organization (ILO) has taken on recently to improve the coverage and the effectiveness of “social protection for everyone” as strategic objective, focussing on income security with the target on the poor. This requires to identify profitable and equitable means by which the social protection can be spread to all groups. And it is necessary to focus on providing social protection to the informal sector. The prospect of “decent work” sums up the aspirations of people on their working life. It implies opportunities of productive job by providing a fair income. It requires security in workplace and social protection for families, through better prospects of personal development and social integration. It requires freedom so that people express their concerns, organise themselves and participate on decisions that affect their lives and the equality of opportunities and treatment for all women and men. In November 2018, ILO said that 31% of Indian workers worked in unhealthy conditions, while aroung 41% are poorly paid, placing India 19th out of 22nd countries of Asian region.

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Dear comrades:

Having finished the first part of the IV World Meeting of Popular Movements, we have drafted a concluding press release (in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese) so that it can be used in a double direction. On the one hand, the note can be published in the media of the organizations that have participated in the meeting (on their website and social networks). And on the other hand, it can also be sent to the media of your area so that what we are building together, between all of us, can have visibility in the public opinion.

https://movpop.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/EN-Press-Release-2-IV-WMPM.pdf

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Juan Churats

Dear friends, it is with great sadness that we announce the departure of our comrade, friend and great fighter for just causes, Juan Churats Huaracha. In addition to being co-founder of the Casa Campesina del Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas, his vocation of service to the men, women and children of rural areas has been, until shortly before his departure, his bastion of life. His legacy and teachings are and will always be present in our daily lives

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AS WORKERS WE REMAIN FIRM IN OUR MISSION: “FIGHTING, FIGHTING, FIGHTING AND RESISTING”

We thought we had gone out of this health crisis and we could demonstrate in the Labour Day. But here we are, still under the yoke of this pandemic which is gnawing our Common House, fighting to keep us safe.

1st May is an indelible inscription. We are not only fighting against a destructive virus globally, but also against a dividing current that decreases the primacy of work. This social and personal value, which raises the dignity of each individual, must be always held high in the hearts and minds of states as a humanity standard.

Will we be able to watch out the decline of the value inherited from the ancients?

Will we be able to watch out for the dignity of the poor who are constantly deprived of their dignity, of the marginalised who queue in solidarity shops, “resto du coeur”, or during the distribution of food parcels and solidarity cheques? Will we be able to resist before the economic exploitation with workers?

MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON THE OCCASION OF THE FOURTH WORLD MEETING OF POPULAR MOVEMENTS

Prayer for the World Day of Decent Work

7th October, 2021: World Day for Decent Work Message

IV World Meeting of Popular Movements

Our comrade Juan Churats passed away

May First, 2021: WMCW International Statement

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