At the recent Asia-Europe People’s Forum meeting in Beijing, the Transnational Institute and Focus on the Global South convened informal nightly meetings to take stock of the unfolding global economic crisis. Participants discussed the opportunity it presented social movements to put into the public domain some of the inspiring and feasible alternatives many had been working on for decades.
This – the ‘Beijing Declaration’ – is what came out of those meetings of individuals, social ements and NGOs from Asia and Europe. It’s a start – a contribution around which to formulate proposals and to create a basis for a radically different kind of political and economic order.
