[P2P-F] Fwd: Our Open Letter to the United Nations

Sun Sep 27 15:03:27 CEST 2015

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From: Alnoor Ladha <alnoor at therules.org>
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 3:25 AM
Subject: Our Open Letter to the United Nations
To:

Dear family and friends,

Today, the United Nations are going to ratify the Sustainable Development
Goals. Although they sound laudable, they are actually a neoliberal fig
leaf, a distraction really, to prevent us from the real work of rewriting
the rules of the economy. They require a 12x increase in global GDP in 15
years in order to be achieved because they don't tackle inequality, wealth
distribution, rampant consumption or perpetual growth.

I would like to ask for your support in this campaign by signing onto our
Open Letter to the United Nations
<http://therules.org/petition/sdg-open-letter/>. It has been co-signed by
Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein, Thomas Pogge, Maude
Barlow, Anuradha Mittal, David Graeber, and others.

You can read the full article here
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alnoor-ladha/an-open-letter-to-the-uni_2_b_8197178.html?utm_hp_ref=impact&ir=Impact>
.

The hashtags we are using to build momentum around this letter are:
#WhatTheyDontSayAboutPoverty
#PovertyIsCreated

Thank you for your support.

In love and solidarity,

A

P.S. Our latest piece is out today on Occupy.com entitled, The SDGs: A
Siren and a Lullaby for Our Times.
<http://www.occupy.com/article/sustainable-development-goals-siren-and-lullaby-our-times>
Please
take a look when you get a second.

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