Crises and Opportunities in Changing Times. Reference document for the activities of the Crises and Opportunities Group at the Global Social Forum (Bahia – January 2010)

Abstract

The present paper was designed as a reference document, or posi-tion paper, for our discussions in Salvador and beyond: the environment predicament, reduction of inequality, decent jobs, and reorientation of the productive process ac-cording to real priorities. We suggest 12 main lines of intervention, which seem rea-sonably realistic, and certainly already applied with success in a number of countries. On a wider scale, they could bring about more serious structural change. It should be seen as a starting point for our discussions in Salvador World Social Forum, and is one more contribution to the already important number of paper we have received.