 to everybody in the room if I speed up we just go to our natural pace so we're trying our best to just keep it all as on Irish as possible so that everybody has a chance to follow what I'm saying my name is David McWilliams I am from Dublin I am here because two years ago Jane responded to an email a rather hopeful email must be said inviting Bernie to a festival in Dublin and we had no angle you always need an angle how do we get an answer that phone if I was you right how was your angle how do you get someone like Bernie Sanders to come to an inconsequential city on a small rock in the middle of the Atlantic and then we took we looked at Jane's name and we said oh Mara it's like oh this is this is all good we've got an angle here we've got an in so I called a young fella a friend of mine who's a geologist about kind of one you know and I said look oh Mara's he says yeah there's a lot of them I said where they from he said oh hard to say I said you think we can kind of tickle them by suggesting we found where they emerge from under what rock we emerge from most parties before we all came here because obviously we came here in great numbers and the unfortunate about Ireland is the clever ones came here and they left the stupid ones like us at home and so Jane said you know what I wouldn't mind going to Ireland I said that's cool that's cool so Bernie Sanders one of the most recognisable names and faces in the world came to Dublin as Jane's fella and this is what he was known for the three days he was there Jane's fella okay and we did find Jane's ancestry and the mental thing is that she did the DNA test and Jane is 96% Irish right that's even more Irish than me right so that's why I'm here okay we're going to have a discussion about international cooperation for the progressive movement we have a great panel and we're going to talk about what we can do together as people from around the world who see similar problems not identical but similar and also are looking for solutions alliances ideas people creativity all that good stuff from each other but there's a couple too many economists on the table me being one okay there's a considering more famous ones right over here okay but if I was an American economist or a British economist our God forbid a Canadian economist I come here with charts and graphs and all that sort of stuff to explain what we're going to talk about but as I'm an Irish economist I come here only armed with a book of poetry the book of poetry and this is the selected works of WB Yates okay because it's interesting you know because sometimes you think when you're faced with all these problems that it's all new all this stuff is new it's only happening to us and then you go back and you look at what Yates was writing a hundred years ago in Dublin 101 years ago Yates is sitting in Dublin 1917 he's looking around the world he's looking at Britain and Germany and Russia the Ottoman Empire and the Austrian Empire he's thinking what the hell is going on what the hell is going on and he decides to write a poem called the second coming now Irish kids get this drummed into us so it's not some extraordinary talent for poetry that I have it's just a fear of Jesuit priests okay it's a deep fear okay okay but I just listen to the words and then let's talk turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer things fall apart the center cannot hold mere anarchy is loosed on the world a blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the procession of innocence is drowned the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity so think of those words things fall apart sometimes the center doesn't hold but why because the best people in society lack all conviction allowing the worst people in society to be full of passionate intensity and win the argument so this is Yates talking 100 years I can't think of a better way to sum up what's happening in the world right now than that notion of fragility amplified by the worst people taking the stage and running the show and this discussion here is I think about the best people deciding not to lack conviction but to come to the table and share ideas together because if we don't do that we will lose so this is the challenge we have a fantastic panel by old mate old old mate Yanis Varoufakis here from Greece one of the good guys ladies and gentlemen Nikki Ashton Canadian MP for the NDP James Feller all the way from Barcelona the mayor of Barcelona Eide Kallai man from whom I learned everything as a young economist reading his work Jeff Sachs ladies and gentlemen Yanis can I start with you very very quickly what are the issues that are central and are not a central but link us all together the manner in which an inane establishment miss managed a crisis of its own making and dealt with it after 2008 our generations 1929 by the way in a way that combined socialism for the financial sector unfettered power for the oligarchs and austerity for the rest of the world and for the planet that is what binds us together because now just like the Weimar Republic was crumbling out under the weight of its hubris the liberal the so-called liberal establishment which is neither liberal not particularly well established these days is crumbling under its own weight political monsters are rising up through the cracks in Brazil in in Europe in the United States of a Italy everywhere and we have a choice do we let the bad guys run the show as you put it do we get together as we're getting together today or do we do something even more advanced than that which is absolutely necessary because colleagues friends comrades ladies and gentlemen it's not enough for us to get together and chat once every six months every 12 months because the bad people that David McWilliams was referring to do a lot more than that they work in real time in continuous time every day and we need to create a progressive international that does work constantly to create a plan a blueprint in order to empower the dream of course you know had he said I have a plan and not I have a dream it will not have worked but the dream needs a plan and we need to plan together internationally not just some white faces not just you know males decrepit ones like myself I feel that I've got jet lag we need a lot more women and we need effectively to do that which our grandparents failed to do in the 1930s Nikki more women what I'm really what I'm amazed about I have never been to this part of America before I've never been in a country that has Canada envy it's an extraordinary thing I've before so you are from the Mecca of tell me no but tell me picking up picking up on what Janice was saying the idea of getting active you're in Parliament every day fighting the fight what do you make of this well I'm here to say that we do need a progressive international movement we need it for many reasons but we need it as well because my generation the millennial generation is facing a crisis I was first ran when I was 22 was elected at 26 it's now been 10 years and I've had the incredible opportunity to represent a part of the country that's well one of the wealthiest parts of the country but we're so many people and particularly young indigenous people live in third world living conditions I'm also you know we live in a country that despite all of the the positives where where my generation is facing a kind of inequality the likes we haven't seen before and catastrophic climate change a generation that is very concerned about violence women facing misogyny especially progressive women who speak out racialized communities we've had mass shootings whether it was the mosque in Quebec City or more recently in Toronto we we have a generation that is experiencing a kind of angst we're only beginning to talk about and and for me it's it's it's no perhaps it's no surprise why so many people were inspired by the work of Bernie and the movement that he and you built together because you spoke to the reality that my generation faces and that's why I think when we're talking about an international progressive moment we need three things we need to be on the ground with people on the front lines including the so many young people that are leading social movements right now indigenous black lives matter women's feminist activism LGBTQ activism we need to communicate our message and you know and I've been really exciting to meet progressive members of the media here because in Canada let me tell you it's it's it's actually our media concentrations even worse in Canada and the right wing owns all of it we need ways of getting our message out and the third piece is we need and I would say the most important is we need bold ideas like the kinds of ideas we've been hearing about all weekend here that is what mobilizes people in my generation that is what is mobilizing people here and in my country and around the world and and and let's do it we don't have time to waste Jeff Sachs ideas mobilization you spent years and years taking ideas and getting them executed going through all the hustle all the hoops all the pushback what's the next one I want to add a concept to our discussion sustainable development because it's a good and important concept it says that we should combine economic prosperity with social justice and with environmental sustainability this I think is the central hard work we have we have a wealthy world extraordinarily wealthy world it's a hundred thirty trillion dollar output this year it's about nineteen thousand dollars per person on the planet but it is socially disasterously unfair and it is environmentally recklessly unsustainable now the important part that we need to leverage in my opinion is that for several unusual reasons in 2015 the governments of the world actually agreed that this was the challenge for our generation and they adopted two core principles unanimously at the time one was the Paris climate agreement and the other is the sustainable development goals the sustainable development goals call for the end of poverty by 2030 every child in school universal health coverage and decarbonizing the energy system this is our agenda in my opinion it's a worldwide agenda all over the world people are grappling with these basic challenges whether it's in the United States or any other part of the world we actually have strangely enough a framework of course we're not applying it it is not actually being implemented it's not being implemented because it's impossibly difficult it's not being implemented because it's unaffordable it's not being implemented because we lack the technology it's not being implemented because Bernie is in president right now we have a political problem but we don't lack for a global agenda even one that has been agreed and that governments around the world are reporting on are coming to the United Nations in September 2019 every head of state will be there well it'll be about 170 heads of state to report on what will be their non-progress on these ambitions so the agenda is there actually the specifics are there we're in the political struggle to turn it into reality and I think the way to do that of course is the politics of this room the Green New Deal the propositions that we have heard about social justice what Yanis is doing throughout Europe to win the European elections next year but to keep our eye on what it is substantively we need to do and how that can be achieved that's a matter also of the grunt work of taxes and spending and decarbonization and regulation and getting these things in place but frankly we don't have time to lose because we're at the end of this story environmentally as everybody knows we basically run out of time we have no more time for new global agreements either we implement what we have said we would do or we have lost the planet for at least hundreds of millions of people Bernie when you become president and how are you going to do it's a very it's a little bit provocative let me agree with everybody who has already spoken the bad news is that we are pay facing unprecedented challenges what Yanis will talk about I'm sure in a moment is the rise of right wing extremism all throughout Europe we have talked about the climate disaster we have talked about a broken criminal justice system and by the way let me thank my wife Jane for this is that if if this conference means anything what it means is that we have to break the silos that currently exist in the progressive moment every issue that we have talked about is related to every other issue when we talk about is Jeff just mentioned literally the top 1% in this globe owning more wealth than the bottom 90% that's just not well that's power and when Nikki talks about the media those are the people who not only own the media in Canada it's Rupert Murdoch it's Fox it's white wing folks who control the level of discussion in this country and all over the world it is the fossil fuel industry who worries more about their short-term profits than they worry about the future of this planet it is the prison industrial complex it is the military industrial complex we heard in the last panel the enormous amount of money being spent on prison and prisons and police we us forget that we are spending 700 billion dollars on the military in the United States alone that is more than the next 10 nations most of whom are our allies but we're spending well over a trillion dollars on the military think what that could do to alleviate poverty in this world to provide the quality of it to do what all of us know we can do and that is that we have the technology now to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and by the way when we do that we create millions of good jobs in this country and around the world last point that I want to make and I'm sure Yanis who comes in a sense from where the real battles many of the battles are taking place now and that is the growth of authoritarianism what all of us have got to do I mean we've all talked about the need to get out of our classrooms and to get into the battle to go into the areas where the people are but please understand this in my view maybe I speak only for myself Trump became president of the United States because there is a massive amount of pain in this country which is not seen on television which many of my Democratic colleagues do not know and do not talk about the life expectancy in the United States of America has declined for the third straight years and often that is taking place in rural areas where people have no income no jobs no education no hope for their kids so we have got to reach out to all of our brothers and sisters black and white and Latino and Native American and Asian American and come up with that agenda that speaks for all of us not just the one percent okay I'm gonna hold those I those ideas because I want to go to Europe Ada I want to go to yourself your mayor of Barcelona you're gonna talk to us a little bit Tina are you gonna give us a hand so tell me your story Barcelona thank you and first of all I'm so sorry because my English is so bad so I try to speak in English but we have Tina a friend that help us and first of all thank you so much for the invitation for us is very important I'm very grateful to be here if you had told me four years ago that I working class woman that didn't have contact with the elites or with any kind of power would be elected mayor of Barcelona would be here with Bernie Sanders on all of you I wouldn't believe it I think I think you say here yes we can and in Spain we say si se puede so for us it's very important to be here with you today and let me explain why in a few words I'm here representing Barcelona Ancomu which is a citizen platform of common people in my case I'm from a working-class family I've worked in a lot of precarious jobs I was an activist for human rights and anti-abduction movement but the most important thing it's that it's not just my case most members of Barcelona and comu are the same common people some come from social movements some from academia or for from new political parties and we decided to set up a new project for Barcelona not just a new party but a new way of doing politics more inclusive more democratic more feminist more innovative and we decide to start at local level because the politics of austerity and corruption had destroyed the credibility of public institutions we needed to provide real and concrete solutions through actions that change people's lives because the local level is the best place to improve democracy it's where we live our daily lives and is where the government is closer to the people so we came together around our shared goals for the city and with without having any media or economical or political power we won the elections three years ago I was elected a first woman mayor in the history of Barcelona you know that winning elections was just the first step only the first step what's happened in the last three years let me start by saying it has not been easy we are in a minority in government we've had a complicated situation in Catalonia as you probably know and cities in general has limited powers but despite this we've changed the agenda today Barcelona is the city with the highest social investment in Spain for example we've created a special investment plan for the poorest neighborhoods or in healthcare which is not a municipal responsibility we have created a municipal dentist and a mental health plan but it's not just about increasing social investment it's not enough we are here because we are making we need to make structural changes like for example creating the first municipal energy company in Spain that provides green energy to city facilities on and for the first time the city government is standing up to multinationals who speculate in our city we are forcing big companies to pay their taxes for the first time and inspiring inspired by other cities like New York and here we have Billy Blazio a friend inspired by other cities we are forcing constructors to make 30% of all new housing affordable and we have and we have a finite Airbnb for advertising illegal apartments and creating gentrification so why why it's important for us to be here today not only to share experiences we need initiatives like this because we don't have media economical power people stop us in the street every week and say that the news of what we are doing doesn't reach them and our adversaries are organizing to stop us of course they are circulating fake news for example every week and it's true every week people stop me and ask me why I have moved to the richest neighborhood in the city which is a lie of course and the opposition parties are this desperately looking for famous candidates for the elections in May next May for example one of these parties is bringing a former prime minister of France to stand against me that's why this initiative is so important right right now the racist violent homophobic and sexist far right is organizing we need to amplify all of the alternatives we are building around the world to prove that we are not alone and the change is possible in the face of the far right that feeds on the fear of our neighbors we need to build hope and build this hope together with others not against the other only this way with alliances built from below can we defeat the Salvini's Bolsonaro's and Trump's in the world because we want a feminist world which means equality for all and putting life at the center we need to build community locally and internationally a community that can transform fear into hope it won't be easy but I'm combines it's possible it's up to us to make it happen and I think with you it's possible thank you very much ladies and gentlemen it's very uncharacteristic for an Irish person to be on time for anything okay right but I we were supposed to start a we've been earlier and we have a flight back to Ireland we have to go it's funny I was thinking when when the when the gigs were running over and over leave you in the cable hands of Janice when the when the chat was getting more chatty and more chatting and longer and longer what Oscar Wilde said to George Burnshaw when Shaw asked Wilde in London why aren't you becoming a socialist and Wilde just looks at me says because their meetings go on too long he says I don't have time to be a socialist ladies and gentlemen in the cable hands of the others I leave you thank you very much indeed this is this is an unexpected honor and allow me to abuse immediately my new authority because there is a score I need to set now the reason why you know me I'll speak personally just for a second there isn't why you know me is because my country went down the toilet in 2010 to put it vulgarly what happened was of course the subprime pain from the Midwest through the circuits of financial capital traveled to Europe turned out a call out into a campaigner against foreclosures this is why she became known this is how she grew up as a leader of the movement as a woman that was fighting against evictions home evictions in the suburbs of Barcelona meanwhile my country became the most dystopic laboratory of austerity we are the champions the Olympic champions of austerity in Greece the result is that as we speak today 60% I'll repeat that number 60% of children in Greece are below the poverty line the 2008 poverty line one in two families have no one working in it now what happened then such a great depression friends begets a progressive movement that responds and Nazis we have the third largest party in our parliament is a not a neo-Nazi party there's nothing new about them they do Zeke highs that Hitler at the same time our progressive movement won the election in 2015 and this is why you know and here is how I'm going to settle my score here at this very moment immediately a certain senator from Vermont wrote a brilliant letter you remember that to the managing director of the International Monterrey van Cristina guard and shared the peace of his mind with her regarding the crime against logic not just humanity that the IMF and other institutions credit of institutions were effectively we are the Puerto Rico of Europe and it's not my saying this was what the finance minister of Germany said to your own finance minister Jack Lou when Jack Lou just very mildly complained about the treatment of Greece by Germany the German government but not by Germany and Wolfgang Schäber said would you trade Puerto Rico for Greece this is the kind of mindset which tipifies the collapse now during that month as well a certain professor of economics from this country actually a couple of them and both of them are in the room one is Jeff sacks the other is Jamie Galbraith joined my team and we did battle together there is one I'm saying that is because interconnectedness as Bernie was saying is at the heart both of the Nazi movement the end establishment the two phases of authoritarianism because mr. Vals who's going to be competing against our is one of the phases of authoritarianism Macron Merkel are the same face the ones who said to me when I moved into the corridors of power very very fleetingly they said to me elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy to which I responded this is a great piece of news for the Chinese Communist Party because they believe the same and the others face of the same monster of other eternists of course is the Nazis that are growing up everywhere the trumps mr. Bannon understands internationalism he is going up and down Europe trying to organize the Salvini's the curtsies the Zerhoppers against civilization effectively we have to respond with a progressive international in that previous sections we were talking about the Green New Deal if we do not succeed in the international green you did not an American one not a North American one not a white one not a European Atlanticist Green New Deal but an international New Deal ruin without end is going to loom black across our lands our rivers our mountains it is a major responsibility and that's why I want now to turn to Nikki and say how do we build the institutions that will carry out not just talk about the Green New Deal yeah and I on our personal note I appreciate the story you shared Yanni is as a proud also Greek Canadian you know I Greece has gone such a through such a difficult time and unfortunately the right wing and even countries like mine in Canada used used Greece as a you know as a political pawn to get its message out as well I mean we have our work cut out for us but I do think that what's really important to recognize is that there is an appetite for change and you know I I join many in hoping that the individual sitting next to me will run again for president because because it's clear to me that that that that you Bernie you had your finger on the pulse of not just where people in your country are at but also where people increasingly in my country and around the world are at as well and what I really appreciate about the work that you've done and so many people here this weekend is that you believe that change can be achieved through the political process and speaking of these institutions we have to connect the theory with action and we have to get involved at the ballot box you know and talking about it is not enough talking about it in you know from afar is not enough we need to get on on the ground we need to organize I will also say that you know and I can't reinforce this enough it is about ideas you know I'm proud to be part of a progressive movement in my own country in Canada but all too often progressives have gotten elected and turned to using right wing agendas in fact and they implement them in ways that you would even see the right implement with different words different images right to public relations but in the end it's the same sort of the same the same sort of policies and so we need to be very courageous we need to believe in our in our convictions and we need to speak truth to power in in envisioning that different world and if I can just spend a moment in terms of what's what's happening in Canada because David had mentioned it is it is sort of there's a lot of envy here although I will say Vermont is stunning and and people here are very cool so you know I'd love to live here but but all to say it's it's not it's not what you think it is I mean right now we have a prime minister who has invested four point five billion dollars our dollars into buying a pipeline right I mean this is this is a prime minister in a government that are right hand in hand with big oil it's a prime minister who's attacking indigenous peoples day in and day out and disrespecting their rights it's a prime minister who's just brought back to work legislation for postal workers in our country of anti-worker agenda and so you know don't don't believe what you hear I'm not saying it to this room because you know but but but we have our work cut out for us in Canada and and we need to keep pushing the envelope you know in Canada we talk a lot about the health care that we have we don't actually have Medicare for all we don't have pharma care we don't have dental care these are the kinds of things that that that we need to keep pushing for and and what you've done here inspires us to do that free tuition we also don't have that I remember telling somebody that I work closely with I said look Bernie Sanders is talking about this we need to get with the program here in our own country and and push for free tuition and ultimately I mean you know it's we need you know we we need to call out those that are not you know they're not on our side and we need to work with those that are already doing the work pushing for change they are out there day in day out and particularly young people people in my generation and those that are coming up that are doing it from a place of some desperation some yes inspiration but some with an extreme sense of urgency thank you Jeff I'm trying to stick to the to the rotation that David's because we Irish and Greeks are the blacks of Europe as we used to say in England when we used to study that Jeff sustainable development which is something that you breathe and live on a daily basis as an academic as an activist as a person of influence across many different continents how do we build the institutions from scratch and which institutions from the Washington consensus do we usurp in order to build the green you deal that will provide sustainable development and how do we do this in practice and in political good clear goals clear plans and accountability I would say those are the three things on goals we know for example that we must decarbonize the world's energy system by 2050 this is the core grim message of the science repeated last week by the US government three weeks ago by the IPCC by our experience every day how do you do that well there are a lot of important technical considerations of how to move from coal oil and gas to wind solar hydro and other power it happens by the way that the single best vision of this is actually China's which is so unknown in this country but extremely important because Chinese engineers have done tremendous work on how to connect the world's renewable energy in long-distance transmission which is happens to be an extraordinarily important idea now instead of having a maniacal trade war with China right now which is some fantasy of American primacy on everything because all this is is just the next attempt for to preserve what the American military establishment believes to be our inherent divine right to rule the world we ought to be talking with the Chinese about how to build this global grid so that's a plan and then is accountability you know one thing on any sensible plan I read hundreds of them year by year there's no place for the trans mountain pipeline for example in any sensible plan in the world Justin Trudeau should be ashamed of what and the truth is that it's not hard to have accountable standards for what we need to do but we don't have them let me give another example of accountability Janice's government Greece was partly screwed up and I take special resentment for an obvious reason by Goldman Sachs they use my name it is no no relationship but they committed financial fraud massively in your country and helped to make a deep crisis in this country they of course were lead agents of the toxic assets that created the 2008 financial crisis they knowingly sold them then afterwards Lloyd Blankfein the then CEO said well they're big boys on the other side if we cheat they should figure that out and then the most recent news of course a couple of weeks ago is that they're deeply implicated in the multi-billion dollar fraud and scandal in Malaysia how does this company keep its license for another day honestly this is a shocking business of unaccounted for me it runs the treasury it of course it has run the government at each time you call get the next secretary of Treasury from Goldman but this is the complete impunity in which we operate as well what Bernie proved is that this nation is completely on to this the politics make sense but we have to call out our nice friends with good smiles that are building the wrong pipelines even nationalizing them to guarantee this absurd policy we need standards and so my view is my view is that we it is not only to mobilize but to mobilize right now because we're running out of time along clear lines of what to do and that I think we can know and like has been said repeatedly the problems cannot be solved in any country alone it's just not even the types of problems we're finding are not national problems anymore they are global scale whether they're global financial global tax global carbon dioxide global behavior corporate accountability these are inherently global problems that require global cooperation in the meantime we're making wars across the world and with our 800 some military bases across the world and trying to preserve some illusory and extraordinarily destructive vision of an American empire and we ain't solving the problems burning how do we deal with the oil curse the energy the resources curse and the finance curse world the Wall Street but we understand this I said about but everything is related so before I answer your question let me urge everybody to think in every possible way how they can get progressive ideas out to people you know we talk about Trump winning states by 30 points understand that in those states nobody is hearing progressive voices all they're watching is Fox television or listening to right wing radio and we can have all of the brilliant ideas we want here one of the reasons that Jane has all these cameras here by the way not you know just a thousand people so small group of people the goal here is to use social media to get these ideas out all across the country but to do that we need all of your help and give you an example of what we are trying to do in my Senate office because the media does not talk about income and wealth inequality because they do not talk about Medicare for all because essentially they do not talk about climate change we have held live-stream town meetings which in some instances least one have gotten us more viewers at that moment than CNN had all right so there is revolutionary potential in social media okay without boasting my guys told me that we had more social media engagement on Facebook this week than Donald Trump did so please before we even get into the specifics of whether it is racism or climate change or whatever it may be it's not good enough to talk to each other get that word out to people who have not heard these ideas all right to answer Yanis's question I believe that the progressive movement is going to have to do something which for some people some of our friends is uncomfortable everybody here is righteous about talking about racism and sexism and homophobia and religious bigotry and God only knows that we need to stand up and fight on all of those issues but you know what else we have to stand up and fight on which too few of us are now doing and that is the greed and recklessness of Wall Street all right you're not going to see too much of that on CBS but you got a half a dozen Jeff correct me if I'm longer half a dozen major financial institutions that have assets of what 60% of the GDP of America these people have incredible power they run Greece they run countries all over the world we have to deal with the fact that three people in America own more wealth in the bottom half of our country and it's Jeff kind of implied they're nice people many of them are pro-choice many of them have gay friends or gay staff members true yet they run the world and their greed is destroying this world and we have got to be vigorous in standing up to them I think the issue what we have going for us and where I feel very positive about is that when you explain issues to people when you ask people are you happy with giving tax breaks for billionaires you know what people say no they should pay more in taxes do you believe in Medicare for all yes you believe we should deal with climate change yes you need criminal justice reform yes immigration reform you got a president demonizing immigrants overwhelming majority of the people in this country believe in comprehensive immigration reform people do not believe in tax breaks for billionaires and cutting social security Medicare and Medicaid which is exactly what the Republican leadership leaves so the question that we have got to ask ourselves how does it happen that when people agree with us on virtually all of the issues strongly disagree with Republicans on the issues how do they do so well politically and some of that has to do with the issue we got to deal with and I want to hear our European friends talk about it my feeling is that when people are pushed aside economically in rural areas when people are hurting you have demagogues who deal with that pain and say the problem is is that Mexican immigrant who's picking strawberries for eight dollars an hour or that person from Syria who has come in to the UK all right so you take that anger and frustration or hurt that people are feeling and you turn them against people who are more shape than you are all right and our job is to bring our people together to say no it is not some Mexican picking strawberries rate bucks an hour who's our enemy it is Wall Street it is the fossil fuel industry it is the drug companies it's the insurance companies let's stand together and take those other collies with us and because of our long-standing relationship I happen to know that other as the mayor of Barcelona did something magnificent at the time of demonization of migrants at the time when our governments were instructed not to accept any and to effectively to use them in the Mediterranean Sea as a great tomb by which to deter further immigration into Europe I'll allow gave an order to create homes to convert existing buildings and dwellings for thousands of refugees and guess what happened the Spanish government and Brussels prevented her from taking in refugees from Lesbos from Sicily from the other parts of Europe Southern Europe that are being used to this day as concentration camps for lost souls so other what are we going to do about this maybe it's better if I speak in Spanish and we use it because it's a very important issue and seguramente la crisis de la la crisis de Europa en la acogida de los migrantes porque no hay una crisis de los inmigrantes hay una crisis de la democracia europea no it's not a crisis we're not talking about our prices of the immigrants but at prices of the democracy in regarding to this Europe is de las zonas del mundo que menos emigración a coger so Europe is one of the areas in the world that a smaller number of immigrants are taken they close their borders y condena a morir miles de personas cada año en el mar Mediterráneo and condemn many thousands of souls as you said before in the Mediterranean sea to die entonces las ciudades que podemos hacer no frente a una política racista porque que hablamos de una política que institucionalmente es racista so what what can we do in front of a policy that is racist fundamentally racist entonces como ciudades no tenemos competencias en la inmigración we don't have a city's we don't have competencies with immigration pero no no rendimos porque estamos aquí porque si se puede but of course we can do it so we are not going to say no to this entonces una de las cosas que hemos hecho es una alianza de ciudades refugee cities so one of the one of the solutions that we made one of the initiatives was to have an alliance of cities refugee cities para presionar a las instituciones europeas denunciar que se está violando el derecho internacional es decir en nombre de la democracia se está violando la legalidad a to pressure the cities to to denounce the fact that in name of the situation excuse me could you repeat that no que de que nos juntamos porque para denunciar que europa está siendo ilegal es en los inmigrantes ilegales es europa ilegal porque incumple la ley internacional because europe is the one that is illegal because he is not following the the the legality that should be the immigrants are not the ones illegal entonces las ciudades buscamos acciones por ejemplo en barcelona no tenemos una flota oficial no tenemos barcos del porque somos un ayuntamiento pero nosotros colaboramos con barcos que están salvando vidas humanas en medio del mar colaboramos con esos barcos para salvar vidas so we need to invent possibilities and one of the things that for example in this case certain cities that cannot have other solutions of this particular solution is to since barcelona doesn't have their own float of ships they collaborate with other places that have that option that have those issues que tienen barcos y nosotros ayudamos a esas NGOs que salvan vidas en marco so also on a g o n g's that have those ships those those possibilities then they collaborate with those o n g's o colaboramos con ciudades por ejemplo I don't know if you know reaction is a little town of south of Italy and they have an experience very important because I think not it's the best important thing it's it's important to have reason but I think a classical error of of a classical most of classical left parties is to think that half reason is enough it's not enough you need action you need to demonstrate with concrete examples that there's an alternative no and in south in Italy we had to there's a mayor that opened his little town to immigrants y es un pequeño pueblo que estaba perdiendo población y que estaba en una inactividad y gracias a la política de acogida de inmigrantes el pueblo ahora ha mejorado su situación so this particular town has a small town that didn't have any demographically speaking it was like losing there was it wasn't they did have with this opportunity new people coming to this town that otherwise didn't have people entonces es una demostración concreta en la italia donde gobierna el fascista salvini hay un alcalde que demuestra que la inmigración es positiva y genera riqueza so this is an excellent example in this particular case of this small town in italy that you can create those possibilities with progressive laws no pero que es positiva la inmigración porque genera riqueza para el propio pueblo emigración is positive because it actually generate a wealth to the town itself entonces por eso salvini ha denunciado en la justicia al alcalde de riache mimo lucano y el alcalde de riache ahora mismo ha sido procesado por fomentar la inmigración ilegal y ha sido obligado a dejar su pueblo que es no tiene precedentes esto so finally what happened was that actually the mimo lucano el alcalde de riache the mayor of riache was actually arrested y obligado a dejarse de su ciudad so the paradox is that he had to leave his own city por salvini el fascista salvini por salvo y pero porque salvini is afraid from mimo lucano a little mayor of a little town because he demonstrate that political of of refugees welcome refugees is positive for italy and for italyan people and and now I think it's very important that all of us we have to say that mimo lucano is the mayor of the world it's our mayor and we have to defend mimo lucano well at this stage it is an incumbent upon me to call to the stage jane sanders Dave briscoe and rena da villa representing the sanders and dm25 because what we're now going to reveal to you is that this gathering was not meant to end this weekend we are well yes I need to look at everyone at the same time we are now going to issue an open call to all progressives in the world because what happens as of tomorrow is going to make any difference in this fight against the two phases of authoritarianism against the salvinis of the world on the one hand and the so-called liberal establishment that created the crisis that begot the salvinis of the world so here it is and I'm reading it you want me to read it okay there is a global war being waged against workers against our environment against democracy against decency a network of right-wing factions is collaborating across borders to erode human rights to silence dissent to promote intolerance not since the 1930s has humanity faced such an existentialist threat to defeat them we cannot simply go back to the failed stage score of the last few decades unfettered globalization promised peace and prosperity but it delivered financial crisis needless war and disastrous climate change instead the time has come for progressives to form a grassroots movement for global justice to mobilize workers women that is enfranchised all around the world behind the shared vision of democracy prosperity sustainability and solidarity especially for the young generation our progressive international will reach out to communities in every corner of the world to help build our shared vision our progressive international would stand by people who are already fighting to end inequality exploitation discrimination and environmental degradation our progressive international will reclaim our communities our cities our countries and our planet with a bold international new deal green you deal that we will work together to deliver it is time for progressives of the world to unite today on behalf of dm-25 and the Sanders Institute we should a call to action to create a global network of individuals and organizations that will fight together for dignity peace prosperity and the future of our planet join us join the progressive international by visiting this page well we can't see it break it down someone it's progressive international dot something you can become members you can register as organizations political movements political parties because we have to get down to work in real time not simply meet once every six months every 12 months Jane do you want to say something just that we've heard from this international panel and we've heard from panels throughout the entire weekend for the couple of days that we've been here and we'll hear again tomorrow that we need to be paying attention to to working together not siloed not siloed by country by border by race by gender by issue we need to work together and define an international progressive new deal new green deal and the first endorsement is coming on our screen right now from the prime minister of iceland reactionary politics and the rise of the radical rights in the world today I served as a member of a progressive government after the backing collapse in iceland 28 we managed actually to counterbalance austerity with redistribution designed to protect our social welfare system this shows that it is possible to resist antisocial ideologies designed by neoliberal ideologies therefore I want to give my voice to progressive international which is strongly committed to transformative politics sustainability economic and social rights and dignity for all people as Bernie Sanders said we have to become good at being propagandists we cannot allow the right and the authorities to get away with their continuing triumphs at the level of communication so here's our first video as a progressive international there is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence nothing less than the future of humanity is at stake all around us we see the status quo is failing the top 1% now controls half the world's wealth while hundreds of millions of workers remain trapped between poverty and precarity where globalization promised prosperity it's delivered financial crisis and endless war instead all the while our climate moves closer to destruction out of this crisis global authoritarianism is rising these leaders promise to restore national pride by attacking minorities of free press and democracy itself but in the end they only serve themselves a chilling echo of the 1930s today's authoritarian leaders do not stand alone they are part of a global axis of right-wing parties that shares funders strategy and contents and around the world they are gaining power time has come to form our own common front in the fight for global peace and prosperity this movement will bring people together across the global left to think about the world we want to live in and how we make it a reality a grassroots movement mobilizing working people all around the world behind a shared vision of democracy sustainability and solidarity we will no longer settle for reformism we will reach out to communities in every corner of the world and build shared power and solidarity in every country there are people who are fighting for progress and we are so much stronger together it is time for progressives of the world to unite let us begin today building a better tomorrow aggressive-international.org join we need you we have to start because we inherited this mess we need to build the future together and as a Greek who has every right to barge in and give advice to Bernie Sanders let me convey a message from all of us in Europe for all those comrades of yours that are now struggling to reclaim our Europe our cities our world our environment we need Bernie Sanders to run for president