{"id":46748,"date":"2020-04-15T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/04\/15\/popular-movements-react-to-popes-letter-and-think-about-life-after-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:15:00","slug":"popular-movements-react-to-popes-letter-and-think-about-life-after-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/04\/15\/popular-movements-react-to-popes-letter-and-think-about-life-after-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Movements react to pope's letter and think about 'life after the pandemic'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confinement caused by the pandemic brings serious consequences, especially for those in the peripheries of society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHARO CASTELL\u00d3<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizing Committee, World Meeting of Popular Movements<br \/>\n<em>\u201cMaybe it is in these situations that health care systems aren't delivering. We are finding that people are suffering the coronavirus situation more dramatically. In addition, many businesses have closed in these days of confinement, because employees have stopped going to work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charo Castell\u00f3 is a member of the organizing committee for World Meetings of Popular Movements. The pope tells these entities it might be time to think about a universal basic wage allowing families to meet essential needs. This would put the person at the center and \u201cconcretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHARO CASTELL\u00d3<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Organizing Committee, World Meeting of Popular Movements<br \/>\n\u201cWe have to guarantee that minimum through a state-organized system. That way, these people and these families, who have absolutely nothing, can really have the bare minimum to live. The pandemic has put us in a situation in which we have to make policies. We have to organize the economy in such a way that the full dignity of the person is at the center.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Pope Francis acknowledges how difficult it is to stay home for those who live in tiny spaces or for the homeless. He also includes those who are deprived of freedom and those in rehabilitation because of addiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHARO CASTELL\u00d3<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizing Committee, World Meeting of Popular Movements<br \/>\n<em>\u201cI don't think communities should detach themselves from this situation. We have to collaborate closely with public institutions to really be able to offer spaces to be able to care for these people. Today they are the most vulnerable in this situation of confinement. They are the most exposed due to a lack of nutrition, security, health care and housing. They are the people who find it most difficult to respect confinement rules.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These are ideals that make one reflect on \u201clife after the pandemic.\u201d because, as Pope Francis says, \u201cwhile this storm shall pass, its grave consequences are already being felt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<br \/>\nTranslation: Claudia Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 15, 2020. They agree with Pope Francis' words, because although \u201cthis storm shall pass, its grave consequences are already being felt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bKq2qJoo_vo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bletterapapamovimentieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bletterapapamovimentiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}