The social debts have deep roots, they go as far back as the arrival of the European settler more than five hundred years ago, to centuries of slavery, to the removal of our wealth to other countries, of slow and restricted democratizing, of partial justice, of continuous inequality, the subordination of the State to the national and international private interests and of an economic development that generates and reproduces structural inequality. The neoliberal model, implemented in Brazil starting in 1990, reinforced the unequal structures that exist in Brazilian society today. We live under the so-called laws of the marketing, of individualism, of competition and consumerism. The idolatry of capitalism suffocates the values of equality, of solidarity, of national sovereignty and participative democracy. The great capitalists demand subordination of society imposing privatization of state, commercial opening without neither safeguards nor compensations and dismantling of the public services.
Society worsens with unemployment, violence and crisis of values.
The solutions are few. It is necessary to build a new society guided by values and structures capable of promoting an equal distribution of wealth, of income, of caring for the earth, of power and knowledge, creating opportunities so that all Brazilians can live with justice, dignity and happiness. This new society is already being built by the popular movements and dedicated citizens, who struggle and fight daily against oppression. The new society is visible in the fights for the care of the earth, for clean water, sanitation, land for the landless, in the battle for social rights and public services, in the defense of the defenseless, in the initiatives of alternative production, in all who in different ways try to live true democracy in solidarity with one another. We call the Brazilian people and the churches to live up to the ideals of biblical Jubilee.