{"id":18064,"date":"2021-03-24T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=18064"},"modified":"2021-03-24T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:09:21","slug":"progressive-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/progressive-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive International"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><th>Progressive International<\/th><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:PI-Logo-Stack.svg\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Abbreviation<\/th><td>PI<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Founded<\/th><td>30 November 2018<\/td><\/tr><tr><th><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_spectrum\">Political&nbsp;position<\/a><\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Left-wing_politics\">Left-wing<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Colors<\/th><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Warm red and rich black<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Slogan<\/th><td><em>Internationalism or Extinction<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Purpose<\/th><td>To unite, organize, and mobilize progressive forces around the world.<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Region served<\/th><td>Worldwide<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Website<\/th><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.international\/\">progressive.international<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q60574856#P856\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Progressive International<\/strong>&nbsp;is an international organization uniting and mobilizing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressivism\">progressive<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Left-wing_politics\">left-wing<\/a>&nbsp;activists and organizations.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The organization labels itself as aiming for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-capitalism\">post-capitalist<\/a>&nbsp;society.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Origins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched after the Democracy in Europe Movement (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democracy_in_Europe_Movement_2025\">DiEM25<\/a>) and The Sanders Institute announced an open call for progressive forces to form a unified front. The call was announced at a Sanders Institute event in Burlington, Vermont attended by progressive politicians, economists and activists including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naomi_Klein\">Naomi Klein<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornel_West\">Cornel West<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fernando_Haddad\">Fernando Haddad<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niki_Ashton\">Niki Ashton<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ada_Colau\">Ada Colau<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-liberalOrder-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formally founded and launched on 11 May 2020 amidst the global&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COVID-19_pandemic\">Coronavirus pandemic<\/a>, the International counters the resurgence of authoritarian nationalism worldwide as well as the rise of disaster capitalism.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressive International held its inaugural summit titled &#8220;Internationalism or Extinction&#8221; in September 2020, bringing together Council members, trade unions, social movements, and political parties across continents with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noam_Chomsky\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>&nbsp;delivering the keynote speech.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;On 2 October 2020, Progressive International launched the Belmarsh Tribunal to put the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_government_of_the_United_States\">United States government<\/a>&nbsp;on trial for war crimes conducted in the 21st century and &#8220;drawing attention to the extradition case of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Assange\">Julian Assange<\/a>&nbsp;for revealing them&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The tribunal was modelled after the 1966&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_Tribunal\">Russell-Sartre Tribunal<\/a>, which investigated American involvement in the Vietnam War. Prominent figures such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yanis_Varoufakis\">Yanis Varoufakis<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Corbyn\">Jeremy Corbyn<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek\">Slavoj Zizek<\/a>, and member of the Russell-Sartre Tribunal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tariq_Ali\">Tariq Ali<\/a>&nbsp;condemned the actions of the U.S. government and voiced their support for the release of Julian Assange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October 2020, Progressive International said that it was &#8220;particularly concerned about the integrity of the presidential elections in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2020_Bolivian_general_election\">Bolivia<\/a>&#8221; and sent an observer group made up of Members of Parliament from around Europe to observe the election.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_International#cite_note-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Progressive International Abbreviation PI Founded 30 November 2018 Political&nbsp;position Left-wing Colors &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Warm red and rich black Slogan Internationalism or Extinction Purpose To unite, organize, and mobilize progressive forces around the world. Region served Worldwide Website progressive.international&nbsp; The&nbsp;Progressive International&nbsp;is an international organization uniting and mobilizing&nbsp;progressive&nbsp;left-wing&nbsp;activists and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/progressive-international\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18065,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18064\/revisions\/18065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}