Building local organizations and reinforcing their capacity for democratic collective action; becoming capable of counterbalancing the excessive power of multinational corporations: this is the task to which we at eAct Transnational continue to devote ourselves. The people directly affected by the abuses of power of multinationals are often dependent on them economically, while they also suffer repression and violence, which reduce their power to act. Uniting the “righteous anger” of the powerless makes it possible to organize, while transnational campaigns let them coordinate multiple actions worldwide in order to constitute effective checks and balances on corporate impunity. It is only by acting at the worldwide scale of multinationals that we will manage to create the balance of power which can stop their worldwide disregard for human and environmental rights. By changing our name to ReAct Transnational, we want to reaffirm our commitment to winning these needed transnational victories.

At a time of global pandemic and of ever-increasing inequality worldwide, we believe, that if carried out on a global scale with careful coordination, we can combine local and transnational strategies to contribute to social and political transformation and to human emancipation by increasing the spaces for democratic power to act. By maintaining global pressure on multinational corporations in key economic sectors, we can bring about major and systemic change in a democratic and non-violent way.