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Jubilee Debt Campaign, News and Action Update June 2007
GERMAN G8 FAILS URGENCY TEST
Despite massive global pressure forcing poverty back onto the agenda, the meeting of G8 leaders in Germany this month failed to take the urgent action needed - including on vulture funds. Over half a million people in the UK raised their voices against poverty in advance of the summit, and thousands converged on the summit from around Europe in protest. But despite repeating their promises on debt from 2005, and a statement of concern from finance ministers over vultures, there was little genuine progress at the summit.
Full story: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/g8germany http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/yourvoice
ILLEGITIMATE DEBT - ASK YOUR MP TO LIFT THE LID
Our /Lift the Lid/ campaign has started strongly - with postcards and petitions going out around the country, our show-stealing Debt or No Debt game at the 2 June rally, and Ann McKechin MP securing an adjournment debate in parliament on Wednesday. Next month MPs will have a chance to find out more about irresponsible past lending, and how to make sure it doesn't happen in the future, at a briefing meeting in parliament. We need you to encourage them to attend!
ILLEGITIMATE DEBTS: HOW CAN PARLIAMENTARIANS HELP?
Case Studies from Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo 6pm-8pm, Monday 23rd July 2007
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Organised by Jubilee Debt Campaign, Christian Aid and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Debt, Aid and Trade
Contact your MP and ask them to come to the meeting: http://www.writetothem.com/
Lift the Lid campaign info: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/lift
Debt or No Debt pictures: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/yourvoice
DEBT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Jubilee Debt Campaign's latest briefing looks at the injustice of poor country debt alongside the threat of catastrophic climate change. On both counts, the rich world is largely responsible, but the poor are paying: so who really owes whom?
Read the briefing: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/climate
And finally - SAVE THE DATE!
Advance warning that the Global Week of Action Against Debt will be from 14-21 October 2007. More details coming soon - or see http://jubileeusa.typepad.com/blog_the_debt/2007/06/save_the_date_g.html
for a sneak preview.
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 | | Vulture Funds | | This morning (26/11/09), the Republic of Liberia was taken to the High Court in London by two Vulture Funds seeking to make large profits on a debt dating back to the 1970s.
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 | | Put People First: G20 Counter Conference | | In March, we marched in our tens of thousands to demand the G20 Put People First. But so far the G20 has only tinkered round the margins of the global economy, in an effort to return to business as usual.
On 7 November, as the G20 returns to the UK ..
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 | | The other credit crunch | | Could there be a more timely week for it to be Global Debt Week? As the global financial turbulence continues, campaigners around the world are mobilising for a week of action against reckless lending, which has affected developing countries ...
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| A Fairer Way of Dealing with Debt | | Almost daily we are seeing what rich countries can do when faced with a debt crisis. Hundreds of billions of pounds have been made available in recent weeks to bail out western banks whose reckless lending has been found out.
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| Jubilee Debt Campaign - July Update | | New Loans are not the Answer, Over 10,000 chains delivered to UK government, Pick up the Pace: UK responds to campaign, $347m of Togo's debt cancelled, Forget Jay Z - Glasto was all about the Debt, Contact details.
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| Time to drop Suharto's arms debt | | When Indonesia's former dictator General Suharto died last week, one
injustice he didn't take to his grave was his debts. Nearly ten years
after his removal from power, Indonesia is still paying back billions
of dollars to the rich world.
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| Take urgent action for Liberia | | Request for people to write or email Alistair Darling to use his influence to break the deadlock among the IMF shareholders who have been discussing the issue for more than 18 months.
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| That was the week that was | | Campaigners new and old have just finished taking part in a global week of action on debt, reminding politicians, the media and the public that despite progress in recent years, the daily injustice of poor country debt is far from resolved.
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| JUBILEE DEBT CAMPAIGN ACTION ALERT | | Last year your campaigning helped get Hilary Benn to take a stand at the World Bank. He withheld £50 million in protest over the conditions attached to aid and debt relief, which made the Bank sit up and take notice. We need to do it again.
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| JDC Updates | | Opportunity to lobby the UK government to put its money where its mouth is with regard to damaging conditions enforced by the World Bank when making loans.
Also the opportunity to lobby Donegal International and the "Vulture" funds and Zambian debt.
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