Dear 50 Years Is Enough Activists & Friends,
This is a reminder about the conference. If your registration is postmarked by June 30 the registration fee is $35.00 (last year's fee). We urge and encourage you to register early, it helps us as we plan for your participation. PLEASE register now.
Read on for details.
In Solidarity,
Njoki
NO DEBT, NO SWEAT: ORGANIZING FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE September 23 - 26, 1999 (Thursday - Sunday) Washington, DC
The 50 Years Is Enough Network Fourth Activists conference will be held the weekend prior to the gathering of the world's Finance Ministers in Washington for the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF.
We are planning a conference for both seasoned and beginning activists in the struggle for economic justice. The Opening Plenary will lay out the issues - in particular, debt, sweatshops and the international financial institutions. After establishing a critique of the global economy, we will spend the next two days highlighting real-world alternatives in our communities and around the world.
Colleagues and partners of the 50 Years Is Enough Network in the U.S. and around the world, especially the Global South, will join us for plenary and workshop sessions. The plenary and workshop sessions will focus on working alternative and positive models of organizing for global economic justice.
On Sunday, September 26, the conference will culminate in a public demonstration at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund. The most powerful decision-makers of the global economy meet then for the IMF's Interim Committee Meeting. We will share with them - loudly! - our commitment and determination -renewed and strengthened in the course of No Debt, No Sweat: Organizing for Global Justice - for a just and equitable global economy.
Register early* - before June 30th - $35.00
- before September 10th - $45.00
- after September 10th - $55.00
To register or for more information, please contact the 50 Years Is Enough Network.
*Detailed registration materials will be forth coming.
The 50 Years Is Enough Network is a coalition of 206 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, environmental social-and economic justice, youth, labor, solidarity, and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and IMF. Through education and action the Network is committed to making international financial institutions (IFIs) democratic and accountable to those who have to live with the effects of their policies and practices. We formed on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the IMF and World Bank.
Registration Form:
All events are open to the public, however space is limited so please register in advance. Register early* - before June 30th - $35.00
- before September 10th - $45.00
- after September 10th - $55.00
*Detailed registration materials will be forth coming. The registration fee will help cover costs and ensure scholarships for those who cannot afford to pay and for partners from the Global South. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
For more information contact us at: Phone: 202/IMF-BANK; Email: <wb50years at igc.org>; Web page at <www.50years.org>
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Make checks payable to 50 Years Is Enough/AGJ Please return to: 50 Years Is Enough Network,
1247 E Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003
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Njoki Njoroge Njehû Director 50 Years Is Enough Network 1247 E Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 Phone: 202/IMF-BANK or 202/544-9355 Fax: 202/544-9359 Email: wb50years at igc.org Webpage: http://www.50years.org
The master's tools will never destroy the master's house.
- Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider
"In the whole vast fun-house of history's jokes and tricks, there can be few greater ironies than the spectacle of women embracing and furthering the systems which would all too soon attack their autonomy, crush their individuality, and undermine the very reason for their existence."
- Rosalind Miles, The Women's History of the World
[There is a] growing assertion that globalization and technological change make inevitable low wages and inequalities....The counter argument that has not gained much popular support is that inequalities result from human agency; they are not the inevitable consequence of 'progress.'
- S.M. Miller and Charles Collins
"Growing Economic Fairness", Social Policy, Summer 1996