Endorse Demands of IMF & World Bank Respond to <steve at seen.org> with organization name and location
Many of you will recall that in the run-up to the planned fall meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, the 50 Years Is Enough Network had generated a list of 8 demands. The Mobilization for Global Justice, the coalition planning demonstrations here in Washington, adopted four of those demands and publicized them widely; some of you may have endorsed that initiative as well.
Now, since the cancellation of the Washington meetings, the IMF and World Bank have rescheduled the highest-level portion of their sessions for November 18 in Ottawa. The 50 Years Is Enough Network, together with colleagues in Canada, has scheduled a press conference for Ottawa to re-present the 4 demands, which did get some attention from both the media and the institutions before September 11. The Bank, in fact, later posted a long and peculiar response to the demands -- and a number of organizations, in cooperation with the Mobilization for Global Justice, have composed a rebuttal, which will likewise be presented at the press conference.
If your organization hasn't already endorsed the demands, in one manifestation or another, or if you're not sure if you did, please read them below and respond to <steve at seen.org> to endorse them. Include organization name and location.
Thanks
Soren Ambrose 50 Years Is Enough Network
****************************** We demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund:
- Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
- Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
- Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.
- End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.)
ENDORSE: respond to <steve at seen.org> with organization name and location.
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