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Contact:
Office of Public Policy
GBGM-Women's Division
100 Maryland Avenue, NE Room 530
Washington, DC 20002
(202)488-5660
Fax:(202) 488-5681
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CALL FOR WORLD BANK AND IMF TO CANCEL DEBTS:
Call for World Bank
and IMF To Cancel Debts:
Join the Jubilee USA’s UnHappy Birthday
Card CAMPAIGN
The Jubilee USA network, a coalition of over 60 organizations in the
U.S. working for a debt-free world, is asking individuals to send ‘birthday
cards’ to the World Bank and IMF for their 60th birthday. Through these cards, individuals can voice
their concern about the global debt crisis and its effects on the world’s poorer
countries. Here’s how you can
participate:
ü Buy a birthday card (either from
your local store or through the Service Center at
1-800-305-9857)
ü
Write
the following greeting inside:
‘IMF and World Bank, on your 60th
birthday, I call on you to cancel 100% of the debts of impoverished countries
without harmful conditions! For a true
Jubilee celebration, let us join hands to break the chains of debt!’
ü
Be
sure to write your name, city and state on the inside of the card. On the outside of the card in your return
address, make sure to indicate that
you are a United Methodist Women
member.
ü
Mail
your World Bank/ IMF birthday cards directly to the Jubilee USA Network at the
address below:
Jubilee USA Network
222 E. Capitol Street, NE
Washington, DC
20003
For background information on the global debt crisis and its effects on
the world’s poorer countries, read the April 2004 Action Alert: “An Un-Happy Birthday: The World Bank and International Monetary Fund
Turn 60” by clicking on Action Alerts on the main page of the Women’s Division
website: http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/ .
For more information on the Campaign:
contact the office of Community Action at 212-870-3766 or email: SLee@gbgm-umc.org.
Date posted:
Apr 01, 2004
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