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Rachel Stephens reports from the House of Commons
Posted by: duncanmiller on: February 2, 2009
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A standing room only meeting in Committee Room 15 heard speakers from USA and UK offer legal ways of controlling Vulture Fund activity. We heard Adam Smith said “ The criterion for a successful market is Transparency”. Vulture funds thrive on the anonymity of Directors operating from secrecy jurisdictions (Tax Havens). Enforced exposure through international [...]
Local Group with Global Connections
Posted by: audreymiller on: January 14, 2009
Birmingham City Council often uses the catch phrase “Global city with a local heart” in a way Birmingham JDC group really live up to the phrase in its very existence.
This Jubilee Congregation banner has recently been put on display at Selly Oak Methodist Church. It is American in origin and was given to the group [...]
Unfinished Business DVD
Posted by: audreymiller on: December 31, 2008
I am often asked by friends how they can begin to understand the complex issue of international debt. It seems a daunting topic, but now a new resource from Jubilee Debt Campaign makes it accessible and brings it down from high economic theory to an issue of global poverty being caused by power and injustice.
The [...]
World premier of debt nativity play in Birmingham.
Posted by: audreymiller on: December 20, 2008
The cast list could have not been more impressive ;- retired Bishop, Cannon, clergy, academics and other seasoned debt campaigners all took part in a specially written production this week.The script uses the poverty of the first Christmas to link with present day debt in poor countries.
Quotes from the shepherds and kings all make profound [...]
Ecuador is to default on its debts
Posted by: John Nightingale on: December 15, 2008
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According to the BBC website on Sat 13th December the President of Ecuador has given the order not to approve a debt interest payment due on Mon 15th December. That was because a large proportion of Ecuador’s $10 billionhad been contracted illegally.
In July 2007 the government set up an investigating commission to examine debts for [...]
Conservative Party Chair offers support to local JDC campaigners
Posted by: audreymiller on: December 7, 2008
This December has been a particularly depressing month for campaigners we have just had the United Nations Finance for Development conference, in Doha, Qatar, but with no positive outcome. I fear that leaders have abandoned the hoped for reform of the
World Bank and IMF.There is no mention either of tackling tax loop holes or debt [...]
Go for it Gordon
Posted by: audreymiller on: November 13, 2008
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It’s a bad day for some again, we see people losing jobs, homes, and their faith in the money system. Fuel and food prices are exploding everywhere but the poorest are suffering most
None more so than in developing countries have been facing their own debt crisis for more than thirty years, because of [...]
Calling all students
Posted by: audreymiller on: November 10, 2008
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Calling all students and supporter.
This is to alert you to the fact that Birmingham Uni is hosting and very important conference on November 21st /22nd.
Jubilee Debt Campaign will be having a stall staffed by the London team.
Please pass the word around your networks or drop by yourself and make contact if you can.
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Haiti Debt
Posted by: duncanmiller on: October 24, 2008
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World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned Wednesday that Haiti is at a “tipping point” after a spate of destructive tropical storms, but offered no immediate debt relief for the chronically impoverished country.
Zoellick, ending a three-day visit, pledged long-term help to keep the desperately poor Caribbean nation from falling deeper into crisis but said the bank [...]
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