Endorsements request

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

[from Soren Ambrose]

Endorse Demands of IMF & World Bank
Respond to <steve@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx> to endorse them.  Include
organization name and location.

Thanks

Soren Ambrose
50 Years Is Enough Network


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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@xxxxxxxx> with organization name and
location.



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