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Protests against World Bank / IMF |
| April 21-25: Days of Action will again protest policies
and programs of World Bank and IMF [4-13-04]
April 21-25: International Days of Action Against the IMF
and the World Bank, Washington, DC.
Sponsored by 50 Years Is Enough, (202) 463-2265; e-mail
info@50years.org, web site
www.50years.org. 2004 is the 60th
anniversary of the founding of the World Bank and the IMF; the 10th
Anniversary of the founding of the 50 Years Is Enough Network; a U.S.
presidential election year; and a crucial year for the struggles for global
justice.
For six decades, the World Bank and IMF have imposed
policies, programs, and projects that
 | Decimate women's rights and devastate their lives,
families, and communities; |
| Subjugate democratic governance and accountability to
corporate profits and investment portfolios; |
| Trap countries in a cycle of indebtedness and economic
domination; Force governments to privatize essential services;
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| Put profits before people's rights and needs;
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| Abet the devastation of the environment in the name of
development and profit; |
| Institutionalize the domination of the wealthy over the
impoverished and the new form of colonialism; |
| and Facilitate corporate agendas through the economic
re-structuring of countries enduring conflict and occupation, such as East
Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq. |
In the 60th anniversary year of the IMF and World Bank, we
demand the following measures from the institutions and the governments that
control them. Add your voice, endorse the demands:
| 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; |
| 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); |
| 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. |
We furthermore recognize the urgency of the world's most
catastrophic health crisis, the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We assert the culpability
of the international financial institutions in decimating health care
systems of Global South countries, and reject the approach of fighting the
pandemic with more loans and conditions from these institutions. We call on
the world's governments to best deploy their resources by fully funding the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. We demand the
elimination of trade rules that undermine access to affordable life-saving
medications.
Help end global economic injustice driven by the
policies, projects, and programs of the international financial
institutions!
Educate, Organize, Mobilize! Be the change you want
to see in our world! Organize public events to expose the use of power,
veiled by rhetoric, to enrich corporations, banks, and investors at the
expense of people and the planet.
Take a public stand in Washington DC during the IMF/World
Bank semi-annual meetings.
Help organize events in 2004 - speaking tours,
coordinated local and global actions, global justice film festivals,
non-violent direct action, street theatre, conferences and teach-ins,
popular education, vigils, etc.
Localize the movement for global justice, organize
in your community!
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Some blogs worth visiting |
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PVJ's
Facebook page
Mitch Trigger, PVJ's
Secretary/Communicator, has created a Facebook page where
Witherspoon members and others can gather to exchange news and
views. Mitch and a few others have posted bits of news, both
personal and organizational. But there’s room for more!
You can post your own news and views,
or initiate a conversation about a topic of interest to you. |
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
this new blog for Voices of Sophia, introduces it:
After fifteen years of scholarship
and activism, Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the
voices of feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy,
students, exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers
and devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God
in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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John Harris’ Summit to
Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical
reflections on everything between summit to shore, including
kayaking, climbing, religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology,
politics, culture, travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New
York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
New York City Presbyterian Pastor. John is a former member of the
Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently
serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton,
Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and
lightening up. |
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