BEST WAY TO CELEBRATE THE MILLENIUM: DROP THE DEBT! Sun, 05 Dec 1999 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JUBILEE 2000 PETITION The chain email - Drop the Debt *Jubilee 2000 wants to make the world's largest petition by collecting 22 million signatures in favour of debt cancellation for the poorest countries *17 million signatures already collected *You can sign by email *Just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your NAME, CITY and COUNTRY in the main subject box *Forward this email to all your friends and email buddies The full text of the petition you are signing up to is: We, the undersigned, *believe that the start of the new millennium should be a time to give hope to the impoverished people of the world. *To make a fresh start, we believe it right to put behind us the mistakes made by both lenders and borrowers, and to cancel the backlog of unpayable debts of the most impoverished nations. *We call upon the leaders of lending nations to write off these debts by the year 2000. We ask them to take effective steps to prevent such high levels of debt building up again. We look for a new beginning to celebrate the millennium. You can find out more about debt at http://www.jubilee2000uk.org ______________ THIS CHAIN EMAIL WAS STARTED BY RACHEL JENKINS (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND). Dr. Paul Jenkins Director Centre for Environment & Human Settlements School of Planning & Housing Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University 79 Grassmarket Edinburgh EH1 2HJ SCOTLAND Phone: +44 131 221 6162 Fax: +44 131 221 6163 Internet: http://www.eca.ac.uk/planning/cehs.htm -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
