----- Original Message ----- From: Time magazine >The model for a new approach is Jubilee 2000, which campaigned with great >success to reduce developing-world debt.
Come off it, silly mainstream reporter. Jubilee 2000 (North's) campaign was a great failure. The scams introduced as conditionality for crumbs of debt relief, plus the failure of such relief to dent the outflow of capital from lowest-income countries (as even the WB admitted earlier this month), plus the political distractions caused by claims of Northern governments and the BWIs, plus the difficulty of converting the churchy single-issue people into broad-based anti-neoliberal local/global activists, plus the failure to listen to Jubilee South the whole time (indeed to do the opposite of what they wanted), plus the explicit cooption of leaders by the World Bank/IMF, plus the celebrity-chasing style (not just Bono but sweatshop-friendly Sachs and the Pope), together make Jubilee 2000 -- especially the British, German, Japanese and pre-2001 US versions -- a model of how NOT to do international solidarity politics.
