Right, Peter. That's why the Jubilee Southern Hemisphere movement is so interesting. There's a strong recovery from these mistakes now underway, in part because the contradictions really broke to the surface at the Cologne protests. Check Dot Keet at http:\\aidc.org.za (no www needed, thanks Chris), and encourage your contacts to come to Johannesburg in mid-November for the J2000South gathering. Patrick On 24 Sep 99, at 12:35, Peter Dorman wrote: > Chris, you might check the pen-l archives. We had a brief flurry on the > Jubilee 2000 campaign. Gist: they took a big step backward by focusing solely > on the poorest countries. The global debt overhang is a serious problem both > for the countries directly involved and for the world economy (debt pressure > leading to increased export pressure leading to competitiveness mania). Jub > 2000 has adjusted its goals downward to be "realistic" in the face of > neoliberal hegemony and the lack of effective institutions for managing > international trade and capital flows. Too bad.
