Australian tour of Hon Paul Hellyer, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
and founder of the Action Canada movement.
Reclaiming Democracy - The People vs Global Finance.
On Sunday 11 April the 1999 People's Summit will be held at the University
of Technology in Sydney, as part of a series of Australia wide public
meetings.
The keynote speaker at the Sydney Summit is Hon Paul Hellyer, former Deputy
Prime Minister of Canada and founder of the Action Canada movement. Hellyer
will call for the cancellation of the unpayable debts of the world's most
impoverished countries, and advocate the dismantling of the IMF and World
Bank, and for governments to reduce their exposure to foreign debt by
issuing at least 50% of their own nation's money supply. In his most recent
book "Stop:Think", Paul Hellyer states "There is no better time than the
Year 2000, which has been dubbed "the year of Jubilee" to undertake an
economic revolution which would liberate people worldwide from the slavery
of oppressive debt."
The Sydney Summit is part of the lead-up to the 19 June People's Summit in
Cologne, Germany, where tens of thousands of community groups will meet
alongside the G8 Summit of leaders of the world's eight biggest economies.
This worldwide mobilisation of community groups, which are concerned with
economic justice and environmental sustainability, are starting to be
heard. The pressure of the 1998 People's Summits resulted in the G8 putting
Debt Forgiveness on the 1999 agenda, and also proposing to review the IMF's
HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Country) initiative because of widespread
criticism that the IMF has offered "too little, too late".
TO SEE AND HEAR PAUL HELLYER in OZ:
Sunday 11 April - SYDNEY, "Reclaiming Democracy: The People versus Global
Finance", 1999 Peoples' Summit Meeting at University of Technology, Sydney
9.00am-3.30pm, Contact Frances Milne, Phone: (02) 9810 7812, Email:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or John Horrocks, (02) 9948 3408
Tuesday 13 April - BRISBANE, Public Meeting 7.00pm, Brisbane City Hall -
contact Janice Howard, Phone: (07) 3844 3350, Brian O'Halloran (07) 3395
0670, or Richard Sanders by Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wednesday 14 April - CANBERRA, Public Meeting 7.00pm, Aust National
University; also Thurs 15 - Meeting at Parliamentary Library plus lunch;
informal dinner at night with small group 20 or so; Friday 16 - visit ACT
Assembly with a small group of politicians - Contact: Dr Chris Watson,
Phone: 0262 545 238
Sunday 18 April - ADELAIDE, Public Meeting - Globalisation Forum
"Reclaiming the Economy" at the University of South Australia (City West
campus, Hans Heysen building), Adelaide 1.00pm-5.00pm; barbeque and
get-together on Saturday 17 April - Contact: Dr John Hermann, Phone: (08)
8264 4282, or Jennifer Whitehead, Phone: (08) 8371 3300, Email:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wednesday 21 April - GEELONG, Public Meeting in Geelong, Contact: Serena
O'Meley, Phone: (03) 524 13752, Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thursday 22 April - MELBOURNE, Meeting in Melbourne at 7.00pm, Contact:
Charles Brass, Phone: (03) 9459 0244, Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Details of meeting programmes and supporting speakers will be provided by
the contacts listed above. Media interviews are being arranged in each city.
To Contact Paul Hellyer himself:
Email: <cap-pac.istar.ca>
Phone: 416 535 7611 Fax: 416 535 6235
Personal Phone: 416 535 1008
Address: 99 Atlantic Ave, Suite 302, Toronto ON M6K 3J8
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