Apologies if there are any cross-posts. I thought this worth forwarding - AF -----Original Message----- From: Jubilee 2000 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 7:02 PM To: List Member Subject: Support Jubilee 2000's final push to drop the debt by the millennium 7 September, 1999 Dear Friend, I am writing to you as the Director of Jubilee 2000 Coalition in the UK. Were on the brink of an historic achievement and I'm writing to ask your help for the final push to the millennium. We have achieved so much in the last few months. At the G8 Summit in Cologne, we won up to $100 billion in debt cancellation for the poorest countries. An IMF report in the spring credited us with mobilising world public opinion in support of the poorest nations, at a time when the people of these nations had been pushed to margins of the international agenda. We have won plaudits from commentators around the world. Journalist Polly Toynbee, in the UK Radio Times, said, Jubilee 2000 has been one of the most brilliantly successful campaigns of our times. But plaudits are worth little. Even the British Prime Minister admitted the need to go further still on debt after Cologne. The reality is that childrens lives are still lost seven million every year as countries are forced to pay off foreign creditors before they spend on basic health, clean water and primary education. So now we find ourselves gearing up for a final short, but intense, round of international public pressure on the worlds richest creditors particularly the US, Japanese and French governments. All this has to be done over the next few months if our goal of a debt free start by the new millennium is to be achieved. Like you, and like hundreds of thousands of Jubilee 2000 campaigners, I have invested quite a lot of my life in this campaign. I am not going to give up now. I had hoped the G7 would deliver in Cologne. They did take a great step forward. But it is now clear that to achieve our goal will require one more huge push starting this month. We firstly need your action over the next few months. Signing petition, writing a letter to a G7 leader, informing your friends about the issues. Please regularly visit our web page - www.jubilee2000uk.org to find out what action you can take. However as we approach our final year, we also need finance for the campaign. So I am writing to ask you to consider making a donation to Jubilee 2000. And to email your friends to ask them to support the campaign too. Here at the UK Coalitions hub, we have been thinking up new ways of applying pressure on the G7. As always with Jubilee 2000, we have been thinking big. But thinking big and maintaining credibility and influence, requires high level research, skilled staff and quick responses to unfolding global events. Were sending a team to the US to bolster campaigning there. In the meantime the movement is growing stronger in the South and were helping to channel resources to campaigns in Africa and Latin America. We are working closely with internationally known economists like Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard. And through new technology, were communicating with millions through our pioneering web site and other ground-breaking Internet initiatives. All this costs money. Were primarily not a fund-raising campaign. We want you, above all, to continue taking action. But financial support is in itself a vital form of action. Please give whatever you can. If you are able to give #250 or more, please remember that in the UK you can make it go further by giving it as Gift Aid. You can make a secure donation on Jubilee 2000's website - <a href="http://www.jubilee2000uk.org">www.jubilee2000uk.org</a> Alternatively, you can phone us at our London office with a credit card donation on + (0)171 739 1000. Or you can send a cheque or international money order payable to 'Jubilee 2000' to Jubilee 2000, 1 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DT, United Kingdom. We would like finally to assure you that we do not intend to send other fundraising appeals by email to you. We are a time-limited campaign and this is likely to be our last appeal. We will be in touch in the next two weeks with an exciting internet action directed to the G7 that we would like you to help publicise. We appreciate any support you can give - either in terms of time or financial resources. Without this, we would not now be on the brink of an historic achievement. Yours sincerely, Ann Pettifor Director, Jubilee 2000 Coalition ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
