During the Jubilee 2000 campaign, campaigners used the figure of 19,000 deaths per day, which was an estimate of the consequences of reduced spending on health and education due to debt repayment enforced by the IMF.
"Earlier on Sunday, the protesters had held a funeral march through the streets to mourn for the 19,000 children they say are dying each day because of the debt burden on the world's poorest countries." IMF rejects debt moratorium http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/940436.stm On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Some years ago a poster on this list offered an estimate of the "surplus > deaths" around the world that could be reasonably attributed to IMF > austerity programs. I don't remember the number, but it was substantial. > > Of course in a couple of years or so surplus deaths will undoubtedly be > rising in the U.S. & the EU. > > Carrol > > On 5/16/2011 4:03 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zccrskOqQ >> >> >> Bruce Cockburn >> <http://www.youtube.com/artist?a=GxdCwVVULXdJ_e0JklQk1Wnzh8v_mbI3&feature=watch_video_title> >> >> Live . Call It Democracy >> >> *tarkineWild* <http://www.youtube.com/user/tarkineWild> >> Loading... >> *58,879* >> >> Uploaded by tarkineWild <http://www.youtube.com/user/tarkineWild> on >> 11 Sep 2008 >> >> "Call it Democracy" is perhaps the only song ever written about the >> International Monetary Fund, which Cockburn accuses of fostering >> "insupportable debt" in Third World countries. Typically not pulling >> any punches, Cockburn charges that the IMF doesn't "really give a >> flying fuck about the people in misery." That earned it a few bleeps >> on radio and video channels, but no one seemed to notice the chorus, >> "IMF, dirty MF." We won't spell out here what "MF" stands for, but it >> can easily be imagined." >> >> >> >> Padded with power here they come >> International loan sharks backed by the guns >> Of market hungry military profiteers >> Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared >> With the blood of the poor >> >> Who rob life of its quality >> Who render rage a necessity >> By turning countries into labour camps >> Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom >> >> Sinister cynical instrument >> Who makes the gun into a sacrament -- >> The only response to the deification >> Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations' >> Idolatry of ideology >> >> North South East West >> Kill the best and buy the rest >> It's just spend a buck to make a buck >> You don't really give a flying fuck >> About the people in misery >> >> IMF dirty MF >> Takes away everything it can get >> Always making certain that there's one thing left >> Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt >> >> See the paid-off local bottom feeders >> Passing themselves off as leaders >> Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows >> Open for business like a cheap bordello >> >> And they call it democracy >> And they call it democracy >> And they call it democracy >> And they call it democracy >> >> See the loaded eyes of the children too >> Trying to make the best of it the way kids do >> One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast >> To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast >> They call the revolution >> >> IMF dirty MF >> Takes away everything it can get >> Always making certain that there's one thing left >> Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
