Jubilee USA Launches Petition for Haiti
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The global food crisis has Haiti in its grip.
The lack of affordable food has caused riots and political turmoil. While some Haitians are reportedly eating dirt to quell their hunger, their government is forced to pay almost $1 million each week in debt service to the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, both wealthy banks that were supposedly established to fight poverty.
The finance ministers of the G8 countries — the world’s richest nations — meet on June 13 and 14 in Japan to discuss the food crisis. By cancelling debts they could help alleviate the suffering of Haiti and other affected countries.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. will be attending the G8 meeting. Please sign Jubilee USA’s petition to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. to urge him to support accelerated debt cancellation for Haiti and in the meantime an immediate moratorium on the country’s debt service payments at this meeting. Jubilee USA will deliver this petition before he leaves on Wednesday, June 11.
-Monet Cooper, Jubilee USA
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June 5, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Are you ready for change? This is the time to challenge yourself with this question.
What are the three most most important and powerful ” WORDS” on earth or in this world? If you do believe that your answer is right, are you willing and ready to give away your life in sacrifice, to prove to the whole World that, we as people can make use of these three words to definetely change whatever that really need to be changed, such as war to peace and poverty to something else? OR
DO YOU THINK IS THERE ANY OTHER WORDS ON EARTH OR IN THIS WORLD THAT CAN BE MORE IMPORTANT AND POWERFUL THAN “GOD, PEOPLE,& MONEY”? IF NOT LET GET TOGETHER TO CHANGE IT. IF YOU CANNOT REJECT IT THEREFORE YOU WILL HAVE TO ACCEPT IT.