Almost 10 years ago, 70,000 people gathered in Birmingham to break the chains of debt once and for all. They held hands to make a human chain - representing the millions of people around the world enslaved by the debt burden carried by their countries.
Since then some of this reality has changed - 28 countries have received over $100 billion in debt cancellation and the Jubilee movement has grown to be a presence in over 80 countries. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and five years before the Millennium Development Goals deadline to halve global poverty. It is again time to sound the trumpet of global Jubilee - debt cancellation and right relationships between nations.
Join us this year in our Linking Our Voices Campaign. Building on last year's Change, Not Chains we continue to call for debt cancellation and a new system for international lending and borrowing.
Across the country, Jubilee chapters, congregations, and supporters are "Linking our Voices" together by creating paper chains that urge the Obama Administration and G-20 leaders to break the chains of debt once and for all. We will collect all the chains and deliver them when the time is right to make a powerful statement.
