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 - Former Congressman Tom Perriello
December - Jubilee USA was joined by former Congressman Tom Perreillo for a talk on, "Egypt: Debt, Elections and Human Rights." Click here to watch the YouTube video.
December 13 - Jubilee USA and the FACT Coalition signed onto a letter against a “repatriation tax holiday” allowing U.S. multinational corporations to bring home offshore profits at a reduced tax rate. The proposed repatriation
holiday is, pure and simple, an attempt by a few multinational corporations to dodge their rightful tax obligation. It is a tax avoidance measure that will benefit a few corporations, their executives, and their shareholders, while other taxpayers bear the hefty expense.
Click here to read the letter.
Click here to read the article that the Wall Street Journal wrote about the holiday.
November - Jubilee USA along with our parner organizations and the FACT Coalition have introduced the "Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act" H.R. 3416 bill in Congress. "Jubilee USA is thrilled to see the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act moving forward in the House and applauds Representatives Maloney, Frank and Lynch for introduction. This Act takes important steps in halting the flow of illicit streams of revenue out of developing nations and away from those who need it the most-the world's poorest. Morality must be brought back into the global financial system, and the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Act is one important measure in that goal," said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network. Click here to download the official press release.
Read the latest report from Jubilee Oregon and Jubilee Zambia on responsible lending and borrowing. The report focuses on how debt cancellation must occur alongside responsible lending and borrowing practices for sustainable economic growth. The report is a cast study on Zambia. CLICK HERE TO READ THE REPORT.
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 - Sovereign Debt Mechanism Panel - Panelists from left to right: Kent Hughes (Woodrow Wilson), Mansur Muhtar (World Bank Group), Jo Marie Griesgraber (New Rules for Global Finance), Gorges Pineau (IMF), Anres de la Cruz (Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, LLP), and Eric LeCompte (Jubilee USA)
October 26th - Jubilee, along with partner organizations, held a round table discussion on what we have learned from past experiences with restructuring sovereign debts, and what options are (or should be) available to today's and tomorrow's sovereign debtors.
To learn more and listen to the full discussion, click here.
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Summer 2011 – Jubilee USA and our partners called on the IMF to change their appointment process of the IMF successor. The Jubilee Team worked with Oxfam International and Americans for Informed Democracy to create a successful event outside of the IMF building in Washington, DC. One of Jubilee's interns dressed up in a queen's outfit and a mask of Christine Largarde to demostrate the unequal appointment system of the IMF.
READ the Media Advisory about the event
READ the Press Coverage the event received
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 - Order Our New Voices of Esther Postcards
Spring 2011 – Join us in launching our newest campaign, the “Voices of Esther.” Like Queen Esther did for the Israelites, Jubilee activists will use their access to powerful decision-makers to raise our voices for the most vulnerable. As United States citizens, we should use our privilege of living in a democracy to bring the stories of the poor whose concerns are often overlooked. Urge your elected officials to expand debt relief and support responsible finance today.
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 - Join the Jubilee Movement legacy by taking action with our new, diverse faith initiative
Spring 2011 - Jubilee USA is launching a new campaign to bring the voices of diverse faith traditions to the halls of the White House. Through the 1,000 Faith Leaders Initiative we will deliver a letter with more than 1,000 signatures of faith leaders from across the country to President Obama. The letter urges President Obama to expand life-saving debt cancellation and ensure responsible finance for the world’s poorest countries.
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Spring 2011 – Jubilee USA Network, Oxfam International, and ActionAid held a media stunt during the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings. With an 8 foot-high stack of huge gold bars, the organizations called for the IMF's nearly $3 billion in excess gold sales profits to go to the poor. This comes just as Jubilee and 58 international partners including ONE, Oxfam, and ActionAid, have launched a campaign demanding $2.8 billion in extra profit from IMF gold sales go to the world’s poorest countries for debt relief.
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 - Thousands of paper chains were hung on the White House fence October 8th - raising the call for economic justice to President Obama. Photo Courtesy of Pablo Benavente
Fall 2010 - Jubilee USA brought thousands of multicolor paper chains from around the country and marched around the IMF and World Bank to the White House.
Stories and photographs from our march and rally have covered the globe – AFP, AP, and Reuters have used images of your paper chains for their wire stories, a diverse group of bloggers have written on the event, and NBC, ABC, and FOX news stations included the march in their nightly newscast. Why did we mobilize? On October 5, just before our incredible action, Jubilee USA hosted a standing room only Congressional Briefing on how the IMF should reform its practices.
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Summer 2010 - Jubilee USA Network welcomes the International Monetary Fund Executive Board’s decision to cancel Haiti’s $268 million debt to the institution in response to the January 12 earthquake, but is concerned over the IMF’s decision to provide $60 million in financing support as a new loan. Read the press release here.
After January's devastating earthquake, Jubilee USA Network led the call for complete debt cancellation for the country. Thanks to efforts from supporters around the world, all of Haiti's donors have committed to debt cancellation. We are continuing to work to make sure that Haiti is freed from the chains of debt once and for all.
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Fall 2010 - On September 17-19, Jubilee USA participated in Stand Up! Take Action!, a weekend in which millions worldwide stand up to demand world leaders keep their promises to end poverty and inequality. The following week on September 23, President Obama recognized the need to keep our commitments to the world's poorest citizens. In response to the President's speech, Bishop Neil Irons of the Methodist Church published an Op-Ed in the Washington Post. Fall 2010 – 48 Members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Obama urging him to include expanded debt cancellation and responsible finance in his plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Fall 2010 - Just before Christmas, Senators Lugar and Casey were joined by Senators Kerry, Menendez, Dodd, Durbin, Cardin and Sherrod Brown in sending a letter to President Obama advocating for the world’s poorest. The letter urges the Administration to provide grants, not loans for poor countries, increase transparency and accountability in the international financial system, and fight corruption.
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Spring 2010 - Jubilee USA Network continues its campaign with Africa Action and TransAfrica Forum to stop Vulture Funds from preying on impoverished countries. Vulture Funds are predatory funds that buy poor countries' defaulted debt for pennies on the dollar, then sue for huge profits once the country gets debt relief.
The Stop VULTURE Funds Act (HR 2932) is a bill in the House of Representatives that would prevent vulture funds from making excessive profit off the debt of the world's poorest nations. The bill was re-introduced by Representatives Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Spencer Bachus (R-AL).
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