Jubilee’s groundbreaking collaboration with Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, and the Bank Information Center on issues of debt, oil, and climate change forms the basis of a swing through the Western Mountain states, where Jubilee does not yet have a strong grassroots base. By highlighting the links between poverty and environmental issues, specifically the connections between debt, the extractive industries, and climate change, all of the organizations involved in this tour leg hope to connect with new individuals and organizations to build the Jubilee movement.
Tour participants are also working to meet with the senators from these states who voted against selling gold owned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to finance the debt cancellation promised under the 2005 G-8 deal.
This western leg will travel to Denver and Boulder, Colo., Montana, Boise and Pocatello, Idaho, and will make a final stop in the west in a place yet to be determined.
The speakers for this leg of the tour are Lidy Nacpil, the international coordinator of Jubilee South and vice president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition in the Philippines, and Asume Osuoka from Nigeria, the program
manager of Energy and Mining at Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth, Nigeria).
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