Friends,

This week the IMF, G20 and US Treasury are deciding on our Jubilee USA campaigns.

Thanks to our efforts together, the US Treasury released a statement today with G7 leaders expressing support for our plan for the world's 76 poorest countries to stop debt payments to provide health services in the developing world. After our continuous actions since mid-March, the IMF announced yesterday it would cancel 6 months of debt payments for 25 poor countries using the plan that we put forward.

The next phase of our campaign goals to win debt relief processes and access global financial reserves will be decided by the IMF, G20 and US Treasury over the next 3 days.

Please sign our petition to lift the vulnerable and mitigate what the IMF calls the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Our next round of IMF petition delivery takes place this week.

Jubilee USA organized 80 national religious institutions, congregations and partners to confront the coronavirus crisis and it was delivered to the White House, G20 and IMF today.

Signers include: The Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, National Council of Churches, Presbyterian Church (USA), Unitarian Universalist Association, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, Jubilee USA Network, American Friends Service Committee, Church World Service, Buddhist Association of the United States and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. The largest labor union in the United States, the AFL-CIO joined the Jubilee USA letter.

These signers joined calls from Pope Francis, our letter with the US Catholic Bishops and 165 world leaders encouraging additional resources, aid and debt relief to ensure all countries can withstand the crisis.

The next phase of our campaign goals to win debt relief processes and access global financial reserves will be decided by the IMF, G20 and US Treasury over the next 3 days.

Can you sign this petition, share it on social media and encourage your friends and family to sign it too?

Since mid-March our Jubilee USA campaigns have been featured in tens of thousands of newspapers around the world. We've appeared in Reuters, AP, the New York Times and Fox News more than a dozen time in less than three weeks.

Our Executive Director, Eric LeCompte, has met daily with G20 and IMF leaders. We are winning and momentum is on our side.

We are so grateful to continue this work with you.

Best,

Kate

Kate Zeller
Campaigns Director

P.s. Right now all gifts are doubled and support Jubilee USA's coronavirus campaigns. Please make a tax-deductible gift for $5 or $100 or $500 or any amount and that gift will double our impact.