>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > The World Bank raises funds in the private capital market. > We pledge to boycott the purchase of World Bank bonds. > > We also call on all governments to cease funding the World > Bank until it has cancelled all debts owed to it by Third > World countries. > > > >Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:20:45 -0700 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: World Bank Bonds Boycott Sign On > > >Open Letter to the World Bank > >Signatures may be returned by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and should include >name, title or occupation, organization, city and country. If you would like >to serve on the coordinating committee for the campaign in your institution >or community, send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more >information, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (505)341-1864. We >apologize for any cross-postings. We want to circulate this letter as >widely as possible. > >Open Letter to the World Bank > > >James Wolfensohn >President, World Bank Group >1818 H Street, N.W. >Washington, DC 20433 U.S.A. > >Dear Mr. Wolfensohn: > >We write in support of the protest by our Southern colleagues who are >citizens of countries suffering the devastating effects of World Bank >lending policies. We share their outrage that: > >· 65% of World Bank lending today is for sectoral and structural > adjustment loans; > >· The conditions attached to these and other World Bank loans have > crippled economic growth, hindered economic development, promoted > dependency, and increased misery and poverty in developing countries; > >· Adjustment is vastly increasing the socio-economic burden on women; > >· Adjustment leads to the promotion of sweatshops, and the denial of > workers' rights to organize and to earn a decent living; > >· Adjustment is destroying peasant-led agricultural production > and the abilities of developing countries to feed themselves; > >· Adjustment has accelerated destruction of the natural environment; > >· Adjustment has a very destructive impact on the most vulnerable > sectors of the population; > >· Adjustment is degrading the cultural integrity of developing > countries; > >· Adjustment has significantly added to the external debt > burden of countries implementing such programs; > >· Privatization under World Bank policies has led to increased > corruption, private gain at the expense of the public, further > concentration of wealth and power, greater unemployment and > decreased access to public services; > >· The World Bank in practice supports the macroeconomic policies > imposed by the International Monetary Fund by making agreement > with the IMF a condition of Bank lending, and by contributing > money to IMF austerity packages, and is therefore responsible > for the consequences of those policies; > >And we share their belief that: > >· Economic policy in developing countries should be formed in the > interest of the poor and working people who comprise the majority > of the population; and that > >· National economic sovereignty of those countries is a prerequisite > for the adoption of such policies. > >Since the majority of the Bank's funds are raised in the private capital >market, we pledge to boycott the purchase of World Bank bonds, and encourage >all public institutions to do so. Moreover, we call on governments of all >member nations of the World Bank to cease further funding to the World Bank >until all destructive World Bank lending has ended and the World Bank has >cancelled all debts owed to it by Third World countries. > > >Signatories (Updated 12/12/99) >(NOTE: We have received hundreds of additional names that have not yet been >added on to this copy of the letter. If you have already sent your name in, >we have recorded it and it will be add before the petition is delivered to >the World Bank.) > >Juan Carlos Aguilar, Program Officer, Peace Development Fund (PDF), >Amherst, MA >Osman Ahmed, Activist >Jenny Asinc, San Diego State University, CA >Robert Becherer, Engineer, School for America Watch (SOA Watch), Washington, >DC >Beverly Bell, Director, Center for Economic Justice, Washington, DC >Ned Bertz, Coordinator, International Alliance for People's Movements, Iowa >City, Iowa >Trim Bissell, National Coordinator, Campaign for Labor Rights, Washington, >DC United States >Max J. Blanchet, member, Steering Committee, Bay Area Haitian American >Council, Berkeley, CA >Diana Bohn, Nicaragua Center for Community Action, Campaign for Labor >Rights, Alliance for Global Justice, and Nicaragua Network >Caroline Rebecca Bowles, Portland State University, Portland, OR >Grace Braley, Member Zapatista Solidarity Committee and Fair Trade Committee >of Westchester People's Action Committee (WESPAC), Yonkers, NY >Frank de Caires, Ethical Trade Co-ordinator, Philippine Resource Centre, UK >Ruthanne Cecil, Project Coordinator, Tobin Tax Initiative, Arcata, CA >Conall O. Ceroimh, Ireland Chairperson, European Network on Debt & Development >Ann Marie Clarke, Co-Director, Quest for Peace/Quixote Center, Hyattsville, >MD >Stephen Cobb, Secretary, Traprock Peace Center, Deerfield, Massachusetts >Maria College, Chicken Soup Brigade, Seattle, WA >Shannon Coughlin, Program Coordinator, Committee for Health Rights in the >Americas (CHRIA), San Francisco, CA >Carol Cross, Activist >J. Kevin Cross, Engineer, Labor Party Member, Ft. Collins, Colorado >Anthony Daley, President, Labor Research International, Inc., Takoma Park, MD >Martha Dominguez, First Nations North & South >Elizabeth Downer, New York Zapatistas , Staten Island, NY >Caroline Dutton, Teacher, Marin Interfaith Task Force , San Rafael, CA >Rosemary Everett, Justice and Peace Coordinator, Sisters of the Holy Names, >Santa Clara, Carolyn Fairman, UNM, Albuquerque, NM >Rick Fellows, Co-Director, Media Island, Olympia, WA >Julie Field, Coordinator, National Committee for Democracy in Mexico (NCDM), >Austin, TX >George Friemoth, Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America, Lookspur, >CA >William Harrell, Lawyer, National Lawyers Guild (NLG) San Francisco, CA >Dr. Jan Edward Garrett, Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green KY U.S.A. >Rosemary Everett, Justice and Peace Coordinator, Sisters of the Holy Names, >Santa Clara, CA >Mark M. Giese, Racine, WI >Lise Giraud, Librarian Emerita, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA >Raymond Giraud, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA >Stella M. Goodpasture, OP, Justice Promoters for the Dominican Sisters of >Mission San Jose, CA >Russell Grahame, Rights Action/Guatemala Partners >Lucy Grinnell, student, Mount Vernon, NY >Paulette Hammond, Convenor, MD United for Peace & Justice, Inc. Maryland USA >Edward A. Hawley (Rev.), Retired United Church of Christ Clergyperson, >former executive editor, AFRICA TODAY, S. Columbine, Denver CO >Doug Hellinger, Development GAP (DGAP), Washington, DC >Fredric Hicks, Professor, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY >Celia Hidalgo, Activist, CSLA >Charlie Hinton, Printing Coordinator, 50 Years Is Enough, Washington, DC >Mary Sean Hodges, Justice Promoter MSJ, OP, San Gabriel, CA. >Lisa Hoyos, South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, Miami, FL >Rev. Douglas B. Hunt, Washington and United Nations Representative, United >Church of Christ Network for Environmental and Economic Responsibility, >Wheaton, MD >Sr. William Julie Hurley, SND, Lowell, MA >Mark Jacobs, Director of WESPAC, White Plains, New York >Karl Jagbandhansingh,Writer >Jonah House Community, Baltimore MD >Barbara Joye, Writer, North American Neighborhood Association (NANA) >Kenday Samuel Kamara, Chief Executive Strategist, The Center for Alternative >Development Strategies (CADS Global Network), Lakewood, CO >Charles E. Kaufman, Development Director, Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ), >Washington, DC >Liz Kelner, NE Witness for Peace >Dean Kendall, Worker, Payday >Rebecca L. Kiger, Holyoke, MA >Pierre Labossière, member, Steering Committee, Bay Area Haitian American >Council (BAHACO), Berkeley, CA >Chung Lai, Graduate Student, American University International Development >Program, Washington, D.C. >Scott Lamson, Worker/Activist Zapatista Action, Philadelphia, PA >Margaret Lanen, Pastoral Associate, St.William Parish, Boston, MA >Barbara Larcom, Casa Baltimore/Limay, Baltimore, MD >Mary Lehmann, Land Use Integrity, Texas >Ted Lewis, Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA >Laura Livoti, Steering Committee, Member of Economic Justice Now, Steering >Committee Member of Fifty Years Is Enough >Travis Loller, Co-Director, Paz Sin Fronteras >Aida López >Gustavo Lozano, Pueblo por la Paz, Tuscon, AZ >Peter Lumsdaine, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 >Tobin Marsh, Project Human Rights >David Martin, Denver Justice and Peace Committee, Denver, CO >Roberto Martinez, A to Z Border Rights Project >Pat McGilin SND, Professor, College of Notre Dame South Euclid, Ohio >Lisa McGowan, AFL-CIO >Anne McMullen, Justice Coordinator, Sisters of St. Joseph, Los Angeles >Annie Millar, student activist, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York >John Morrow, New York Zapatistas, New York, NY >Hisako Motoyama, Campaigner, Friends of the Earth, Japan >Peter and Gail Mott, Co-editors, INTERCONNECT, Rochester, NY >Jack Moynihan Coordinator, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; Peace, >Social Justice & Integrity of Creation, Washington DC >Kevin Murray, Executive Director, Grassroots International, Boston, MA >R. Namdar, Unit Chair WBNG, Communication Workers of America, Johnson City, NY >Elan Nissenboim, student, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN >Joanette Nitz, Teacher/Human Rights Activist, >Shirley Novak, Teacher, Mexico Solidarity Network & Doctors for Global >Health, Washington, DC >Mary O'Brien, CSJ, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Albany Province >Brendan O'Neill, Committee on Temporary Shelter, Housing Search Specialist, >Burlington, VT >Ezekial Pajibo, Africa Faith and Justice Network, Washington, DC >Y. H. Patt, Raleigh, NC >Helen Pearson, Guatemala Accompaniment Project, Washington, DC >Jean Peeters, CIAM, Kinsheshe, France >Joyce Penfield, Seminarian, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA and >Guatemalan Accompaniment Project in Aurora & NE Witness for Peace >Nancy G. Phillips, Retailer, First Parish, Brewster, MA 02631 >Robert S. Pietrusiak,President, Dan's Legacy Inc. >Daisy Pitkin, student, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN >Richard Plevin, Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA >Phylus Ponvert, Artist, Chiapas Media Project, Chicago, IL >Jo'Ann De Quattro, snjm, Conference of Social Justice Coordinators at the >Peace & Justice Center of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA >Joanne Ranney, NE Witness for Peace >Orlando Redekopp, Pastor, First Church of the Brethren, Chicago, IL. >Rev. Dr. Jean Rodenbough, Exec. Dir. WorldFriends,Inc. Madison, NC >Marie Romejko, Sister of Notre Dame de Namur >Susan Saudek, policy Associate, SHARE Foundation, Washington DC >Ruth Schaff, Nurse >Dave Schott, Volunteer, Sister Parish >Virginia L. Senders, Activist, NE Witness for Peace. Shutesbury, MA >David A. Sharpy, Director of Healthcare Resource Management Premier, Inc, >North Bend, WA >Frank Sharpy, Vice President, Thompson Landscape Company, Eugene, OR >Wendy Shea, Volunteer, Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Silver Spring, >MD >Shelley Sherman, US Coordinator, Cloudforest Initiatives, St. Paul, MN >Sara A. Siebert, International Alliance for Peoples' Movements, Iowa City >Dale Sorenson, Counselor, Marin Interfaith Task Force, San Rafael, CA >Steffan Spencer, Activist >Jean Stokan, Policy Director, SHARE Foundation, Washington DC > Rick Tingling-Clemmons, People's Tribune, Chicago, IL >Marge Van Cleef, Teacher-Philadelphia College/University, New Haven, CT >Craig Van Note, Monitor Consortium, Washington, DC >Richard Vanden Heuval, Chair, FONKOZE Metro, Annapolis, MD >Lois Vanderbeke, Consultant >Jason Wallach, Mexican Solidarity Network /Chiapas Media Project >Aramando Walle, New York Zapatistas, New York, NY >Neil Watkins, Preamble Center/Center for Economic and Policy Research, >Washington, DC >Yasmin Webster-Woog, Activist, San Francisco, CA >Sam Weinstein, Presidents Assistant, Utility Workers Union of America, >Washington, DC >Ellen V.P. Wells, Maine Witness for Peace >Mary E. Wendeln, Social Service Provider, CASA of MP >WESPAC Fair Trade Committee, WESPAC, White Plains, New York >Jeffrey Wessman, Radio Producer, New Dimensions Radio, Sausalito, CA >Philip Wheaton, Committee of Indigenous Solidarity >Tammy L. Williams, Co-Director, Quest for Peace/Quixote Center, Hyattsville, >MD >Scott Wright, EPICA, Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean >Joe Wilson, Committee of Indigenous Solidarity, Washington, DC >Joyce Yule >H. Yull, UK >Lisa Zimmerman, Activist >Jodie Zisow, Co-Coordinator, Baltimore Action for Justice in the Americas >(BAJA), Baltimore, Maryland > >CENTER FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE >1737 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 >phone: (202) 265-3263, ext. 284 fax: (202) 265-3647 >137 San Fidel Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107 >phone/fax: (505) 341-1864 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ............................................. > Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The world is run by the people who show up. > ............................................. > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
