Call your Rep and ask them to co-sponsor the Kucinich Bill, which would force the IMF to close ESAF and cancel all debt owed to it by HIPC countries and Haiti as a condition of receiving any resources from the U.S. or from gold sales. ------------------------------------------- Jubilee South 29 September 1999 Rep. Dennis Kucinich U.S. House of Representatives Dear Mr. Kucinich: On behalf of my colleagues in Jubilee South and in the member Jubilee 2000 campaigns in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, I would like to convey to you our support for your, Rep. Jim Saxton's and others' efforts to delink debt cancellation from the required implementation of IMF structural adjustment programs. The effective imposition of these policies on our countries by the IMF, the World Bank and the other international financial institutions has had a devastating impact not only on large segments of our population and on our natural environments but also on our national productive capacities and on our societies generally. Poverty-reduction programs, including those presently being considered in the discussions on ESAF reform, are woefully inadequate to address these problems. It is the adjustment policies themselves, as the cause of our social, economic and financial crises, that must be addressed. Hence, we reject those initiatives that condition debt relief on adoption by our governments of IMF and Bank policies and commend you again for bringing this critical issue to the attention of your colleagues. Sincerely, Lidy Nacpil Member, Convening Committee c/o Freedom from Debt Coalition, The Philippines ------------------------------- Robert Naiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Preamble Center 1737 21st NW Washington, DC 20009 phone: 202-265-3263 x277 fax: 202-265-3647 http://www.preamble.org/ -------------------------------
