STATEMENT OF THE JUBILEE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT
- FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
BAMAKO, MALI, 21-23 APRIL, 2001
We, the representatives of Jubilee 2000 national debt cancellation
campaigns and social movements from Africa, Asia, Latin America and
Europe, have gathered here in Bamako, Mali, with a clear, historic,
purpose. We resolve to make a qualitative leap from organising as a
specific campaign - towards building an international democratic movement.
The goal of the movement will be to lift nations and their peoples out of
foreign debt bondage; and to struggle for global economic and social
justice.
We represent many millions of people in our countries and regions. Our
supporters are overwhelmingly hopeful, and committed unequivocally to
participative democracy and justice. They, and we, want to give the
possibility of a future to everyone in our world, not just those that live
in the rich world.
We assert that the debt burden borne by our countries is the inevitable
consequence of the world's unequal political and economic structural
relationships. Over the last 30 years, the period of the so-called
"Washington Consensus", the basic values and rights that some of us
enjoyed, and that should be common to all humanity, have steadily been
eroded, and subordinated to the rights of money.
Today money rights are more powerful than human or environmental rights.
The interests of a small group of creditors, investors, speculators and
shareholders take precedence over the human rights of peoples, and of
nations; and over the rights of all of us to live within a sustainable
environment. We are less homogenous today, than we were before the
liberalisation and de-regulation of capital. The policies of
globalisation, with debt as a key mechanism, are designed to extract
financial resources from the poor and transfer these to the rich. We
recognise that a big part of the root cause of the debt is both
irresponsible and corrupt lending and borrowing, undertaken secretly,
without the participation of citizens. These policies divide, impoverish
and polarise our communities; and they divide, impoverish and polarise the
community of nations.
We are committed to a transformation of the current globalisation model -
whose central purpose is to transfer wealth from the weak to the strong;
from productive to financial activity; from debtors to creditors. We want
to participate in the design of economic and political systems which will
not be exclusive; whose central purpose will be to include the already
dispossessed - those defined in some communities as "disposable".
We want to put an end to this system of deliberate exploitation which
generates external debts for our countries, impoverishes billions of
people and degrades our environment. It is a system which does not allow
our communities, societies and nations to develop on their own terms,
democratically, without domination and exploitation by foreign interests,
and dictates from the OECD governments, the IMF, the World Bank and the
WTO. We want to develop inclusive, transparent, participative and
accountable economic systems that are ethical. They must be based on
economic and social justice, and social equity.
We condemn, and will challenge the corruption of our governments, north
and south, and the collusion of governments of the south, with foreign
interests.
Our experience of the Jubilee 2000 movement is by uniting a wide range of
social forces, in a non-sectarian way, ordinary people can co-operate in
solidarity locally, regionally and internationally. By these means we can
actively participate in the transformation of our circumstances; of public
opinion; institutions and policies. This gives us great confidence that
by uniting around principled objectives; by social and political
mobilisation and struggle, we can achieve our vision of a world free from
the burden of debt bondage; a world of social justice and equity; a world
in which human rights prevail over money rights. We are determined to do
this by, first, building a global network of networks - local, national,
regional and inter-continental.
We earnestly invite all individuals, organisations and networks to join in
this struggle for the economic transformation of our world, and for global
justice; and to join us in our determination to globalise hope.
Monday, 23 April, Palais des Congres, Bamako.
SIGNED BY:
Sada Diarra
Jubilé 3000 Mali
Ricardo Verastegui
Jubilee 2000 Network , Peru
Ann Pettifor
Jubilee Plus, New Economics Foundation, UK
Francis Ngambi
Economics Justice Network, Malawi
Vincent Edoku
Uganda Debt Network
Akoto Ampaw
Jubilee 2000 Ghana
Rashid Gorman
Institute of Islamic Thoughts, Accra; Ghana.
Wahu Karra
Kenya Debt Relief Network
Eric Ndayishimye
Jubilee 2000, Burundi
Mike Hidulah
Council of Churches, Namibia
Marc N'Guessan
Jubilee 2000, Côte D'Ivoire
Hemsing Hurrynag
Indian Ocean Islands Jubilee 2000 Campaign.
Joao Uthui
TEIA - National Forum For Mozambican NGOs
Benjamin Londzi
Western Cape Jubilee 2000 - South Africa.
Kwesi Owusu
Jubilee Plus; New Economics Foundation, UK
Clarisse Akouavi Ezoe
Action pour le Devéloppement, Togo
Toure Ouane Mariam
SNEC/UNTM - Teachers Union Mali
Mohamed Kimbiri
Aislam, Radio Islam, Mali
Zehira Fomba
SNEC/UNTM- Teachers Union, Mali
Mahamadou Camara
CSTM -Trade Union Congress, Mali
Oumou Sylla
WILDAF, Women's NGO, Mali
Thaddee
Eglise Evangelique, Mali
Maritza Rodriguez
New Economics Foundation, UK
Adrian Lovett
Drop The Debt, UK (consulting before signing)
Nick Marks
New Economics Foundation
David Llistar
Citizens Network for the Abolition of the Debt, Spain
Susane Luithlen
ErlassJahr 2000, Germany (consulting before signing):
Luca De Fraia
Sdebitarsi, Italy (consulting before signing)
Liana Cisneros
Jubilee Plus, New Economics Foundation, UK
Chris Wangkay
INFID, NGO Coalition, Indonesia
Aftab Mughal
Freedom From Debt Campaign - Pakistan
Nurul Anowar
Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation
Francisco Pascual
Forum for Economic Justice, Philippines
Ivon Valdivieso
Jubilee 2000 Bolivia
Dante Vera
Jubilee 2000 Network, Peru
Daniel Vasquez
Jubilee 2000 Network, Peru
Nelson Garcia
Jubileo, Honduras
Francisco Machado
Jubileo Fosdeh/ Asonog, Honduras
Jose Astudillo
Justicia y Paz APD, Ecuador
Monica Espinoza
Jubileo 2000, Ecuador
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