It's a matter of life and debt!

Idea exchange
May 2004

It's a matter of life and debt!
The Jubilee USA Network urges:
TAKE ACTION: Send Your Message—With A Photo—to the G-8!

The meeting of the leaders of the 8 richest nations—the G-8—is coming up in just over a month in Sea Island, Georgia—from June 8 - 10. This is an important event because the meeting happens in the United States only once every 7 years, and the G-8 leaders are the ultimate decision makers on matters of life and debt. Jubilee USA will be in Georgia working to bring critical voices to bear on the G8 leaders for failing to live up to their limited promises on debt, much less provide the leadership needed to exit from the global debt crisis. We will tell the G-8: "End Global Apartheid—Drop the Debt Now!"

We need your help! Jubilee USA Network is asking members and supporters across the country to send their message to the G-8 in two main ways.

1) We are asking you to take a photo or of yourself or your group holding a banner or sign with your message to the G8 (signs would be suggested to read: "G8—Drop the Debt Now!" See www.jubileeusa.org for an example!). E-mail or mail your photo to us. We will then display the pictures at the G8 counter summit activities as a backdrop to our media events and displayed prominently at a planned vigil and fair. The photos will be an effective visual representation of our concerns and demands to the G8. E-mail your photos to g8photos@jubileeusa.net or send them via regular mail them to Jubilee USA, 222 E. Capitol St., NE, Washington, DC, 20003. We must receive your photo by June 1.

2) We will deliver a letter from religious leaders to the G-8 calling on the leaders to take bold action on debt. If you have contacts with religious leadership and would be willing to approach them to sign onto such a letter, contact neil@jubileeusa.org or call Neil Watkins at 202-783-0129 and we will send you a copy.

We also encourage those in Georgia or the Southeast US to check out some of the events planned by local organizers to challenge the G-8 – and consider being present with us in Georgia in June!

See http://www.jubileeusa.org for more information on Jubilee’s G-8 activities as well as on events planned in Georgia.

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