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of the Jubilee Movement International For Economic and Social Justice 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 Ricardo
Verastegui Ann
Pettifor Francis
Ngambi Vincent
Edoku Akoto
Ampaw Rashid
Gorman Wahu
Karra Eric
Ndayishimye Mike
Hidulah Marc
N’Guessan Hemsing
Hurrynag Joao
Uthui Benjamin
Londzi Kwesi
Owusu Clarisse
Akouavi Ezoe Toure
Ouane Mariam Mohamed
Kimbiri Zehira
Fomba Mahamadou
Camara Oumou
Sylla Thaddee Maritza
Rodriguez Adrian
Lovett Nick
Marks David
Llistar Susane
Luithlen Luca
De Fraia Liana
Cisneros Chris
Wangkay Aftab
Mughal Nurul
Anowar Francisco
Pascual Ivon
Valdivieso Dante
Vera Daniel
Vasquez Nelson
Garcia Francisco
Machado Jose
Astudillo Monica
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