To the
people around the world who have given their time,
energy and determination to make sure ...
The
world will never be the same again
editor Marlene Barrett
picture editor Lucy Matthew
December 2000
CONTENTS
- Preface 2
- Introduction 3
What we achieved
- First steps on debt cancellation 8
- The Big Tent 11
- North-South solidarity 12
- The growing power of leaders from the South 14
- Shifting public opinion 16
- Signing on the line – the Jubilee 2000 petition 17
How it was achieved
- Humble beginings 18
- An act of faith – the role of the churches 19
- Chains, chains, chains 20
- Wearing the message – creative campaigning 21
- Number crunching with a difference 22
- Net effect – using the internet 24
- Making the headlines 25
- Famous friends 26
- People power 28
- Trains, boats and planes ... and feet – Jubilee journeys 30
Who we are – Jubilee 2000 worldwide 31
- Table 1: Latest debt data for 52 of the poorest countries
- Table 2: Debt to major creditors
- Table 3: Cologne $100 billion delivery schedule
- Table 4: Debt reduction for the first countries through enhanced HIPC initiative
Conclusion 40
- Photo credits
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I have been much exercised by the inequality among peoples in the world. At first I concentrated upon the urgent need for adequate and well-directed government aid. I soon realised, however, that whatever we did in the way of aid would be rendered relatively ineffective by the overwhelming mass of past unpayable debt owed by the poorer fifth of the human race to creditors in the richer fifth. I was faced with a contradiction that could only be resolved through a programme of Jubilee remission. We had to do this in a way that would create a new beginning and ensure that once lifted out of the well of unpayable debt, poorer countries would not fall into it again. It was clear to me that this can only be done through a Jubilee process on the pattern of the Biblical jubilee of debt remission and freedom for debt slaves which was ordained to occur every fifty years in the old testament.
Jubilee 2000 has been a co-operative effort in which many of us in our different ways have played our parts. All of them have been equally necessary. Archbishop Carey in his millennium message spoke of the Jubilee Campaign as an example of what ordinary people in large numbers, inspired by God, could achieve. He added the amusing description of how this great campaign had been started by Bill Peters and Martin Dent, 'two retired gentlemen of whom nobody has ever heard'. I do not know if that is still the case now that I have been given so many honours that rightly belong to the whole mass of Jubilee supporters.
Martin Dent OBE
Co-founder of Jubilee 2000