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Jubilee 2000 Petition

• Join the Chain E-Mail Petition action
• Print out the Petition and circulate it to your friends
• Sign the Petition online

 

The chain email Drop the Debt By the time you have read this message, another child will have died as a result of debt. Jubilee 2000 is calling on the world's leaders to drop the debt - fairly and transparently. Show your support by sending an email to < signature@j2000petition.org > with your name and country in the subject line, and forwarding this message on to your friends. We are only a few signatures short of achieving the biggest petition the world has ever seen. Your email will help make history. The full text of the petition you are signing up to is: We, the undersigned, believe that the start of the new millennium should be a time to give hope to the impoverished people of the world. To make a fresh start, we believe it right to put behind us the mistakes made by both lenders and borrowers, and to cancel the backlog of unpayable debts of the most impoverished nations. We call upon the leaders of lending nations to meet in Africa this year and agree to write off these debts by the year 2000. We ask them to take effective steps to prevent such high levels of debt building up again. We look for a new beginning to celebrate the millennium. You can find out more about debt at http://www.jubilee2000uk.org