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1. RECORDATORI - Reunió Setmana del Deute - 19h
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2. Re: RECORDATORI - Reunió Setmana del Deute - 19h
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3. [Fwd: URGENT Need your comments and help re G8 Summit Sign on
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:39:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: gemma.tarafaaodg.cat
Subject: [Qui-deu-a-qui] RECORDATORI - Reunió Setmana del Deute - 19h
To: qui-deu-a-quiamoviments.net
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Famíla....
Només un petit recordatori. Avui hem quedat per acabar de coordinar la
setmana del deute (únic punt de l'ordr del dia). A la darrera reunió la
vam definir una mica; continguts i dies.
Ara hem d'acabar de lligar com arribarem a més sectors que QDQ, a qui
convoquem?... Vam decidir que el dimarts 15 de juiol fariem una reunió més
amplia per començar a preparar la setmana del deute abans de l'estiu. Així
els qui es quedem o quedem per aquestes terres podem anar avançant feina,
no?.
Així doncs ens veiem AVUI a LES 19h (al final es va comentar d'avançar la
reunió 30 min de l'horari normal) a l'SCI.
Un petonas, Gemma
Pd: Jo potser arribaré un pel tard perquè aquesta tarda tinc una reunió de
feina important que no em puc saltar. Ja ho vaig comentar el darrer dia.
Ens veiem!!!....
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:37:14 +0200
From: Iolanda Fresnillo - ODG <iolanda.fresnilloaodg.cat>
Subject: Re: [Qui-deu-a-qui] RECORDATORI - Reunió Setmana del Deute -
19h
To: qui-deu-a-quiamoviments.net
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Hola
Sap molt de greu pero no podré venir aquesta tarda. Estic ara acabant
informe de deute amb equador i m'haig de posar aquesta tarda sí o sí amb
un projecte que haig de lliurar dilluns o a l'ODG em tallen el cap ..
així que prioritzaré la meva integritat física i la de l'ODG i no vindré
a la reunió :-(
De totes formes podeu comptar amb mi per contactar grups, fer la difusió
per internet o el que calgui. De fet dissabte a Madrid vaig parlar ja
una mica amb el Jordi del CEA, avançant-li que hi ha la proposta de fer
la setmana sobre àfrica i que si s'animarien a participar ... a ell el
vaig veure convencible ...
Petonets i fins aviat
Iolanda
gemma.tarafaaodg.cat escribió:
> Famíla....
>
> Només un petit recordatori. Avui hem quedat per acabar de coordinar la
> setmana del deute (únic punt de l'ordr del dia). A la darrera reunió la
> vam definir una mica; continguts i dies.
>
> Ara hem d'acabar de lligar com arribarem a més sectors que QDQ, a qui
> convoquem?... Vam decidir que el dimarts 15 de juiol fariem una reunió més
> amplia per començar a preparar la setmana del deute abans de l'estiu. Així
> els qui es quedem o quedem per aquestes terres podem anar avançant feina,
> no?.
>
> Així doncs ens veiem AVUI a LES 19h (al final es va comentar d'avançar la
> reunió 30 min de l'horari normal) a l'SCI.
>
> Un petonas, Gemma
>
> Pd: Jo potser arribaré un pel tard perquè aquesta tarda tinc una reunió de
> feina important que no em puc saltar. Ja ho vaig comentar el darrer dia.
> Ens veiem!!!....
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:50:34 +0200
From: Iolanda Fresnillo - ODG <iolanda.fresnilloaodg.cat>
Subject: [Qui-deu-a-qui] [Fwd: URGENT Need your comments and help re
G8 Summit Sign on statement]
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Hola
Nos envían desde Jubileo Sur el comunicado sobre el próximo g8, que se
reuniran en breve en Japón (del 7 al 9 de julio) trantando los temas de
precio de petroleo, cambio climatico y crisis alimentaria.
Os lo envio sin tiempo de repasarlo antes, por lo que no sé si podemos
firmar como QdQ.
En cualquier caso *nos piden ayuda con la traducción al español ...
algun/a voluntario/aria?*
Besos
Iolanda
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*Challenge to the G8*
* *
* *
The gathering of the richest and most powerful countries of the world is
an occasion for the people of the world to demand that this G8 Summit
address the twin 'tsunamis' that plague humanity today ? the food and
climate crisis ? and the continuing problem of debt that has contributed
significantly to these two crises and exacerbate their impacts.
*/The Food crisis/*
The high price of oil, worsening climate conditions and price
manipulation by domestic and international trading cartels have
certainly contributed significantly to the abrupt, massive increase in
the prices of food. However, the food crisis can be also be traced to
economic policies that have been imposed on the countries of the South
for decades, with the use of debt, access to credit and debt relief as
instruments for coercion.
The combination of several policies that were part of conditionality
packages of the IMF and World Bank led to falling productivity in basic
food agricultures and heavy reliance on imported fertilizers and
pesticides, consequently resulting in higher costs and less sustainable
production of food. For example, there has been a massive shift to
non-staple and non-food export crops and a drastic conversion of prime
agricultural lands for non-agricultural uses, such as the building of
export processing zones. These policy conditionalities included the
removal of state subsidies for production of basic food crops, the
stress on export-oriented high growth development strategies, the
privatization of services and infrastructures, the liberalization of
trade which gave rise to unfair competition from subsidized food
products from the north, and the liberalization of finance capital flows
that fed speculative industries including real estate.
In addition, the effects of huge debt payment on government resources
include the deterioration and neglect of many public infrastructures
needed to boost agricultural production, such as irrigation systems, and
farm to market roads.
The ability of many countries of the South, from Asia to Africa to Latin
America and the Caribbean, to produce sufficiently for their own food
needs and keep prices accessible to the domestic market have thus been
steadily and dramatically eroding since the 1980's. This is indicated
by the increase of net food importing countries from the South in the
past two decades, the diminishing capability of many countries to
maintain adequate buffer stocks of staple grains, and the increasing
vulnerability to world food market supply and price dynamics.
The mantra of the international financial institutions pushing these
policies was?"food security is not about producing what you need but the
ability to buy what you need." This argument is ridiculous in
situations where per capita income is far removed from the actual income
of the majority and the withdrawal of state intervention and regulation
in food distribution (another policy conditionality accompanying loans
and debt relief) virtually means hunger and malnutrition for this
majority. Such argument is rendered even more ridiculous in the face of
fast dwindling global buffer stocks of rice and of other staple grains
needed by billions of people in the South, stocks which could be nearly
wiped out by extreme weather in the next harvest seasons. What do you
do with your money if there is not enough rice and grains to go around
and last till the next harvest? For peoples and countries of the South
assert ? without food sovereignty there is no real food security.
Many point out that the food crisis is less about supply but more about
access. They argue that there is enough food being produced globally to
feed everyone. This may be true, setting aside food culture and norms
and notwithstanding supply problems for specific staples. It needs to
be raised yet again that the burden of debt and related conditionalities
impact greatly on the question of access.
A tragic irony of the spiraling increase of food prices is that small
farmers and landless peasants have had no real benefits as farm gate
prices continue to be low and less than enough to support their
families. And as consumers themselves, they share in the greater
suffering caused by the food crises.
The G8 governments bear primary responsibility for the debt burden and
the debt-related policy conditionalities that contributed to the current
food crisis and magnify its impacts. They are, after all, the biggest
bilateral lenders and the most influential members of international
financial institutions. They also bear responsibility for other factors
to the food crisis -- as governments of countries which are home to most
of the biggest multinational food corporations and food commodities
market traders, as powerful governments which shape bilateral and
multilateral trade agreements affecting food production, food prices and
food distribution.
*/The Climate Crisis/*
The G8 governments also bear primary responsibility for the climate
crisis. Half of the world's green house gas emissions come from the G8
countries. Most, if not all, of the G8 countries are lagging behind the
reduction targets of GHG emissions. Even the European Union, which
considers itself a world leader in addressing climate change through its
bold plan of being the first de-carbonized economy in the world, has
undermined its own claims by planning to build 40 major new coal power
plants in the next five years.
And again, as the most powerful members of international financial
institutions, they are accountable for debt-related projects and
policies that exacerbate the climate crisis.
The World Bank and the regional development banks are major lenders to
projects involving fossil fuel industries, paid for by peoples of the
South. The Export Credit Agencies of G8 countries also provide financing
to these industries, part of which translates to liabilities of Southern
governments, again paid for by peoples of the South.
Since the Earth Summit and the signing of the Climate Convention in
1992, and even after instituting "environmental policies," the World
Bank has approved more than 133 financial packages to oil, coal and gas
extraction projects, comprising mainly of loans but also including
equity investments, guarantees and some grants. The total amount exceeds
US$28 billion dollars. Fossil fuel corporations based in G8 countries
benefit from almost every project finance package.
In 2006, more than 70% of the World Bank's total energy program was for
oil, gas, and power commitments with "new renewables" such as wind,
solar, and mini-hydro comprising on 6%. The International Finance
Corporation of the World Bank (which lends to the private sector) is
increasing its fossil fuel lending portfolio.
The Asian Development Bank, to which Japan and the United States are the
biggest shareholders, is a major lender to coal, oil and gas projects in
Asia, approving close to US$2 billion worth of loan packages since the
year 2000.
Other loan-financed projects and policy conditionalities of
international financial institutions have led to massive deforestation,
another major factor to climate change. These include, for instance, the
building of large-scale dams, road development in tropical forests, and
the promotion of palm oil production for export.
It is indeed ironic and deplorable that with such a record, the G8
governments is granting the World Bank a pre-eminent role in global
financing of climate mitigation and adaptation and the promotion of
"clean technology" and "clean development." In the July 2005 Summit,
the G8 declared that the /"The World Bank will take a leadership role in
creating a new framework for clean energy and development, including
investment and financing."/ The regional development banks are also
claiming a similar or supporting role within their sphere of operations.
The World Bank announced very recently that it will be establishing
Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) including the Clean Technology Fund.
Aside from the obvious inappropriateness of the World Bank managing
these Funds given its record and continuing role in worsening the
climate crisis, the concepts, design and intentions of the funds are
seriously flawed. For instance the definition of "clean technology" is
so ambiguous as to include coal plants which are being justified as
"less dirty" and necessary for "poverty reduction".
The G8 governments are not only promoting false solutions through the
different facilities under the auspices of these international financial
institutions, they are intending to finance these through loans, thus
adding to the debt burden of developing countries. The UK government has
been leading the call for other governments to contribute to funds to be
administered by the World Bank as loans.
Instead of asking for repayment of financing for climate mitigation and
adaptation or treating this financing as "assistance" ? the G8
governments should begin with the recognition of the huge ecological
debt that they owe the countries and peoples of the South. They should
bear the responsibility for the financing of climate mitigation and
adaption in the South as part of the restitution and reparations for the
environmental damage and destruction their policies and programs, their
economies and corporations have caused. The funds should be managed by
democratic and accountable institutions.
*/The Injustice of the Debt Burden and the problem of Illegitimate Debts/*
*/ /*
The payment of huge amounts of debt service amplifies the effects of the
food and climate crises and hampers the ability of countries and peoples
of the South to deal with these crises. This is part of the injustice
of the debt and for this alone debt cancellation is urgent.
But the debt is more than just the implications of losing much needed
resources to debt payments. Debts which have not benefited the people in
whose name they were incurred, debts which were used for harmful
projects or to impose harmful conditionalities such as those which
contributed to the food and climate crises -- these are illegitimate
debts and should not be paid.
Addressing the debt burden and illegitimate debt is a major step towards
immediate as well as long term solutions to the food and climate crises.
*/Calls and Demands/*
We urge all people's organizations and movements (labor, farmers, women,
youth and indigenous peoples), faith-based organizations, social and
political movements and all concerned citizens to challenge the
governments of the G8 countries to acknowledge their responsibility for
the food and climate crises and the continuing problem of debt, and take
decisive action to:
1. Cancel all illegitimate debt
2. Stop financing projects and policies that contribute to climate change
3. Reverse policies that have led to the food crisis
4. End the practice of using loans and debt cancellation to impose
conditionalities
5. Pay restitution and reparations for the huge ecological debts owed
to the South.
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