1999 Conference:No Debt, No Sweat: Organizing for Global Justice

[Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>]

NO DEBT, NO SWEAT:
ORGANIZING FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
September 23 - 26, 1999 (Thursday - Sunday)
Washington, DC

The 50 Years Is Enough Network Announces its Fourth Activists conference:
which will be held the weekend prior to the gathering of the world's
Finance Ministers in Washington for the annual meetings of the World Bank
and IMF.

We are planning a conference for both seasoned and beginning activists in
the struggle for economic justice. The Opening Plenary will lay out the
issues - in particular, debt, sweatshops and the international financial
institutions. After establishing a critique of the global economy, we will
spend the next two days highlighting real-world alternatives in our
communities and around the world.

Colleagues and partners of the 50 Years Is Enough Network in the U.S. and
around the world, especially the Global South, will join us for plenary and
workshop sessions.  The plenary and workshop sessions will focus on working
alternative and positive models of organizing for global economic justice.

On Sunday, September 26, the conference will culminate in a public
demonstration at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund. The
most powerful decision-makers of the global economy meet then for the IMF's
Interim Committee Meeting. We will share with them - loudly! - our
commitment and determination -renewed and strengthened in the course of  No
Debt, No Sweat: Organizing for Global Justice - for a just and equitable
global economy.

Register early*    - before June 30th       -  $35.00 
		     - before September 10th  - $45.00
		     - after September 10th   - $55.00
To register or for more information, please contact the 50 Years Is Enough
Network.   

*Detailed registration materials will be forth coming.


The 50 Years Is Enough Network is a coalition of 206 grassroots,
faith-based, policy, women's, environmental social-and economic justice,
youth, labor, solidarity, and development organizations dedicated to the
profound transformation of the World Bank and IMF.  Through education and
action the Network is committed to making international financial
institutions (IFIs) democratic and accountable to those who have to live
with the effects of their policies and practices.  We formed on the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the IMF and World
Bank.Registration Form: 
All events are open to the public, however space is limited so please
register in advance.  
Register early* 	- before June 30th  	- $35.00 
		     	- before September 10th 	- $45.00
		    	- after September 10th  	- $55.00

*Detailed registration materials will be forth coming. The registration fee
will help cover costs and ensure scholarships for those who cannot afford
to pay and for partners from the Global South.  No one will be turned away
due to lack of funds. 

For more information contact us at: 
Phone: 202/IMF-BANK; Email: <wb50years@igc.org>; Web page at
<www.50years.org>   

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Registration fee enclosed: $_____

SPONSOR AN ACTIVIST TO THE CONFERENCE:
Additional Donation for Scholarships $_____

				Total Amount Enclosed$_____			

Make checks payable to 50 Years Is Enough/AGJ  
Please return to:  	50 Years Is Enough Network, 
			1247 E Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003

			

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Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Director
50 Years Is Enough Network
1247 E Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202/IMF-BANK or 202/544-9355
Fax:	202/544-9359
Email:	wb50years@igc.org    Webpage: http://www.50years.org

The master's tools will never destroy the master's house.
		- Audre Lorde
		Sister Outsider

"In the whole vast fun-house of history's jokes and tricks, there can be
few greater ironies than the spectacle of women embracing and furthering
the systems which would all too soon attack their autonomy, crush their
individuality, and undermine the very reason for their existence."
		- Rosalind Miles, The Women's History of the World

[There is a] growing assertion that globalization and technological change
make inevitable low wages and inequalities....The counter argument that has
not gained much popular support is that inequalities result from human
agency; they are not the inevitable consequence of 'progress.'
 		- S.M. Miller and Charles Collins
		  "Growing Economic Fairness", Social Policy, Summer 1996