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MIM and RAIL events on the Jubilee 2000 movement

The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) and Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) are planning lectures on the Jubilee 2000 movement to end world debt with honorary co-president of Jubilee 2000 Africa campaign and international activist, Dennis Brutus, for this coming fall.

Jubilee 2000
http://www.jubilee2000uk.org

The majority of the world's people suffer exploitation and oppression at the hands of the minority. The Jubilee 2000 Campaign addresses this situation, taking advantage of the religious significance of the year 2000 and calling for a "debt-free start to the Millennium for a billion people." This movement calls for a cancellation of unpayable debts for the "world's poorest countries" by the end of the year 2000. This includes over 50 countries which carry a debt burden of 93% of their total incomes.

The campaign name is inspired by scriptural year when slaves are set free.(every 7x7 years)

MIM and RAIL do not need religious significance to call for an end to the death grip of debt payments that keep Third World countries controlled by imperialism and in poverty. This is a good opportunity to mobilize people who can see the justice in ending the strangulation through debt of Third World peoples.

Since the 1980s many Third World countries have taken out huge loans from the U$, England, Japan and other imperialist countries well as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) which are essentially acting as banks run by the imperialists. These loans far exceeded the capacity of the countries to repay. As a result, the interest and further loans taken out to pay back original loans have led to spiraling debt. The imperialists have stolen from the rest of the world and owes reparations . The majority of the world should NOT owe imperialists for loans taken out in efforts to rebuild from imperialist plunder.

The debt problems go hand in hand with overall economic inequality between rich and the poor. "In 1960, income of the wealthiest 20% of the world's population was 30 times greater than that of the poorest 20%. Today it is over 60 times greater." The vast majority of the people in the U$ fall within the wealthiest 20% group. Most in the U$ benefit from the debt deathgrip on the rest of the world, and in order to truly fight oppression, Amerikans must fight against this privilege.

Dennis Brutus is an exiled South African poet and activist who served 18 months on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela (1964-65). In an attempted escape attempt from the Apartheid police, Brutus was shot in the back by South Africa's secret police. Such scars keep Brutus struggling against oppression.

Active in the fight to end apartheid in South Africa, he was the prime organizer behind South Africa's exclusion from the 1972 Olympics. Brutus was exiled after his prison sentence in South Africa and has spent many years teaching and organizing in the United States. He is currently a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and continues his anti-imperialist activism.

The Jubilee 2000 movement is one of Brutus' current projects. He was named honorary co-president of the Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign where the movement is strongest. As a speaker, Brutus is eloquent, humorous and right on the mark. Attendance at an event with Dennis Brutus produces laughter, political awareness and an admiration for an activist who has maintained the struggle for so many years. Brutus published the following poem, in Airs and Tributes:

March 21, 1987

As the seasons turn
and Summer droops to Autumn
the dyings continue
and resistance grows:
there are still those
willing to give their lives:
Sharpeville, Langa
you are sacred names:
in the center of our brains
the flame of desire for freedom
fiercely burns