Amistad is proud to be
a Jubilee Congregation!
“...proclaim liberty throughout the land
to all its inhabitants;
it shall be a jubilee for you.”
Leviticus 25:10
(see Jubilee USA Network for more info)
March
2009: See Neil Watkins' e-newsletter on
Earth to the G20: The Developing World Is Too Big to Fail
Oct.
2008: See
Robert Maxwell's article on
Racism and Poverty in Haiti
For a list of Amistad Congress members and California legislators, click here.
What is our commitment as a Jubilee Congregation?
√ Pray
for Jubilee justice for the world's poorest communities
√
Provide a contact person to facilitate education and
action on debt issues
√
Raise $1 $10 per member to support
the mission of Jubilee USA
√
Contribute one letter per member to elected officials
on debt cancellation
To read Meiling's Jubilee
debt essay in The Reporter, click here!
From the Jubilee USA website:
Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 80 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the definitive cancellation of crushing debts to fight poverty and injustice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Jubilee calls for a definitive cancellation of international debts and the restoration of right relationships between nations. Our platform specifically calls for:
Definitive debt cancellation of the international debt owed by countries burdened with high levels of human need and environmental distress which are unable to meet the basic needs of their people or achieve a level of sustainable development that ensures a decent quality of life;
Definitive debt cancellation, in addition, of debts found to be illegitimate and odious, wherever they exist, through a just and equitable process not controlled by the creditors;
Definitive debt cancellation that benefits countries’ impoverished majorities, is accountable to them and advances their authentic participation in determining the direction of their economies and societies;
Definitive debt cancellation that is not externally conditioned on economic policy prescriptions, such as IMF-designed and imposed Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs);
Acknowledgment of the responsibility of both lenders and borrowers and action to recover resources that were diverted by corrupt and undemocratic regimes, institutions and individuals;
The emergence of global economic policies and trade rules that eradicate poverty, promote sustainable human development, and prevent recurring, destructive cycles of indebtedness.