At our general meeting in June the group elected to affiliate to the Jubilee Debt Campaign, www.jubileedebt.org.uk. Currently their "Drop It" campaign is focussing on the Greek debt crisis, see www.jubileedebt.org.uk/greecepetition. We have affiliated because the world cannot transition effectively while institutions lend recklessly to the impoverished nations nor without a financial system which puts people first. "To ensure history is not repeated, we are calling for urgent global action to cancel debts owed to reckless lenders, tackle tax avoidance and evasion, and change global trade rules to enable countries to diversify out of basic commodities" (Tim Jones, Policy Officer for Jubilee Debt, 10 April 2016).
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