To influence national and international policy and decision makers. To call on the U.S. public to pressure Congress and the Administration to cancel the crushing international debt of impoverished countries. International debt condemns hundreds of millions of people to live in poverty. Debt undermines dignity and self-determination. Debt diverts resources from basic needs such as education, nutrition, health, clean water, and sanitation.
Debt leads to destruction of the environment.
Debt creates political, social and economic instability throughout the world. We, here in the United States, must stand in solidarity and be counted with the children, women and men who are victims of the unjust debt. People in indebted countries are committed to use resources freed up through debt cancellation to reduce poverty through their own efforts. The spirit of the Jubilee movement calls forth new relations with neighbors, nations and the environment. We call on our government to act in this Jubilee Year to cancel the crushing international debt of the world's impoverished countries.