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  Issue No 28 Official Organ of LaborNet 27 August 1999  

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International

Cancelling the Debt


Sign this Jubilee 2000 email petition now and tell the world's most powerful leaders to cancel the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000.

Rich nations take back $9 in debt repayments for every $1 given in aid. That is money that could be spent on health and education. The UN estimates that debt relief could save the lives of 7 million children every year.

The campaign for debt cancellation is realistic, affordable and achievable. But we need to keep up the pressure and that's where you come in. We handed in an incredible 17 million signatures to the world's leaders at the G8 Summit in Cologne in June 1999. We will be handing more signatures in the months ahead and only need to collect five million more signatures to make it the world's largest petition.

Sign the petition now and make the millennium a celebration for everyone.

Jubilee 2000 needs to collect 22 million signatures for the world's largest petition. Chain letters have traditionally been an effective way of spreading information fast. With email, it is even easier.

At a click of a button we can get the petition out to hundreds of people. If they send it to all their contacts, we have the potential to reach a vast network of people with information about the campaign.

Play your part by firstly sending an email petition signature to us, if you have not already done so, and secondly by copying (submitting) all the text below into a new email to all your friends and contacts.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

1. Sign the Petition yourself.

Send an email to mailto:[email protected] . Put your name, city and country in the SUBJECT and copy and paste the following petition text into the message:

"We, the undersigned, believe that the start of the new millennium should be a time to give hope to the impoverished people of the world.

To make a fresh start, we believe it right to put behind us the mistakes made by both lenders and borrowers, and to cancel the backlog of unpayable debts of the most impoverished nations.

We call upon the leaders of lending nations to write off these debts by the year 2000. We ask them to take effective steps to prevent such high levels of debt building up again. We look for a new beginning to celebrate the millennium.

2. Get your friends to sign the petition - select all the above text into a new email, put "Cancel the debt" in the SUBJECT and then send the email to all your friends and contacts asking them to sign too.

For all the latest news and information on the international movement that is Jubilee 2000, see our web site - http://www.jubilee>2000uk.org


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In this issue
Features
*  Interview: Talking Turkey
A full transcript of an important interview with the Minister for Workplace Relations, the Hon Peter Reith.
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*  Politics: What Reith told the ILO
Workers Online has recevied a transcript of roving statesman Peter Reith's talk to the ILO in Geneva. This one's not satire.
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*  Unions: What the Workers Said
Actor Di Smith was one of nine ordinary workers who addressed this week's rally. Here's what she had to say.
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*  International: Cancelling the Debt
Sign this Jubilee 2000 email petition now and tell the world's most powerful leaders to cancel the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000.
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*  Environment: Greens, CFMEU call for Action on Ceiling Dust
Residents and workers, associated with houses damaged in the freak hail storm that hit Sydney earlier this year, may have been exposed to harmful levels of toxic materials found in the ceiling dust of the damaged buildings
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*  History: Eveleigh Railway Workshops celebration
Former workers and their families from the historic Eveleigh Railway Workshops in inner-Sydney are holding a picnic reunion and folk music festival on the site this Sunday.
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*  Republic: Does the Republic Need a President?
It seems inevitable that Australia will eventually become a republic but do we need a president?
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*  Satire: Liberals May Need to Sell of More of Telstra
'We're running low in key marginals,� says Alston
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*  Review: A Kind of Violence
Extracts from Yosi Berger's new book, telling the real stories behind workpalce safety.
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»  Fresh South Coast Ballot Called
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»  "Big Drum Up" For East Timor
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»  Eric Lee Public Forum
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Columns
»  Guest Report
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Piers Watch
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Letters to the editor
»  Vizard: Net Content Is Vital
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»  No, No, No to MSN Model
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»  The Vizard deal. Is it another great deal for you!!!!???
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