Here are documents that have been received to help all of us working on A16. Rather than writing original materials, please feel free to use or borrow from these pieces. They have not been reviewed and they are not endorsed by any official group -- they are simply previously written pieces that are useful in preparing our own material.
Deadly
Embrace
An updated version of the 30-minute video, "Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua,
the World Bank and the IMF" is now available. This documentary provides
first hand accounts from Nicaraguan farmers and citizens of how the IMF
and World Bank Structural Adjustment policies have threatened the stability
of the Nicaraguan economy and endangered the lives of citizens. More details
and ordering info available here.
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Health
Care Flyer
This is a one-page flyer that makes the link between the lack of health
care in the US, the lack of health care in the rest of the world, and the
WB and IMF's role in both.
Spanish
Flyer for DC
This is a flyer in Spanish aimed at the DC population, calling for
international solidarity.
General Flyer
This is a general flyer for use to encourage folks to get involved
with A16 and come to DC. This is the front
and the back.
Forests
and the IMF
This is a fact sheet prepared by American Lands on the International
Monetary Fund and Forests.
Call to Action! Postcard
This is a postcard produced by Global Exchange which can be mailed,
handed out, etc. You can download the front
and back
as images, or just the text.
Q&A
on the World Bank
A succinct, basic, question & answer document on the World Bank
and IMF by the 50 Years is Enough! Network.
HIPC briefing note for
Jubilee 2000
This is some good background for demonstrating how absolutely bankrupt
the IMF/WB-G7/8 debt initiative is. It is actually designed to maintain
a state of economic colonialism throughout the world. -- Doug Hunt
Multinational Corporations/Locusts
Here's an op ed piece I wrote a couple of years ago about the operators
of Export Processing Zones (EPZs), where most Third World sweatshops are
located. It can be added that the Draconian socio-economic policies imposed
by the IMF/WB pave the way for these coporate locusts to plunder debtor
nations. -- Hal Sutton
The Poverty of Progress
A draft flyer on how the IMF/WB's version of progress actually involves
impoverishment.
general flyer
This is a general flyer for early outreach.
The IMF in Africa
A Los Angeles Times article on "the two sides of debt relief."
Review of WB report
This is a review of the World Bank's 1997 World Development Report,
a sort of annual report of the Bank.
DC Flyer
This is a flyer for DC, connecting local issues to the WB and IMF policies.
All about SAPs
This is a 4-page document explaining in some detail what structural
adjustment is, why it's bad, and how the World Bank and IMF are responsible
for the world's current mess.
Q&A on the WB
and IMF
A fairly detailed document: World Bank 101 in question & answer
format.
Call
to action
This is a one-page call to action to participate in A16, as posted
on Global Exchange's website.
What is
the WB/IMF?
50 Years is Enough's one page description of the WB and IMF -- on the
GX website.
WB/IMF
facts
50 Years is Enough info on the WB, IMF, Structural Adjustment Programs,
including a chart comparing their various effects. Posted on the GX website.
WB/IMF
questions & answers
Questions incl. structural adjustment, responsible lending, debt &
structural adjustment and decision-making at the IFIs.
The Unholy Trinity
A BIG GRAPHIC depicting the IMF, WTO and World Bank as a 3-headed Cerberus.
Courtesy of Daniel Moffat.
The Golden Needle
of Globalization
An overview of women, sweatshops and transnational corporations from
the Corporate Watch
website.
Interview with
Charles Kernaghan
A discussion of sweatshops, economic globalization and the garment
industry from the Corporate
Watch website.
Bank Q&A
Questions and answers about the World Bank and Structural Adjustment.
Bank Q&A Spanish
Same as above, but in Spanish.
Open Letter to the
World Bank
This is an open letter to the World Bank in both Spanish and English
calling for a boycott of the World Bank's funding sources and an end to
government financing of the Bank because of its structural adjustment policies.
There are two versions of the letter -- one from those in the South and
one from their supporters in the North.
Southerners' Statements
Great! Statements from Southerners who are suffering under structural
adjustment, IMF/World Bank policies and say it like it is.
The IMF--Labor's
Most Powerful Adversary
A paper by CEPR in plain English explaining what the IMF is, what it
does, and why it is inimical to the interests of labor.
The following are a number of papers from Foriegn Policy In Focus:
World
Bank's Environmental Reform Agenda (March 1999-v4, n10)
World
Bank's Private Sector Agenda (December 1998-v3, n40)
The
World Bank (October 1998-v3, n32)
The
IMF and Good Governance (October 1998-v3, n33)
IMF
Bailouts and Global Financial Flows (April 1998-v3, n5)
International
Financial Institutions (November 1996-v1, n8)
Multilateral
Debt (August 1999-v4, n21)
Democratizing
the Trade Debate (August 1998-v3, n23)
U.S.
Leadership in the Global Economy
Repairing
the Global Financial Architecture: Painting over Cracks vs. Strengthening
the Foundations
10 Reasons
for UNCTAD Protest
This is a statement from the Assembly of the Poor, a Thai organization
that organized the protests at the UNCTAD X meetings in Bangkok.
Mass Protests
Planned
This is an article from Workers' Democracy on the A16 mobilizations.
Letter
to Wolfensohn from Thailand
This is an open letter to World Bank President James Wolfensohn demanding
an end to the Pak Mun dam, which is adversely affecting people in Thailand.
It is an articulate statement from Southerners directly affected by the
Bank's projects.
The following links are to good, basic information on what's wrong with
the World Bank, the IMF, and the international debt situation, from the
Friends of the Earth website:
World
Bank --- IMF
--- debt
The Three
Stooges
The Three Stooges of Corporate Evil -- aka WANKER.
Here are several articles by economist Michel Chossudovsky on The Globalisation
of Poverty and the Financial Crisis:
Brazil's
IMF Sponsored Economic Desaster
Global
Falsehoods: How the World Bank and the UNDP Distort the Figures on Global
Poverty
The
G7 "Solution" to the Global Financial Crisis - A Marshall Plan for Creditors
and Speculators
'Financial
warfare' triggers global economic crisis
various
articles
THE
LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI)
