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What action are we taking?
The Coalition has been actively campaigning since l992.
It works by:
- Raising awareness across Ireland about the debt
crisis
- Lobbying the Irish government and the EU to take
a strong stand on the debt issue
- Pressing the World Bank, IMF and G7 for radical
change in their policies
This involves:
- producing educational materials and information
- running seminars and conferences
- lobbying politicians, the IMF and the World Bank
- organising street demonstrations and working with
the media to raise awareness of the debt issue
- Carrying out research on debt, its impact and possible
solutions
- Networking with debt campaigning groups across the
globe
Recent Events
Cork September 19th 2002
 Photo:
One of several regional meetings on the new debt policy
of the Irish government
June 25th 2002: Irish debt campaigners marched
on the Canadian Embassy to hand in a letter of protest
about the debt crisis. Members and supporters of the
Debt and Development Coalition asked the Canadian Charges
d'affaires, Mr William Gussen to transmit their demand
to break the strangle hold of debt afflicting poor countries
to the G8 leaders meeting in Rocky Mountains on June
26th and 27th.
For the latest information
on campaigns and events see our "get involved"
section.
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