Demands of the Mobilization for Global Justice, August 2001

1. Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
2. Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
3. End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.)
4. Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.

Helpful links for each demand

1. Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
   • The Bank Information Center's page on World Bank information disclosure
     policy http://www.bicusa.org/mdbs/wbg/info.htm#Resources
   • News release on new Bank information policy
     http://www.bicusa.org/mdbs/wbg/Info%20Disclosure/pressrelease.htm
   • More than 500 groups call for more World Bank transparency
     http://www.bicusa.org/mdbs/wbg/Info%20Disclosure/Global_Call_English.pdf
   • The World Bank's disclosure policy
     
     
2. Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
   • "Reality Check: the need for deeper debt cancellation and the fight against HIV/AIDS," Drop the Debt, April 2001 (perhaps the best overview of the benefits of debt cancellation and review of existing debt relief efforts, this report also features an independent financial assessment of the IMF and World Bank's ability to cancel debt using their existing resources) http://www.dropthedebt.org/background/info.shtml
   • Drop the Debt's Frequently Asked Questions
     http://www.dropthedebt.org/background/info.shtml
   • Jubilee Plus's country profiles on indebtedness and the effects of debt
     http://www.jubileeplus.org/databank/data.htm
   • Jubilee Plus's daily clippings on debt
     http://www.jubileeplus.org/media/daily/dailylist.htm
   • The World Development Movement's "Debt Relief: From Fanfare to Fatigue,"
     July 2001 http://www.wdm.org.uk/cambriefs/Debt/fanfare.pdf
   • The World Development Movement's "The Vicious Circle: AIDS and Third
     World Debt," June 2001 http://www.wdm.org.uk/cambriefs/Debt/vicious.pdf
   • Jubilee 2000 USA Debt Chart (July 2000) http://www.jubileeusa.org/debt/chart2.html
   • Rick Rowden, "A World of Debt," The American Prospect, July 2-16, 2001
     http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/12/rowden-r.html
   • Jubilee South http://www.jubileesouth.net/
   • Jubilee USA Network http://www.jubileeusa.org
   • Debt Channel.org  http://www.debtchannel.org/
   • International debt campaigns
     http://www.dropthedebt.org/contacts.shtml and http://www.j2000usa.org/links/world.html
     
     
3. End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.)
   • Essential Action's fact sheets on structural adjustment-related issues
     http://www.essentialaction.org/imf/
   • Multinational Monitor, April 2000: The IMF on the Run
     http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00april/toc.html
     • Multinational Monitor editorial against structural adjustment, an April 2000 reprint of an April 1990 editorial -- unfortunately, still relevant http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00april/editorial1.html
     • Robert Weissman, "The IMF on the Run,"
       http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00april/weissman.html
     • "Unraveling the Washington Consensus: An Interview with Joseph Stiglitz," http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00april/interview.html
     • "20 Questions on the IMF," <
       http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00april/economics.html
   • Multinational Monitor, June 2000: World Bank: Reaping a Grim Harvest
     http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00june/toc.html
     • "The Fight for Water and Democracy: An Interview with Oscar Olivera,"
       http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00june/interview.html
     • "Unhealthy Policies from the World Bank: An Interview with Dr. Vineeta Gupta,"
       http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00june/interview2.html
   • Results fact sheet: World Bank water policies undermine public health http://www.globalizethis.org/s30/wbhealth.pdf
   • Results fact sheet: User fees on Health and Education http://www.globalizethis.org/s30/wbuserfees.pdf
   • Mobilization for Global Justice fact sheets on structural adjustment-related issues
     http://www.september30.org/s30/feature.cfm?ID=79
   • The Center for Economic and Policy's fact sheet on the World Bank and social security privatization http://www.cepr.net/Social_Security/world_bank_ss.htm
   • The World Development Movement's "Still Sapping the Poor: A Critique of IMF Poverty Reduction Strategies," February 2001
     http://www.wdm.org.uk/cambriefs/Debt/sappoor.pdf
   • The World Development Movement's "Unwrapping the PRSP: Can the IMF Deliver its Poverty Reduction Promises," January 2001 http://www.wdm.org.uk/cambriefs/Debt/unwrpsrp.pdf
   • The Bretton Woods Project's page on structural adjustment
     http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/adjustment/index.html
   • Bretton Woods Project papers on capital account liberalization and poverty
     http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/financial/f22gowithflows1.htm
   • Globalization Challenge Initiative's home page
     http://www.challengeglobalization.org/
   • Globalization Challenge Initiative's compilation of critiques from the Global South of the IMF and World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, May 2000 http://www.challengeglobalization.org/html/news_notices/spring2001/spring2001_04.pdf
   • Globalization Challenge Initiative's analysis of World Bank-supported water privatization in Ghana http://www.challengeglobalization.org/html/otherpubs/Ghana_Water.pdf
   • The Center for Economic and Policy Research's briefing paper "The Scorecard on Globalization, 1980-2000: Twenty Years of Diminished Progress," http://www.cepr.net/globalization/scorecard_on_globalization.htm
   • The Center for Economic and Policy Research's briefing paper "The Emperor Has No Growth: Declining Economic Growth Rates in the Era of Globalization," May 2001 (examines growth rates under IMF and World Bank policies) http://www.cepr.net/globalization/The_Emperor_Has_No_Growth.htm
   • The Center for Economic and Policy Research's paper on U.S.
     non-compliance with a law mandating opposition at the IMF and World Bank to user fees on primary healthcare, June 2001 http://www.cepr.net/treasury_tanzania.htm
   • The Institute for Policy Studies' report "Bearing the Burden: The Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Workers and Alternative Agendas for the IMF and Other Institutions," April 2000 http://www.ips-dc.org/downloads/BEARING%20THE%20BURDEN.pdf
   • 50 Years is Enough factsheets http://www.50years.org/factsheets/
   • Third World Network's page on the Global Financial and Economic Crisis
     http://www.twnside.org.sg/crisis.htm
   • Archives of Essential Action's stop-imf listserve
     2000 and 2001 http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/stop-imf/
     1998 and 1999 http://lists.essential.org/stop-imf/
     
     
4. Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people
   • Multinational Monitor, June 2000: World Bank: Reaping a Grim Harvest
     http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00june/toc.html
     • Korinna Horta, "Warning: World Bank Policies Destroy Forests"
       http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00june/bank1.html
   • International River Network's page on the World Bank and dams
     http://www.irn.org/wcd/worldbank.shtml
   • Friends of the Earth report, "Risky Business," on the World Bank's insurance arm and the environment, July 2001
     http://www.foe.org/international/worldbank/MIGAReport.pdf
   • Friends of the Earth report, "Dubious Development," on the World Bank's private investment arm and the environment
     http://www.foe.org/international/worldbank/ifcreport/index.htm
   • Friends of the Earth report, "The IMF: Selling the Environment Short," March 2000 http://www.foe.org/imf/
   • Sustainable Energy and Economy Network report, "Banking on Climate Change: How Public Finance for Fossil Fuel Projects Is Short Changing Clean Development," November 2000 http://www.seen.org/banking1.html
   • Sustainable Energy and Economy Network report critiquing World Bank support for Chinese coal mine, May 2001 http://www.seen.org/daningbg.html
   • The Bretton Woods Project's page on the IMF/World Bank and the environment
     http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/environment/index.html
   • Daphne Wysham and Jim Valette, "Changing the Earth's Climate for Business," Multinational Monitor, October 1997
     http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm1097.05.html
   • related reports from Sustainable Energy and Economy Network,
     http://www.seen.org/wbstill/index.htm
     http://www.seen.org/wbreport1/index.htm
   • Matt Pacenza, "A People Dammed: the Chixoy Cam, Guatemalan Massacres and
     the World Bank," Multinational Monitor, July/August 1997
     http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0796.04.html
   • Korinna Horta, "Fueling Strife in Chad and Cameroon," Multinational Monitor, May 1997 http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0597.05.html
   • Korinna Horta, "Making the Earth Rumble: The Lesotho-South Africa Water Connection," Multinational Monitor, May 1996
     http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/mm0796.04.html