Postcards
Extremely Urgent Action
This weekend sees the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – the global institutions that leave the door open for multinational corporations to take control of essential services in developing countries.
War on Want is asking supporters to email Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking him to use this influence to stop the trend of enforced service sell-off in developing countries.
Brown will be at this weekend’s meeting, and holds considerable influence within these institutions.
Your actions really do make a difference.
In the last year War on Want supporters have made nearly 200 MPs sign an Early Day Motion calling for a freeze on military assistance to Colombia, and we received a reply from the Foreign Office.
You have also helped to reinstate the jobs of workers in Indonesia, and bombarded Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for trade and industry, with emails before and after last summer’s WTO meeting in Cancun.
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To: Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequor AN URGENT MESSAGE TO GORDON BROWN Dear Gordon Brown, As a supporter of War on Want I share your commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. I also support the World Bank’s assertion that essential basic services (water, electricity, education and healthcare) are vital to achieving these goals. I am, however, deeply concerned that unless urgent action is taken at this weekends IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings essential services will continue to fail the poor. Throughout the developing world governments are being put under considerable pressure to reduce spending and privatise essential public services. Much of this pressure comes from the World Bank and the IMF despite abundant evidence that privatisation of essential services has led to poor quality services that the poorest people cannot afford, leaving many without access to basic and vital resources. Please use all your efforts and considerable influence at this weekends spring meetings to:
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