Activists from Pakistan staged a protest outside Lahore press club as IMF and World Bank hold 2024 Spring Meetings. Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee & LEF-Pak demand urgent debt cancellation for Pakistan.

#CanceltheDebt #EndFossilFuelFinance

APMDD

It's #FriDEBT at the IMFLive and World Bank Spring Meetings. The Eurodad APMDD LATINDADD and AFRODAD will be taking over the airwaves in DC today!

🔊NEW EQUALS EPISODE: Is it Possible to be a Neoliberal Feminist?

Naf & Max Lawson interview Bhumika Muchhala, a feminist economist Third World Network

We also cover:
-How debt, trade, tax are feminist issues
-How unpaid care subsidises our world

Tune in▶️: pod.fo/e/229e85

Debt Justice has estimated that under today's deal Zambia's bondholders will get paid 62 cents for every dollar lent - governments are getting 55 cents

BUT if the IMF and World Bank judge that some minor changes have happened, bondholders will get 93 cents, and governments 87

South Feminist Fiscal Justice Coalition on Tuesday 19th March at 1:00 PM UTC! A critical forum on radically reimagining the economy for feminist fiscal justice through the lens of heterodox feminist economics, decolonization & reparations!
#Register here: lnkd.in/eY7axeSu

'I wanted to illustrate how many obstacles as Palestinians we have to go through in order to be heard.'

Palestinian singer Bashar Murad could represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest if he wins selection on Saturday ⤵️

📢 Join Us 21 Feb,MENAFem/Gender Action Nexus Event!
We're launching 5 feminist resources on #Economics and #Climate #justice in #Arabic . Authored by experts, these works provide a crucial framework for collective advocacy. Don't miss out!
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This is the cost of the failure of the G20, and especially the UK and US, to create an effective way to make private lenders take part in debt relief

Chad got effectively no debt relief from its private lenders, and Zambia has been trying for over 3 years

#CancelTheDebt

Kenya has been lent $1.5bn by international financiers at a staggering 10.375% interest rate

None of the money will be invested, just used to pay a previous debt to the same companies

$155m will leave Kenya every year, and the Kenyan people will see nothing in return

📌‘Righting the Economy’ is being released on Jan 25th!

To celebrate this stellar lineup, Agenda Publishing is running a festive promotion for pre-sales.

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Delighted to receive Righting the Economy, which CESR contributed to. Edited by Marianna Leite and Matti Kohonen, it includes contributions from a stellar list of academics and practitioners to flesh out what a #Rights -BasedEconomy would look and how to get there.

Francis Boyle on the ICJ Orders “This is a massive, overwhelming legal victory for the Republic of South Africa against Israel on behalf of the Palestinians. The UN General Assembly now can suspend Israel from participation in its activities as it did for South Africa and

A “ceasefire” is what you demand in an armed conflict. In a genocide you demand an immediate end to all genocidal acts and that is exactly what the ICJ ordered with immediate effect. Please stop helping “Israel” spin its historic defeat as a win.

🚨INDONESIA WIL BE TAKING ISRAEL TO ICJ COURT ON NEW CHARGE

In a separate case to the one brought by South Africa, Indonesia will bring Israel to the ICJ for its illegal occupation of Palestine.

Thank you Indonesia 🇮🇩🇵🇸❤️

And so Europe believes that its crime was not the principle of genocide as such, but the crime against Jews. It seeks penance for the episode but reconciles itself with the principle of genocide which has been ongoing for centuries, and which was perfected in colonial occupations

The US and UK are bombing Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, so that Israel can continue its genocide and mass displacement of the Palestinian people in Gaza without disruption. That's the reality we're in.

There's something hard for us, children of the colonised, to articulate because the world is upside down. Europe and its descendants, can't differentiate between principle and episode. This is why Germany (and much of Europe) is doomed to be genocidal. Here is what I mean. 🧵