A Third World Debt campaigner is coming to York next week.
Lidy Nacpil, an international campaigner from Philippines, and one of the founders of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, is visiting the city on October 11 and will be speaking at the Friends’ Meeting House, Friargate, at 7pm. She will be joined by Nick Dearden, director of Jubilee Debt Campaign, the UK campaign to cancel unjust global debt.
Lidy is en route from the Scottish Parliament, where she has been promoting a new initiative to cancel the debts of the world’s poorest countries, to Westminster, where she will urge UK politicians to take more far-reaching action to tackle global debt.
The event is being hosted by JUST York, York’s campaign on Third World Debt, trade justice, and climate change.
Organiser Ben Young said: “When you think how bad the recession is here, think how much worse it must be in the world’s poorest countries. How we can break out of debt and austerity without hurting vulnerable people, whether they are in the UK or around the world? Lidy’s the perfect person to tell us about this.”
All welcome at the event. Free entry.
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