Sunday, January 6, 2013

January 23rd - Jubilee Oregon announces an educational event: "A Matter of Fairness: Ending Vulture Funds and Preventing Student Debt."



Jubilee Oregon, one of our local community partner organizations working on economic justice issues is offering a great training that will highlight the local and global debt struggles and provide solutions.
 
Two topics will be discussed that seem unrelated but have, at their root, similar issues of economic fairness and justice.  The first topic is the case study of Argentina's debt and of how hedge funds are trying to squeeze Argentina to repay loans that they purchased during Argentina's economically distressed time in 2001. These hedge funds are known as Vulture Funds. The second area is about economic injustice in our own community and country -   students who have amassed huge student debt under false pretense and who will be saddled with unsustainable debt for the rest of their lives. We will discuss alternatives to the current systems that could prevent this large debt issue and some stop-gap ways that the system could be changed today to lessen the impacts of unsustainable student debt. This will be an interactive and action oriented event. 

Date: January 23rd from 7 pm - 9 pm
Place: the Whitman Room at First Presbyterian Church, 1200 Southwest Alder Street in Portland

Free parking in the church parking area. 
To RSVP or for more information, contact Jubilee Oregon 
Jubilee Oregon is a chapter of the Jubilee USA Network, a non-profit advocacy organization that is dedicated to reducing poverty in the world. 
We focus on the cancellation of odious and illegitimate debt that many developing nations face, thereby freeing up financial resources to serve their their own people.  We work for the establishment of responsible lending and borrowing practices in the global economic system today.
  

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