As many of you know, Thom Yorke is very vocal about Jubilee 2000 and the Drop the Debt Campaign. You should be too and your help and attention to this matter will help dearly. Below is a snippet from Thom's site on www.radiohead.com and a press release.
dear whoever is reading this. PLEASE do the following if you agree with Jubilee 2000. the G7 have snaked their way out of most of the promises they made last year and this is the best way to shit them up for this years summit. the G7 in its apathy and ineffectual gesturing is now responsible directly for the deaths of millions of people. years of misguided economic policy and thinly veiled imperialism must be changed.
(please refer to Jubilee2000 website for more info if you have not as yet followed this message.)
this is from Jubilee 2000.
i suggest we stick this in the G7s pipe and make em smoke it.
love thom
Jubilee 2000 Press Release, 23 June 2000
STARS AROUND THE WORLD LAUNCH EMAIL ACTION AT BLAIR AND CLINTON
World famous stars and millions of Jubilee 2000 supporters around the world will launch an email action at Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and the other world leaders this weekend telling them to drop the debt of the poorest countries.
Bono, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, All Saints, Travis, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush and Jude Law, Ryuichi Sakamoto from Japan, and Italy's Jovanotti will be sending the email to their online fanclubs to forward on to net users all over the world.
The email action, which sends messages directly to the world's leaders, can also be accessed at
The celebrities are also attempting to break a world record - Jubilee 2000 needs only five million more email petitions to beat the current figure of 22 million - before the next meeting of world leaders, which takes place in Okinawa, Japan on July 21st-23rd.
Despite all their promises Blair, Clinton, the other world leaders and the bureaucrats at the World Bank and IMF have failed to cancel the debts of the poorest countries. At this moment, 19,000 children still die each day from debt. Africa pays out $292 million in debt repayments each week.
For more information please contact Jamie Drummond on +44 (0) 961 346 334 / +44 (0) 7967 651 329 or Lucy Matthew on +44 (0) 7970 175 324.
Notes to Editors:
1. We can make available pictures of Bono, Thom Yorke and the above stars from Glastonbury. Supporters who should be taking the action at Glastonbury include David Bowie, Travis, Pet Shop Boys, Counting Crows, the Brand New Heavies and 110,000 festival-goers.
2. Countdown to Okinawa: Jubilee 2000 has organised many more events including concerts, mass mailings to Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and other actions between now and the next meeting of the Group of Eight richest nations in one month in Okinawa.
PLEASE help out with this as it's very important!
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