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These last few weeks have been a whirlwind for Jubilee: combating the financial crisis, trying to prevent a new debt crisis, working to make sure that the decision's of world leaders are just and fair. Last week's G20 Summit changed the game - world leaders committed to giving the International Monetary Fund $850 million in new money. This is the institution whose policies helped start the crisis and one that is definitely not fair and just. Saying that, we've been working hard to make sure that the new money is an opportunity for serious reform of the IMF and a chance to use the money to help the most impoverished.

To get our voices heard, grassroots from across the country have been writing letters to the editor in their local papers and a number of our staff and religious leaders have also placed articles and opinion pieces. It's hard to post them all in full, so I'll leave them here. Take a few moments; browse, get educated, get inspired.

• Neil Watkins, "G20 and Global Poverty," Foreign Policy in Focus, April 8, 2009.
• Dr. Michael Harrington, “Debt relief is vital for poor nations,” Letters to the Editor, Financial Times, April 7, 2009.
• Kelly Trout, “Improving the IMF's Impact,” Letters to the Editor, Washington Post, April 7, 2009.
• Robert Brown, “Remember world's poor,” Letters to the Editor, Washington Live, April 4, 2009.
• Richard Cizik, “Obama Must Not Forget His Promise to the World's Poor at G-20 Summit,” The Christian Post, April. 01 2009.
• Rev. Mark S. Hanson, “A Test of Moral Leadership for President Obama at G-20” Religious Dispatches, April 1, 2009
• Susan Beckett, “In poor countries, downturn is deadly,” Ann Arbor News, Letters to the Editor. March 30, 3009.
• Susan L. Beckett, “Worldwide relief,” Letter to the Editor, Detroit Free-Press, March 29, 2009.
• Sister Karen Ann Wielaba, “Obama should work to expand debt relief,” The Reading Eagle (Pa.), March 20, 2009.
• Kristin Sundell, “As Global Recession Drives More Women into Poverty, a Challenge to Obama,” Women’s Media Center, March 13, 2009.
• Margot Friedman, “The G-20 Summit: An Early Test for Obama,” Tikkun.org, March 12, 2009.
• Elizabeth Palmberg, “Earth to the G-20: ‘The Developing World is too Big to Fail’,” God’s Politics Blog (Sojourners), March 11, 2009.
• Linnea Nilsen Capshaw, "What the G-20 Can Do for Haiti," Washington Post, April 2, 2009.
• Harry Olmstead, "Economic Crisis a Global Issue," The Birmingham News, March 26 2009.

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