Online (EST)
Jan 27, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (GMT-5)
Host:
Action Corps, Advocacy Network for Africa and the Global COVID Response Coalition
This event will showcase the U.S. grassroots and faith-based organizing around the Global COVID Response Campaign for International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), a financial resource that may particularly help lower-income countries. The theme will cover the coalition’s accomplishments, which include the largest release of the IMF’s SDRs and other financial resources in it’s 78-year history, and the coalitions 2022 goals and what we aim to do in to ensure countries have the resources they need to respond to the ongoing pandemic. Learn how the coalition built people-power by bringing together a diverse group of advocates – including nuns, farmers, economists, and members of the African diaspora – and how it achieved congressional support for the historic issuance these resources for lower-income countries.
Panelists include:
- Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith, Bread for the World
- Adeotei Akwei, Amnesty International USA
- Sr. Diane Koorle, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Ntama Bahatl, Africa Faith and Justice Network
- Alexander Main, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Co-Sponsors: Action Corps, the Advocacy Network for Africa, and our Global COVID Response Coalition. In addition to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Justice Team, Africa Faith and Justice Network, National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Pax Christi USA, Demand Progress, Just Foreign Policy, CODEPINK for Peace, Brooklyn For Peace.
