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Article: BORN TO SHOP--BORN TO DEBT: Jubilee 2000 - bringing Third World debt to a store near you.(Alternative Futures)
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- Arena Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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JUBILEE 2000--BRINGING THIRD WORLD DEBT TO A STORE NEAR YOU
This is the second article in our series `Alternative Futures'. We invite contributions from writers interested in critically exploring projects, large and small, marginalised and mainstream, that are intended to challenge the degradation of social life or to enhance the sustainability of our place on this planet. The series is intended to be engaged and positive while retaining a critical edge. (Eds)
Walking up Little Bourke Street in Melbourne, just past Myers, heading towards China town, you will find a bit of graffiti saying, `Shop till you drop'. It goes well with another piece a little ...