Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

Speakers from CADTM will be present in the following sessions:

One answer to the debt crisis in Europe : Citizens’ debt audit initiatives

Speakers: Professor Costas Lapavitsas (Greek initiative for a debt audit), Andy Storey (Afri – Ireland), Myriam Bourgy (CADTM – Belgium)

Chair : Jonathan Stevenson (Jubilee UK)

Different initiatives are being taken in Europeby movements to face the debt crisis. Debt audit is one answer brought by the movements in the public debate. People should not pay illegitimate debt and debt audit should be use to define which debt is illegitimate and which should be paid back. This workshop will focus on two countries – Greeceand Ireland– and will give an general overview of the different debt audit initiatives in Europe.

Women, austerity and resistance

Speakers: Monika Karbowska (CADTM France and Poland) on the goals and actions of the Initiative of women against the debt and austerity measures

Sonia Mitralia (CADTM, Greece) Women, debt and the austerity measures in Greece. How can we transform a tragedy into an opportunity to intervene in society and build a mass women’s movement.

Elzbieta Fornaczyk (Trade Union “August 80”) and Grazyna Durkalec (Movement of social Justice of Walbrzych) Women in the Eastern Countries defend themselves. Chair: Claire Solomon, (ULU and CoR)

You can find the whole program here: http://www.europeagainstausterity.org/agenda/