16 June – The Global Call to Action Against Poverty is calling on the world to join social movements everywhere as we celebrate the ‘Day of the African Child’ and kick off an important 10-day initiative that will help deliver all of our demands to the world leaders at the United Nations Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development on 24-26 June in New York City.

A Sign-on Statement initiated by RESIST!
(International People's Campaign to Confront Crisis and War)
May 31, 2009

New York-- Upon news of the announcement of the postponement of the United Nations Conference on the World Economic and Financial Crisis and its Impact on Development from June 1-3 to June 24-26 in New York, Filipino-American groups Anakbayan New York/New Jersey and NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) joined allies in sponsoring an outdoor People's Economic Summit in front of the Manhattan UN Headquarters. The purpose of the alternative Summit, organized by a grassroots network known as the Bail-Out the People Movement (BOPM), was to invite voices of the general concerned public to engage in an official discourse on the global economic crisis and its impact on people's struggles.