Rest in Peace, Quincy Jones
Rest in Peace, Quincy Jones
- who backed the campaign to cancel the debts of the poorest countries
Here he is (Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans over 80 years in the entertainment industry with a record 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992).
With Prof Sachs & Prof. Adebayo Adedeji (responsible for the economic development and reconstruction of post-civil war Nigeria), Bono, Willie Colon, (a Nuyorican (a New York-born Puerto Rican) salsa musician and social activist), Julian Filochowski (then CEO of CAFOD), Randall Robinson (Director of Trans Africa, Washington) Bob Geldof, Laura Vargas (CEO of PERU CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES, leader of the grass-roots coalition in Peru) & the young Ms Pettifor, Director, Jubilee 2000. Taken at the Pope’s retreat, Rome, 1999.
It was this meeting, and the Pope’s message to President Clinton and other G7 leaders that led Clinton, at that year’s IMF meeting, to declare support for the cancellation of about $100 bn (in nominal terms) of debt.
That is an important historical photograph, that tells so much about post colonialism, power and the culture of propaganda. Ann and the others were the leaders it took, but Clinton etc al were making a cold commercial and political decision. The expansion of money at that time, made cancelling the debit rational, to create investment opportunities. We collectively pay a high cost for global inequality, much greater, in the end, than the benefits to the richest 10%. Intellectuals, Artists, spiritual leaders and activists have been enormously important in leading a recognition of the tragic truth of this.
Just beautiful, thank you