KPL february 2020

1. Guide to Preparing Presentations for the Debts Meeting
The Presentations should respond to the needs of the Participants. The Participants will have to
fill in a Pre Meeting Needs Assessment form that shall guide the presentations.
The Presentations should be framed to:
1. Address political and historical perspectives of the debt issue to help the participants rethink
their grassroots organizations and build them as emancipatory spaces to advance Anti-Debt
Struggles and Resistance. This is because transformations do not emerge from the intellectual
forms of consciousness alone but also from understanding the course of history itself.
2. Help organize the participants and their movements to be vehicles of enhancing the Anti-Debt
Resistance, production and for scientific experimentation of the resistance actions to be agreed
upon both in practice and in study progressively
3. Integrate indepth perspective of a new world free of Debts that we seek to create since it is
important It is important to paint that picture of what our lives will look like when we refuse to
pay Debts. This will make the Participants focus their actions and programs on creating that
world.
4. Offer an adequate interpretation of the real Political and debt situation currently so that the
participants and their movements and organizations are able to propose and take on the
political strategic direction with a higher probability of success to attain both immediate and
strategic goals in the Anti-Debt Struggles
5. Ensure that the pedagogical lessons that the Participants will learn in the meeting in
conjunction with their struggles against debts and historical lessons of successful struggles
elsewhere will be inform the designing of Campaigns which in themselves will be learning
processes

2. 6. Ensure that the methodology of conducting the meeting should be creative, collective, joyful,
open and enable active participation so as to strengthen the Anti-Debt movement in the region
7. Ensure that the Discussions in the meeting enable participants to know and study the
strategy of our enemies like World Bank, IMF, WTO, Paris Club and London Club including their
local allies as well as their empires with the perspective of strengthening Our Anti-Debt
organizing for resistance and victories.
8. Ensure that The meeting will deconstruct the bourgeois logic that has shaped the way we
view debts
9. To include strategies and tactics of Organizing the masses around the debts so as to enable
the participants develop methodologies for the collective identification, problematization and
overcoming of debt problems and contradictions that come with it
10. Ensure that the Discussions in the meeting produce learning and mobilization modules and
develop a Formation process anchored in the organizations
11. Ensure that African Meditation/Mistica will nurture and keep alive the historical perspective
of the debts and foster the collective struggles against debts not as a theoritical subject, but
creative art, visuals and other non theoritical means and ways.
12. Ensure that the Participants have a clear political, historical and ideological clarity of the
debt issue to enable them know how to build alliances, how to create links with society, define
strategies, substantiate ideas and proposals.
13. Make the Participants be outraged with and confront the existing debt order with wisdom,
creativity and dynamism. It should make them generate the conditions for the pushing for
cancellation of debts

3. 14. Ensure that Participants are able to identify with the utmost accuracy who are our
adversaries on issues of Debts against whom we fight and who are our allies to enable us. They
should be able to know who are part of our social base who can strengthen our resistance to
debts.
Conclusion
Cognizant of the fact that the bourgeois media impose and strengthen the capital’s logic, the
presentations need to include ways to confront this by developing communication mechanisms,
both within our organizationas and with society to project our position on debts. This can be
done using online platforms like CADTM website, flyers and posters etc.
We must enhance the capacity of the Participants to write articles, press statements, develop
plays using art and culture and through agitation and propaganda.
Prepared by
Cidi Otieno