ABSTRACT
In 1997, the management of the campaign was transferred to a coalition of many nongovernmental organisations, both secular and religious, with Ed Mayo as the Chairman. The Birmingham demonstration failed to achieve immediate results, but it signalled the massive support for the campaign in both religious and secular circles. The campaign has had remarkable support from the whole community, secular and religious. The Jubilee 2000 campaign is essentially connected with the whole year 2000, just as the Jewish Jubilee was concerned with 'The Acceptable Year of the Lord'. Clare Short complained that Jubilee 2000 has asked for unilateral action on debt remission from the UK, rather than waiting for all the creditors to act together. The Anglican Church has given equally wholehearted support to the Jubilee concept, passing unanimously a resolution of commitment to Jubilee 2000 at the General Synod, and introducing a major motion on Jubilee 2000 to the Lambeth Conference later in the year.
