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Parent Article: World Bank / IMF Protests Scenario Outline |
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Re: World Bank / IMF Protests Scenario Outline |
by farragut squares cheerleader
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04 Apr 2006
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Okay, I am unabashedly plugging for people to travel to DC to give these war-on-the-poor mongerers some what for during the World Bank / IMF spring meetings April 21-23.
Part of what is so outrageous is that they commit their crimes while enjoying relative anonymity. At a recent home demo at the home of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, a neighbor remarked, "You should have come around when he was somebody, when he really had some power." The neighbor was of course referring to Wolfowitz's former role as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Many people understand that he was an architect of the war on Iraq. Fewer understand the extent of the power wielded by Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank and the massive suffering for which that institution is responsible, in Iraq and world wide. April 21-23 will be an opportunity to expose, illuminate, and educate.
There are a multitude of possibilities for home demos, as not only Wolfowitz,but also some of the World Bank directors, including Luis Marti, actually live in and around DC. There will be delegates staying in area hotels, eating in restaurants, taking in the entertainment scene, sipping lattes at crowded street side cafes on lovely spring evenings in densely populated and highly frequented areas of the city.
There will be no permitted, prearranged marches, no peace police telling you where to go, when to go there, and what you can and cannot say and do when you get there. You can yell at buildings if you so choose, but the possibilities for direct action, street theater, poetry reading on the Metro, adopting an intersection... are limited only by your imagination. Think of the power of activist imaginations convergening, what we can come up with together. Won't you please come to DC? Show your face, your fury, and your imagination and bring your sleeping bag. |
