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Mass Protests are Coming: Washington, D.C. September 28th - October 4th. |
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by Sascha Meinrath, Urbana-Champaign IMC
Email: meinrath (nospam) urbana.indymedia.org (unverified!) |
12 May 2001
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The 50 Years Is Enough Network (www.50years.org) has recently put out a call for activists to mark their calendars: September 28 - October 4. Over this long weekend the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will be holding their Joint Annual General Meeting. The 50 Years is Enough Network press release asks "activists from all over the world to come to Washington during that week to protest and expose the illegitimacy of the institutions and officials who continue to claim the right to determine the course of the world economy." |
First Seattle, most recently Quebec City, and soon, Washington:
The 50 Years Is Enough Network (www.50years.org) has recently put out a call for activists to mark their calendars: September 28 - October 4. Over this long weekend the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will be holding their Joint Annual General Meeting. The 50 Years is Enough Network press release asks "activists from all over the world to come to Washington during that week to protest and expose the illegitimacy of the institutions and officials who continue to claim the right to determine the course of the world economy."
The spring meeting of the IMF and World Bank drew an estimated 30,000 activists and a few hundred IMF and World Bank officials attended. The fall meeting, on the other hand, may bring many more protestors and as many as 20,000 bankers and bureaucrats are expected to participate.
The mainstream media will probably eagerly report the protests surrounding the meeting. However, the informational tours that are currently being organized and the general educational efforts of the 50 Years Is Enough Network and other groups will most likely be ignored by the corporate press. One explicit goal of anti-IMF/World Bank activists is to educate citizens about the detrimental aspects of IMF and Wold Bank policies.
The 50 Years Is Enough Network plans 'teach-in tours' "featuring colleagues from the Global South who will share their experiences and struggles of resistance to corporate-led globalization, the international debt burden, structural adjustment programs, the HIV/AIDS crisis, economic and political oppression, [and] their organizing efforts." The main goal of the protests is to demonstrate that "the movement for global justice continues to grow, and will not stand for continuing efforts by these institutions and the G-7 governments to structure the world for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy and to deny basic justice to the majority of the world's people."
For more information contact the 50 Years is Enough Network. E-mail: wb50years (at) igc.org; telephone: +1-202-463-2265; website: www.50years.org.
By Sascha Meinrath, Urbana-Champaign IMC |
