The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are again holding their annual meetings in Washington, D.C.
With financial crises wracking Argentina and Brazil, and deepening poverty further engulfing most of Africa - even as all these nations bow to still more dictates from the IMF and World Bank - the institutions are increasingly discredited.
This provides a real opportunity to constrain their ability to do harm - making it more important than ever to join protests in Washington, D.C. on September 28.
The demonstrations will kick off at noon with a rally at Sylvan Theater (in the shadow of the Washington Monument) that will feature Ralph Nader, Michele Shocked and a host of dynamic speakers and performers. A march will take protesters by the U.S. Treasury Department - the U.S. government agency that directs U. S. participation in the IMF and Bank, and that enormously influences their policy making. Following a short closing rally, many demonstrators will participate in a nonviolent direct action to "quarantine" the IMF and Bank's hazardous policies and "inoculate" the delegates to the meetings with the truth about the harms they are perpetrating.
For information on the protests, see http://www.globalizethis.org
For information on an End Corporate Rule teach-in continuing through Friday evening, see http://www.50years.org/sept2002/teachin.html
With financial crises wracking Argentina and Brazil, and deepening poverty further engulfing most of Africa - even as all these nations bow to still more dictates from the IMF and World Bank - the institutions are increasingly discredited.
This provides a real opportunity to constrain their ability to do harm - making it more important than ever to join protests in Washington, D.C. on September 28.
The demonstrations will kick off at noon with a rally at Sylvan Theater (in the shadow of the Washington Monument) that will feature Ralph Nader, Michele Shocked and a host of dynamic speakers and performers. A march will take protesters by the U.S. Treasury Department - the U.S. government agency that directs U. S. participation in the IMF and Bank, and that enormously influences their policy making. Following a short closing rally, many demonstrators will participate in a nonviolent direct action to "quarantine" the IMF and Bank's hazardous policies and "inoculate" the delegates to the meetings with the truth about the harms they are perpetrating.
For information on the protests, see http://www.globalizethis.org
For information on an End Corporate Rule teach-in continuing through Friday evening, see http://www.50years.org/sept2002/teachin.html