| This article takes a look beyond
all the media hype and cops flexing their muscles, into the
hearts of people who care enough about others to do something
about it.
|
Hope
is the Driving Force (full story)
www.pristineearth.com
|
| This article takes a look beyond
all the media hype and cops flexing their muscles, into the
hearts of people who care enough about others to do something
about it.
|
Hope is
the Driving Force (picture)
www.pristineearth.com
|
Labor Takes China Free Trade Battle into the Halls of Congress
by John Tarleton
5:57am Sat Apr 15 '00
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|
cybertraveler@zilch.net
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| Follow a hardy band of Teamsters
as they move through the hallways of Congress drumming up
opposition to free trade with China.
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Labor
Takes China Free Trade Battle into the Halls of Congress
www.cybertrave
ler.org/a16_labor.html
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April 14th IMC News Report
by Craig Hymson, Jade Paget-Seekins, Andrew Bell
8:32pm Fri Apr 14 '00
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chymson@hotmail.com
|
5 Minute Radio Ready Wrap Up of
Weks Events in D.C. through April 14:
IMF Director
Witness for Peace
Mobilization for Global Justice
D.C. Police/Arrests
International Forum on Globalization
Global Exchange/Starbucks
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April 14th IMC News Report (sound: mp3 @ 4.8 megs)
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AFL-CIO Rally: Stop WTO Expansion!
by Adam Kessel
6:20pm Fri Apr 14 '00
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address: 58-62 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116 phone:
617-423-3335 adam@igc.org
|
| Thousands of trade unionists
congregate in front of the capitol to urge congress to stop WTO
expansion and prevent China from gaining permanent most favored
nation status. A few pictures from the event.
|
AFL-
CIO Rally: Stop WTO Expansion! AFL-CIO Rally: Stop WTO Expansion!
www.mi
t.edu/people/nrbutler/aflcio/index...
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Mexican Embassy Demonstration Against Neoliberalism
by Adam Kessel
6:17pm Fri Apr 14 '00
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address: 58-62 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116 phone:
617-423-3335 adam@igc.org
|
| Chanting "a people united
can never be divided", "ya basta!", "el
pueblo unido jamas sera vincido!", "Zapata vive la
lucha sigue!" 150 demonstrators circled in front of the
Mexican Embassy. Here are some photos from the event.
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Mexica
n Embassy Demonstration Against Neoliberalism Mexican Embassy
Demonstration Against Neoliberalism
www.mi
t.edu/people/nrbutler/mexico/index...
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| Photo Stills from the Starbucks
protest with audio from speeches by Debra Green and Kevin
Danaher.
|
Starbucks Protest on Thursday (video: realvideo)
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Flood the Democratic Platform!
by Guy Incog Neat-o!
10:58am Fri Apr 14 '00
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|
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| The DNC has opened up its
platform writing process online and this is our chance to get the
issues of fair trade, debt cancellation, dropping out of the WTO,
etc right into the party platform.
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Flood
the Democratic
Platform!
www.speakout.com/dnc
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How the IMF & the World Bank work
by Amoshaun Toft, Free Media Network/IMC-DC
9:46am Fri Apr 14 '00
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|
freemedianet@hotmail.com |
| Who has the
decisionmaking power within these two economic monoliths?
Interviews with Danny Kennedy (Project Underground) and Soren
Ambrose (50 years is enough, AGJ) on the internal working
structures of the World Bank and The International Monetary Fund.
8 min.
|
How the IMF & the World Bank work (sound: mp3 @ 7.7 megs)
read
one comment
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Please write to DC police concerning Safety Tips!!!
by Jeremy Wolf
4:50am Fri Apr 14 '00
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address: 84 Alford Rd. Great Barrington, MA 01230 phone:
413-528-7692 pinko@simons-
rock.edu |
| DC police website has safety
tips for a16 demonstration, but only for business owners. Please
write to them and let them know that we do not want riots, and
that communication (particularly concerning what items will be
considered "implements of crime" is essential to a
peacful day of action.
|
Pleas
e write to DC police concerning Safety Tips!!!
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Interview with Jubilee speaker
by Lauri Apple
8:55pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: 2129 Sarah St., Pittsburgh PA 15203 phone: 412488-1212,
x265 apple@inpgh.com
|
| An interview with Trevor Ngwane,
Representative of Soweto in the Town Council of Johannesburg
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Inter
view with Jubilee speaker
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Proclaiming Jubilee
by Klocke and Gillham
6:15pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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phone: (303)543-9518 klockeb@colorado.edu
|
| Story on Jubilee 2000 rally.
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Procl
aiming Jubilee (full story)
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Alexander Cockburn appears as guest on Fulani! cable TV show
by Sarah Lyons
6:00pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: 225 Broadway, Suite 2010, New York, NY 10007 phone:
212-803-1884 slyons@cuip.org
|
| Alexander Cockburn is one of the
foremost reporters and commentators of the left. He recently
appeared as a guest on the Fulani! cable TV program. The show is
co-hosted by two-time independent presidential candidate Dr.
Lenora Fulani and Fred Newman. This installment of the Fulani!
show will air 4/20 in Manhattan and be rebroadcast in four other
cities. The show captures a fascinating dialogue about the Left,
the Right and the future of American politics.
|
Alexa
nder Cockburn appears as guest on Fulani! cable TV show
www.cuip.org
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IMF and Debt: Analysts Available
by Institute for Public Accuracy
5:04pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
address: 915 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045
phone: 202-347-0020 institute@igc.org
|
| As thousands gather in
Washington to protest the policies of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund, the following analysts are available
for interviews.
|
IMF
and Debt: Analysts Available
www.accuracy.org
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IMF and Debt: Analysts Available
by Institute for Public Accuracy
5:03pm Thu Apr 13 '00
|
|
address: 915 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045
phone: 202-347-0020 institute@igc.org
|
| As thousands gather in
Washington to protest the policies of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund, the following analysts are available
for interviews.
|
IMF
and Debt: Analysts Available
www.accuracy.org
|
From a Critique of Corporate Power to a Critique of Capitalism
by Peter Staudenmaier and Jay Driskell
4:03pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: http://ise.rootmedia.org/ phone: (802) 454-8493 ise@sover.net
|
| From the pamphlet "Bringing
Home Democracy" available online at
http://ise.rootmedia.org/library/
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From
a Critique of Corporate Power to a Critique of Capitalism (full
story and one comment)
ise.rootmedia.org
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Democracy is Direct
by Cindy Milstein
4:01pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: http://ise.rootmedia.org/ phone: (802) 454-8493 ise@sover.net
|
| From the pamphlet "Bringing
Home Democracy" available online at
http://ise.rootmedia.org/library/
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Democ
racy is Direct (full story)
ise.rootmedia.org
|
Revving It Up! The Revolutionary Potential of the New Anti-
Globalization Movemen
by Chaia Heller
4:00pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: http://ise.rootmedia.org/ phone: (802) 454-8493 ise@sover.net
|
| From the pamphlet "Bringing
Home Democracy" available online at
http://ise.rootmedia.org/library/
|
Revvi
ng It Up! The Revolutionary Potential of the New Anti-
Globalization Movemen (full story)
ise.rootmedia.org
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On Radicalism and Reform: Activism in the Post-Seattle World
by Arthur Foelsche
3:58pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: http://ise.rootmedia.org/ phone: (802) 454-8493 ise@sover.net
|
| From the pamphlet "Bringing
Home Democracy" available online at
http://ise.rootmedia.org/library/
|
On
Radicalism and Reform: Activism in the Post-Seattle World (full
story)
ise.rootmedia.org
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What is Our Political Power Today?
by Andrea del Moral
3:17pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: http://ise.rootmedia.org/ phone: (802) 454-8493 ise@sover.net
|
| From the pamphlet "Bringing
Home Democracy" available online at
http://ise.rootmedia.org/library/
|
What
is Our Political Power Today? (full story)
ise.rootmedia.org
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Beyond Capitalism
by Amoshaun Toft
3:13pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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address: http://ise.rootmedia.org/ phone: (802) 454-8493 ise@sover.net
|
| From the pamphlet "Bringing
Home Democracy" available online at
http://ise.rootmedia.org/library/
|
Beyon
d Capitalism (full story)
ise.rootmedia.org
|
Building the Movement: Interview with A16 organizer Matthew
Smucker
by Lyn Gerry and Shawn Ewald
2:53pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
shawn@wilshire.net
|
An interview with Rainforest
Action Network activist Matthew Smucker.
We spoke with
Matthew about the minnehaha free state, A16,
building a
movement by consensus, autonomy and diversity.
Format:
MP3 Length: 20 min 53 sec
|
Building the Movement: Interview with A16 organizer
Matthew Smucker (sound: realaudio)
www.radio4all.net
|
Partners In Crime: Internat'l Financial Institutions &
Repressive Militaries
by Sarah DeBolt, Witness for Peace
2:02pm Thu Apr 13 '00
|
|
address: 1229 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 phone:
202.588.1471 sdebolt@witnessforpeace
.org |
| This short piece definitively
links World Bank/IMF policies and practices with repressive
militaries, and brutal human rights abuses. As this document
demonstrates, these abuses are not just ancient history--the Bank
and the Fund are currently engaging in projects and practices
that bolster repressive regimes, and condone (if not encourage)
abuses against innocents worldwide.
|
Partn
ers In Crime: Internat'l Financial Institutions & Repressive
Militaries
www.witnessforpeace.org
|
Critics -- Some Unexpected -- of IMF and World Bank
by Institute for Public Accuracy
1:44pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
address: 915 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045
phone: 202-347-0020 institute@igc.org
|
| Critics of the IMF and World
Bank include Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for
International Development and an advisor to countries around the
world. The former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz, now
at the Brookings Institution, has written a New Republic piece
critical of the IMF. Here are other critics.
|
Criti
cs -- Some Unexpected -- of IMF and World Bank
www.accuracy.org
|
Critics -- Some Unexpected -- of IMF and World Bank
by Institute for Public Accuracy
1:38pm Thu Apr 13 '00
|
|
address: 915 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045
phone: 202-347-0020 institute@igc.org
|
| Critics of the IMF and World
Bank include Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for
International Development and an advisor to countries around the
world. The former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz, now
at the Brookings Institution, has written a New Republic piece
critical of the IMF. Here are other critics.
|
Criti
cs -- Some Unexpected -- of IMF and World Bank
www.accuracy.org
|
Critics -- Some Unexpected -- of IMF and World Bank
by Institute for Public Accuracy
1:37pm Thu Apr 13 '00
|
|
address: 915 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045
phone: 202-347-0020 institute@igc.org
|
| Critics of the IMF and World
Bank include Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for
International Development and an advisor to countries around the
world. The former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz, now
at the Brookings Institution, has written a New Republic piece
critical of the IMF. Here are other critics.
|
Criti
cs -- Some Unexpected -- of IMF and World Bank
www.accuracy.org
|
Outside the Gap, downtown Washington DC 04.13.00
by Mike Flugennock
1:29pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
flugennock@sinkers.org
|
| Rally and march against
sweatshops and for "fair trade" gathers outside the Gap
shop near the World Bank and IMF buildings. Curious workers can
be seen peering down on the scene from a second-floor window.
|
Outside the Gap, downtown
Washington DC 04.13.00 (picture)
www.sinkers.org
|
Outside the Gap, downtown Washington DC 04.13.00
by Mike Flugennock
1:22pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
flugennock@sinkers.org
|
| Rally and march against
sweatshops and for "fair trade" gathers in front of the
Gap shop near the IMF and World Bank buildings in downtown DC.
|
Outside the Gap, downtown
Washington DC 04.13.00 (picture)
www.sinkers.org
|
| Rally and march against
sweatshops and for "fair trade", from Dupont Circle
Starbuck's to the Gap shop near the World Bank and IMF buildings.
|
Downtown Washington, DC
04.13.00 (picture)
www.sinkers.org
|
| Rally and march from Dupont
Circle Starbuck's to the Gap shop just a brick's throw from the
World Bank and IMF, demanding "Fair Trade" and an end
to sweatshops.
|
downtown Washington DC 04.13.00
(picture)
www.sinkers.org
|
PseudoPolitics
by mauerbach@pseudo.com
12:39pm Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
phone: 646-489-4754 mauerbach@pseudo.com
|
| PseudoPolitics will be covering
the events in DC - look out for us and introduce yourselves.
Check out our site for a video clip of the Florham Park protest.
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PseudoPolitics (picture)
pseudopolitics.com
|
Building the Movement: Interview with A16 organizer Matthew
Smucker
by Lyn Gerry and Shawn Ewald
11:04am Thu Apr 13 '00
|
|
phone: 315.539.2848 shawn@wilshire.net
|
An interview with Rainforest
Action Network activist Matthew Smucker.
We spoke with
Matthew about the minnehaha free state, A16,
building a
movement by consensus, autonomy and diversity.
Format:
MP3 Length: 20 min 53 sec
|
Buildi
ng the Movement: Interview with A16 organizer Matthew Smucker
www.radio4all.net
|
Activists Prepare for Possible Police Violence
by The slave - FRA and IMC
10:09am Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
keith_v@yahoo.com
|
Wednesday Report from DC
Preparing for Possible Police Violence
Activists are taking non-violence and medical workshops.
|
Activi
sts Prepare for Possible Police Violence
|
| The indigenous people of Chiapas
have been subjected to five centuries of "structural
adjustment". The Zapatista rebellion that was launched in
1994 has become a source of inspiration to people all over the
world who are struggling against corporate globalization and
institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO. Here is the story
of 6 weeks in the life of a remote Zapatista village.
|
White
Flags Over Chiapas
www.cybertravele
r.org/Chiapas.html
|
| This essay explores questions
such as: What exactly is Neoliberalism? Why do countries pursue
"free trade" at all costs? Why is the WTO so important
to the people who established it? And, what are the possibilities
for transforming a destructive economic system that is bent on
growth for its own sake?
|
Econom
y as Pathology: Why the WTO Acts As It Does
www.cybert
raveler.org/wto_pathology.html
|
| An Excerpt from the March Human
Rights report in of Rape, Killing, extortion, and more by the
military dictatorship in Burma / Myanmar of the ethnic minority
groups along the border areas.
|
RAPE
AND KILLING OF INNOCENT FARMERS IN KUN-HING (full story)
|
In case you missed Seattle, heeere's Washington
by Naomi Klein
7:19am Thu Apr 13 '00
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nklein@sympatico.ca
|
My friend Mez is getting on a
bus to Washington, D.C., on Saturday. I asked
him why, and he
said with all this intensity: "Look, I missed Seattle.
There's
no way I'm missing Washington."
I've seen people speak with that kind of unrestrained longing
before, but the
object of their affection was usually a muddy
music festival where Beck shares
a stage with the Beastie
Boys, or a short-run New York play such as The
Vagina
Monologues.
|
In
case you missed Seattle, heeere's Washington (full story)
|
Seattle Prepares for A16: IMF/WB Teach-In, Local Organizing Still
Going Strong
by Kristine Wong
4:39am Thu Apr 13 '00
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phone: 206.720.0285 kristinewong@yahoo.com
|
| Sunday, April 9, Seattle -
Though this city won’t be the star of this month’s gathering of
resistance against the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary
Fund (IMF), locals are rockin’ steady and ready to roll over the
WB and IMF come April 16. They've organized a teach-in and an A16
action, while Seattle-based Studio X will do a live, worldwide
web broadcast the streets of DC on April 15-17.
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Seattl
e Prepares for A16: IMF/WB Teach-In, Local Organizing Still Going
Strong
|
One of the climbers and Beka Econompolos being arrested
by Adam Green
2:01am Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
a_green@mindspring.com
|
| One of the climbers and Beka
Econompolos being arrested.
|
One of
the climbers and Beka Econompolos being arrested (picture)
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Spread eagle after being removed from the undercarriage
by Adam Green
1:51am Thu Apr 13 '00
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|
a_green@mindspring.com
|
Blocking Pennsylvania Avenue,
N.W. in front of the World Bank Group's headquarters, two
activists representing an
international coalition of
environmental, human rights, religious, and social justice
organizations have locked themselves to the undercarriage of a
17-foot panel truck, emblazoned with the words, "WORLD BANK
PLUNDERS THE PLANET - NO
MORE $$$ FOR OIL, GAS AND MINING.
|
Spread eagle after being removed from the undercarriage
(picture)
|
Climbers being arested (picture)
|
| The idea was to scale the World
Bank Facade to display the banner. The World Bank or the Police
had placed Barbed Wire on the Support lines of the Auning on the
world Bank entrance to prevent. Although the Climbers could not
scale the facade, they were able to display the banner moentaraly
before locking themselves to the World Bank building.
|
Banner deployed ontop of World Bank (picture)
|
Using the top of the truck as a
makeshift stage, Friends of the Earth US Executive Director Brent
Blackwelder and Ozone Action Executive Director John
Passacantando and Beka Econompolos are introducing a campaign
platform demanding that the World
Bank phase out its
financing of destructive oil, gas, and mining projects. The
platform details the ten most harmful impacts of such projects,
from environmental destruction to egregious human rights abuses.
|
Speakers
on top of truck (picture)
|
| Fire Dept. trying to unlock
protesters who locked themselves to a truck during Mondays action
in front the the World Banka
|
Fire Dept. trying to unlock protesters from truck (picture)
|
Protester locks himself to truck in front of the World Bank
by Adam Green
1:28am Thu Apr 13 '00
|
|
a_green@mindspring.com
|
| One of two Protesters Locks
himself to truck during Mondays action in front of the World Bank
|
Protester locks himself to
truck in front of the World Bank (picture)
|
Truck w/makeshift stage halting Traffic in front of World Bank
by Adam Green
1:21am Thu Apr 13 '00
|
|
a_green@mindspring.com
|
| A truckwith banners and a
makeshift stage serve as a platform for 3 speakers and 2
protesters to chain themselves to the truck. This action
succesfully halted traffic for over an hour.
|
Truck
w/makeshift stage halting Traffic in front of World Bank
(picture)
|
| Protesters scale World Bank
Building Monday morning while a truck with banners and a
makeshift stage serve as a platform for 3 speakers and 2
protesters to chain themselves to the truck. This action
succesfully halted traffic for over an hour.
|
Protesters Scale World Bank
Building (picture)
|
HOW INDIA BEAT THE BANK
by Andrew Christie
7:59pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
address: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, po box 2616, Friday
Harbor, WA 98250 phone: 360-370-5500 achris63@hotmail.com
|
| Perhaps the greatest
environmental threat of the IMF/World Bank is the threat their
policies pose to marine eco-systems: Pulling all the fish from
the sea in the name of foreign exchange. India fought back and
won.
|
HOW
INDIA BEAT THE BANK (full story)
www.seashepherd.org
|
The "Economic Way of the Cross" March
by Michael Bayly
7:06pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| Participants of the march
prepare to depart from the steps of the Capitol - April 11, 2000.
|
The
"Economic Way of the Cross" March (picture)
|
The "Economic Way of the Cross" March
by Michael Bayly
7:00pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| A participant in the March holds
a cross symbolizing the crushing $5174 million debt owed by
Bolivia. Other protesters carried crosses for other Third World
nations.
|
The
"Economic Way of the Cross" March (picture)
|
| Press Release from Monday
morning's action in front of the World Bank.
|
Openin
g Action for the A16 Week. (full story)
|
The "Economic Way of the Cross" March
by Michael Bayly
6:53pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| Debbie Panek of Rome, N.Y., on
the steps of the Capitol for the "Economic Way of the
Cross" march - Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 11, 2000.
|
The
"Economic Way of the Cross" March (picture)
|
| Proclaiming Jubilee -
Washington, D.C. - Tuesday, April 11, 2000.
|
The
"Economic Way of the Cross" March (picture)
|
| A woman from Honduras joins the
"Economic Way of the Cross".
|
The
"Economic Way of the Cross" March (picture)
|
The "Economic Way of the Cross" March
by Michael Bayly
6:02pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| The Witness for Peace
organization was one of many religious groups who joined in
Jubilee 2000's annual "Economic Way of the Cross" March
in Washington, D.C. - Tuesday, April 11 2000.
|
The
"Economic Way of the Cross" March (picture)
|
Jubilee 2000
by Michael Bayly
5:55pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| Jubilee 2000 USA demands that
Third World debt be unconditionally cancelled - Sunday, April 9,
2000.
|
Jubilee
2000 (picture)
|
Jubilee 2000
by Michael Bayly
5:46pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| A protester dons a creative
outfit to make a point about Third World debt.
|
Jubilee
2000 (picture)
|
Puppet-Maker 4
by Michael Bayly
5:35pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| Ben sand-papers the wooden
handles of props and signs for Sunday's Festival of Resistance.
|
Puppet-
Maker 4 (picture)
|
Puppet-Maker-3
by Michael Bayly
5:30pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| Molly paints the giant monkey-
wrench to be thrown into the "structural adjustment
machine" during Sunday's Festival of Resistance.
|
Puppet-
Maker-3 (picture)
|
Puppet-Maker 2
by Michael Bayly
5:24pm Wed Apr 12 '00
|
|
|
| One of the many volunteers at
work on the puppets and props to be used for Sunday's Festival of
Resistance.
|
Puppet-
Maker 2 (picture)
|