IMF and World Bank Protests, Washington, DC, Sept./Oct 2002

Mobilization for Global Justice writes "Preliminary call to action by the Mobilization for Global Justice Resist the IMF/WB policies and military apparatus and help create a space for dissent Washington D.C., Sept./Oct., 2002

Come demonstrate, dance, make music, and resist with tens of thousands of people in the streets of Washington D.C. to denounce the exploitative and unsustainable policies of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
This will be a major mobilization where success will be determined by the breadth of our presence and the depth of our coalition. Please forward this call to individuals and organizations concerned with the injustice of concentrated wealth, exploitation of labor, militarism and criminal neglect for the earth and living creatures.

Schedule of associated IMF/WB meetings and approximate dates of protests and educational events surrounding the meetings of 9/28 through 10/4.

Sat. Sept. 28: G7 Finance Ministers meeting and the G24 (larger developing countries)

Sunday Sept 29: International Monetary & Financial Committee

Monday Sept 30: Joint Development Committee of the IMF/WB

Tuesday Oct. 1 & 2: Official Meetings

Demands of the Mobilization for Global Justice

We demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund:

Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.

Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.

End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.)

Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.

We furthermore demand that the United States government, the largest shareholder and most influential government in the World Bank and IMF, adopt the above demands, and work vigorously to compel the World Bank and IMF to implement them.

The Mobilization for Global Justice will gather for its next general meeting, on:

Tuesday, July 2, 7:30 pm

at St. Stephens Church
1525 Newton St., NW
(near 16th and Newton, NW)

This will be an important meeting to get underway with the nitty-gritty of organizing for the fall.

See you there!"