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Title: Protest the Annual World Bank and IMF meetings::Ca
START DATE: 9/23/2005
START TIME: 12:00 PM
Duration: 62 Hours
Location: Washington, DC
Location Details:
Event Topic: neoliberalism
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Mobilization for Global Justice
Contact Email: mgj (at) riseup (dot) net
Contact Phone:
DESCRIPTION:
Block the Bank! Fight the Fund! Reclaim Our Communities!

Confront Economic Violence and Corporate Capitalism during the World Bank and

IMF Annual Meetings September 23-25, 2005 :: Washington DC :: Call for DIRECT

ACTION

September 23rd to 25th 2005, the weekend of the World Bank and International

Monetary Fund?s annual meetings, holds great importance for millions around the

world. This year, the Mobilization for Global Justice, a Washington DC-based

activist group, will join our allies in the global South, Europe, and the U.S.

as well as with those in the anti-war community to demand an end to the

international system that uses economic and military might to extract resources

and serve corporate interests. We envision a world with true development,

democracy, and security, and where economic policy serves the interests of the

people. We call for creative direct actions on the weekend of September 23rd

to 25th ? all the action you can muster to shake the pillars of empire to their

rotten and festering core ? and work towards another possible world.

As the U.S. spends millions of public dollars a day on the deadly occupation of

Iraq, the World Bank and IMF are promoting a violence less sensational and far

more insidious. Using the mechanism of international debt, the World Bank and

the IMF are waging a global war on the poor. Through the privatization of

basic services, the prying open of developing countries' economies, and the

capping of spending on healthcare, education, and employment even as military

spending balloons, the institutions ensure that any resources in the global

South ? from water to oil, minerals to labor, bananas to money ? are

transferred to the benefit of transnational corporations and elites rather than

to local communities.

The extraction of Southern resources facilitated by the World Bank and IMF leads

to an escalation of economic violence and the destruction of real democracy and

development. Forced relocation, hunger, increased poverty, environmental

destruction, and disease are all direct products of World Bank and IMF

policies. Rampant privatization means that communities the world over are

seeing control over local resources wrested from them and delivered to

unaccountable multinational corporations. For women forced to work long hours

for sweatshop wages, for children orphaned by the AIDS pandemic, for families

forced to skip meals, for girls who cannot afford to attend school, for

communities uprooted by dams, mines, and pipelines, this is not real

development, it is violence. For the people of the global South whose lives

are disrupted, worsened, jeopardized, and often ended, this is not true

security; it is not true democracy.

These policies extend even into the U.S.: as residents of Washington DC, we are

the reluctant hosts of the World Bank, the IMF, and other institutions of

empire. With our only public hospital closed, a deteriorating public school

system, a private baseball stadium being built with public funds we see that

the same policies of private gain at public expense imposed on borrowing

countries by the World Bank and IMF are also at work in Washington. The World

Bank and IMF make billions a year in profits, use services provided by the

city, and sit on valuable property downtown, yet they pay no property taxes or

corporate revenue taxes. This is an injustice in a city with a majority

low-income population and is a cruel hypocrisy on the part of the institutions,

which state ?poverty reduction? and ?economic development? as part of their

goals.

September 23rd to 25th the movements for global justice will defy the corrupt

global system which concentrates economic and military power in a few countries

and whose agents to run riot across the globe, extracting essential resources,

exacerbating climate change, and impoverishing the majority of humanity. The

model of development promoted by the World Bank and IMF is emulated at all

levels ? from national governments to city councils ? supporting corporate

power and placing profit before people, waging economic and military war and

promoting social and environmental destruction, in its hunger for the world?s

resources.

Join us and the millions around the world dedicated to a world where

development, security, and democracy are no longer tools of rhetoric employed

by the World Bank, the IMF, and the U.S. government but are realities in the

lives of all. Come to Washington DC September 23-25th for a weekend of

spirited action to shake the pillars of empire!

The Mobilization for Global Justice is a Washington DC-based activist group. We

are committed to organizing effective, strategic, and creative direct actions

during the World Bank and IMF fall meetings.

Please visit our website www.globalizethis.org or email us at mgj@riseup.net for

updates on the weekend and information on how to get involved.

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