{"article":{"id":6845,"heading":"States of Unrest: Resistance to IMF Policies in Poor Countries","author":"Jessica Woodroffe and Mark Ellis-Jones \/ Worl","created":"2001-05-18 18:18:31","modified":"2005-08-15 00:34:06","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:34:06","article":"\r\n \r\n
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 <\/td>\r\n \r\n \r\nClaims by World Bank\/IMF officials and the Western media that protests\r\nagainst these organizations are led by students and anarchists from the \r\nrich global north demonstrates an insultingly ignorance of mass demonstrations\r\nin the global south, 50 of which have taken place in at least 13 countries between protests against the WTO in Seattle in November, 1999 and the IMF\/World Bank demonstrations in Prague in September, 2000. <\/b>

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\r\nSince the WTO meeting in Seattle in\r\nNovember 1999, there have been over a\r\nmillion civilians protesting across 13 countries\r\non more than 50 separate occasions.\r\n<\/b>

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<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Ignored by the corporate media fixated on \"spoiled students,\" 50 mass demonstrations in the global south took place in at least 13 countries between protests against the WTO in Seattle in November, 1999 and the IMF\/World Bank demonstrations in Prague in September, 2000.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/05\/unrest.htm","filesize":"10.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/05\/6845.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":13081,"heading":"PDF Would Be Good To Have for Download\/Print","article":"It would be useful to have a PDF version of the report suitable for download and printing.","author":"Ministry of Culture and Bicycle Transit","parent_id":6845,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-11-23 15:44:19","modified":"2001-11-23 16:00:01","fileurl":""},{"id":7596,"heading":"great article...","article":"...but could do with some mention of South East Asia. this is, after all, the area most often cited as a \"proof\" that IMF\/WB austerity measures \"work\". current turmoil in Indonesia and South Korea point to perhaps a different conclusion.","author":"adam","parent_id":6845,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-06-23 09:26:09","modified":"2001-06-23 10:00:01","fileurl":""}]}