hi all, hope you're using the snow days well. see below for article on DC followup in april to "battle in seattle." just wanted to alert you to planning & the work a few of us are doing to concentrate on doing some pop ed around globalization, saps & our own communities to develop leadership in low-income & communities of color in dc. we'll get some more to you soon. also please share with the dc peace & justice coalition & your networks. love, walda -----Original Message----- From: Soren Ambrose <soren@igc.org> To: stop-wb-imf@50years.org <stop-wb-imf@50years.org> Cc: a16-dc-planning@egroups.com <a16-dc-planning@egroups.com>; a16-international-planning@egroups.com <a16-international-planning@egroups.com> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 6:54 AM Subject: [a16-international-planning] A16 in Wednesday's Washington Post >The front page of today's (Wed., Jan 26) *Washington Post* has a box at the >bottom directing readers to the front page of the Business Section for a >story called "Protests Planned: Activist groups plan to come to Washington >in April to protest a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World >Bank." > >It's a fairly lengthy story, the full text of which can be found at: >www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a29574-2000jan26.htm > >Headlined "Protesters at WTO Plan D.C. Follow-Up / IMF-World Bank Meeting Is >Target," it features quotes from Global Exchange, the DC police, the IMF, >the World Bank, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, and the 50 Years Is >Enough Network. > >It leads off by reporting that "Activist groups that paralyzed downtown >Seattle during the World Trade Organization conference late last year plan >to converge on Washington in April to protest a joint meeting of the World >Bank and International Monetary Fund--with some groups pledging to 'shut >down' the gathering with civil disobedience." > >The police say "the city will not be shut down," and add that they attended >an FBI seminar on the lessons learned from the WTO protests. The IMF says >"given what happened in Seattle, we have to be sensitive to security >concerns" and the World Bank spokesperson says "Maybe the dialogue is going >to be in the streets. I think it would be better if it were around tables >discussing how we can reach solutions to these problems." > >Soren Ambrose >50 Years Is Enough Network > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >To Post a message, send it to: a16-international-planning@eGroups.com >To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: a16-international-planning-unsubscribe@eGroups.com > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >For the fastest and easiest way to backup your files and, access them from >anywhere. Try @backup Free for 30 days. Click here for a chance to win a >digital camera. >http://click.egroups.com/1/337/3/_/314851/_/948898495/ > >-- 20 megs of disk space in your group's Document Vault >-- http://www.egroups.com/docvault/a16-international-planning/?m=1 ************************************************************ Building the capacity of a new movement for social & economic justice ... Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide Washington Office & Affiliate 6617 Millwood Road Bethesda, MD 20817 tel 301.320.4034 fax 301.320.4534 email wkatzfishman@igc.org visit us online!! http://www.peacenet.org/projectsouth