[stop-imf] CALL TO ACTION for Fall IMF/World Bank Protests and Teach-Ins

[Robert Weissman]

Note: Since this was released, the IMF and World Bank have announced
they will cancel their official meetings on Oct 1 and Oct 2, while
continuing with the snmaller meetings on Sept 28 and 29. That aside, the
protests will continue during the general time period of the end of
September. As details are worked out, they will be posted here.



--CALL TO ACTION--PLEASE FORWARD--CALL TO ACTION--PLEASE FORWARD

Preliminary call to action as consensed to by the Mobilization for Global
Justice on 7/2/02

Resist the IMF/WB policies and military apparatus and help create a space
for dissentWashington 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)Sun. Sept 29: International Monetary & Financial CommitteeMon.
Sept 30: Joint Development Committee of the IMF/WBTues. Oct. 1 & 2:
Official Meetings

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.

Please refer to MGJ's <www.globalizethis.org>  page for further info and
organizing progress.