[stop-imf] Activities around IMF/Bank spring meetings

[Robert Weissman]

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Spring Meetings Events
*schedule is of course provisional; some details will probably change


Thursday April 10
=95 8am: Action on Debt/HIPC =93Wake Up IMF/World Bank & Cancel the Debt!=
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IMF, 700 19th St., N.W.   Speakers include: Andre Banks, Africa Action;
Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network; Marie Clarke Brill,
Jubilee USA Network; and Jonah Gokova, Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt &
Development.  (between G & H; metro: Farragut West)

=95 9:30am - 12:45pm: Briefing and Strategy Session on "Policy Coherence"
Among Trade and Financial Institutions - Center of Concern, 1225 Otis
St., N.E. (metro: Brookland/CUA)

=95 10am - 12:30pm: Briefing on =93Women and the World Bank: The Advocate's
Guide to Promoting Gender Equality at the World Bank,=94 by Women=92s Edge,
at Academy for Educational Development, 1875 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
(metro: DuPont Circle)

=95 2pm-5pm: Discussion with World Bank staff on 2004 World Development
Report: Making Services Work for the Poor.  Opportunity to debate the
Bank=92s aspiration to privatize everything short of the air we breathe.
Interaction: 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. (metro: DuPont Circle).  RSVP
to EmcCollim@interaction.org.

Friday, April 11

=95 1pm: press conference co-sponsored by Heinrich B=F6ll Foundation &
Institute for Public Accuracy (with special outreach to German press).
Featured speakers: Demba Dembele, (Senegal), Virginia Setshedi, (South
Africa), J=FCrgen Kaiser (Jubilee Germany) and Annkathrin Schneider, WEED
(Germany) with =93resource people=94 Sarath Fernando, (Sri Lanka); Nicola
Bullard,  (Thailand); Soledad Quintanilla, (El Salvador);  Camille
Chalmers, (Haiti).   First Amendment Room, National Press Club, 529 14th
Street, NW, 13th Floor (at F Street; metro: Metro Center)

=95 PROVISIONAL: 4pm: Strategy session on the potential impact of the war
on Iraq on the IFIs=92 agenda and how we should respond.  Institute for
Policy Studies, 733 15th St., NW (between H and New York Ave.), Room
1020.

=95 6:30pm/7:30pm: Opening plenary of Latin America Solidarity Coalition
(LASC) conference (registration begins at 6:30; plenary at 7:30).
Moderated by Soren Ambrose of 50 Years Is Enough Network. Speakers
include activists from Venezuela and Argentina, plus Victor Quintana
from Mexico.  St. Aloysius Church, 19 I St., N.W. (at North Capitol St.;
metro: Union Station)

Saturday, April 12
=95 9:30am - 12:45pm:  LASC conference continues at St. Aloysius Church,
19 I St., N.W. (at North Capitol St.; metro: Union Station).  For
program, see http://www.lasolidarity.org/events/A2003/workshops.htm.  50
Years is sponsoring a workshop on the IMF, featuring (we hope) Sarath
Fernando, Monica Martens, (Brazil), Soledad Quintanilla, and Camille
Chalmers, at 11:15am
=95 1pm - 4:30pm: Anti-war rally sponsored by International ANSWER, going
from Washington Monument (15th & Independence, SW - Metro: Smithsonian)
to the White House.

=95 5:30 - 9pm: LASC conference re-convenes at St. Aloysius

Sunday, April 13
=95 11am: LASC rally begins at Malcolm X/Meridian Hill park (16th &
Euclid, NW; metro: Columbia Heights).

=95 1pm: March begins, with several stops.  Of particular interest are the
Inter-American Development Bank (13th & New York Ave., N.W.), and the
final stop, with a closing rally, at the site of the spring meetings at
IMF headquarters - Pennsylvania Ave., NW between 18th & 19th Streets
(police actions may mean restrictions on where rally can take place).
Final rally should be underway about 4pm.

Tuesday, April 15
=95 9am:  Briefing for Congress (members & staff) on NEPAD & African
Development, sponsored by Reps. Barbara Lee; Jesse Jackson, Jr.; Maxine
Waters, and Dennis Kucinich.  Featuring 50 Years Is Enough Network South
Council members from Africa =96 (Demba Moussa Dembele, (Senegal); Virginia
Setshedi (South Africa); Gemma Akilimali, (Tanzania).  Rayburn 2168
(metro: Capitol South)
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