[stop-imf] April mobilization - IMF/WB - Calendar (Wash DC)!

[Robert Weissman]

From: "50 Years Is Enough Network" <list@50years.org>


Make your plans now to be in Washington from April 21
through April 25!
Endorse the Mobilization's demands at www.50years.org!


APRIL 2004 MOBILIZATION - IMF/ WORLD BANK - WASHINGTON, DC
PLANNED ACTIVITIES (all subject to change)


Wednesday, April 21

12 Noon - 2:00pm
"Unhappy Birthday" for the IMF & World Bank
Demonstration and presentation of thousands of postcards
advocating debt cancellation, end to structural
adjustment.  Outside IMF/WB (Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
between 18th & 19th Streets), Jubilee USA Network with 50
Years Is Enough Network and Africa Action
Contact:  Neil Watkins, Jubilee 783-0219 -
www.jubileeusa.org


4:00 pm?
Debate between IMF/World Bank and civil society
(exact time, location, etc. still to be determined)
Contact: Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network,
202/463-2265


7:15 - 9:00 pm
Mobilization for Global Justice meeting.  Last scheduled
session of the organizing collective for the
demonstrations, etc.  (subsequent meetings likely to be
announced)
Contact:  MGJ, 202-588-1529 - www.globalizethis.org


Thursday, April 22

4:00 - 6:00 pm
"Cry of the People, Cry of the Earth: Will the World Bank
& IMF Respond?"
Vigil sponsored by Religious Working Group on the World
Bank & IMF, outside IMF/WB (Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
between 18th & 19th Streets)
Contact:  Marie Dennis, 202/832-1780


6:30 pm - Conference Registration begins
National Memorial Baptist Church, 1501 Columbia Road, N.W.
at 16th Street, NW
Resisting Market Fundamentalism: Retirement Planning for
the IMF & World Bank
at 60.
7:30 pm    Conference Opens
Contact:  Hope Chu, 50 Years Is Enough Network,
202/463-2265  - www.50years.org


Friday, April 23

8:30 am - 10:30 pm - 50 Years Conference (location changes
from Thurs.):
Resisting Market Fundamentalism: Retirement Planning for
the IMF & World Bank
at 60
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church - 1313 New York
Avenue, N.W. between 13th and 14th Streets
Contact:  Hope Chu, 50 Years Is Enough Network,
202/463-2265  - www.50years.org


Saturday, April 24

12 Noon - 5:00 pm -  Rally and march for global justice -
begins at McPherson Square - bounded by 15th, Vermont, K,
and I Streets, N.W.
Contact:  MGJ, 202-588-1529 - www.globalizethis.org


7:00 - 10:00pm
10th Anniversary Celebration of the 50 Years Is Enough
Network!
Josephine Butler Parks Center - 2437 15th St., N.W. (just
south of Euclid)
Contact: Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network,
202/463-2265 - www.50years.org


Sunday, April 25
12 Noon   March for Women's Lives, The National Mall
Contact:  www.marchforwomen.org