As part of this movement, Fifty Years is Enough, Jobs with Justice, Global Exchange, Essential Action and World Bank Bonds Boycott/Center for Economic Justice are organizing a Teach In on the global impact of the World Bank and IMF.
Thursday, Sept. 27, 7 pm, Opening Event, National Baptist Memorial Church, 16th St and Columbia. Sept. 28 and 29, Plenaries all day, at National Baptist and Casa del Pueblo Methodist Church, 1459 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington, DC.
Plenary sessions will address the true global impact of the World Bank and IMF (on labor, environment, debt, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more). The Teach In will also discuss active national and international campaigns against these institutions. Speakers will be primarily from the Global South to discuss their experiences and campaigns first hand in countries such as India, the Philippines, South Africa, Senegal, Brazil, and many more.
Tickets: Thursday evening opening Event: $10; Friday and Saturday: $25; Three day ticket: $30
For latest information, schedules, speakers lists and to buy tickets please visit www.essentialaction.org [2] or contact Monica Wilson at 202-387-8030.
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Neil Watkins
World Bank Bonds Boycott
Center for Economic Justice
1830 Connecticut Ave., NW, 4th floor,
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: (202) 299-0020 / Fax: (202) 299-0021
Web: www.worldbankboycott.org [3]
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During the Joint Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) this September, tens of thousands of people will converge in Washington, DC to be a part of the growing Global Justice Movement. They will be calling for an end to the policies and practices of the IMF and World Bank that have caused widespread poverty, inequality, and suffering among the world's peoples and damage to the world's environment.
Links
[1] https://www.pambazuka.org/author/contributor
[2] http://www.essentialaction.org
[3] http://www.worldbankboycott.org
[4] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3309
[5] https://www.pambazuka.org/article-issue/33
[6] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3274
[7] http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/advocacy/2652