Headline: Bang goes the whole shebang Source: Euromoney Date: September 2001 Author: Sarah Best Anti-globalization protesters have dogged meetings from Seattle to Prague in recent years and now threaten to turn Washington DC into a war zone at this year’s already curtailed IMF and World Bank meetings. Even some of the protest groups are getting scared about turning up. People are starting to feel that the meetings as we know them will soon be a thing of the past and are wondering what form they will take.
The internet is buzzing with exhortations for protesters to converge on Washington DC and exercise their first-amendment rights. In the lead-up to the weekend of September 29 and 30, the city will once again fill with backpack and bongo-laden protesters making the most of their right to free speech. |