| Forty thousand demonstrated in Seattle. Now Prague braces itself |
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The "Turn Prague into Seattle" slogan has been pinned to thousands of protesters' T-shirts, websites have been set up, and accommodation organized months ago. The protesting community has prepared well for the 55th annual IMF/World Bank meetings from September 19 to 28.
Dozens of established non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as Oxfam and Friends of the Earth, as well as more obscure grassroots movements and umbrella organizations especially set up for the event, will gather in Prague. They will protest against and demonstrate for ... well, anything from the speeding up of the debt relief initiative to the abolition of the Bretton Woods institutions.
No one really knows how many protesters will show up in Prague, as there is no recent history of IMF/World Bank related protest In Europe.