[Imc-newsroom] World Bank to Avoid Protests with Online Meeting

[Paul Riismandel]

That was this weekend.  There were protests in Barcelona anyway, and more 
police brutality. They did a little coverage on yesterday's Free Speech 
Radio News.

See the main indymedia site for the best report.

--Paul


At 09:03 AM 6/26/01 -0500, Molly Stentz wrote:
>Have people heard about this? I just came across this alternet story which
>is almost a month old now. I think this is a sign the Free Trade movement
>is on the offensive and is making major headway! It also seems foolish
>because the Free Trade and Indymedia movement have got the best tech
>people around... (if only we had funding to pay them full time, can you
>imagine!)
>
>Can anyone write up a news piece on this? I am way way too busy with the
>upcoming News Hour but I am fascinated by this.
>
>-Molly
>
>
>SOLOMON: World Bank to Avoid Protests with Online Meeting
>
>Norman Solomon,
>AlterNet
>
>May 29, 2001
>
>                            Few media eyebrows went up when the World Bank
>recently canceled a global meeting set for Barcelona in late June -- and
>shifted it to the Internet. Thousands of street demonstrators would have
>been in Spain's big northeastern port city to confront the conference.
>Cyberspace promises to be a much more serene location.
>
>                            The World Bank is eager to portray its decision
>as magnanimous, sparing Barcelona the sort of upheaval that has struck
>Seattle, Prague, Quebec City and other urban hosts of international
>economic summits. "A conference on poverty reduction should take place in
>a peaceful atmosphere free from heckling, violence and intimidation," says
>a World Bank official, adding that "it is time to take a stand against
>this kind of threat to free expression." [...]
>
>The rest of the story is at:
>
>http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10942
>
>--
>
>
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