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By joining the international boycott of World Bank-issued bonds, the City of San Francisco is continuing its legacy of supporting social and environmental justice including its support for selective purchase campaigns against Apartheid South Africa and the military junta in Burma. Read More

One of the leading partners in a controversial hydroelectric dam project in southeastern Turkey pulled out of the scheme this week. Read More

PRAGUE -- Yehoshua Tzarfati has a chilling story to tell. He came to Prague to help as a medic during this week's World Bank/IMF demonstrations. Read More

Representatives of various organisations participated in symbolic, but effective protest against the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Bombay and Delhi on Sep. 26th. This was held in the wake of the 55th Summit of WB and IMF at Prague. Read More

PRAGUE -- In a day of protests that were more colorful than violent, 9,000 demonstrators surrounded Prague's Congress Center where the World Bank and IMF are holding their annual meeting. Read More

Police arrested 32 protesters who sat down and linked arms to obstruct the 1900 block of L Street NW during rush hour this morning. The demonstrators were part of a group of 200 who marched and chanted for "global justice" and for the rights of local parking attendants to join a union. Read More

The front line was a scene of confrontation, with riot police three-deep stopping protesters, occasionally by leaking tear gas in their direction and by truncheon blows, from advancing toward the Congress Center on the other side of the several-hundred-meter(-yard)-long bridge, where delegates from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are holding their annual plenary meeting. Read More

Some 5,000 demonstrators marched towards Prague's Congress Centre on Tuesday in a bid to besiege the annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings. Read More

the Initiative Against Economic Globalisation (INPEG)is deeply saddened that people have been hurt during the course of events of Tuesdays protests. Read More

International debt relief campaigners took to the streets of Prague on Sunday angrily demanding that the world's creditors finally make good on promises to write off large swathes of poor countries' debts. Read More