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Break the World Bank report back
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Wednesday November 14, 2007 17:32 by Grassroots Dissent
On Monday 12th November the World Bank met in the Grand Hotel Malahide. As happens all across the globe wherever the World Bank meet activists came together to send the message that the Bank is horrific, directly responsible for death and devastation, and we reject the World Bank as an institution with no legitimacy. Break the World Bank! On Monday and Tuesday the International Development Agency of the World Bank gathered in Dublin to meet. They were discussing, amongst other things, the amount of money that member countries would pledge to the lending arm of the World Bank. This money will then be loaned out with stringent ‘economic conditions’ attached. |
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Jump To Comment: 1I spent the session with my two-year-old daughter, one of about half a dozen kids (mostly toddlers for obvious reasons) who were there. Well done to the organisers for making it such a friendly (not just child-friendly) event: the two-and-a-half foot view (as far as I could get it) was full of cheerful and friendly people (despite a bitter wind), colourful banners (which made great play opportunities), masks to wave, food, things needing painting and music. Most fun I've had at a demo in ages!
And well worth doing too, given that one of the most immediate effects of the WB's "economic conditionalities" is soaring rates of infant mortality: kids the age of those there, dying because food and fuel subsidies have been slashed, health systems cut to the bone, their mothers education out the window and other pleasant little effects of creating a world safe for capitalism at the expense of the poorest of the poor. When times get hard, the first to die are the under-5s.