----- Original Message ----- From: X min Y/KH <kh at xminy.nl> To: <a-infos-en at lists.tao.ca> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 5:35 AM Subject: (en) Wolfensohn, who has only six days ago been shamed in Israel,criminalises US activists against IMF/WB
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> WorldBank president James Wolfensohn has just been making
> incredible comments here (The Hague, Netherlands) severely
> criminalising anti-imf/wb activists and especially the Ruckus
> Society.
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> He said sunday 28 (and it's on the frontpage of the Volkskrant,
> which claims to be the quality daily newspaper in Holland) that "He
> fears a lot of violence wil happen in Prague" because "A militant
> group from the US is preparing to violently disturb de meeting of
> IMF and Worldbank"...
> Wolfensohn is quoted saying: "I'm very afraid for Prague (...) There
> is a militant group in the US called Ruckus. This group is already
> training for Prague. They teach how to make molotov-cocktails and
> how to use other violent tacticts to protest. A female US biljonair is
> behind the organisation."
> The article then goes on about how militants tried to disturb Seattle
> and Washington, and how Wolfensohn is trying to listen to the
> critics: "we learn to listen to the frustrations and we react by being
> as open and transparent possible". Then of course the
> usual stuff about "most protesters not knowing anything about the
> work we do", etc.
> Apart from dangerous lies about organisations, this kind of bullshit
> is already doing the PR for the police in Prague to cover the
> violence they will use against us next september.
>
> The article is also on the net-version of the Volkskrant:
> http://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws/economie/350021299.html?history=
> /i25000006
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> We'll send a letter to the editor to protest and explain that the
> the only really violent group so far has been the cops in Seattle in
> Washington.
> But there might be other possibilities to confront the guy himself
> with his lies...?
> (kees/ Solidarity fund XminY (www.xminy.nl)
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