Earlier Doug posted this: 'In fact, Wolfensohn agrees with many of their concerns and wants to bring the demonstrators into the tent of global problem-solving, rather than holding them at bay at the end of a police truncheon.'
Probably the question is what are pro-poor softies doing at the World Bank anyway? Is this really conceivable as a vehicle for progressive politics? My reading of the spat over the WDR and the resignations was that it was more of a friendly squabble than a difference of principle.
-- James Heartfield
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