World Bank, Car freedom, oil

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 26 09:50:33 PDT 2000


In message <p04330103b5f4667d09d1@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>Under his reign, pro-poor softies have been
>purged, not encouraged.

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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