GLOBAL PROTESTERS REFUSE TO SHUN VIOLENCE.
``...Those issues, activists said, have been grouped into four broad categories. They are demanding that the World Bank and IMF cancel the debts of all impoverished countries and end policies that hinder access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education and the right to organize. Protesters also want the lenders to stop supporting "destructive" projects such as oil, gas and mining activities, and are calling on the World Bank and IMF to open their meeting to media and the public.
World Bank spokeswoman Caroline Anstey said her organization has consulted with nongovernmental organizations during recent summits and meetings around the world. She said the World Bank welcomes more discussion, but only with those who renounce violence. "I think we very much want to sit down and discuss these issues with them ... but we can't debate with groups that are bent on destruction."...''
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Sounds a lot like the Israelis, doesn't it? Stop protesting and resisting our destruction of your country and then we might consider talking to you on our terms.
It's so obviously a set-up to continue unchecked, while criminalizing the protest, I wonder if many in the great out there notice?
Chuck Grimes