World Bank cancels Barcelona meeting

Johannes Schneider Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net
Tue Jun 19 10:37:06 PDT 2001



>From the BBC website, full text at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1396000/1396508.stm

"Tuesday, 19 June, 2001, 15:50 GMT 16:50 UK Protest fear forces World Bank switch The World Bank has decided to hold an annual development conference in cyberspace after protesters threatened to disrupt the event. The meeting, which was scheduled to take place in Barcelona, is the latest casualty of the wave of anti-globalisation protests which have swept Europe and the US in recent years."

The webadress for the conference is: http://www.canalweb.net/cwsite/diffs/w/worldbank/default.asp?d=worldbank Looks as if a cyberspace picket is needed. Remember etoys?

Johannes



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