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Protesting the IMF: Letting sleeping dogs lie

Oct 12th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 41

This was no Battle in Seattle. No Combat in the Capitol. Not even a dust up in D.C. Despite a lot of Internet chatter, the planned late night march aimed at waking up the delegates to the International Monetary Fund looked like a bust by the time I left about 2 a.m. Of course, all hell might have broken loose afterwards but with the district po-po out in force, the small band of protesters would have been badly outnumbered.

The few dozen activists who gathered at DuPont Circle at 1 a.m. were outnumbered by the police a good three to one. The traffic circle around the park was lined with police cars and the area around the fountain was ringed with police motorcycles. There were also at least 20 bike cops at the ready.

The D.C. cops were clearly hoping that their show of force would serve as a deterrent to any anarchists looking to incite some civil disorder. And if the sight of all those cops didn’t do it, there was the cop-in-charge, pictured above, who made a point to tell the college-aged crowd that they could (would?) be arrested if they stepped off the sidewalk during the protest.

Organizers had urged people to get rowdy and loud with the plan to march to the hotels where the IMF delegates were supposedly sleeping.

Bring noisemakers to wake up the caretakers of global capitalism and tell them they’re not welcome in DC!

NO PEACE FOR THE BANK!
NO SLEEP FOR THE ELITE!

The IMF and World Bank delegates gathered in Washington where they warned of a global economic meltdown:

“Intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest U.S.-based and European financial institutions have pushed the global financial system to the brink of systemic meltdown,” IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.

To learn more about the IMF and why their policies benefit the powerful at the expense of the third world, visit the U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice.

[Update: Linda at FanaticAttack and Will at Vox Populi both blog about the protest.]

Photo by Joe Newman

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41 Comments on “Protesting the IMF: Letting sleeping dogs lie”

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    Will said:

    Leaving at 2 AM was the right decision. I stuck around about 30 minutes longer to see if anything crazy would happen, but it never did. Seriously, people were literally running into hotel lobbies and yelling, and the police just politely asked them to leave.

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