September 2006--International People's Forum vs. the World Bank & IMF

Sep 1, 2006

The Forum will be a convergence of activities and actions that
articulate critiques, express protest and assert alternatives to the
role, policies and operations of these institutions.

For more than sixty years, the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank together with their partner regional development banks and
export credit agencies, have used international finance capital to
exercise control and restructure the societies of the South to serve
the interests of global private corporations and the economic and geo-
political agenda of the few powerful nations that control these
institutions.

The resulting effects on people's lives, on communities, on the
environment, and on the economic as well as political structures in
the South have been profound and over the years have generated
numerous resistance struggles against these institutions.

Despite well-documented evidence and countless testimonies to the
destruction, displacement and dispossession their policies and
operations have caused, these institutions persist in legitimizing
their role. In recent years they have declared themselves to be
champions of "poverty reduction" and "good governance."

This year, 2006, we pledge to intensify our struggles against these
institutions and raise the level of international coordination and
concerted action. In particular, we commit to organizing different
forms of mobilization and direct action in many countries across the
globe during the week of the IMF and WB Annual Meetings, September 14-
20, 2006. This will include various activities and actions in the
vicinity of their meetings in Singapore.
We invite you to take part in this process of exchanges, learning,
networking, strategizing, and protest actions among activists and
movements from various parts of the world.

For more information visit the IPF site: http://www.ipf.homeip.net/

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