Request for interview regarding World Bank protests
We got an email from Lauren, who is a journalism student at the New School University. She is writing an article about World Bank protests and is looking for folks to answer a few questions for her (see below). If you want to talk to Lauren, you can either email us and we can pass on your contact information to her, or else just email us the answers to the questions and we can forward to her.
* Please note that we do not know Lauren, and as usual you should be careful when talking to strangers about specific activist activities that might get you in trouble!
Here are her questions:
1. Are you planning on protesting the April 2007 World Bank meeting? Why or why not? Do you know of any groups that are?
2. Do you think interest in stopping the World Bank [or at least exposing them] has increased or decreased over recent years? Why?
3. Do you know of anyone else who might be willing to talk to me?
March 17th, 2007 at 6:29 am
No plans to protest. Why ?? For the same reason that others are not - there are areas of protest that are more germane to the cause (e.g. the war in Iraq, Cheney’s control of the government, etc.). Besides, World Bank is talking with all kinds of people it wasn’t a few years ago, and they tell me it’s actually listening to some of what they are saying. There are better ways to spend time and energy.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
yo can anyone give me the date for the wto protests?
April 12th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
I think you meant World Bank, not WTO — the MGJ website says there’s a protest on April 14. I don’t think it’s going to be very large. I hadn’t even realized it was this weekend until I looked just now.
If you are actually talking about the WTO, it seems that they are next scheduled to meet in the fall of 2007.