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Protesters planning big demonstrations for meetings of World Bank and IMF/Free Republic
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| 9/3/2002
| David Ho
Posted on 09/03/2002 4:29:01 PM PDT by USA21
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:12 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Anti-globalization demonstrators, relatively subdued since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, are preparing a clamorous return to the streets this month when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meet.
Protest organizers said Tuesday they expect thousands to turn out on the weekend of Sept. 28 outside the Washington headquarters of the global financial institutions. The demonstrators oppose policies they say harm the environment and people in poor countries.
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KEYWORDS: worldbankandimf
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:29:02 PM PDT
by
USA21
To: USA21
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:33:21 PM PDT
by
USA21
To: USA21
I'd like to be their protesting the WTO and IMF.
To: USA21
their=there
To: USA21
The conservative group Free Republic is planning a smaller counter-demonstration to oppose the anti-globalization protesters.
Why?
Don't tell me that this website supports Globalism?
To: kristinn
Way to go!
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:40:38 PM PDT
by
Dales
To: FreedomFriend
World Bank, too.
To: FreedomFriend
"The conservative group Free Republic is planning a smaller counter-demonstration to oppose the anti-globalization protesters."
Explain to me that the FR want to be Globalized?.... One currency? One Goverment? No Freedom? World Taxes? U.N.????
Is this what the FR is all about? Explain this to me please.
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:43:15 PM PDT
by
Afronaut
To: kristinn
U rock! =D
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:43:54 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
To: Afronaut
You apparently don't understand what globalization is. It's NONE of those things you mentioned.
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:48:03 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Afronaut
Is this what the FR is all about? Explain this to me please. Gladly.
You have assumed that there are two alternatives, and if one is not against the globalization then he is for it. The anti-globalization protestors are usually misfits that could not find another cause. Opposing THEM does not imply acceptance of all forms of globalization.
Next, the original meaning of the term implied fluidity, ease in the movement of people, thoughts, capital. Most people who accept capitalism and free markets celebrate such ease. It is not our reposnsibility for the hijacking of the word: global taxes is socialism, not globalization, for instance.
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:48:25 PM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: USA21
Earlier Tuesday on WTOP, an all-news radio station in Washington, Police Chief Charles Ramsey said it's not his department's job to protect ''a bunch of bankers from around the world.'' It sure as hell is.
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:48:32 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
Next thing, you will be expecting him to find Chandra Levy's killer or something.
Boy, you expect the world!
To: USA21
I oppose globalization for the exact opposite reasons that the anarchist whackos do. I oppose the WTO and the IMF. Why the heck is Free Republic being mentioned in an AP article for planning a "counter demonstration" of the WTO/IMF protestors? Why is the good name of Free Republic being used to promote organizations and policies which are destructive of our national sovereignty and freedom? Who's bad idea is this "counter protest"?
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:55:09 PM PDT
by
Spiff
To: Dog Gone
You apparently don't understand what globalization is. It's NONE of those things you mentioned. Really? Well if the IMF and the WTO and any other similar entities are involved it is. The WTO is a direct affront to our national sovereignty and our constitutional, representative form of government.
So, please candycoat the WTO/IMF form of "globalization" so we can all laugh at you.
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posted on
09/03/2002 4:57:51 PM PDT
by
Spiff
To: Dog Gone
"It's NONE of those things you mentioned."
Then I'm really confused because I thought those were a number of issues surrounding supporting globalization.
And since that's what I've understood globalization to be much about, I don't know why Freepers would want to appear to be on the opposite side. Let the socialist whiners do our work for us and oppose the world economic takeover by central banks.
To: FreedomFriend
How long have you been on this website?
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posted on
09/03/2002 5:11:48 PM PDT
by
sauropod
To: kristinn
''They're people in search of something to complain about,'' said Free Republic organizer Kristinn Taylor.
ExACTly. As one uniformed Secret Service agent said last 9/29, "Be nice to these guys, their parents didn't pay them enough attention when they were young."
To: FreedomFriend; sauropod
FreedomFriend:
I think if globalization interferred with self-defense or core national objectives, it might be bad. It's not a per se good or bad thing.
But these unwashed, socialist protestors vowing to destroy property ARE a bad thing. (Also, on a little personal note, I live in DC and they litter like crazy; so much for being "green.")
To: Dog Gone
Shiftless Gov't Worker Quote of the Year
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posted on
09/03/2002 5:17:13 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
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