"People before Commodities" - IFOAM Side Event at the UNFCCC Climate Change Negotiations in Bonn, Germany (AWG-KP 13 and AWG-LCA 11), that took place on Thursday, 5 August .

"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious"

Oscar Wilde

PARIS -- 3 June 2010 -- At a Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) event on fossil-fuel subsidies today at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) headquarters in Paris, New Zealand's Deputy High Commissioner to Australia, Vangelis Vitalis, speaking on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, announced the formation of a new initiative, The Friends of Fossil-Fue

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Early AM on April 24, anti-IMF/World Bank protesters stormed a hotel housing delegates to the IMF Spring Meetings.

Footage edited only for framerate, color balance, audio EQ, and to attach two whole clips together. Shot while zoomed from a VERY cheap camera.

Video from the Run on the Bank, the first event of the Anticapitalathon Games, cooinciding with theIMF and World Bank Spring Meetings for 2010.

April 23, 2010

Riot police in Athens fired tear gas to dispel a group of protesting youths throwing stones and sticks at police following an anti-IMF demonstration. Jon Decker reports.

Finance ministers from around the world have descended on Washington, D.C. for the annual World Bank/IMF spring meetings. The annul gathering opened with the 20 finance ministers from the worlds leading economies. Top on their agenda were two new bank taxes, climate change and possible reforms to the institutions voting system.

The IMF's annual spring meetings have been going on here in Washington, and we aren't neccessarily going to call it business as usual. Greece is asking for a bailout, the global economy is still in a rut, and now more than ever, the power structures within the IMF itself are being questioned and challenged.

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com

Today we continue telling about
a report by three geography
experts from American colleges. They studied food security
in Gambia, Ivory Coast and
Mali over thirty years.
In the nineteen eighties, governments and lenders
like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
changed market policies.