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

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.

Democracy Now report on the contentious approval of the Eskom loan to South Africa

This video, produced by International Accountability Project and Accountability Counsel, shows the struggle of two indigenous Shipibo communities in the Peruvian Amazon, who have suffered from oil contamination and severe health impacts caused by Maple Energy plc, a multinational oil company that has received financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

The film focuses on the lives of the villagers of Barskon, a remote settlement in the west of Kyrgyzstan that, since 1997, has also been home to a controversial gold mine. In 1998, nearly two tons of cyanide spilled from the gold mine operations, poisoning the nearby river and leaving several people dead and hundreds seeking medical treatment.

Maurice Carney on the western corporate backing of Joseph Kabila and the corporate pillaging of the Congolese people's resources.

The IMF/World Bank play a key role in softening up local governments and pave the way for corporate takeovers of African countries.

Rick Rowden visits the World Bank InfoShop and is surprised to find his new book - "the Deadly Ideas of Neo-Liberalism" - prominently displayed inside the IMF/World Bank ..

Utrecht, 2 February 2010. Multistakeholder Consultation on the World Bank Group Environment Strategy 2010, hosted by ICCO. Full recording of the session:
1. Presentation of the World Bank Group concept note on 2010 Environment Strategy
2. Intervention by Paul Wolvekamp (Both ENDS) and Ekko van Ierland (Wageningen University)
3. Debate and conclusions

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Utrecht, 2 February 2010. Prof. Ekko van Ierlan (Wageningen University) thinks that the public debate on the World Bank Enviroment Strategy turned into a very productive afternoon. He stresses the importance of an ecosystem based approach for economic development and he hopes this concept will be integrated in the final World Bank environment strategy.

Utrecht, 2 February 2010. Ywende Awe from the World Bank shares the main messages that emerged from the public consultation on the environment strategy hosted by ICCO.