Introducing with indymedia.org, coverage of the protests in September 2000 against the IMF and the World Bank conference in Prague. Interviews with activists and campaigners from the southern hemisphere give damning criticism of the IMF and World Bank policies as the film charts the preparations for the day of action in Prague, the day itself and its aftermath.

Financial markets in turmoil, energy price rises, food riots, violent conflicts and environmental disasters. And whatever the disaster, poor and marginalised people are always affected the most.... It doesn't have to be this way.

Meena Raman · Trevor Ngwane · Susan George · Tariq Ramadan · Mark Thomas · Bianca Jagger. Chair: Asad Rehman.

Licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Street Protest against the World Bank's involvement in the United Nations Climate Change processes. the World Bank is a major investor in oil, mining and gas, and building infrastructure for the global fossil fuel economy. so it is worse than hypocritical for it to set itself up as the body to channel international assistance finance for responding and adapting to climate change.

Philip Arestis, Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy, University of Cambridge Speaking at the Workshop: 'Developing Joint UK Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis' organised by the Bretton Woods project and School of Oriental and African Studies, Research on Money and Finance, Dec 15th, 2008

Clips/Extraits:
- Documentaire "Un autre monde est possible" - Keny Arkana
- EURONEWS - Contestation G20 (01.04.09)
- FSM 2009 - Belém (World Social Forum)

Transparency International has three key questions to the World Bank ahead of the 2009 Spring Meetings.

'Ain't no power like the power of the people cos the power of the people don't stop...'

As the world finances start to spin and the roulette wheel of international finance starts to turn increasingly dark, this is not the time to abandon the ideas that have made a select few people very rich.