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.

Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - putting together a coherent civil society response.

Greenpeace say international logging companies are causing social chaos and wreaking environmental havoc, and the World Bank, by far the largest donor to the DRC, is failing to stop this destruction whilst the Rainforest is being sold off under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty in one of the poorest countries on Earth.

On the Market and Policy Origins of the International Financial Crisis...
Economist from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London speaks at the Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - Putting Together a Coherent Civil Society Response.

Go here to view the powerpoint presentation.

Promo for some of the Asian Development Bank's work on Aid Effectiveness