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

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.

Idris Elbai has joined the Oxfam campaign calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to drop Haiti's Debt.

The Journalist, Marc Mathieu, and Lawyer, Serge Angrand discuss free trade and liberalization impact on Haiti agriculture.

The destruction of Haiti before the destrution.

Washington, Aristide, and the issue of the sale of state-owned enterprises
The events after early 1994 were discussed by Naomi Klein and Aristide in 2005. After that discussion, and after research assistance by Aaron Maté, the following words of Klein were published by The Nation and Now magazine:

The majority of natural resources are located in the continent of Africa. Yet this continent contains some the most mineral rich and economically poor countries in the world. What is the solution to this problem.?
Should they move towards an economic union like Europe in order to prosper?

The two main factions in Zimbabwe's unity government have clashed over how to spend half a billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund, in a dispute that could create further tensions in the already shaky coalition.

The country's finance minister, Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, has earmarked about $50m of

Sargon Nissan of the New Economics Foundation speaking at the Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - putting together a coherent civil society response.

Audio of the presentation is avalable as an MP3 file here