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24 september 2002
washington
Friends of the Earth Demands World Bank
Withdrawal from Destructive Projects and
Corporate Welfare at Upcoming Annual
Meetings
Friends of the Earth launches website for
World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings. Visit
www.foei.org/worldbank
for press releases, daily updates and more
information
Friends of the Earth International – the
world’s largest grassroots environmental
network – will challenge the World Bank’s
ongoing support of fossil fuel and mining
projects at the Annual Meetings this
week.
Friends of the Earth is launching a
sweeping strategy to stop World Bank support
for these environmentally and socially
damaging sectors. These and other World Bank
investments in the extractive industries have
benefited large multinational corporations
but failed to help the poor, a violation of
the Bank’s mission of poverty alleviation and
sustainable development.
Friends of the Earth has brought
representatives of communities – including
Cameroon, Peru, Romania, El Salvador,
Nigeria, and Colombia – who are directly
affected by World Bank policies and projects
to Washington D.C. We will be “inside and
outside” the Annual Meetings of the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund,
meeting with decision makers in the
institutions while simultaneously making
these issues known to the public through
peaceful protest. Highlights include:
Press conference on Tuesday,
September 24 at 12:30pm
Willard Inter-Continental Hotel 1401
Pennsylvania Avenue, NWThe Taft Room,
Second Floor
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World Bank’s Billions
for Oil and Gold Enrich Corporations,
Impoverish People.
Speakers include:
Samuel Nguiffo, Cameroon (on ExxonMobil’s
Chad-Cameroon pipeline); Manana
Kochladze, Georgia (on BP’s Baku-Ceyhan
pipeline); Kodruta Nedelcu, Romania (on
Gabriel Resources Gold Mine); Carol
Welch, Friends of the Earth-US.
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Rally for Clean Energy at the World
Bank
on Thursday, September 26 at
11:00amMurrow Park – Across the street
from the World Bank Headquarters1818 H
Street, NW
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Activists from Around
the World and Environmental Groups
Protest World Bank Financing of
Destructive Oil, Mining and Gas
Projects:
Activists will symbolically
return a giant Trojan Horse to the World
Bank, a “Corporate Giant” and 500+ people
with signs.
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Teach-In Conference
September 25 through September 27
Main location: Presbyterian Church 1313
New York Ave., N.W.
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“End Corporate Rule”
Teach-In
in cooperation with the 50
Years is Enough Network, Jubilee 2000 USA
and others.
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Media Contacts:
Jon Sohn(720) 308-7482
Colleen Freeman202-257-0728
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