| Headline: ‘The bosses have gone international, now it’s our turn’ Source: Euromoney Date: September 2000 Author: Anja Helk Dozens of established non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as Oxfam and Friends of the Earth, as well as more obscure grassroots movements and umbrella organizations especially set up for the event, will gather in Prague. They will protest against and demonstrate for … well, anything from the speeding up of the debt relief initiative to the abolition of the Bretton Woods institutions. No one really knows how many protesters will show up in Prague, as there is no recent history of IMF/World Bank related protest In Europe. But the surprise appearance of 40,000 protesters against the World Trade Organization in Seattle last November has raised expectations and concerns. Most estimates predict a minimum of 20,000 protesters – more than one for each of the 18,000 official delegates – to descend on the Czech capital, normally home to 1.2 |