Hundreds of activists warn they will be watching new World Bank head Wolfo

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Around 300 organisations, protesting the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz who enters office as the new World Bank chief Wednesday, have warned "the whole world" will be watching how he manages the multilateral institution.

Some 303 civil society groups announced in a letter that they would be staging "a theatrical event" across from the World Bank headquarters in Washington early Wednesday, to coincide with Wolfowitz's first day in office.

Wolfowitz, who in his previous role as the deputy defense secretary at the Pentagon was a key decision-maker in the US-led war on Iraq, "does not look like the person who will shift the Bank's priorities away from opening up markets for multinational corporations and toward assisting governments and citizens that want to determine their own fate," according to the letter's signatories.

The signatories, who include anti-globalization, pacificist, and ecologist organizations from 61 countries, are protesting the World Bank's "destructive policies as well as the lack of democracy and accountability that allowed him to become its president."

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[SouthernDem2004]

1. So? These people hate the WB.

[maddezmom]

3. and looks like GWB gave them another reason to hate it

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[struggle4progress]

2. Within a week, Comb-chewer will be preaching debt-slavery on every corner.