Anyone aware that the IMF is meeting in DC the same weekend as the protest

[LynneSin]

http://www.imf.org/external/am/2005/index.htm

[tk2kewl]

1. Will that be an excuse for massive force by police?

[papau]

2. IMF headquarters is a block from World Bank Building in DC.

The Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (Fund) and the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (Bank) normally meet once a year to discuss the work of their respective institutions. The Annual Meetings, which generally take place in September-October, have customarily been held in Washington for two consecutive years and in another member country in the third year.

The Inaugural Meeting of the Boards of Governors was held in Savannah, Georgia, USA in March 1946. The first Annual Meetings were held in Washington in 1946.

In recent years, the Annual Meetings have been preceded by meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, the Development Committee, the Group of Ten, the Group of Twenty-Four, and various other groups of members. At the conclusion of their meetings, the International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Development Committee, as well as several other groups, issue communiqués. The Annual Meetings include 2 days of plenary sessions, during which Governors take up matters of business, consult with one another, and address the assembled delegates to present their countries' views on current issues in international economics and finance. At the Annual Meetings, the Boards of Governors make decisions on how current international monetary issues should be addressed and approve corresponding resolutions. The Annual Meetings are chaired by a Governor of the Bank and the Fund, with the chairmanship rotating among the membership each year. Every two years it elects Executive Directors. Each year any new members are welcomed into the Bank and Fund.

Because the Annual Meetings bring such a large number of member country officials together, they provide opportunities for consultations large and small, formal and informal. Numerous seminars are held in conjunction with the meetings, including seminars conducted by staff members for members of the press. The Annual Meetings Program of Seminars is designed to foster creative dialogue among the private sector, government delegates and senior Bank and Fund officials. The Per Jacobsson Lecture on international finance, which is sponsored by a foundation set up in honor of the Fund's third Managing Director, is also given each year in conjunction with the Meetings.


Annual Meetings Outside the United States: 1947 – 2006
Year Location
1947 London
1950 Paris
1952 Mexico City
1955 Istanbul
1958 New Delhi
1961 Vienna
1964 Tokyo
1967 Rio de Janeiro
1970 Copenhagen
1973 Nairobi
1976 Manila
1979 Belgrade
1982 Toronto
1985 Seoul
1988 Berlin
1991 Bangkok
1994 Madrid
1997 Hong Kong
2000 Prague
2003 Dubai
2006 Singapore

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. I think that was part of the package

of the planners.

[papau]

4. It was :-)

:-)

[LynneSin]

5. I can't imagine a better reason

but I know how I am - if the anarchists are around that's the place where I won't be protesting. THose people are incredible but they also frighten me :scared: