IMF / WB protests in DC - Full Schedule and Calls

It s finally here, this weekend we are going to show the bankers and capitalists that we are not messing around, these are our lives that they are trading and shaping for their profit, and we will not stand for it! It is time to draw a line and make a stand of our own!

Here are the final logistical details for this upcoming weekend: details online at
www.selfdescribed.org
www.globaljusticeaction.org
At the bottom of this email is a schedule of actions and trainings and a compilation of calls to action for next weekend's World Bank and IMF Protests. Before that, some logistical information:

The Convergence Space is located at 16th and Newton Streets NW in Columbia Heights at St. Stephen's Church. This is the same space as October Rebellion. It will be open from 12(noon)-10pm on Thursday and 10am-10pm on Friday and from 12-10 pm on Saturday. It will not be open on Sunday.

Mass Housing (free) is also at St Stephen's. Space is still available at the church. There will be a room at St Stephen's where you can leave your stuff securely while at the actions. Mass Housing will be available Thursday evening through Sunday Morning. It will open every day at 10PM and close each morning between the hours of 7am-9am. Exact closing time is TBA.

Do not bring any alcohol, drugs or weapons into either of the spaces. Both are sober spaces as well. Do NOT come back under the influence; we have lots of work to do next weekend, let's keep it focused.

Finally, while we're staying on a church floor, want to know where the delegates are staying? Go to the website for a map of all the delegate hotels.

See you in the streets!


Action Schedule:

Friday April 24th

11:30 AM: 5k Run on the Bank - take a lunchtime run to the World Bank, meet at Malcolm X Park at 11:30 AM. Followed by a rally at Murrow Park:

1pm: rally and press conference at Murrow Park (18th and H St NW)

pm-5pm: Walking Tour of IMF delegate Hotels and Downtown DC Orientation. Take a First Hand look at how to get around downtown, the alleys, delegate hotels and other points of interest. We will leave promptly so as to finish by 5pm. Meet at Farragut Square. Organized by SDAC.

5:30 PM: Spokes and Dinner at St Stephen's Church (16th and Newton St NW)


Saturday April 25th

AM: Direct Actions - disrupt the start of the IMF/World Bank meetings with blockades and unpermitted marches

8AM: Anti-Capitalist March. Meet at Law Enforcement Memorial at Judiciary Square Metro (red line)

1pm-9pm: People's Economic Forum - Join us for an all day forum to learn and discuss the causes of the financial crisis, the role of the IMF and World Bank, and alternatives to the current system. St Stephens Church, 1525 Newton St NW (corner of 16th & Newton)

3-5PM: Nap Time and Vegan Cookies at West End Library 24th and L St NW hosted by SDAC

10PM: Baseball and Soccer Game in the Streets. Meet at Washington Circle. Organized by SDAC.


Sunday April 26th

2pm: March & Rally - permitted rally and march starting at Dupont Circle and ending in front of the World Bank

Training and Workshop Schedule (All At St. Stephen's unless otherwise noted): Every Hour on the Hour at the Convergence Space (St. Stephens) for the duration of the weekend , a 15-20 minute orientation to DC Workshop will take place. Learn how to navigate DC via foot or public transit; about gentrification in DC; local restaurants; all the different police jurisdictions, etc.

Thursday:
4-5PM: Health and Safety In the Streets

4-5PM: Know Your Rights

5PM: Dinner

5:30: Spokes

7:30: Legal Observer Training

Friday:
12-2: Medic Refresher Course (for folks who are already Medics)

2-3:30 : Tactical Direct Action

2:30-3:30 : Media Training (learn how to talk to the media)

3-5: Nonviolent Direct Action (at Mt. Pleasant Library at 16th and Lamont St, just down the road)

3:30-4:30 : Know Your Rights

3:30-4:30 : Health and Safety in the Streets

4:30-5:30 : Legal Observer Training

5:30: Dinner and Spokes


Saturday (Forum):

1pm: Welcome from Global Justice Action

1:15-2:45: The World Economic Crisis Explained

3-3:30: History of the Global Justice Movement: The highlights, challenges, successes, and failures

3:45-5: Mapping the Crisis: Break out groups addressing how specific issues relate to the financial crisis and the IMF and World Bank, and discussing real alternatives and solutions (all break outs will occur simultaneously)

Housing & Homelessness
Education
Labor
Immigration
Environment
International Financial Institutions
War & Militarism

5-6: Reportbacks from the break out groups. Even thought you only got to attend one, you get to hear the highlights from all of them. From these reportbacks we will harvest key points to build an inclusive multi-issue platform for radically addressing the financial crisis

6-7: Free vegan dinner will be provided

7-9pm: Alternatives to Capitalism: Panel Discussion




Self Described Anarchist Collective

Anti-capitalist forces are manifesting their opposition on April 25th against capitalism 8:00 AM Judiciary Square Metro at the Law Enforcement Memorial


Some have been saying it all along…

Some have just begun to see it in crisis…

A world in constant crisis, chained to desks and assembly lines, clear cuts and wastelands left in its wake… and they called it progress…and it collapsed. The suffering and disempowerment felt around the world everyday has become generalized in capitalist globalization. The age of globalization is the age of quiet total war.

They exploited us, traded us away, and left us to pick up the devastation. This world is a death machine, producing death and saying that this is what it means to have it work. Around the world thousands die everyday of preventable causes linked to poverty as we live lives of shallow material opulence obtained by selling our entire lives away in the channels opened up in some market, a market which guarantees poverty to most and complete objectification to the rest. And they say that it works… And it collapsed…

Work or starvation and for many work and starvation. They fenced off the world into property, fenced off the Earth itself and make us buy back the things which are already ours if we just decide to take them back. They made us dependent on markets for the basics of life… and it collapsed…

For all our subservience we got a world of poverty, wars, cultural meaninglessness, and wastelands. We are killing ourselves while we devastate the very planet which sustains us in a frantic race to the bottom. Capitalism is a race to see who can exploit more, extract more, cut more, and drill more, the fastest and make the most money doing it… and as a result the planet is a sinking ship. For every oil spill, every clear cut, every by-product dumped into a lake, every mountain blown up to mine coal, every war started, every sweatshop opened, every housing foreclosure, every lay-off, every eco-system leveled to build an upscale resort, every prisoner locked away, every culture destroyed, profit is made, and the drive for profit is destroying the planet while relegating us to lives slaved away in the offices, factories, and prisons of this world.

And it collapsed… We are left to pay Wall Street for the money THEY lost and the lives THEY destroyed. We are left jobless, homeless, lifeless, and suffering the effects of THEIR failure, unless we refuse this fate.

We have a choice to make, stay on the sinking ship or turn and fight. The people that structure this destruction have faces and meetings. We intend to take the fight to them, and this is a fight for our world, a fight for our lives. April 24-26 in Washington DC the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will be holding their annual Spring meetings, and we will be in the streets waiting…

We are calling for a an anti-capitalist bloc to strike a blow against the death machine.

Anti-capitalist forces are manifesting their opposition on April 25th against capitalism 8:00 AM, to compliment and support other autonomous actions, Judiciary Square Metro at the Law Enforcement Memorial.

Kick it till it breaks! For A spring Social war.

A communique from the Self-Described Anarchist Collective



SDAC Releases Promo Video

Those self described anarchist are up to it again. Trying to rough up some trouble releasing the new promo videos for the world bank and IMF demonstrations
www.vimeo.com


Global Justice Action Call to Action

Protest the spring IMF/World Bank meetings!

As the economic crisis deepens and US foreclosure and unemployment rates climb, wealthy bankers and finance ministers from around the world scramble to resuscitate the financial institutions which created the crisis in the first place. This April the global elite, global financial institutions, and wealthy governments will meet to plan out billions of dollars worth of new economic bailouts for themselves while the nation's poor, the poor of the world, and working people are left with only crumbs. Billions of dollars have already been handed over to CEOs and portfolio managers, while workers' benefits and wages get slashed simultaneously. This trend will continue so long as capitalist expansion is prioritized over democratic principles, as long as profit is more important than people.

A better world is possible, a world in which our means of providing for ourselves is not controlled by a wealthy elite. A global order is possible in which the dignity of human life is placed above greed, and the living earth is shared and respected, rather than commodified and sold.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are two institutions which enforce the hyper-capitalist status quo. Since 1980, these institutions have been forcing countries to adopt neoliberal structural adjustment policies of privatization, liberalization and budget cuts. These policies are directly to blame for much of the suffering in the current financial crisis and in its predecessors in Argentina, East Asia, Russia and elsewhere. Though the IMF itself is beginning to admit its mistakes – it recently recommended that countries abandon market fundamentalist policies to directly intervene in their economies – it’s understood that that advice only applies to the United States and European countries. Free markets for the poor and socialism for the rich is their mantra.

Neoliberal economics widens the sphere of imperialist capitalism, props up schemes of privatization, market liberalization and deregulation, and is ultimately to blame for this crisis. The World Bank and IMF are preeminent supranational institutions working to preserve the global financial order that puts profits, private gain, militarism, and gentrification over the needs of the people. Through their Structural Adjustment Programs - what they now refer to as “Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers” – these institutions have been destroying economies, local and global, for far too long. They must be stopped.

The World Bank and IMF will be holding their annual joint spring meetings April 24-26 in Washington DC. As they try to save themselves from global financial meltdown (or maybe just give themselves a few extra billion dollars) we all know better than to let them have all the fun without us. Join Global Justice Action to oppose these institutions, resist the dominant global order, and show that a better world is possible, free from neoliberalism, capitalism, and imperialism.

Global Justice Action embraces a diversity of tactics and will therefore be organizing a wide array of actions and events including coordinated direct actions and blockades, a mass permitted march, a people's forum, and a few other surprises! GJA will host community education events, arts workshops, trainings, and direct action meetings in the months leading up to April for the purposes of putting together a well coordinated, effective, inclusive weekend of actions that will hamper the plans of the ten thousand plus delegates.


Run on The Bank

Friday 11:30 AM Malcolm X Park

The Banks and their friends in Congress took our money and ran with it. And now they expect us to pay for it. Let's give them a run for the money!

They preyed on low-income communities, handing out high interest “No Income No Asset Loans”, telling, begging people to lie about their incomes. These conniving mortgage brokers were in cahoots with the big banks, borrowing money from institutions like Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual to fund their "investments".

Then, the mortgage brokers took these loans, bundled thousands of them together and sold them on Wall Street in the form of Mortgage backed securities. Investors all around the world salivated over these securities – as they were viewed as being as liquid as cash. But, then, when the high interest rates started to kick in, people began to default on their loans. And as the defaults started rolling in, so too did the market begin to crash. This was facilitated by the globalization of the economy which is premised on the shipping of jobs and resources away from places where people make living wages and into places where people are locked into sweatshop conditions only to make enough to eat at the end of the day.

What began the fulfillment of the so-called “American dream” quickly turned into a nightmare of catastrophic proportions.

Pensions and 401Ks all tied up in the financial markets dwindled to pennies. Wages, stagnant at best for years prior, are now on a downward spiral. Factories are shuttering their doors. Workers are being laid off like yesterday's news. Lines of credit have dried up for the majority of working America making it nearly impossible to buy a house, fix your car or get any extra cash save from the Payday lenders.

All the while, Congress and friends give hundreds of billions of dollars to Wall Street Fat Cats and corporate executives. With time, the AIG scandal will prove to be the tip of the iceberg.

The tragedy is that their failed adventure, funded with our money and jobs, strangles the possibilities of our lives. From the fencing off of spaces to the selling of the fundamental resources necessary for our lives, from ecological devastation to the building of freeways to efficiently transport workers and goods to places of production, the economy has framed our lives. And that economy has failed and is dragging us down with its sinking ship.

This global phenomenon has been perpetuated by global financial institutions, particularly the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which structure the global economy around profit not people. Every time they ship jobs overseas to sweatshops, force countries to privatize forests for logging, flood valleys to build dams that displace people by the hundreds of thousands, every time they calculate the effects of their actions they evaluate them in the framework of private profit, even though the effects are far from private.

They structure the possibilities of using our bodies, what health care we can afford, how our shoes are produced, what land we can use, and in their failure we are the ones effected, and they still expect us to pay them for the failure of their financial adventures. Rage has been growing around the world, from Greece to Iceland, from the G20 meetings in London to activists squatting abandoned houses in the US, people are using the very bodies which are limited by the market to fight back against its colonization of our everyday lives.

Clearly the Banks have bankrupted the world. The rich got richer thanks to Congress and their friends on K Street. The poor and working people are sinking further and further into poverty. The banks have failed us. They took our money and ran with it.

Historically, when Banks loose the trust of the people, the people have a number of options, the first and perhaps most obvious is to withdraw support from the institution --- remove their assets from the bank. As more people lose faith in banks, more and more people withdraw their money. But, fear not, thanks to fractional reserve banking, banks in the US are only required to keep 10% of their deposits as cash. The rest is reinvested back on the global financial markets. So, most of your money that you give to the Banks every paycheck isn't going towards your savings. It's not being put in a vault for safe keeping. It's being put in exactly the same place that lost it all in the first place.

A run on the bank occurs when more money is extracted from a bank than they have on reserves. The run on the bank has a colorful history of action and success, it is an action present in the midst of almost all financial collapses, Northern Rock in England is perhaps the most recent. The banks stole our money and we should take it back and the run on the bank is a creative way to use our bodies to take control of our world. While running is essentially an act taken in isolation the run on the bank is a purely collective act, an act taken by those hurt by the crisis against those that caused it.

Do you have faith in the financial markets? The same markets that caused massive worldwide unemployment, huge global inequality, foreclosures, evictions, rising food and fuel prices, wars of aggression?

The Banks took our money and ran with it, now they want us to pay for their mistakes. They broke it, they bought it. Run on the Bank! Join us Friday April 24 at 11:30am at Malcolm X Park (Meridian Hill Park) for a Run on the Bank. The Run on the Bank is a 5K (3.1 miles) group run beginning at Malcolm X Park. The run will snake its way downtown passing by dozens of banks, hotels, boutiques and lobby firms. It will end at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which will be holding their Spring Meetings, in commemoration of the destruction they've committed via global shock-therapy, structural adjustment policies, privatization schemes, deregulation and overall love of failed neoliberal economics. This is a group run. We will stay together. We encourage experienced and novice runners alike to join us on the run. Water and refreshments will be available at the beginning, half way point and the finish line.

Everyone who completes the run will be awarded a DIY finishers' medal.

The run will conclude with a rally and press conference at Murrow Park (18th and H St NW) between 12:45 and 1pm.

For complete Route Information, Click Here.


Sports Riot: Baseball and Soccer

Saturday 10 PM Washington Circle

For DC residents, two of America's so-called "favorite pastimes," baseball and soccer, have become the nightmare that plagues our budget and exacerbates the local financial crisis.

In SW DC, a neighborhood skirting the Capitol Hill boundaries, developers have long salivated over the land deemed "blighted" in their eyes. They snatched up parcels; closed and demolished Arthur Capper and Carrollsburg Public Housing Complexes, kicking out hundreds of low-income primarily African-American families; closed, surplussed and disposed of the only homeless shelter in SW DC, resulting in at least three preventable deaths; and used eminent domain to destroy the thriving gay nightclub scene and whole blocks of row houses and gardens. Developers and their friends in city council, most notably Jack Evans (of 3141 P St NW), schemed to make this neighborhood "new again." Indigenous residents were kicked out, over the Anacostia River to SE, to Maryland, or simply to the streets.

In its place, DC government and developers built/are building/intending to build luxury condos, sky rise office complexes, an art museum (once a shelter, now vacant but coming soon...in 2015!), a parking lot (oh yeah, that was public housing) and the real kicker, a baseball stadium.

Despite vast public opposition from all wards of the city and the fact that the team's owners, the Lerner family, are periodically listed among top 200 wealthiest families in the world (Ted Lerner alone is worth over $3 billion), the stadium was constructed using almost $1 billion in DC taxpayer money. For a city whose government officials are constantly in the news on charges of graft and mismanagement, the baseball stadium was erected in record time.

But none of that helped the poor Washington Nationals. Last season, their first in their shiny new taxpayer subsidized stadium, the Nationals had the second worst record in major league history. Thus far this season, they've lost every game they've played. The stadium was rarely sold out.

All the while, healthcare facilities' budgets are being slashed, schools are shuttering their doors, library hours are cut, Mayor Fenty is closing every single Parks and Recreation Childcare facility, shelters are closing, and the list goes on. The reason for all this? There's no money to fund it.

But the story doesn't end there. The Lerner family never paid taxes on the stadium. Over a billion dollars and DC residents didn't get a cent. The mainstream media covered the scandal until the Lerners declared they would pay. What the corporate propaganda organs never told us was that the DC government, with Mayor Fenty and Councilmember Evans behind it, gave the Lerners the amount they owed in taxes. The Lerners reciprocated by writing a check back to the District for the exact amount received.

Soccer in the District has a similar, though not yet complete, story. A parcel of land on the tip of the Anacostia known as Poplar Point has long been eyed by developers to "revitalize" the neighborhood. Working with councilmembers Marion Barry and Jack Evans, developers sought to get the land and build a soccer stadium alongside a whole new neighborhood. Clark Development, mega-developers in the DC area, won the bid for the stadium, but recently backed out. The soccer team, which currently plays out of the old baseball stadium, is now searching to destroy parts of Prince George's County.

The World Bank plays similar games with governments the world over. They convince local officials of the absolute need for a large scale development project. They endorse favored developers who will complete the project for pennies on the dollar yet charge exorbitant fees. All the while, the IMF operates in the background, pushing through Structural Adjustment Policy changes, devaluing the local currency, deregulating industry, and prying open markets to unfettered trade.

But historically, when the IMF and World Bank force too many austerity programs on a country, people join together and rise up. The 80s and 90s are riddled with stories of IMF riots when the prices of basic necessities like food, water and fuel skyrocketed thanks to "structural adjustment."

So, to honor all those who stand up for their rights throughout the world and in commemoration of suburban sports fans the world over, join us as we play baseball and soccer in the streets of the rich. As the developers and councilmembers right here at home destroy DC's most vibrant neighborhoods, help us bring our message to their doorsteps. Meet at 10 PM, Saturday April 25, at Washington Circle. _____________________________________________________________________

North East Anarchist Network (NEAN)

The NorthEast Anarchist Network is endorsing the “Self Described Anarchist Collective” and Global Justice Action calls for a diversity of tactics, including direct action, to disrupt the Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, DC. Even in this era of uncontrolled economic retraction and collapse, the IMF and World Bank continue to reach for their misleading, self-proclaimed objective of “eradicating poverty”, while paradoxically ignoring the needs of poor and indigenous communities.

Why are the International Monetary Fund and World Bank relevant?

The IMF is widely considered to be a failure by economic analysts. The predatory loaning policies of the IMF, created to allegedly stabilize the global economy, have by some estimates led to economic collapse in nearly 100 countries, most recently Iceland. Despite increasing criticism and attempts at oversight, the members of the IMF continue to meet behind closed doors, making decisions that affect large parts of the world with no public input.

The World Bank is currently preparing a new system for farming resources and wealth out of the rest of the world, the so-called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) initiative. In short, REDD involves giving many countries “credits” for “preserving” their forests, which can then be traded for capital and resources. This plan is on the verge of implementation and has already been criticized from all directions for having the same fundamental problems as previous iterations of such plans: ignoring the input and needs of indigenous communities, lacking any commitment whatsoever to the respect of human rights, and funneling the majority of funds earned back into destructive heavy industries, including logging. Similar World Bank carbon trading initiatives in the past have wreaked havoc on countries such as Brazil, in that case resulting in the displacement of entire communities and wholesale logging of Amazonian forests. The true destructive potential of these projects remains largely masked by the World Bank’s strategy of obeying the “letter” of their own rules, while exploiting the loopholes to the fullest.

We remain committed to exposing the IMF and World Bank for what they are: unaccountable organizations bent on wringing as much as possible out of the rest of the world with no concern for the effects on indigenous groups or the environment. The continuing efforts by these wealth addicts to accelerate the upward flow of resources are completely unacceptable and must be confronted. We feel that, as radical activists living in the “belly of the beast”, it is crucial to openly and passionately display our solidarity with the indigenous movements around the world who resist the policies of the IMF and World Bank every day.

Why April Uprising?

The Self Described Anarchist Collective and Global Justice Action have created a versatile framework of daily actions during the IMF/WB meetings in D.C. It is inspiring to see older, more established groups such as PGA collaborating with newer organizing bodies like SDAC on actions which leave room for the full spectrum of diversity of tactics.

There have been a number of actions over the past few years that can be classified as “movement builders”. Events such as October Rebellion (actions against the IMF/WB meetings in 2007) and the “swarm” strategy at the 2008 Republican National Convention created spaces for people to take their tactics further in a mass action setting, and we hope that the anarchist movement has gained confidence and experience from such engagements. The broad scope of the actions planned during April Uprising can hopefully allow participating individuals and groups to achieve their own tactical goals while furthering the overarching strategy of disrupting the meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

Washington, D.C. organizers have once again taken the initiative in openly calling for disruptive protests and they’re laying the groundwork with solid logistical work. This offers us a chance to apply the lessons we’ve learned over the past few years and go on the offensive! We encourage other anarchist groups to endorse the SDAC and GJA strategy and calls. Let’s come out strong and show the bankers that October Rebellion was merely a practice run for the April Uprising!

Love and Solidarity -

Members of the NorthEast (A) Network, including (but not limited to) the Black Bird Legal Collective (Portland, ME) and the Syracuse Solidarity Network (Syracuse, NY).



Clusterfuck

We are the New England Clusterfuck, and we are preparing to pay a visit to Washington, DC. First things first, the gentle reader may be asking themselves “What the hell is up with that name?” Never fear, we've got your back with “the knowledge.” The term “Clusterfuck” has many uses, but can be loosely defined as any situation in which multiple connecting problems mutually interfere with possible solutions. The April Uprising actions are the perfect proverbial canvas upon which we can paint our mural of disruptive victory. We are identifying two of the myriad foes facing us as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This year, in the midst of the global financial collapse, the IMF had its budget tripled to $1 TRILLION dollars at the G20 Summit meetings in London roughly two weeks ago. This is coming on the heels of the economic collapse of nearly 100 countries due to the restrictive, predatory loaning policies of the IMF. We're also disturbed by the release of a Yale University study indicating that IMF lending policies forced many countries to weaken their public health care systems, leading to the renewed spread of treatable diseases, including tuberculosis, in places such as Eastern Europe. And don't even get us started on the London police killing a bystander at the G20 Summit demonstrations. You wouldn't like us when we're angry.

At this point, the reader may be asking, “Well, that sucks, but what about the World Bank?” We thought you'd never ask. The World Bank is outdoing itself yet again by pushing new carbon trading initiatives (look for “Reducing Emissions from deforestation and Degradation”) on the rest of the world, essentially creating a massive shell game where countries are rewarded for “preserving” natural resources, such as rainforests, while opening the back door to logging and other industries that serve to push Indigenous communities off their land and into urban areas. It would be sweet, in our collective opinion, if World Bank president Robert Zoellick would show some accountability, put on a clown suit, and speak to the bullshit his organization is feeding us. Bob, congrats on taking over from your creepy, openly corrupt predecessor Paul Wolfowitz, but do you have to keep fucking everyone over like this? We know what shit looks like, Bob, so don't tell us it's chocolate and expect us to buy your one-liners. We certainly aren't expecting you to buy ours.

In all their wisdom, the 'Fund and the 'Bank have chosen yet again to have their gala weekend event at the end of April in downtown Washington, DC. Despite our efforts at looking like hardened anarchist warriors, we can't help but feel a certain sort of gleeful anticipation. The DC metropolitan police have been given the unenviable task of chauffeuring the minions of these institutions from their posh hotel suites to their interminable, bureaucratic meetings and on to their evening cocktail engagements with other wealthy sophisticates. Thanks to the logistical and strategic legwork of local groups such as Global Justice Action and the Self Described Anarchist Collective, we are being presented with opportunities to play with the tightly scheduled itinerary of these scheming bankers in the form of the April Uprising mobilization. Remember that definition of “Clusterfuck”? Our aim is to create a Clusterfuck out of their weekend by engaging in decentralized, exuberant direct action, marches, and determined blockades of strategic streets and locations. If we can create layers of mutually supportive actions, all happening at once, we can short-circuit the police response and really fuck up the daily itineraries of these summit meetings. Some may ask “What about diversity of tactics?” Our answer: “Hell yeah!”
Our motivations have been catalyzed by the growing anger and resentment these unaccountable, closed-door organizations create when they screw over virtually everyone while acting as an economic bulldozer for big business. Who are we? We are a cluster, a loose group comprised of many motivated individuals and groups from around the greater New England region. We are passionately dedicated to expressing solidarity with all those affected by the creeping influences of the agents of economic globalization, including the IMF and World Bank. Our goal? Clusterfuck the summit meetings! We strongly encourage other individuals and groups to plug in to the strategic framework of April Uprising and contribute to jamming up the itineraries of these bankers.

Come get rowdy with us and have a damn good time doing it!

- The Clusterfuck