1988 IMF/World Bank protests

Series of international protests September 2017 September 2017 The 1988 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank were met with an international protest in West Berlin. Whereas the organizations' earlier meetings were met with smaller, national protests, the 1988 meetings attracted protesters internationally against what was the largest assembly of the international monetary order since the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. Protesters demonstrated against the IMF's austerity policies towards developing nations. Representatives from Third World countries called for debt cancellation, and others advocated for solutions to world hunger and poverty. Due to the protest's high-profile venue, media outlets extensively covered the protests. Later IMF and World Bank meetings received smaller protests, but following the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, all meetings of the IMF, World Bank, G7, and G8 summits were met with significant protests.Peet References Peet Richard Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO https://books.google.com/books?id=HRRjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT111 2009 Zed Books 978-1-84813-796-7 110–111 Further reading Amnesty International West Berlin: The Anti-IMF/World Bank Protests of September 1988 1989 Amnesty International London 442728621 mdy-all Big Protest At I.M.F. Site The New York Times 1988-09-26 https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/26/business/big-protest-at-imf-site.html 0362-4331 mdy-all Gerhards Jürgen Rucht Dieter Mesomobilization: Organizing and Framing in Two Protest Campaigns in West Germany American Journal of Sociology 98 3 555–596 1992-11-01 10.1086/230049 143105263 0002-9602 mdy-all Leftist Rampage in Berlin Has 53 Hurt, 134 Arrested The Boston Globe Associated Press HighBeam Research 1988-05-03 https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8060341.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110811111720/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8060341.html usurped 2011-08-11 subscription Boston, MA mdy-all Katsiaficas George The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life 2006 978-1-904859-53-6 AK Press Oakland 176788789 mdy-all Keegan William In my view: Oil crisis? What oil crisis? The Guardian 2000-09-24 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/24/oilandpetrol.news3 0261-3077 mdy-all The 1988 meetings in West Berlin were memorable for the first appearance of protesters: one recalls an orderly procession, followed rapidly by street cleaners picking up rubbish with Teutonic thoroughness. Olesen Thomas Power and Transnational Activism https://books.google.com/books?id=BGfFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT314 2010 Routledge 978-1-136-86499-5 314 Rich Bruce Greens Lay Siege to the Crystal Palace Mortgaging the Earth 107–147 2013 978-1-59726-431-0 Island Press, Washington, DC mdy-all 10.5822/978-1-61091-515-1 153626862 External links History of the 1988 IMF and World Bank Conference resistance in West Berlin, written by Dissent Network against the 2005 G8 Summit Business Economics Business and economics Society 1980s Category:1988 protests Category:1988 in West Germany Category:1980s in West Berlin 1988 1988 1988 1988 Category:September 1988 in Europe