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This weekend, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank held their annual meeting, but it wasn’t just bankers and bureaucrats who met. Activists and “athletes” also got together and competed in the Anti-Capitlist Games, beginning with a “Run On the Bank” Friday afternoon.
Zein El Amine
Zein El Amine is one of the activist-athletes who completed the “Run On the Bank” from Malcolm X Park to Murrow Park, across from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Zein pointed out how the structural adjustment that the IMF imposes on poorer countries around the world is similar to the policies that Mayor Fenty and DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee are imposing right here on the District of Columbia.