Early AM on April 24, anti-IMF/World Bank protesters stormed a hotel housing delegates to the IMF Spring Meetings.

Footage edited only for framerate, color balance, audio EQ, and to attach two whole clips together. Shot while zoomed from a VERY cheap camera.

Video from the Run on the Bank, the first event of the Anticapitalathon Games, cooinciding with theIMF and World Bank Spring Meetings for 2010.

Finance ministers from around the world have descended on Washington, D.C. for the annual World Bank/IMF spring meetings. The annul gathering opened with the 20 finance ministers from the worlds leading economies. Top on their agenda were two new bank taxes, climate change and possible reforms to the institutions voting system.

This video, produced by International Accountability Project and Accountability Counsel, shows the struggle of two indigenous Shipibo communities in the Peruvian Amazon, who have suffered from oil contamination and severe health impacts caused by Maple Energy plc, a multinational oil company that has received financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Sometimes in history, political and business leaders are pushed to make momentous decisions—decisions that mean real change, and have great impact.

Such decisions are never made lightly, but rather because the alternative is too dire to contemplate.

December 7-18 2009, world leaders meet in Copenhagen to negotiate the next global climate change treaty -- and social movements from across the planet with be inside the talks and on the streets to demand a just solution to the greatest crisis facing our generation. The time to frame the future of climate change action is right now, and smartMeme is on the case with a crew of U.S.

During the second meeting between the G20 finance ministers in St Andrews on Saturday morning, over 300 protesters gathered on West Sands to share their support for climate change reduction and social justice initiatives. After a photo-op with news outlets, the group marched to the Union to prepare for a counter-summit workshop with speakers from various organizations in the afternoon.

Protests against the IMF in Turkey turned into a riot.

- A protester threw a shoe at the IMF director at the end of a question-and-answer session Thursday at a university in Istanbul.

Security officers stopped the man when he rushed toward the stage at Bilgi University, where Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been giving a lecture.

CBS TV report on the politics and protests around the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, USA