This panel discussion, which featured Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at Center for Economic and Policy Research; Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; and Robert Weismann, Director of Essential Action, looked at the economic issues involved in current IMF l

Can anyone really own water? There's a 400 billion $ of global business made by corporations out of the blue gold every year. Water is a resource for your life, not a private property. Who controls the resources of life now will soon controls the rest of all things.

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After carrying out a controversial & highly risky research on HIV/AIDS orphans in USA & Zimbabwe, President of World Bank announces a US$5m competition. Mercy, a doctoral student then, enters the competition in 2000 and wins US$100,000.00 and NEVER to get the money ever!

Bankrupt governments are finding the IMF an unfit lender, but alternatives may be developing ..

One man's musings on the failings of the World Bank and IMF ...

Clips/Extraits:
- Documentaire "Un autre monde est possible" - Keny Arkana
- EURONEWS - Contestation G20 (01.04.09)
- FSM 2009 - Belém (World Social Forum)

Another view of the street protests against the World Bank/IMF Spring meetings 2009 in Washington DC, USA.

Hypothesis :: randomly-triggered & overlapping solo improvisations by musicians who have worked to develop a common, mutually-intelligible improvisational dialect will yield interesting results. Wars might not stop, the hungry might not be fed, but an observer may be transported nonetheless.

solo improvisations by:
Aslaug Holgersen, double bass
Carlos Iturralde, guitars

Promo for some of the Asian Development Bank's work on Aid Effectiveness