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D.C. Police Preparing for IMF Protests

Smaller Crowd Expected At Sunday Demonstration Washington Post / By Arthur Santana, Washington Post Staff Writer Hundreds of D.C. police officers have been summoned to surprise training drills this week to prepare for a demonstration Sunday against global capitalism, but organizers say that there may be more police than protesters and that officials are overreacting.

Globalism: Pain for Many, Gain for a Few

Boston Globe / Op/Ed / By Michael Kelly

Congress Faces WTO Cap on Farm Aid

Ed Maixner / Farm Progress Washington Bureau Economists told a conference of agricultural news writers Monday that Congress may find its farm assistance spending curbed by the 1995 World Trade Organization agreements when it tries to write a new farm bill.

Trade-Protection Measures Reach Record Levels Despite Liberal Rules

By GRAINNE HEHIR / Dow Jones Newswires BRUSSELS -- Free-trade creed aside, countries are blocking imports through legal measures, according to a new report. "Global use of trade protection measures such as anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguards remains on a clear upward trend," London-based law firm Rowe & Maw states in its 2000 Global Trade Protection report.

Drinking Coffee for Fair Trade

By Laurel Druley, Minnesota Public Radio April 23, 2001

Popular Upheaval Hits Free Trade Meetings in Quebec City

By Roger Burbach For three days from April 20-22, the historic city of Quebec was the scene of a popular revolt as thirty-four heads of state gathered for the Summit of the Americas. Their agenda, a Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA.

Quebec Trade Summit

by Mike Meyers April 21, 2001 Minneapolis Star and Tribune (Note: Kristin Dawkins is the director of IATP's Global Governance Program.) Kristin Dawkins, a Minneapolis trade activist, spent part of Friday ducking tear gas outside the Quebec summit.

U.S. Free Trade Policy Not as Free as it Appears

Pacific News Service | by Andrew Reding Whatever comes out of the just finished meeting of western hemisphere nations in Quebec City, it is now clear that the U.S. idea of economic integration pulls very much in the opposite direction.

Independent Media Center News Blast On FTAA

April 20, 2001 Stay tuned for more coverage. A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and audio from the Independent Media Center Network on Friday, April 20, 2001 covering the Summit of the Americas, or FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). http://www.indymedia.org/ftaa

World Bank to Exploit Trade for Structural Adjustment

IPS | April 23, 2001 | Analysis by Abid Aslam WASHINGTON - The World Bank will intensify its efforts to open borrowing countries to foreign investors by using trade as a lever, according to an internal document to be discussed by development and planning ministers next week.