While World Bank and International Monetary Fund representatives met in Washington in the last days of September 2002 to discuss multilateral lending policy, 2000 protesters took to the street in the nation's capital to draw attention to their concerns which included:
- the effect of IMF and World Bank policy on indebted developing nations
- environmental destruction by fossil fuel industries
- tax payer subsidies for those industries
- privatization of natural resources, including water
- tobacco privatization
- rainforest destruction
- sweatshop labor and related clothing outlets
- the...