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Prison Protesters Arrested in DC
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 10
In a reprise of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, thousands of activists gathered in Washington DC on April 9-17 to oppose annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the prison-industrial complex, and neoliberal economic policies.
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Location:
Washington.
Estimates of the number of demonstrators varied from 5,000 ...
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