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Camp IMF
The protests remain peaceful and the chief gets a photo op as decorum dominates the Washington protests.
By Alicia Montgomery
[04/16/00]

Prepping for the protests
Washington's mayor and police force get ready to rumble, though they hope they won't have to.
By Harry Jaffe
[04/15/00]

Not just a Seattle sequel
The protests surrounding this weekend's meetings of the IMF and World Bank are the next step in the backlash to globalization.
By Bruce Shapiro
[04/15/00]

World Bank and IMF: Good, evil or irrelevant?
On the eve of the A16 protests, experts discuss the roles of the international financial organizations and the Seattle protests in this weekend's battle over globalization.
By Daryl Lindsey
[04/15/00]

On the verge
Tensions escalate in Dupont Circle and cops put on riot gear. But savvy protesters wonder where the badges are.
By Jake Tapper
[04/14/00]

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Not all exchanges between cops and protesters were ugly. Here a U.S. Park Police officer in full riot gear poses with a cute couple of protesters while his colleague in blue snaps the photo.

Though all of the protesters were united in their disdain for "The Man," there was a cornucopia of lefty interests represented at the rally. The Puerto Rican nationalist group Armed National Liberation Front or FALN made an appearance, as did members of ACT-UP, various labor unions, and here -- in traditional costume -- members of the Congress for Korean Reunification take it to the streets.

Since the areas surrounding the IMF, World Bank and Treasury Building were cordoned off to the protesters -- as well as the general public -- by the Metropolitan Police Department, protesters decided to go on an impromptu march west on E Street, looping around near George Washington University, and then east on Constitution Avenue back to the Ellipse.

... But MPD cops, alerted to the spontaneous march, whipped into action to get in the way of the march near Constitution and C Streets.

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