Thousands Protest War & Racism in Washington DC Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit BBC, AP - 20 April 2002. Thousands rally at Washington summit; Thousands Protest Globalization, US Mideast Policy, Other Issues. WASHINGTON -- Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Washington to demand action against globalisation. A 30-foot-tall Earth balloon carrying a "For Sale" sign was inflated across the street from the glass-and-chrome building where world financial powers gathered. At least 2,000 protesters are already attending one rally, with numbers at other locations rising quickly. A wide range of groups are believed to be planning to meet up to march down Pennsylvania Avenue - just blocks from the White House - before a rally on the steps of the Capitol Building. The crisis in Argentina is expected to dominate many agendas. The different protests are "all connected in the sense that it's all part of how the world economic structure works," said 24-year-old Brad Duncan of Detroit. He was among a group of demonstrators headed first for a Palestinian solidarity march and then to a rally against international financial policy. Across the street from the barricaded IMF and World Bank, 22-year-old Rob Fish of New Jersey complained, "It's becoming a global doomsday economy. The planet is not for sale." Demonstrators were protesting the war in Afghanistan, U.S. aid to Israel and Colombia, and third world debt and poverty. At a pro-Palestinian rally on the grassy Ellipse behind the White House, Teresa Gutierrez of the International Action Center told protesters, "We are all Palestinians today." Kanaan Jadallah, an Arab-American who came with his family from Detroit, argued against Bush administration support of Israel, saying that U.S. policy "is why Israel is able to carry out these atrocities" in the West Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytrad-04.20.02-16:18:27-6503