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Timeline of Protests

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A time line of the major protests, summits and actions of the world anti capitalist movement.

1999
• Nov 30: Seattle, USA WTO Third Ministerial conference

2000
• Jan: 2000 Cochabamba Bolivia factory workers, farmers, students and environmentalists shut down city for four days against IMF-inspired water privatisation and 200 per cent price rises
• Apr 16: Washington, DC, USA anti-IMF protests
• May 1: Global, May Day protests UK: guerilla gardening in Parliament Square. Churchill gets a mohican.
• Jun 30: Millau demonstration
• July 29: Philadelphia, USA, Republican National Convention
• Augt 11: Los Angeles, USA, Democratic National Convention
• Sep 11: Melbourne, Australia, World Economic Forum
• Sep 24-26: Prague, Czech Republic, World Bank/IMF
• Oct 10: Seoul – ASEAN Summit
• Nov 20: Montreal, Quebec, G20 meeting
• Dec 6-7: Nice, European Union Summit

2001
• Jan 20: Washington, DC, USA Bush inauguration
• Jan 27: Davos, Switzerland, World Economic Forum.
• Mar 12: Mexico City Zapatista “caravan” greeted by mass demonstration
• Apr 20: Quebec City, Canada, Summit of the Americas (FTAA)
• May 1: Anticapitalist demonstration world wide; in London May day Monopoly draws police lockdown of
demonstrators in Oxford Circus
• June 15: Gothenburg, Sweden European Union Summit
• July 20: Genoa, Italy G8 Summit
• Sep 11: Attacks on Pentagon in Washington and World Trade Centre New York City
• Sep 29: Washington, DC, Anti-capitalist/anti-war threat protests

2002
• Feb 1: New York City, USA the World Economic Forum
• Mar 15: Barcelona, Spain EU Summit
• Apr 20: Washington, DC (War on Terrorism)
• May 1: 2002 Worldwide May Day protests – (Paris against Le Pen’s success in first round of presidentials)
• Jun 21-22: EU summit in Seville
• Jul 26: Canada, G8 summit at Kananaskis, Alberta
• Sep 27: Washington, DC, IMF/World Bank

2003
• Feb 15: Global protests against war on Iraq (pre-war)
• Mar – Apr: Global protests against war on Iraq
• Jun 1-3: Evian, G8 Summit
• Jul 28: Montreal, Quebec
• Sep 14: Cancún, Mexico: Fifth Ministerial of the WTO
• Oct: Regional WEF meeting in Dublin,
• Nov: Bush visits to European capitals

2004
• June 8-10: G8, Sea Island, Georgia

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