Speakers will include Dr. Kevin Danaher , education director at Global Exchange , and the Rain Forest Action Network 's Jennifer Krill .
Activists say the two organizations steal from the poor and give to the rich.
The World Bank and the IMF loan money to poor countries, but the funds come with strings attached. Bus fares have to go up, tortilla prices have to go up and you need to sell off the privately held rain forests because you've got to generate cash to repay your loans. UC student-employee union leaders say they are fed up with the slow pace of negotiations over their first contract and what they call unfair labor practices committed by UC bargainers. As the winter-quarter finals approach and grading approaches, we have the opportunity to put pressure on the university. Each UC campus bargains independently, with a two-thirds majority of members voting required at each campus to authorize a strike.