The heart of the mobilization is being run by activists from leftist environmental and social justice groups who plan civil disobedience demonstrations next Sunday and Monday at the downtown IMF and World Bank headquarters. We're sort of forcing people to be resourceful. Food is also in short supply. Dozens of boxes of potatoes, rice, beans, collard greens, tuna and other staples were stacked yesterday around the mobilization's headquarters, which includes a mess hall that will serve three meals a day to volunteers. If you have a solid infrastructure, you make it easy to get the word out to people. . . .
Big pots are the key.
You really need big pots. At Meridian Hill, also known as Malcolm X Park, rock, salsa and hip-hop groups played on a stage in front of a statue of Joan of Arc astride a horse. Concert organizers wanted to draw a cross-section of the community, but the crowd was mostly white. Yesterday's gathering began with a parade that snaked through city streets to the park and featured large puppets of World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organization and Pentagon leaders. Activists later put on a skit promoting small-scale family farms and praising French resistance to genetically modified foods.