I sure hope they won't let Seattle show up the nation's capital. Much of the coming week will be devoted to seminars, teach-ins and training on nonviolent protest, legal strategies and other tactical issues. Some activists also are scheduled to lobby members of Congress during the week. 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.