Thursday April 10: Wake-up Call for the IMF and World Bank on their
failure to adequately address the international debt crisis, and refusal to
discuss recent World Bank reports detailing the failure of the "HIPC" debt relief program.
Speakers include: Andre Banks, Africa Action; Njoki Njoroge
Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network; Marie Clarke Brill, Jubilee USA Network; and Jonah Gokova, Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt & Development.
8 pm: IMF - 700 19th Street, N.W.

Friday April 11: Press conference on reasons for opposing IMF/World Bank policies. (See separate advisory, following this one)
Featured speakers: Demba Dembele (Forum for African Alternatives, Senegal), Virginia Setshedi (Anti-Privatisation Forum, South Africa), Jürgen Kaiser (Jubilee Germany) and Annkathrin Schneider, (WEED, Germany) with "resource people" Sarath Fernando (Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform, Sri Lanka) and Soledad Quintanilla (CESTA, El Salvador)
1 pm: First Amendment Room, National Press Club, 529 14th
Street, NW, 13th Floor

Friday April 11: Opening of Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC)
conference. The IMF and World Bank have been devastating economies in the region for over 20 years; in the past four years resistance to neo-liberal policies has been building in many of the region's countries. Opening plenary moderated by Soren Ambrose of 50 Years Is Enough Network.
7:30 pm: St. Aloysius Church, 19 I St., N.W. (at North Capitol St., 3 blocks north of Union Station)

Saturday, April 12: LASC conference continues
9:30am - 12:45pm & 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm: St. Aloysius Church, 19 I
St., N.W. (at North Capitol St.; 3 blocks north of Union Station). For program, see http://www.lasolidarity.org/events/A2003/workshops.htm.

The 50 Years Is Enough Network is sponsoring a workshop at 11:15 am, on the IMF, featuring Sarath Fernando (MONLAR, Sri Lanka); Monica Martins (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, Brazil), Soledad Quintanilla (CESTA, El Salvador), Nicola Bullard, Focus on the Global South, Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network, and others.

Sunday, April 13: Global Justice Rally, co-sponsored by Latin America
Solidarity Coalition and the Mobilization for Global Justice. Followed by a march to IMF/World Bank. All times approximate.
11 am: Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park - 16th & Euclid Street, NW
1 pm: March steps off, Tour of Shame, with several stops;
www.50years.org
3 pm: March reaches Inter-American Development Bank (13th & New York Ave., N.W.), a regional development bank that operates on the same principles as the World Bank. The IBD has a larger exposure than the World Bank in many Latin American countries.
4 pm: March reaches the IMF headquarters, 700 19th Street, N.W., site of the institutions' spring meetings, which should be ending at about that time.
Closing rally until about 5 pm.

Tuesday, April 15: Briefing for Congress (members & staff) on the "New Partnership for African Development" (NEPAD), a new way of imposing structural adjustment programs on African economies. Sponsored by Reps. Barbara Lee; Jesse Jackson, Jr.; Maxine Waters, and Dennis Kucinich.
Features 50 Years Is Enough Network South Council members from Africa: Demba Moussa Dembele (Forum for African Alternatives, Senegal); Virginia Setshedi (Anti-Privatisation Forum, South Africa); Gemma Akilimali (Tanzania Gender Networking Programme); and Patrick Bond (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).
** Congressional Briefing co-organized with Africa Action, Jubilee USA Network, Results, and TransAfrica Forum.
9 - 10:30 am: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168 - Independence Avenue, S.W. between 1st Street and South Capitol Street.