On 11/27/2020 4:21 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/26/former-world-bank-president-james-wolfensohn-dies-at-86.html
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, May 1 2001 (IPS)- World Bank President James Wolfensohn
Monday extolled the Communist government of President Fidel Castro for
doing “a great job” in providing for the social welfare of the Cuban
people.
Yikes Louis, this was a very rare moment of sanity. Here
<https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22patrick+bond%22+%22james+wolfensohn%22>
are some articles I did, about why from 1995-2005 he helped generate a
very powerful movement /to shut down the Bank by defunding it
<http://www.econjustice.net/wbbb/> /(the World Bank Bonds
Boycott).//Bernie Sanders endorsed it. I remember picketing outside
Wolfy's house in Kalorama at 6am on April 15, 2000 with Soweto activist
Trevor Ngwane and revo poet Dennis Brutus (who would have been 96
tomorrow) - and the next day there were 30 000 protesters. Here's a
short film <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFHnGDY-cWk> about that
struggle, featuring Wolfy sniggering about letting the U.S. Treasury
continue (forever) to have veto power over whatever the Bretton Woods
Institutions were up to.
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