Join the Big Shift Coalition and partners for a rally and march in Washington, DC calling on the World Bank Group to stop financing and enabling fossil fuels around the world, and to redirect this money towards a just green transition!

The morning of October 14th, delegates to the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank will make their way to DAR Constitution Hall for their plenary session. Inside the meeting they’ll double down on their failed system of economic imperialism that created the climate crisis. Outside, we’ll take the streets to envision a new world, where we decarbonize and decolonize our global economy and create a new system that works for people and for our planet.

We’ll hold a festival of resistance right in the middle of the streets surrounding the hall with music, food, art and culture as a way to embody the world we are trying to create.

On Thursday, October 13, after a day-and-a-half of backroom plotting and planning the G-20 finance ministers will emerge from their closed door meeting for a press conference where they’ll try to explain how continuing to rig the economy to benefit rich fossil fuel companies is going to somehow address the climate crisis.

We’ve heard enough of their lies and excuses so we’re going to drown them out!

Join us for a noise demonstration outside of the World Bank Headquarters to drown them out! Bring noise makers, megaphones, pots and pans, and air horns! We’re meeting at 1pm at Edward R Murrow Park so we can be ready to GET LOUD when the press conference starts at 1:45pm.

We are hereby putting the IMF and World Bank on trial for their crimes against life on earth. Operating on behalf of the predatory financial vultures, these institutions have imposed policies in our countries that have enriched a few elites while subjecting vast numbers of our people to a life of perpetual misery. Today, they are making a shameful bid to capitalize on the climate disasters, economic crisis and war-induced shocks to ensure exorbitant profits for the rich. We, the People of the World, affirm that life and dignity of all people is sacred. We reject the notion that life can be banked on and hedged, or that we owe debt to those who have exploited our people and plundered our lands.

As delegates convene in Washington, DC for the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank join us in Edward R. Murrow Park, in the shadows of the World Bank Headquarters for a teach in on the neoliberal policies of these international financial institutions, the vested interests that are propping them up, and the heroic work that social movements around the world are doing to fight back.

Join us at 5pm at Edward R. Murrow Park (H St. and 18th St NW) for a bike bloc to disrupt business as usual for the G-20 finance ministers. We’ll snake through the streets of Foggy Bottom during rush hour traffic, as the finance ministers work to make their way to their dinner. Then we’ll end the ride outside the dinner where we’ll shine a light on the shady backroom deals that are being made over caviar and brandy.

This October we’re going to take bold direct action to disrupt business as usual for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to create a better future for the people and for the planet that we love. Planning on joining us in the streets? Join us for a Direct Action Training!

Whether you’re new to direct action or a long-time activist just looking to brush up some skills, this session is a great way to build skills to safe and effective in the streets AND get plugged into organizing for this important mobilization!

As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meet in Washington DC from October 10-16, join a coalition of intersectional organizations & activists to disrupt their meetings, in solidarity with climate & social justice movements all over the world protesting during these meetings.

Join our planning meetings every Wednesday at 7pm to help plan this creative disruption.

Let’s get ready to shut down business as usual for the IMF and World Bank!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

BUSBOYS AND POETS - TAKOMA PARK

235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC

• 6pm Panel discussion on the impact of the IMF and World Bank on communities around the world

• 8pm Dance Party with live music from Cumbia Heights!

As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meet in Washington DC from October 10-16, join a coalition of intersectional organizations & activists to disrupt their meetings, in solidarity with climate & social justice movements all over the world protesting during these meetings.

Join our planning meetings every Wednesday at 7pm to help plan this creative disruption.

This October we’re going to take bold direct action to disrupt business as usual for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to create a better future for the people and for the planet that we love. Planning on joining us in the streets?

This will (probably) be the only online direct action training we’re offering before the IMF/World Bank meetings, so if you can’t make it to an in-person training, don’t miss this session!

Join us, along with West Virginian Pipeline Fighters, students, Bill McKibben, and many, many more on Tuesday morning in DC! We'll be demanding President Biden fire the denier, and reading key parts of the IPCC report outside the World Bank HQ! The science is settled, and the science is long -- so show up bright & early and together we'll read it all! Link to sign up in bio.

As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meet in Washington DC from October 10-16, join a coalition of intersectional organizations & activists to disrupt their meetings, in solidarity with climate & social justice movements all over the world protesting during these meetings.

Join our planning meetings every Wednesday at 7pm to help plan this creative disruption.