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It was the last week of September 2000 and the streets of Prague were mobbed with thousands of anti-globalization protesters; many were Czechs, but others had come from all over Europe. Thirteen thousand Czech security forces mobilized, reinforced by busloads of police from the provinces. In the ensuing pitched battles the protesters’ Molotov cocktails were met with teargas by the police. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund had come to town for their 55th Annual Meeting.1
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Rich, B. (2013). Backwards into the Future. In: Foreclosing the Future. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-184-9_6
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