Protesters run down a street with fencing ripped from a construction site as they protest against the
IMF and World Bank meetings on Sunday. Police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters who
were blocking intersections in downtown Washington in their effort to disrupt global financial
meetings taking place here. (Win McNamee/Reuters)
Protesters using fencing taken from a construction site try to break through a police line as they
protest the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings Sunday. Washington Mayor
Anthony Williams defended police tactics in dealing with anti-IMF protests and said the nation's
capital had determined to avoid a repeat of the anarchy unleashed in Seattle that disrupted world
trade talks last year. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)
A participant of an unauthorized demonstration against the current meeting of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington is arrested by riot police at Wenceslav Square
in Prague Sunday April 16, 2000. Several hundreds took part at the rally, some of them were detained
by police. (AP Photo/CTK, Rene Volfik)