Were the IMF/World Bank protests successful? The official spin was that D.C. Cops provided business-as-usual conditions for the financial institutions, and therefore the protests were a non-event. Organizers disagreed.
"Another world is possible" -- that was the slogan of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Or, as they said in Seattle, "This is what democracy looks like."
British Petroleum, the world's second largest oil company, advertised its new identity as a leader in moving the world "Beyond Petroleum." When a company spends more on advertising its environmental friendliness than on the environment, that's greenwash.
