We stand on the fault lines of a breaking system

The global economic and financial architecture led by multilateral institutions—anchored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank—continues to prioritize corporate profit over human life and planetary survival. Through predatory debt traps, forced austerity, privatization of essential public services, and fossil fuel financing, multilateral institutions enforce neoliberal policies that weaken Global South economies, destroy fragile ecosystems, and widen the gap between billionaires and the working majority.

and we are rising to transform it.

As the IMF and World Bank Group hold their Annual Meetings from October 12–18 in Bangkok, Thailand, we are rising to demand a structural overhaul of international finance and global trade. We call for immediate, unconditional debt cancellation, climate reparations, an end to forced privatization, democratic UN tax governance, and a just energy transition.

From Bangkok to the world, peoples’ movements are standing united to denounce eight decades of structural economic violence and demand systemic transformation. As part of an arc of globally coordinated mobilizations, civil society and grassroots movements across Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and North America are coming together. Following the UN General Assembly actions in September, this Global Week of Action builds toward the October 14 Global Day of Action, laying the groundwork for upcoming mobilizations during COP31 and the G20 Summit in November.

Together, we build the collective power to dismantle predatory economic systems and reclaim our future from those who exploit our communities and planet.

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