The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are holding their annual meetings in D.C. this weekend. Along with discussions of economic policy, these meetings inevitably involve protests. This year, protesters have already broken bank windows and spray painted cars near Logan Circle (City Paper has some good photos of the damage).

A couple of years ago, protesters took to the streets of Georgetown and turned violent, hitting a young woman in the face with a brick near the Ambercrombie & Fitch store on Wisconsin Ave.

The protesters will be heading over to nearby Washington Circle tonight to play baseball and soccer “in the streets of the rich” as a way of protesting the public financing of the Nationals Stadium. Hopefully they’ll keep their conduct sportsman-like this evening…

Photo from Flickr user mar is sea Y, used under Creative Commons license.

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