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July 2001
Over 200,000 people attended protests in Genoa, Italy during the G8 conference.
2003
Developing countries walked out of the WTO conference when it became clear that the real agenda was to expand the failed WTO model. Lee Hyung Kae, leader of the Korean Federation of Advanced Farmers Association sacrificed himself to protest the WTO.
2008 to Present
In the U.S., the sub-prime mortgage crises, triggers a global financial crisis. Tax payers, and therefore poor people, were forced to rescue the banks and other financial institutions in the form of government bailouts. Six months later, these institutions were once again profitable and paying out millions of dollars in bonuses to the executives who brought the crash on in the first place.
