Beginning January 31, the Swiss-based World Economic Forum will hold its first annual meeting ever in the United States in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Thousands of anti-corporate globalization protesters are expected to converge to demonstrate against the WEF. Indymedia.org offers a guide to the Forum and the protests
http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/wefinfo/index.html
Some 3,200 business leaders, politicians, journalists and academics will meet behind closed doors to set an agenda for the global economy. Thousands of protesters are expected to converge in the New York. To help make sense of it all, the New York City Independent Media Center offers this factsheet on the World Economic Forum.
check the guide here:
http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16217&group=webcast