As a farm child in Kenya, Njoki Njehu grew up in a house with no electricity and worked after school with her five brothers and sisters on plots of bananas, sugarcane and maize. From her mother, a champion of women's and environmental causes, Njehu imbibed the importance of social protest--a lesson she learned well enough to emerge as a top leader of the tens of thousands of opponents of global capitalism who are expected to converge in Washington this week on meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The target of their wrath: everything from the treatment of endangered...
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