The World Economic Forum, a travelling circus when not a moveable feast, has been protested loudly and one hopes significantly by a broad spectrum of peoplehippies, concerned mums, school children, as well as academics and trade unionistseverywhere it has been hosted in recent years, from Seattle, to Melbourne and Prague, to list only the most inflamed cases. In Melbourne, a group calling themselves the SII Alliance barricaded the conference venue (the Crown Casino in Melbourne) with their bodies and by doing so managed to prevent several hundred delegates from getting to the conference.1 Of course they weren't able to stop the forum altogether, but they did manage to raise enough doubts about security to compel the casino to close its gaming floors for three days. Watching all this on the news, I couldn't help but think of the wonderfully satirical closing caption of Rage Against the Machine's "Sleep now in the fire" film clip, which was filmed on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).2 Although the band's performance managed to cause the NYSE to close trading early, and gave a few stock brokers a bit of a scare, ultimately, as the caption put it: "no money was harmed." I thought of this because most of the vox pops with so-called business leaders were very concerned that all the protesting would somehow do just that: harm the money. The clarion cry was this: "This protest will show the world that Australia isn't a safe place to invest. And that being the case the Aussie dollar will never recover against the greenback." Thus it could literally be said that the police guarding the conference venue were protecting money.