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New York Locked Down For Anti-WEF Protests

Payout For Arrested NY Activists - City lawyers today agreed to pay approximately $469,000 in damages and legal costs to activists arrested in a 1999 Diallo-related protest. The twelve activists were jailed for over 24 hours – a common experience for dissenters under the Giuliani administration – instead of receiving summonses in accordance with NYPD practice for non-political arrests. See... NY City Pays Activists $469k
MORE NEW YORK JUSTICE:
- Political Arrestees Singled Out for NYPD Detention
- Images: 1984-Style NYPD Action
- Statement by 25 female prisoners from WEF protests
- Activists Beaten Unconscious Sprayed In NYC

NY Locked Down – WEF Meetings Begin Today - Tuesday morning a coaliton of anti-WEF groups based in New York implored an overflowing room of journalists to be fair and informed in their reporting. See…. The World Media Descends on Anti-WEF Groups and FAIR’s analysis of how New York papers responded to the challenge …Newspapers Smear Activists Ahead of WEF Protests
FULL COVERAGE:
- Images - Protest Poster and Big Apple Lockdown - Map - Press Conference
- Another World Is Possible - Permits Obtained For New York Anti-WEF Events
- Newslinks - Boston Globe -LA Times - CBS
- Between The Lines - BTL Q&A: Activists Organizing WEF Protests in NYC-
- Aids Coalition To Unleash Power


For background on earlier anticapitalist coverage on Scoop see also....

- Scoop Mayday 2000 Special
- Scoop S11 Special
- Scoop Mayday 2001 Special

See… http://italia.indymedia.org/ for live coverage from Genoa Indymedia

GENOA G8 SUMMIT PROTESTS - JULY 19TH, 20TH, 21ST

G8: Greens Talk To Ambassador About Detained Kiwi - Green MPs Nandor Tanczos and Sue Bradford this afternoon met with the Italian Ambassador to discuss concerns over detained Kiwi journalist Sam Buchanan. See... Greens meet Italian ambassador over detained Kiwi. See also... Italian Embassy Protest Report

G8: An Activist Reports Form The Front - Thud. Thwack. Thud. Thud. The sound of plastic coated steel batons being driven down on people's flesh. Screams. The smell of fear. Darth Vader cops only inches away, pummelling into the line in front of me. See... Battle of Genoa (Part 1) and Battle of Genoa (Part 2)

Keith Rankin: Anti-globalisation Brigade Get It Wrong - I am frustrated and bemused by the global anti-globalisation protest movement. It is very much a manifestation of the thing it purports to protest against. Further, the events that it seeks to disrupt are more manifestations of the old nationalist world order than of globalism. See... Keith Rankin: Globalisation and Anarchism

Big News: Third World Debt Solutions - “Unpayable debt” should be cancelled out right, as countries are not going to pay it anyway. “Payable debt” should be part of HIPC, and any relief of this debt should have economic conditions related to poverty reduction and should not be taken away from any development assistance. See... Big News: Why G8 Leaders Have Failed The Poor

Picking Over The Genoa G8 Carcass - In the 1960s Gill Scott Heron sang "The Revolution will not be televised". On Saturday I watched as Sky News broadcast from the police front line. Walking past the camera, lines of police moved forward. See... TV Review: What did you hear about Genoa?
MORE:
- PMA - Wellington journalist arrested at Genoa
- Mike Moore - Moore hails G-8 pledges on development and poverty
- Amnesty International - AI Calls For Investigation & Review Of G8 Policing
- Wgtn Activists - G8 Protest Outside Italian Embassy

G8: Kiwis Rounded Up & Beaten - EN was detained for five hours by Carabinieri. JA was beaten by Carabinieri. This is our account. NOTE: The authors of this report have requested to be identified only by their initials. See... Kiwis Beaten And Detained In Genoa

David Miller On G8: Hooliganism Reigns - Meetings such as the Genoa G-8 summit provide ideal platforms and occasions for protest groups to express their message and points of view, but such those messages will be forever lost if this continues to be overshadowed by the 21st Century’s new brand of hooliganism. See… David Miller: Hooliganism of the 21st Century

Big News On G8: Relief Agencies, Debt Campaigners And Rock Stars Condemn Violent Anarchists - Last weekends G8 summit in Genoa, Italy – the last of it’s kind - will be remembered for Europe’s worst rioting, rather than discussions of G8 leaders on economic and policy issues for poor countries. See... Big News: G8 Summit Special Report


Bloodshed and police brutality


Indymedia Genoa After A Good Police Trashing

G8: Kiwi Eyewitness To Brutal Police Attack On Indymedia - “We were in the pub having a few drinks and discussing the arrest of two of my comrades ( another three were later arrested but all five have now been released). Two bus loads of polizia in full riot gear drove past and parked. They ran from there to the centre. Within a few minutes an ambulance arrived (I think they automatically attend when the rit police attack). “ See... Scoop Images: Police Brutally Attack Indymedia


Genoa Day 3 – Battle On The Beach

G8: Global Solidarity Images from Indymedia of global Genoa solidarity protests. See... Scoop Images: Genoa Day 3 – Global Solidarity

G8: Machine Guns To Protect Banks - Financial police guarding their office which had its windows smashed during yesterday's clashes between Black Block activists and police, carrying huge machine guns. See... Scoop Images: Genoa Day 3 – Big Guns On Show

G8: The Other Side Of Genoa Protests – Massive Peaceful Mobilisation - Images from France TV of a massive 200,000 person peaceful protest also in held in Genoa Saturday. See... http://ghanima.org/resist/genoa21072001.htm


PHOTO STORY: The Death of an Anarchist


PHOTO STORY: The Battle Of Genoa Day Two

G8 IN WELLINGTON: Soccer Pantomime In Cuba Mall - Saturday - With none other than Monty Burns as the referee and Mike Moore as a cheerleader, the G8 "all-stars" will take on "People United". There's also the chance of a guest appearance by Helen Clark supplying half-time oranges to the G8 - but not to the people! See... Wellington Solidarity anti-G8 Demonstration


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No Borders Protest - J19

G8: Drop The Debt, Now! – Jubilee 2000 Aotearoa - The big question for many Jubilee 2000 supporters this weekend is whether or not the seven leaders of the world’s richest nations will take heed of the voices demanding debt cancellation. See... Drop All the Debt at Genoa

Irish Eyes On G8: Oceans Of Worry Lap At The Toes - When we were children there were tidal wave warnings and we had to leave our classrooms and climb up a small hill to just the right height so that when the tidal wave arrived it would lap at our toes but do no more. See... Irish Eyes: A Place Where WeatheryWorries Lap

G8: Why Does It Always Rain On George? - C.D. Sludge is delighted to report that the latest readings from the NOAA Supercomputer confirm that European weather remains intensely ironic in the lead-up to the G8 Summit in Genoa, and the Battle of Genoa, due to commence tomorrow. See... Sludge Report #98 – Genoa Summit Weather Report

G8: Big News, It’s Not As Easy As Cancelling Debt - Unconditional debt cancellation could increase military spending, spending on uneconomic development projects, or other illegitimate political regimes. In the 1980s, the poorest four countries were paying more per head of GDP in military spending than the United States government as their loans meant they could afford to do so. See… Debt Cancellation And The G8


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G8 Protests Ahead - The Battle Of Genoa

G8: George Bush Calls For Banker Compassion - I propose that up to 50 percent of the funds provided by the development banks to the poorest countries be provided as grants for education, health, nutrition, water supply, sanitation and other human needs, which will be a major step forward. See... George Bush Talks To World Bankers About G8
MORE:
- US State Dept - USA’s Colin Powell And Russia’s Igor Ivanov - Colin Powell Remarks En Route To Italy For G 8
- MFAT - NZ Views on Genoa G8 Summit Agenda

G8: Protestors Softened Up Early - Last night, an American member of GR IRL, Liz, was released from prison after spending 7 and a half hours naked in a cell after being strip searched. She was photographed, finger printed and retina scanned, and given a three year suspended COURT CASE for having a Swiss Army knife in her bag. See... SWO’s Joe Carolan Writes From The Genoa Barricades
MORE:
- Ainfos News - Anarchism and the upcoming G8 protests in Genoa
- Globalise Resistance - French Government Stamps out Dissent

G8: Ya Basta’s Declaration Of War - DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE POWERS OF INJUSTICE AND POVERTY - We learn from the Italian media that in a meeting held in Rome on May 24, the Italian and the US government have decided to declare war to the multitude of brothers and sisters that will gather in Genoa against the G8 meeting scheduled for July. Italy, Ya Basta Declares War - G8 Summit