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This page carries news concerning the Mayday2k protest movement, a globally - internet organised - protest movement.


Mayday 90210 - Beverly Hills
Images Of MAYDAY2K from around the world

Scoop World: DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONVENTION AND PROTESTS FULL COVERAGE:
- Protests Turn Ugly - On Monday night, a peaceful, festive free show by Rage Against the Machine turned violent as cops finally got to show off all their months of anti-protest training at the Democratic National Convention. See... LAPD unleashes horses-pepper spray-rubber bullets in the International wire.
- President Clinton - is in Los Angeles warming up to his handing of the batton speech to his vice-President Al Gore tonight. See�D2KLA: Clinton: A Moment of Progress and Prosperity for a preview of his speech and D2KLA: President Clinton to the Jewish Community - D2KLA: President Clinton at Becerra Reception for other remarks.
- What is D2KLA - D2KLA is the acronym for the Democratic Convention protests planned for Los Angeles this week. See... Scoop Links: Protests Begin In The City Of Angels in the Headlines wire.


For breaking news concerning Mayday2k from around the world see...
INFOSHOP: http://www.infoshop.org/mayday2000_news.html
and
INDYMEDIA: http://www.indymedia.org/

WHAT IS MAYDAY2K? - A Street Flyer being used in the Wellington protests today explains.... Street Flyer - Carnival against Capitalism.

MAYDAY2K World: East Timor Leads The Way - Workers in East Timor, the world?s newest independent Nation, are leading the world so far as tangible benefits are concerned with their May Day action. See... MAYDAY2K: New Holiday Declared In East Timor in the International wire. For more international reports see? MAYDAY2K IN UK: 400 Cyclists in Central London and . ICFTU May Day Manifesto .


Mac Attack #1 - Mac Attack #2
Money Burning At Business Roundtable

Mayday2k Gets Smelly For Christchurch Banks - Scoop has received an communique from a group calling itself ?People Not Profits? in Christchurch who have been busy making a stink. See... MAYDAY2K: Four Christchurch Banks Stink Bombed in the Headlines wire. Earlier another group indicated it had plans to tamper with traffic signals. See...MAYDAY2K: Traffic Signals Targetted In Chch. For Wellington's Mayday protest schedule see... MAYDAY2K: Wellington May Day Protest Itinerary. Meanwhile in the International wire NZ protestors have been sent words of encouragement from Chicago. see... MAYDAY2K: Happy May Day NZ - From Chicago!.

MayDay 2K Has Arrived! - Today, May Day 2000, is D-Day for a global carnival against capitalism with demonstrations planned all around the globe. Demonstrations are planned in several NZ cities including Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton and Dunedin. The capacity of the internet to enable networking among political interest groups has emerged over the past 12 months in a spectacular fashion. Scoop's Alastair Thompson backgrounds the Mayday2k protest movement in a feature article first published in Loop Magazine. See... Scoop Feature: Today Is Mayday2k! in the Headlines wire.


Photo Story: Anticapitalists Gather In Cuba St.

Supercomputer Weather Forecast: An Omen For Mayday2k? - As protestors gather around the Western World in the cause of improving the lot of their fellow disadvantaged citizens of Planet Earth, clouds are gathering over the Horn of Africa promising deliverance of a different kind. See... Scoop Images: Mayday Rain In Ethiopia in the Headlines wire.

Just The Weekend To Go Then Its MAYDAY2K! - Activists around the globe are gearing up this weekend for protests this coming Monday - countries involved in the protests include: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada , England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America and Wales. For the latest update of the Mayday 2000 - Global Day of Action, Resistance and Carnival - contact list - chockfull of links, email newsgroups, and sources of information on the global protests due to kick of Monday - see... Latest Update Of Mayday2k Contact And Action List in the International wire. Meanwhile in Melbourne activists have begun organising a follow up demonstration designed to disrupt a meeting of the World Economic Forum?s Asia-Pacific Economic Summit. See... S11 International Call To Action! in the International wire.

A17 #3: Police Violence In DC
A17 #2: Whose Streets? Our Streets!

MAYDAY2K: Whose Streets? Our Streets! - The A16 and A17 demonstrations have been declared an outstanding success by demonstrators. Massive international coverage of the protests has included hourly coverage on both CNN and BBC for most of the two day period. Notably what violence there was during the action was mainly from police against protestors. Several hundred protestors remain in custody following the action. See... A17: Police Violence In DC and : A17: Whose Streets? Our Streets! in the Headlines wire for images of the second day of protests. .

MAYDAY2K: We Did It! - Cyber anarchist Chuck0 of Mid-Atlantic Infoshop has written an account of day one of the Washinton IMF/World Bank?s protest, A16. Scoop will bring his account of day two as soon as it comes to light. See... Whose Streets? Our Streets! in the Headlines wire. See also a report of the demonstrations from a prout.org reporter... A Tremendous Protest in Washington, DC in the Headlines wire.

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Have You Seen This Man? - Initially Rob Fish from the Independent Media Centre who took this photo thought the man?s aggression was due to road-rage, now he is seeking witnesses with a view towards prosecution of whoever this is. See... Scoop Images: Secret Police Caught In The Act! in the Headlines wire for a full report of the incident from the victim.

A16: Mass Arrests Before The Balloon Goes Up - On Sunday NZ Time, Saturday Washington Time, the Washington DC police executed a preemptive strike against the protest movement gathering in Washington. The convergence centre - being used by protestors to prepare for Sunday and Monday's planned actions - was raided and shut down. Later when protestors took to the street for the first time eight bus loads of protestors were arrested for protesting without permits. The A16 protest proper commences at 6am Washington DC Time on April 16th.

A16 Images #1 - Whose America?
A16 Images #2 - GAP Is Greed

MAYDAY2K Comes To Cuba Street - A broad coalition of groups is gathering in Cuba Mall in Wellington to demonstrate support for the demands of developing countries for fair trade at the time of the spring meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Similar protests and vigils are taking place around the world, but especially in Washington DC, where officials of the World Bank and IMF are meeting. See... Wellington IMF/World Bank Protest in the Politics wire. Hoping to find protests of Seattle like proportions, Scoop went to the demonstration against global capitalism in Wellington's Manners Mall and found... very little. See... Scoop Misses Wellington's Fair Trade Protests in the Headlines wire.

Anarchists Lay Out Their Agenda For A16 - "We are all active organizers and participants of the upcoming protests surrounding the IMF and World Bank on April 9 -17. For us, these institutions are beyond reform." So begins a communique from the "Black Bloc" anarchist groups who are planning to disrupt proceedings this weekend in Washington DC. See... 'A16 Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc' Statement in the International wire. Meanwhile on another front of the activist revolution the Biotic Baking Brigade - famous for "cream pieing" Bill Gates, Robert Shapiro and others have struck again. See... Biotic Baking Brigade Pies Biotech Academic , also in the International wire. Closer to home the NZ protest organisers are not at all impressed with Paul Holmes treatment of their anonymous spokesman on the radio this morning.

As Mayday2k Approaches - In the streets of Wellington posters have started appearing advertising a protest against McDonalds on Mayday (M1). Meanwhile in Washington protest actions and arrests have begun in advance of A16 (April 16th), providing a foretaste of a planned attempt by an Internet organised activism movement to shut down IMF and World Bank meetings this coming weekend. See... M1: First Arrests And Meditation In Washington, DC in the Headlines wire for a report from Dada Maheshvarananda of Prout in Washington. Last weekend a more sedate protest was held joining hands around the US Capitol Hill. This one was approved of by the President. See.. US Presidential Message Celebrating Jubilee 2000 . Washington police are warning that attacks of property will be strongly policed over the weekend and that riots as occurred last November in Seattle will not be tolerated.

Global May Day Protests To Begin In Godzone - London, June 18, 1999 - Millions of pounds worth of damage caused by anti-capitalist demonstrators in London's financial district. Seattle, November 30, 1999 - Police turn violent as thousands of protestors disrupt WTO meeting. New Zealand, May 1, 2000 - ?? See... New Zealand activists first in world to May Day 2k in the Politics wire.

Public Relations Firm Analyses Anti-Capitalists - A guide - apparently addressed to corporate America - to the protest movement which closed down the Seattle WTO meetings for a day in November last year has been posted on the Internet. See... PR Analysis Of Seattle WTO Protests Leaked in the Headlines wire.

Anti Capitalists "Starbuck" McDonalds In Davos, Switzerland protesting against the World Economic Forum - why?

After Seattle - A Trade War Looms - Following a breakdown at the WTO talks in Seattle, the US House Agriculture Committee is planning a series of hearings on farm policy early next year that will consider greater subsidies for US farmers. Will it lead to a Trade War? John Howard reports. See... EU And US Headed For A Trade War Over Agriculture in the Headlines wire.

The Battle Of Seattle - image from DAMN!

SEATTLE WTO PROTESTS EXTENDED COVERAGE

Seattle's Police Chief Quits After WTO Protests - Seattle's police chief has quit, becoming the first political casualty of the violent protests that disrupted the WTO meeting last week. John Howard reports. See... Seattle's Police Chief Quits After WTO Protests in the Headlines wire.

- WTO Talks Fail - The WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle has failed to achieve its goal of launching a new round of trade liberalisation talks. In a major embarrassment for President Clinton and a setback for free trade, diplomats said the US and the WTO would release a brief statement declaring an end to the meeting but would not launch a new round of negotiations as they had hoped. Developing countries left the meeting blaming the US, the European Union, Canada and Japan for shuffling them aside. John Howard reports. See... Third World Says No To ?Green Room? WTO Bullying in the Headlines wire.

- Why We Smashed McDonalds - In the aftermath of the Battle of Seattle protestors are engaging in a heated discussion on the internet on the merits of violence against corporate property. A communique from one section of the black bloc of N30 in Seattle explains how it sees the debate. See... N30 Black Bloc Communique in the Business wire.

- Links To Live WTO Protest News - An Independent News Center has been set up to broadcast news from the WTO Protests. See Rolling News Coverage Of WTO-Protests Live - this provides the background behind http://www.indymedia.org/. The WTO protest movement was coordinated on the world wide web. For more information on who, how and why as well as live updating news see?http://www.infoshop.org/no2wto.html. Warning this site contains links to sabotage information.

- Scoop Opinion: WTO Protests - Is This About Global Peace And Security? - The WTO meeting in Geneva is NOT being attended by all the nations of the World - including China - for the sole purpose of attacking US Labour conditions. Kofi Annan is not in Seattle to try to hand over the world to a global conspiracy. Scoop?s Alastair Thompson backgrounds today?s WTO meeting - which the latest news reports say has been delayed. See... Column: WTO Protests - Beware Bullshit Alert in the Headlines wire.