SCN: Re: Coalition Protests Needed Re:Fwd:an appeal from the activists fighting in Genoa] (fwd)

[Scot Harkins on scn.org]

I think it's a perfectly legitimate.  This is one of SCN's common meeting
points.

NBC did cover the raid on their evening news, including interviews of a few
of the senior activists from the organizations.  They also showed some of
the "weapons" they recovered.  Sledge hammers (one of these buildings if
being remodeled, right?), nails (see previous), oh, and knives, like Swiss
Army Knives (with their blades opened to show how dangerous they are!!!) and
steak knives.  God forbid the same police raid, oh, say, a RESTAURANT where
they might recover such dangerous weapons as meat cleavers and 16-inch
knives.  Maybe grandma's house, where they might find all sorts of sharp
implements.

I may not be fully settled on the issues of globalization and the G8, but I
certainly don't abide this kind of senseless revenge raid.  Fighting violent
anarchists, yes, but just walking in and beating people, and then torturing
them further...  Well, welcome to the real world, I guess, since it's a rare
country that actually respects the rights of detainees.


sh

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharma" <sharma at aa.net>
To: <scn at scn.org>
Sent: Sunday, 22 July, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: SCN: Coalition Protests Needed Re:Fwd:an appeal from the activists
fighting in Genoa] (fwd)


>
>
> I realize that scn may not be a completely appropriate list to forward
> this information to, I would not do so now if there were not an apparently
> nationwide media blackout on what happened slightly after midnight Italian
> time in Genoa. I have searched CNN and other media sources on TV and the
> web, and there is close to nothing available. Earlier today G8 leaders
> apparently said they feel "traumatized" by the 100,000+ demonstrators
> protesting their meeting.  However I imagine it must be somewhat less
> traumatizing to be behind the lines of the army of police protecting them
> than on the other side.
>
> The mainstream media consistently ignores and minimizes and confuses what
> these protests are about. They pretend to be baffled and annoyed by the
> now several hundred different groups of people protesting not "globalism",
> but the "profits above people and the environment" agenda of government
> leaders bought and paid for by multi-national corporations.
>
> I apologize if you find this forward annoying. I remain committed to
> freedom of information and individual rights. This is how I feel I must
> further those goals.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -sharma



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