[Onthebarricades] On the Barricades 1

Tue Jan 25 14:10:00 PST 2005

ON THE BARRICADES:  GLOBAL RESISTANCE ROUNDUP

December 12 (2004) to January 24 (2005)

ALGERIA:  Uprising in city of Oran by youths frustrated over housing allocations

"More than 100 demonstrators, many hooded, burned tyres and hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at anti-riot police in Oran, Algeria's second largest city"

City hall burnt down and looted

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13641542.htm

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/21/8009887
"Demonstrators blocked roads, sacked public buildings and overturned vehicles in the Bouira region, southeast of the capital, Algiers, the reports said.   In the western Tiaret region and in Sidi Ammar in the east, hundreds of people blocked highways to protest against higher transport prices caused by the increase in fuel costs." (al-Jazeera)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/20B73C29-ADB4-42AD-BF13-BAA64D7D2BFD.htm

Uprisings over fuel prices throughout Algeria

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/48DF51E7-67CB-4B91-98A5-4C13A659DF33.htm

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050118132543276

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/48DF51E7-67CB-4B91-98A5-4C13A659DF33.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18683869.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18683869.htm

ALGERIAN YOUTH TAKE TO STREETS TO OPPOSE GAS PRICE HIKE

Rioting youths looted and burned public buildings in a northern 

Algerian town to protest against an increase in gas prices and a 

lack of housing and jobs in the latest disturbance to hit the 

country. Between 3,000 and 5,000 inhabitants of Birine, 200 km (120 

miles) south of the capital Algiers, initially took part in Monday's 

unauthorized protest which later turned violent when youths looted 

and set fire to buildings, witnesses and newspapers said. "There was 

huge damage. Rioters set fire to several public buildings, including 

the city hall and those belonging to local post office and tax 

office," a local journalist, who asked to remain anonymous, 

said. "Anti-riot police weren't able to control the crowd until the 

arrival of more policemen from neighboring towns," he said.

 Meanwhile in the northeastern Kabylie region, angry demonstrators in 

the town of Kherrata reportedly blockaded the region's main road.

 Butane gas and fuel oil are the only available sources of energy in 

Algeria's remote mountain regions and high plateaus. The 

government's decision to hike the price of from 170 to 200 dinars 

(1.7 to 2.0 euros) goes against a recommendation from the national 

parliament. 

Demonstrations are rare because they need approval from the interior 

ministry under a state of emergency in place since 1992, when the 

cancellation of elections a hardline Islamic party was set to win 

sparked more than a decade of violence. 

But demonstrations are on the rise and increasingly violent across 

the country as disgruntled youths take to the streets, particularly 

over a lack of housing and jobs. Dozens of youths have recently been 

sentenced to prison for such offences. 

Unemployment stands at around 25 percent in the energy-rich country, 

but is much higher in some regions.  (from ORead Daily)

GREECE:  Oinker-station destroyed by anarchists, in retaliation for torture of refugees

The action was carried out by helmeted and hooded protesters, who used Molotovs and other items to heavily damage the copshop

Cops apparently shot at the rebels with their handguns

Several cop cars were also trashed

The copshop had been the site of serious mistreatment of refugees, including mock executions

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303200.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/26/1375262

http://www.enrager.net/newswire/stories.php?story=04/12/27/7768900

http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/26/172755/47

Pics from the action

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=304642

Pics of police abuse victims

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=302336

Anarchists occupy embassy in solidarity with arrestees from copshop action

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/28/6176444

GUATEMALA:  Gold mine truck blockaded

Soldiers, pigs and an armoured scoop tried to bash their way through barricades in Solola

The protest, over eco-destruction and a threat to a locally-built bridge, involved many locals

There were clashes as locals lit burning roadblocks and pelted the trucks with rocks and sticks

Some locals also opened fire with guns, and two protesters were killed by a police or army assassin as tear-gas was hurled

Seven pigs were also hospitalised

The truck continues its journey but at a very slow pace as barricades continue to go up

The Guatemalan president is committed to "establish the rule of law" to "protect the investors" (statism=boss class tyranny)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/01/11/guatemala.violence.ap/

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/95036/9822

Report from SchNews:

Bridge Too Far

A blockade is going into its seventh week on a metal pedestrian

bridge over the Panamerican Highway 130kms northwest of Guatemala

City to stop mining equipment getting through to the Glamis Gold

Marlin mine near San Marcos, Guatemala. One protester has already

been murdered and seven injured after attacks by the police and

army.

It started when the mining equipment convoy first got to the

bridge and found they were up against several thousand indigenous

farmers and villagers intent on stopping part of it being

dismantled to get large drilling equipment past it. Then when one

of the mining vehicles was set alight the convoy retreated 2km to

a lookout point parking area, where it has been stuck ever since,

protected by private police from the rampaging villagers. The

local mayor is on the side of the protesters, but already the

Guatemalan Interior Ministry have sent in troops and police to try

to escort the convoy to the mine. The protesters are now

threatening to push the mining equipment over a cliff where it is

parked - and good luck to them!

The company Glamis have been lent $45million to develop the mine

by the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank)

without conducting the obligatory consultation of the local

indigenous communities, or complying with the World Banks' own

recommendations regarding negotiations with those affeced by the

project (since when has that stopped a World Bank project?)

Glamis are a mining company who have left a trail of indigenous

peoples' rights violations, contaminated water and pollution

across north America, and are currently using NAFTA laws to file

for $50 million compensation because of actions taken by the State

of California who had the audacity to protect it's environmental

and indigenous communities from the impact of their open cast

mining.

See www.miningwatch.ca for more information.

NIGERIA:  Youths torch copshop in protest over police shooting of student

Students stormed the copshop and cops fled - they then looted arms, freed prisoners and torched the place

Cop vehicles and other cop-linked buildings were also targeted

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050115220003935

GUANGDONG:  Another uprising in the southern province; huge clashes between locals and cops

The uprising started when a cop beat a youth to death for alleged theft

Up to 50,000 mainly poor urban residents took part in the uprising

Reports suggest several people were killed and 100 injured

http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2004_12_27_0352.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/28/6325939

Reports: Many Killed, Hurt in China Riot

Associated Press

HONG KONG - As many as 1,000 villagers battled police in southern China in a riot that left several people dead and dozens wounded, newspapers said Sunday.  Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po and Apple Daily newspapers differed widely over the size of the mob and what led to the clash Saturday in Da Lang village in Guangdong province. Both said the riot started after security forces beat a resident to death.  Wen Wei Po said nearly 50,000 people faced off against hundreds of police officers and torched four police cars. About a dozen village security officers were hurt in the dispute that sparked the riot, the newspaper said.  The Apple Daily, meanwhile, put the crowd size at nearly 1,000. Police fired tear gas at the rioters, the newspaper said. It quoted a villager as saying that several locals were killed and 100 were injured.  Wen Wei Po said the incident began with a dispute over compensation for a traffic accident. The disagreement flared into a riot when local security forces beat to death a relative of the accident victim, the newspaper said.  Apple Daily said the security forces sparked the unrest by beating to death a 15-year-old boy for stealing a bicycle. It said police brought the riot under control in three hours and later arrested about a dozen people.  Police and government officials refused to confirm details of the incident. "The riot is over," said one government official in Dongguan, a city that includes Da Lang.  The official, who would not give his name, referred all inquiries to the Communist Party propaganda office in Dongguan, where phones rang unanswered Sunday.  Police in Da Lang and Dongguan also refused to comment.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10502792.htm

CHINA:  Tenants revolt over mall closure - occupy roof, throw bricks

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=05/01/06/9244969

More on China unrest:

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/29/8667432

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/524/524_05_China.shtml

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5346

GERMANY:  Resistance to fascistic crackdown on benefits escalates

One claimant suicide-bombs a job centre after his benefits are cut

The state is introducing a work-or-starve scheme to force claimants to submit to worse job conditions

Protesters clash with pigs in unrest over work-or-starve dole "reforms"

Hundreds of protesters stormed a benefit office in a working-class area

Cops, as usual, acted as the hired goons of the state, bludgeoning protesters

Intimidation apparently worked, to keep numbers down; the low turnout causes gloating from rightist wankers 

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6777661/

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j07.shtml

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11854659%5E2703,00.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=05/01/03/8485128

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6903/690353.html

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9E75B460C0744F8695B3E0BE5A30A620/Doc~ECAAD1A9A5667421BAA06052BF89CE364~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/business/german.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4142441.stm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1446794,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6777661/

Earlier story:  Huge resistance to job cuts is coming.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1415705,00.html

RUSSIA:  Similar resistance spreads after benefit cuts

Pensioners fight with bus conductors and hijack buses

There is mass defiance against payment for social services as well as widespread demonstrations

Protesters attack bus conductors and other enforcers in widespread resistance, and stage unauthorised demos http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901050124-1018026,00.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050119061520472

http://www.all4all.org/2005/01/1388.shtml

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6904/690404.html

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1106435409322&call_pageid=970599119419

Mass demonstrations by elderly people and other claimants hailed as the biggest protest wave since the 1998 mine strikes

Huge demonstrations continuue day after day in Moscow

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/c2990438a777064b/5fb34392cce3c2cf#5fb34392cce3c2cf

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jan/ainfos00292.html

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=7024

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/01/35748f47-5554-4c5a-8abe-fac8aa8e4883.html
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1043695&t=Nation+%2F+World&c=26,1043695
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050113-113914-9709r.htm

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/01/60a8aa80-a0f0-4d39-a7a1-7bebf0d7d24a.html

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2377059
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050117-100729-4091r.htm
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/17/build/world/65-russians-protest.inc

http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2005_01_22_5019.html

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7399571
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=2487
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/01/24/908750-cp.html
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-4042575,00.html
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=658680
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7399571
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F489E438-FEAC-4828-8BD6-1B9E8091DF91.htm
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5485484
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3164509a12,00.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=658662

Attempts made to block key Moscow road

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780275162&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161

Pensioners block main road in St Petersburg
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11962728%255E1702,00.html
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050116-084534-1037r.htm
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/127581/1/.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/16/content_2466827.htm

Demonstrations in cities across Russia
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F489E438-FEAC-4828-8BD6-1B9E8091DF91.htm
Thousands protest in Murmansk
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1669752&PageNum=0
Protest in Kaluga
http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1653633&PageNum=0
And in Novgorod
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1649402&PageNum=0
And in Irkutsk
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1648252&PageNum=0
Protest near Stavropol
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1649309&PageNum=0
Protesters in Khimki block roads, attacked by cops;
pledge to step up protests
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050124/w012430.html

Putin gives bribe to army amid unrest
http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050124160731.lsigh2b3.html

KOREA:  Farmers stage rally against rice imports, blockade bridges and roads

300 arrested as cops smash vehicles and attack blockades

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200412/kt2004122015475712070.htm

http://www.iht.com/getina/files/212870.html

http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20041220/300400000020041220191221E1.html

AMERICA:  Bush inauguration protested

Protesters burst through fences, delay Bush

Some break through onto parade route - police attack with pepper spray http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121100055189

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120224756737

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120183141821

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/13586/5425
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005012016580002822541&dt=20050120165800&w=RTR

http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/139414/index.php
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/33061/index.php
http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/139681/index.php

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/93E42AE9E32C8C8005256F93006B2A56?Opendocument

http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/24748/index.php

Protesters rush security gate

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120223918193

Showdown after protest as some protesters on "youth march" target shop windows and cop cars
Cops viciously attack protesters with pepper spray
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27648-2005Jan21.html

Police state DC
http://rwor.org/a/1266/police-state-dc.htm
http://richmond.indymedia.org/feature/display/9117/index.php

Protesters shut down Chevron petrol station
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308797.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308781.shtml

Mini Critical Mass takes back the streets - and the
mall
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308567.shtml

Cheney snowballed
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/4112846/detail.html

As riot cops advance, one protester steps forward and begins to pray

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/11378

Man threatens to blow up van near Bush route
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7362196

Anti-war groups protest
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=29ff82f0-4efa-44ee-8fd2-642b0e02fa4d

Code Pink interrupt Bush speech
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/21/PROTESTS.TMP

Thousands stage rally near White House

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121095804923

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=7075

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0105/201580.html

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/612/612p11b.htm
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2005/1118

Hundreds mark inauguration with protests
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=428977

"Mourners" on parade route
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0121/local/stories/02local.htm
Vermont protesters travel to Washington DC
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050122/NEWS/501220359/1003/NEWS02

New York activists travel to Washington to protest
http://www.nyunews.com/opinion/editorial/8661.html

Code Pink activists unfurl banners at Bush's speech - dragged off by oinkers

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0120-06.htm

Protest Warriors get asses kicked

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120182710431

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000769.html

Hundreds gather in Burnside Park
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308531.shtml
Burning flag
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308499.shtml
Student rally
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308506.shtml
Activists target news station over bad coverage
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308478.shtml
Oinkers spray and arrest journalists
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2005/0121-new-photog.html

Personal reports from the protests
http://hm.indymedia.org/feature/display/10063/index.php
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/feature/display/9449/index.php
http://www.binghamtonpmc.org/feature/display/331/index.php

>From the DC Indymedia Newswire:
http://dc.indymedia.org via Infoshop and Portland IMC 
Best as narrative if read from the bottom up. 

# 12:30am New reports from Columbia Road/18th street
says bricks were thrown, windows broken; Protesters
were hemmed into one end of alley; 100 to 150 arrests
appear to have been made; some marchers managed to get
out; 
# 12:09pm The two buses on 18th street are gone, as
are a group of protestors who were arrested; police
seem to be about to disperse; 
# 11:59pm Police have assaulted DC Radio Co-Op
reporter Darby Hickey for the second time during the
day; police warned the reporter to "take a walk" and
leave the scene, and then she was shoved; 30 more riot
cops marched up to the scene and more arrests are
taking place; the entire section of Columbia Road has
been shut down, and the number of arrests appears to
be in excess of 50 people; 
# 11:52pm March turned onto 18th Street and marchers
were blocked in; heavily-armed police are now
detaining and arresting demonstrators, and there are 2
buses parked on 18th and another 4 buses parked on
Columbia, but so far nobody has been placed in the
buses; a helicopter is overhead spotlighting the
scene; 
# 11:46pm 100 riot police forming up at 18th and
Belmont, and all roads and allies off Columbia Road
are being closed off; protesters are now pinned in and
are not allowed to leave; 
# 11:22pm Large march of 150 or more people is now
moving down Columbia Road through Adams Morgan; they
have occupied the entire left lane of the road
approaching 18th and Columbia, chanting "Bring the War
Home"; the marchers are converging on a hotel; 
# 8:09pm Police are reporting that Union Station has
been cleared of "pedestrian" problems, meaning
protesters; police are also reportedly moving in to
block what they call "pedestrian traffic" into
Columbus Circle, which is a closed area, and it is
unclear if this reference to "pedestrians" means
"protesters"; 
# 7:25pm Republican assaulted a photographer taking
pictures, while police looked on; no action was taken
by the police; 
# 7:11pm Physical confrontation just occurred between
a Republican and a protester at Union Station;
protester was arrested, but Republican was allowed to
enter Inaugural Ball at Union Station; Police are now
forming a line between Republicans and protesters; 
# 7:02pm Confrontations now occurring between
Republicans and protesters at Union Station; 
# 6:56pm Police have gone behind Union Station; Police
reporting that Metro PD has situation at Union Station
covered, other police forces going back to the
motorcade; 
# 6:33pm Marchers from unpermitted march say it was
"spontaneous", comprised of many different people of
all types; they are now at Union Station regrouping
and playing music; 
# 6:22pm Police have cleared Mass. Ave. of protestors
using their motorcycles, marchers have reached the
corner by Union Station; 
# 6:18pm Police issuing "final warning" to disperse to
Mass. Ave. protesters; police on motorcycles are
ramming marchers in front of Post Office on North
Capitol by Union Station; 
# 6:16pm Police now issuing second warning to
protesters to disperse from Mass. Ave. immediately; 
# 6:15pm Police have issued first warning for marchers
on Mass. Ave. to disperse; 
# 6:10pm March has taken over one entire side of
Massachusettes Avenue; 
# 6:10pm March is now going out of Chinatown onto
Massachusettes Avenue towards Union Station; about 200
people; police have been attempting to follow, but
road blockades have prevented police vehicles from
following; 
# Unpermitted march now at 15th and L; 
# Arrest at 15th and M at spontaneous unpermitted
march; 
# 3:45 Coffins carried by protestors are burning; 
# 3:44 At least 30 riot-police at 14th and
Pennsylvania; stand-off between police and protestors;
whole area is filled with pepper-spray and tear-gas;
16 mainstream journalists observed getting sprayed by
police with pepper-spray; 
# 3:38 Police now sending reenforcements to 15th and H
street; 
# 3:33 Police reporting that one of two officers
injured at 14th and Pennsylvania has a broken arm; 
# 3:32 Protesters are pushing through gates at 13th
and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:31 Two women arrested at 13th and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:20 Police snipers appearing on rooftops around
14th and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:20 Two officers reported injured at 14th and
Pennsylvania; mainstream journalists being hit and
pepper-sprayed by police; 
# 3:18 Pepper spray and tear-gas directed at
protestors at 15th and Pennsylvania; at least 50
injured protestors; reports from police of "chest
pains" in protestor; mainstream media journalists
being hit with pepper spray; reports of bleeding from
injured protestors; 
# 3:18 Three sections of fence on inaugural parade
route now broken down by protestors; fence blocking
off parade route has collapsed; protestors battling
police in streets; police still responding with pepper
spray and tear gas; 
# 3:15PM: Much of the first 3 blocks of Pennsylvania
has a significant anti-Bush presence, hard to pick
pro-bush demonstrators out of some segments. 
# 3:14 Presidential motorcade slowed down at request
of police; 
# 3:13 Police send a request to the Bush motorcade to
slow down the motorcade at 5th and Pennsylvania, as
major street battle rages between protestors and
police at 14th and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:13 Tear-gas being used in street battle between
protestors and police; 
# 3:12 Bush motorcade is speeded up to get beyond the
protestors on parade route; 
# 3:11 Bush motorcade passes massive grouping of
protestors on parade route; "Fuck Bush!" can be heard
live on CNN as protestors out-shout Bush supporters; 
# 3:05PM: Spot in the fense near 14 and Penn, near
Willard Hotel, where they've rattled the fense, gotten
it knocked over or bent over twice, MPD pepper spray.
Extra police are being deployed to this area. 
# 2:57PM: Unconfirmed reports of 4 arrests at 8th and
D NW # 2:56PM: Pepper sprayed anarchists at 11th and E
NW 
# 2:52PM: Protesters at 14th and Penn have been
"contained" -- surrounded by the police, according to
one call. 
# 2:50PM: Some anarchists at 14th and Penn are trying
to pull-down barricades, break through check-points.
Check-points are being closed-down by the police.
Protests at 16th and H going well. (20 people laying
on ground) 
# 2:33PM: Flags being burned at 14th and Penn. Some
callers report there has been a fight of some sort
between anarchists burning a flag and a Bush-supporter
trying to take the flag from them. 
# 1:50PM: Possible splinter group heading from D & 7
to Capitol area. Riot police lining the streets at
Penn & 14th. 
# 1:43PM: "Gas" at 7th and D NW 
# 1:38PM: There's a police car (#137, MPD?) in front
of the Counter-Inaugural convergence space. 
# 1:35PM: Report on the police radio of bottle and
rock throwing at 10th and D. 
# 1:34PM: Police being dispatched to Pershing park,
report of arrests at D and 7th. 
# 1:16PM: (updated)snow balls thrown by some
activists, several people say at least 2,000
anarchists. Some sort of projectile, maybe pepper
balls, corroborated by some. Snowballs were thrown.
Mood as calmed down, peoples spirits are "high."
Anarchist Cheerleader squad is among them. 
# 1:10PM: 1 person down, hit by pepper spray, maybe
physical force between 7th and 8th on G NW, police
tried to prevent one "anarchist" march from linking up
with another, things are "heating up fast." One DC
Radio Coop/IMC contributor has also been hit by pepper
spray. No arrests yet. 
# 12:45: DAWN march is in the vicinity of McPhearson
Square, people are shouting "whose streets, our
streets!" Mood is "serious, but energetic." 
# 12:43: "Anarchist march" at 13th and L, say the
police around them were drawn away by "something
else." 
# 12:35PM: One arrest reported on "P circle," P street
near Dupont or Logan? Choppers and police cars heard
converging on an area near Logan/in Shaw. 
# During Bush's speech, Code Pink held up banners
"Bring the troops home" and shouted. Police
immediately took them away. After that another group
shouted, they were taken away. 2 more protests
following that. Members of the audience appluaded the
police actions, shouted "USA USA," and some through
snowballs while other people tried to block cameras
from covering the protesters. Public radio noted this
very briefly, and the CNN noted and covered none of it
as far as we can tell. 
# 12:15PM Splinter group broke away from DAWN march at
16th and Q NW, maybe 200-300 ppl says observer. 
# 11:55AM: Police chatter estimates DAWN (Malcom
X/Meridian Park) march at 10,000 
# 11:50 am DAWN march from MalcomX park just started
with 5-800 going down 16th street. Police presence but
not too heavy. People from Maine, Michigan, East Coast
corridor. Primarily younger protestors, but people who
have protested before. College students from Maine. 9
jump out vans are following them behind. 
# 11:41AM: Marches have left Dupont Circle and Malcom
X/Meridian Park 
# 11:31AM: Bush is about to be introduced at the
inauguration platform

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