[Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades Spring-Autumn 2005 - Bolivia, Ecuador, and the G8 summit protests

Andy ldxar1 at tesco.net
Mon Nov 21 21:17:30 PST 2005 

On the Barricades Spring-Autumn 2005 - Bolivia, Ecuador, and the G8 summit protests


BOLIVIA:  Mass protests overthrow government

A new wave of mass protests broke out as a controversial gas bill passed parliament
Marchers from El Alto descended on the capital en masse
Congress was evacuated as protesters marched on it
Demonstrators broke through cop lines and nearly reached Congress
Police attacked the protesters with water cannons 
Protests for nationalisation of gas were also held across the country

After sell-out on gas privatisation and redistribution issues, government faces new rebellion from El Alto slum-dwellers and peasants

Protests continued for weeks, with attempts made to involve the police and military in repression

Eventually President Mesa was forced to step down in the face of unrest, and plans to install far-rightist Vaca Diez as a replacement also fell apart

http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5658

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={0033281F-72E6-4ED2-8018-3DA66F2BE910}&language=EN

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/24/BoliviaProtests_050524.html

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/mayo/vier27/23bolivia.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4605487.stm

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={6CB971C9-695D-45DA-B39B-4FBA65C260D2}&language=EN

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1527

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1529

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1528

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/27/17740/3054

http://newsocialist.org/index.php?id=305

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/212555/4105

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11216611.htm

http://www.counterpunch.org/webber05092005.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0613/p06s01-woam.html

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/6/223313/0055

http://www.internationalist.org/boliviaexplodes0506.html

http://www.internationalist.org/lapazeyewitness050606.html

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/213122/3581

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/213122/3581

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/junio/mier8/24boliv-i.html

http://www.americas.org/item_19790

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/6/17431/08183

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050606-1947-bolivia-unrest.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1866

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news502.htm

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p12b.htm

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p12.htm

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/627/627p24.htm

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=11301
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=4805a676cefd60167d027f0472dfcccb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4557379.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1487077,00.html
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/18May2005_news36.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4551293.stm
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=111838&region=4
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1001070.php/Protests_continue_in_Bolivia_over_gas_industry
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/1420227
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050517-074136-8407r.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00201.htm
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BD7FC3AAA-AC63-4057-9F0F-F76EDBC7C33D%7D&language=EN
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqOLSqeidyM9SAxzPys1WCM90zxn0CW
Protest paralyses main airport

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/10/content_3065769.htm

Protests derail Congress

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4594615.stm

The people take La Paz

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/31/20717/4474

http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-revolutionary-crisis010605.htm

The uprising of miners and peasants

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2003/11/102035.shtml

Interview with Bolivian activists

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/25/1414214

Tear gas in the Andes - The Nation article on the protests by Christian Parenti

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050613&s=parenti

Water wars continue in El Alto
http://www.cupe.ca/www/p3_alert__march_2005/bolivia_water_fight_

The first few days of the second gas war

http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=286

The revolution must continue (Fifth International analysis)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2110

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2235625374&fa=1

New government tries to divert protest into parliamentarism

http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-parliamentary-trap130605.htm

Bolivian people's assembly launched

http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-peoples-assembly090605.htm

Mass organisations form revolutionary council

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00243.html

Statement by "Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y el Gas"

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00251.html

Bolivia "in pre-revolutionary situation" - UNIPA, Brazil

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00274.html

Analyses of the unfolding crisis from PO, Argentina

http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen900/poen900004.htm

http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen903/poen903003.htm

http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen904/poen904003.htm

Peasants occupy gas plant in protest over local services

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4316562.stm

Is reform enough? - Carlos Herrera, Bolivian Bolivarian

http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=130&num=18327

Bolivia crisis peaks

http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=130&num=18192

Mesa warns of civil war threat

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/09/news/bolivia.php

Mesa resigns in bid to stop protests

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=alF4AE34J_TE&refer=top_world_news

Thousands protest in Bolivian capital

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/06/07/bolivia.unrest/

Mesa's concessions fail to stop protests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4608111.stm

Protests derail Bolivian Congress session

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5834012

Behind the crisis

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0613-24.htm

Neoliberalism is not an option in Bolivia

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0609-27.htm

Zero Hour in Bolivia

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0609-32.htm

Tear gas in the Andes - the Bolivia crisis

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0527-28.htm

Bolivia Mayday protests

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/04Bolivia.html

After the uprising

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/24bolivia.html

CPGB general analysis of the Bolivia revolt

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/581/bolivia.htm

CPGB criticises MAS

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/582/bolivia.htm

On the march against imperialism

http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/185/185_bol.html

http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/186/186_bol.html

http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/184/184_bol.html

Interview with COB activist

http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/186/186_int.html

Bolivia crisis leads to replacement of president

http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,717

The Other Insurrections

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6321

Victory in Bolivia!

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/548/548_05_Bolivia.shtml

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/547/547_06_Bolivia.shtml

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/545/545_02_Bolivia.shtml

Make the revolution permanent

http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=78,791,0,0,1,0

http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=77,729,0,0,1,0

Byebye Mesa

http://www.counterpunch.org/hylton06072005.html

Bolivia on the edge of revolution

http://www.counterpunch.org/maass06082005.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/gott06142005.html

The agony of stalemate

http://www.counterpunch.org/hylton06022005.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/hylton06142005.html

Bolivia erupts

http://www.counterpunch.org/webber05202005.html

Back to the streets in Bolivia

http://www.counterpunch.org/webber05092005.html

Recovering Bolivia's oil and gas

http://www.counterpunch.org/olivera06102005.html

Messy situation as protests continue, coup threatened

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050602115940229

Indigenous protest in Bolivia

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/26/penhaul.bolivia/index.html

Nationalisation or Death - rebellion in Bolivia

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050528133134702

Bolivia explodes in sharp class battle

http://www.internationalist.org/boliviatoc.html

The first two days of Bolivia's new gas war

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=799

Protests by workers and indigenous people rock the ruling class

http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=445&PHPSESSID=a65f90fb525e7bb8829076a53bed7298

Behind the uprising

http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1315

Dual power in Bolivia

http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/bolivia_s_laboratory_of_dual_power?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f

Struggle goes "inside"

http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/bolivias_gas_war_moves_inside

Reversing the tide in Bolivia

http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/123841/2664

Gas protests continue

http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/124130/456

New uprising in Bolivia

http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/24/62955/1715

Protesters demand nationalisation of oil and gas

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692353.html

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6924/692405.html

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6925/692504.html

"Last week Bolivia's congress was forced to meet in the former colonial capital Sucre, as La Paz's streets were out of their control.

Then congress had to be suspended after military Special Forces killed a member of the mineworkers union Juan Coro as he was en route to protests, and peasant union members took over the Sucre airport."

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20224.htm

Narcosphere reports

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/12/214534/676

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/10/185538/941

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/10/11925/5827

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/235156/3341

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/84257/46598

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/2014/37723

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/213122/3581

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/3226/45623

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/3/20745/10741

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/2/202837/7248

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/2/91950/40629

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/1/203744/6962

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/1/1938/47554

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/31/20717/4474

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/31/82723/2089

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/30/191911/883

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/27/233342/114

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/27/17740/3054

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/24/174716/841

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/24/131418/002

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/19/31431/1005

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/17/2492/77016

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/special/bolivia_en

Vaca Diez behind death of miner

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/172426/1456

Airport strike against Vaca Diez

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/14829/09416

Strikes across Bolivia

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4235

Rebellion topples president

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6715

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6716

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6682

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6683

Warning of civil war, Bolivia's President resigns

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/boli-j09.shtml

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/boli-j03.shtml

 

 

ECUADOR:  More protests against Gutierrez over corruption lead to toppling of government

General strike and mass protests force resignation of former leftist Gutierrez
What began as small liberal protests over supreme court stacking, turned into a mass popular mobilisation forcing the resignation of the president

In a day of unrest in Quito, dozens were injured by fumes and one confirmed dead in clashes
A week-long state of emergency was a pretext for massive police violence, but hundreds of thousands defied the repression
Congress was stormed and briefly occupied

Once again, popular masses marched on Quito and effectively overthrew a government

The once popular Guttierez quickly sold out to neoliberalism, angering his former supporters
http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/ecuador_uprising210405.htmhttp://english.people.com.cn/200504/20/eng20050420_181962.html

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9325.shtml&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9119.shtml&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://peru.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/15440.php&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9117.shtml&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9001.shtml&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9012.shtml&prev=/language_tools

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p15.htm

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00448.html

http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen896/poen896004.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0421-02.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0420-08.htm

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/11ecuador.html

http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/185/185_ecu.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050415234604452

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=200504221111009

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=788

http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=404

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/04/24/0273450

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6918/691801.html

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20217.htm

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/19/17234/5833

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/17/1740/70522

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6462

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6376

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/541/541_11_Ecuador.shtml

Hmmm. time for another President to go?

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0501-30.htm

Revolt was "middle-class" says US Marxist group

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691953.html

Latin America: Docile no more

http://mondediplo.com/2005/06/12latinamerica

What Ecuador's people think of politics and politicians

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/18/20454/9033

Interview with indigenous leader

http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1274.html

New crisis in Ecuador - protesters demand nationalisation of oil and redistribution of oil wealth

Workers and peasants blocked highways and occupied airports and oilfields

The new president has declared a state of emergency and sent the army to seize the oilfields

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693462.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4168070.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4164840.stm

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/8/20/6222/57479

Workers and peasants push for power

http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-workers-peasants080605.htm

Latin America in revolt - a continent defies the US

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p24.htm

Photos from the march which overthrew Gutierrez
http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9157.shtml
http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9090.shtml
http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9086.shtml
General strike and protests in Cuenca, Quito
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/35430/index.php
Reports on repression
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1733998.php
http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2005/04/822012.shtml

 

As you probably know, Lucio won the elections in Ecuador in a very much Chavez-like agenda.  Upon taking office he, unlike Chavez, forgot all his promises and turned to neoliberalism, against the people and being a servant to the US following on Uribe's footsteps.  ALl the insults to the Ecuatorian people have been very much ignored until early April when he, with a rigged supreme court, acquitted former president Abdala Bucaram who had being removed from office for corruption (an ecuatorian Carlos Andres if you will).  Once acquitted, Bucaram comes back to Ecuador.  That angered the Ecuatorian people and gives grounds for one side of the right to play politics against the president (other side of the same right).  

        They called a strike against the president and the supreme court on Wednesday 13th (of all dates!!). It was a top-down strike without any power of convoking the masses. However, there was a real issue that was hurting the Ecuadorian people, thinking of demonstrations, the people started to think of it on a more spontaneous manner and after that day there were public gatherings and demonstrations that increasingly gathered more people. At first it was mostly upper middle class but as the days progressed the country has been warming up and now there were more people joining the opposition but only from the middle class. Yesterday there was a big gathering going to the congress. There were about 30 to 40 thousand people (you might have heard a lot more from the media but it was only that many) that marched peacefully towards the congress. The demonstration got around the presidential palace where it was stopped by the guards with tear-gas. Nothing, that was not completely predictable if you know how this things tend to develop.

        The country keeps warming up and there will not relent until the accomplish something. At first it was the dismissal of the corrupt supreme court. They accomplished it but the anger for Lucio's abuses was too much and by now they want Lucio to resign. I doubt that they will calm down until Lucio steps down. Now let me make clear that this movement is strictly from the middle class. Even in the large demonstration of yesterday (April 19th) there wasn't any representation from the lower economic or ethnic groups. That the movement is from the middle class means two things. One, that it is demographically unimportant. As we discussed the middle class comprises only some 20% of the Ecuadorian people. If they went into a strike and paralyzed the country economically they could choke the economy and get Lucio to resign but by bulk of people they are limited in what they can do. The other consequence of that being a middle class movement is that it is fundamentally, and above all, a peaceful movement. So, there will not be any violent movement to force Lucio out of office.

        Nobody wants unrest in the country (certainly not the people that are in the business of placing and replacing governments in Latin America) and there will be a solution sooner rather than later. What I see will happen is something that has been rehearsed many times and works surprisingly well every time. The president and the vice-president will play good cop bad cop games. Lucio cancel the civil rights, and the vice-president, Alfredo Palacios, condemns the action. Lucio represses the people and send hordes to produce violence and the vice-president condemns it as well. The media plays along to demonize Lucio (which is not hard to do) and the Vice-president uses the spotlight of the media to champion the cause of righteousness and civil rights. The president resigns or is removed from office and the Vice-president takes the well-deserved job after his performance. He rallies the people against Lucio and when he is uncharged everybody wins. The people are happy because the accomplished their goal and go back home happy as happy can be because they succeeded in their cause (oops as I type this I hear that Lucio was removed from office by the congress just as I typed it three lines ago!!!). 

        This formula has been used many times. It happens in 1997 when the removed Abdala Bucaram, it happened in 2000 when they removed Jamil Mahuad, it was used also in Bolivia in 2002. The people had rallied to the streets to protest against the privatization of the natural gas and water. The president Sanchez Lozada repressed the demonstration and the vice-President condemned it. They had a week or so stand off while the people fought in the streets against the public forces. Then the president resigned and Carlos Mesa (the vice-president) took office as the hero of the country. The people went back home only to see the new president continued with the privatization of the natural gas and water just as the former president was doing but the people was demobilized already. 

        So long as it is a middle class movement, as it has been, this formula should work out as it has in the past. The lower classes and indigenous movements have not supported the movement but they will if the country continues to warm up. That might be the reason that the Congress rushed to remove him now before the real uprising comes. If there is a real uprising or if the middle class do not bite the hook, then some real changes might come about.  Ecuador is a key country for Plan Colombia and the imperial control of South America.  If Ecuador joins the Axis of good Colombia will end up coming our way sooner rather than later.

        It is uncertain so far if the Ecudorian people will fall for the trick of switching Vice presidents or not.  There is a large crowd in the congress that do not let the, now, president go to the presidential palace.  The events are very interesting and relevant to the future of South America

Jesus (Jesus A Rivas, Vivabolivar list)


Ecuador:  overflowed 16 political class Q.S.V.T. Apr 2005 00:22 GMT In Quito (Ecuador) new forms of protest are being invented.  Wednesday with "cacerolazo"
began, Thursday followed with "reventón" of globes, and today "tablazo" is made.  Everything began with a proposal of a listener in Radio the Moon, that
continued transmitting without interruptions to receive the telephone calls of people who call to their neighbors to go out.  The conductor of the program that seted out like citizen information channel, Alpaca Velasco, received anonymous threats of death.  The political class is overflowed, and in SEVERAL COUNTRIES already they begin to manipulate the information, in order to facilitate the repression.  One of the coreadas phrases is:  THAT ALL GO AWAY!!!!!
 ================= More information:  Ecuador
Indymedia http://ecuador.indymedia.org Radio the Moon
(online) http://www.radiolaluna.com ================


http://www.lahora.com.ec/ultimahora.asp#41926 DAILY
HOUR 15/04/2005 - 3:03:35 p.m. After "reventón" summons "tablazo" against Government of Exempt Ecuador (EFE) Once passed "cacerolazo" of the last Wednesday and "reventón" of Thursday, thousands of Ecuadorian are prepared to carry out tonight, in Quito, "tablazo" against the Government of the president of Ecuador, Lucio Gutiérrez.  The original protests began after the Government reduced importance to a manifestation led by the authorities of the province of Pichincha, whose capital is Exempt, that afternoon had little pursuit during the morning and of the last Wednesday. 
But at night, a nourished group of demonstrators surprised the police that guarded the Supreme Court of Justice, which they were impotent to repress the shouts of those who demanded the cease of the members of the high court and the resignation of Gutiérrez. 
"Outside Bright outside", "Cease of the Court de facto", coreaban the demonstrators, who insisted to the massive movement to the shout of:  "The one that does not jump is Bright".  The situation at night made worse Thursday for the Government, when the protests were multiplied in diverse sectors of Quito, by where at least 5,000 people made sound the horns of their cars or globes and casseroles were congregated with.  The night of "reventón" took its name from the thousands of globes that were punctured to call the
attention with the noise in a day that extended until the dawn in scenes little seen in Quito, that it has 1.6 million inhabitants.  15/04/2005 - 5:53:54 p.m. Today to 21h00:  Mass media become echo of ´El Tablazo Several radial mass media of the city of Quito, through their regular programmings, were made echo during this day of the car call that maintains the resident Ecuadorian community in the Capital, to continue with the marches against the Government of the president, Lucio Gutiérrez.  Transmitters like
Cinnamon, America, Brilliant (Chain Democracy), Quito, Center, Columbus, among others where the Moon is included, radio that is canalizing the citizen inconformidad, have come announcing the manifestations for tonight, to which they have denominated it "the Tablazo" and that to say of consulted people will surpass the previous manifestations like the Cacerolazo and the Reventón:  Think that the 50 thousand people will reach.  Exempt radio and its informative space Ecuadoradio, after announcing the news coverage of tonight, fourth informative emission communicated to its hearing the transfer of his, for 23h00, this way presenting the Ecuadorian community and the outside the development these unusual events in Ecuador.  The conductors of the radial programs, of
all the musical sorts, not only that opened their microphones to their listeners so that they invite the population to be united to the Tablazo, but who supported with Alpaca Velasco, director of the informed space the Key, of Radio the moon.  "Paquito, we are four broadcasters here that we are going to defend to you", he said to a pair of speakers of Radio Cinnamon to rate of tropical music.  Radio Watchtower of the city of Guayaquil, according to Alpaca Velasco, could be integrated to the transmission of tonight. 


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http://www.diario-expreso.com/html/politica.asp DAILY EXPRESS 15/04/2005 "reventón" of Quito put to the regime in Maxima alert the protests took the streets
last night inhabitants of the capital the capital became last night the epicenter of the popular displeasure again.  At least 15 marches, organized of spontaneous form, filled the streets as much to the south, as in the center and north of the city.  The popular pressure forced the Government to carry far the measures and the Congress was surrounded after the meeting that finished to 21:50;  the same it happened in the palace of Carondelet and the Supreme Court of Justice.  The call had like protagonist to "Radio the Moon again" that organized the denominated protest "reventón".  This consisted of exploding to 21:00 all the globes that the demonstrators had between their hands.  To that hour, at least ten thousand people located in the sector of the Carolina obeyed the order with a contagious enthusiasm.  Somebody began to distribute a leaf with the direction of the deputies of Pichincha;  others suggested "we go to the Court", but the majority chose to remain shouting against the Government.  The march began to grow with the passage of time.  The people dressed in the t-shirt of the Selection and the children turning the covers of the pots subjects of gossip, returned to become presents/displays like the previous night.  Passed the 22:00, the demonstrators chose to be placed the Court in front of, but the police force interrupted its step again.  Meanwhile, motorized marches and on foot looked for to arrive at the Congress.  To 23:00, the minister of Government returned to endorse the position of the regime in the subject of the Court, while people followed in front of the institutions of the State.  The night of Wednesday however, the communication by cellular had a preponderant place in the protest.  In the cellular one of Carolina Prexel, a message noticed to him that one night very long was approached:  "In the Carolina:  21:00 ".  It was not necessary nothing else so that this young person who
lives in "San Carlos", to the north of Quito, went to the traditional park of Quito.  Two hours before, already it had taken a pot, a bucket and it was united to hundreds of mothers of family, children and young people to protest in "cacerolazo" characterized by his espontaneidad and call.  It was Wednesday 13 of March and the last hours of provincial unemployment did not promise anything in special.  Suddenly, the noise of
casseroles in the streets was listened to, some vehicles made sound his claxons and the shout of "all outside, the first dictator", crossed the curtains and blinds of houses, departments and condominiums.  In their district, at least five hundred people did the
same and went to the park to shout under the light of a bonfire.  Suddenly that cellular message arrived and next to another group of young people it undertook way
towards the Carolina.  Near the 21:00 they came together citizen of the south, like the Magdalena, the Footwear;  of the north:  Carapungo and Calderón, as well as of other sectors, that to the radio call the Moon left armed of a pot, a bucket, drums...  Altogether, the people of at least twenty districts, of the fifty and two sectors in which the city is
distributed, decided to leave her addresses and to prolong the protest in the morning and afternoon.  A good number faced the Police in the low ones of the Supreme Court, until to 24:00 they undertook the way to the house of president Lucio Gutiérrez in the sector of the Fulling mill.  There they began to shout from the road its displeasure, under the surprised glance of both police of the entrance.  In other residential sectors like "the Gasca" and "San Gabriel", people caught bonfires, closed the transit and began to organize themselves of spontaneous form.  There it was Edmundo Mendoza, owner of the commercial premises of the Rumipamba avenue (North of Quito) shouting against "Lucio and Ayerve" in spite of the influenza that still suffers.  "I wanted to go out to shout, but my son advised to me that he did not do it by my disease".  However, he was until the 01:00 wide-awake one, listening to the expressions of people by the radio.  Others, like Víctor Jimbo, president of III the stage of the Urbanization "San Pedro Claver", took their loudspeaker, with which regularly it calls to mingas, and asked for the people who concentrated themselves in the English park.  "I obtained Solely that ten families integrated themselves to the protests;  clear that first it was necessary to convince the housewife ".  Little by little, more people were adding themselves, until a good group
ignited a bonfire and again it began to walk.  The broadcasting Alpaca Velasco filled its mailbox of messages twice.  That is to say, in one night it received on six hundred writings.  He, even, marched towards the park the Carolina, the Supreme Court and the residence of Lucio Gutiérrez, pressed by hundreds of people who before the call of the radio had responded to the initiative to organize "cacerolazo".  At dawn of yesterday they began to circulate other messages summoning to the citizens for today, in times of the night, to "farra antidictatorship", an idea that also will be irresistible for Quito.  Today the
south of Quito will be "farra against the dictator" in the capital was one of the most important poles of the popular displeasure.  Marches from the sector of the Michelena, the Conception and San Bartolo tried to arrive at the Congress, but the Police prevented the access them.  The main site of concentration was the sector of the Villaflora, where six thousand people at least crossed the main streets of the city.  After that long-haul, whole families returned to their departure point and began to sing the national anthem
of natural and sudden form.  To "Radio the Moon" began to arrive suggestions for the protest from tonight.  Some raised to take several avenues and to seat in the
same ones;  others raised to arrive at the Historical Center.  Finally, the Moon raised the protest of "farra against the dictator" or "San Viernes against the dictatorship" that had great welcome between the hearing.  The same one was left decree after several telephone calls.  Some of the same ones proposed to advance until the Swissotel, where supposedly the President had met with members of the Roldosista Party.  Outside the city also protests took place, basically in Cumbayá and Conocoto.  In this zone, at
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DAILY COMMERCE 15/04/2005 cacelorazo went a punishment to the partisanship Its organization around a radial station - the Moon was the lapidaria test that an important segment of the society does not feel represented by a political class that, through the
Democratic Left (YOU GO) and Pachakutik, took the reins from the Assembly of Quito.  On the contrary, it was the sample of which before the incapacity of the political parties to lead citizen protests, people look for other spaces that viabilicen their exigencies.  In this case it was radial means that one is against the government of Lucio Gutiérrez.  For Jose Laso, director of Communication of the Andean University, that spontaneous manifestation demonstrates that there are "new channels of inconformidad and protest that exceed the partisan logic".  Laso explains east behavior in the fact that the citizenship "has the impression that is agreed to and negotiated to its backs".  To this the strategy of the Regime is added, which aims to discredit any action that has a partisan border, like the Assembly of Quito, led by the mayor Alpaca Moncayo and prefect Ramiro González (YOU GO).  In that sense, the psychologist Francisco Peralta considers that the radial station became a scene where people "took control of her opinion creating a commitment with his to think, to say and to do".  In effect, in last the 48 hours, radio the Moon received a rain of calls in which most of people it expressed his displeasure and
it was committed to participate in acts with new shades, like ' cacerolazó.  In parallel form, the participants criticized to most of televising means, accusing it "to by ricochet hide to the acts against the Government and the Court".  To say of Jose Laso, that attitude is explained in the necessity of people to feel represented in the spaces contemporary public: the mass media.  However, that expectation was truncated and even for either direction of two-way working by several reporters, who described the nocturnal protest as "vandalism".  On the matter, Peralta says that the citizenship protested because it felt that the "vandalism" came from certain means, that they hid information "to defend interests".  Although cacerolazo was an alternative channel, the sociologist Jorge Leon considers that that lack of representativeness can generate another type of manifestations, that can be "radical and violent", as it happens in other latitudes.  The marrow the citizen displeasure looks for alternative spaces the parties.  In the case of cacerolazo, one radio was the one that articulated the protest.  

 

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DAILY the Exempt HOUR - Friday, April 15, the 2005
power of the casseroles the tribune of the Shyris and other points of the city congregated yesterday at night to thousands of people who with slogans and blows in the casseroles requested the exit of the president of the Republic, Lucio Gutiérrez.  Globes, Flags, whistles, placards and the t-shirt of the selection were the symbol with which the civil society identified itself that is not in agreement with the Government.  All shouted by the exit of Lucio Gutiérrez and the destitution of the Court and the courts, their proposal is, that assumes the power the Vice-president, Alfredo Palacio, while a generational change is made in the policy.  The march of casseroles expands To 21h00 last night burst hundreds of globes by several points of the city and the whistle of the cars intensified like signal of protest and rejection to Gutiérrez.  This happened in the sector of the Central University and in the Greater Seminary where they were autoconvocaron around 300 people who went with torches and casseroles to the CSJ by the route of the Metrobús.  In the Italy park another group met to go to the CSJ;  nevertheless to the height of the Chamber of Commerce of Quito, by the Amazon Avenue the presence of the military and police was evident, the Supreme Court she remained surrounded and watched all
the night.  Also they added Cotocollao, the Villaflora, the Painted one, Carapungo and the Gasca.  With the motto "it is not a speed fight, but of resistance", the inhabitants of Quito concentrated themselves in several places of the city to request the exit of Gutiérrez.  In the south, in the Rodrigo de Chávez also a considerable number of people met. 



LAHORA Thousands of Ecuadorian at night protest against Gutiérrez the Ecuadorian capital returned to be shaken tonight by the multitudinal protests of groups of citizens against the Government of president Lucio Gutiérrez.  Tens of groups went out of unexpected and spontaneous form in more than twenty Quito districts to protest against the Government and the Supreme Court of Justice.  The peculiar mobilization triggered the night of Wednesday last through initiative of many citizens who through the transmitter "Radio the Moon" summoned to a denominated protest "cacerolazo".  The demonstrators demand that the controversial court is reorganized, who has been the target of the critics since its president, Guillermo I castrate, decided to annul the judgments
who by presumed corruption weighed against their friend, ex- governor Abdalá Bucaram.  Tonight, "Radio the Moon" has not interrupted its signal to receive hundreds of telephone calls of people who call to their neighbors to go out.  In the Shyris avenue, in the commercial center of Quito, 5,000 people shouted "Lucio at least went" and "Bucaram to the jail", while in the Michelena street, to the south of the city, 3,000 demonstrators requested "that all go away", including the governor, the judges of the Supreme Court and the hundred of deputies of the Congress.  In the district San Carlos, to the north of the large city, more than thousand citizens, between parents of family, housewives, old, young and young, they crossed several streets of the sector "waking up" to the neighbors so that they are united to the protests.  Some people, through the "Radio the Moon", summoned a nocturnal manifestation to besiege the Parliament, whereas others suggested to march until the presidential Palace of Carondelet.  In the environs of
the Supreme Court also 7,000 people have concentrated themselves, which they demanded the destitution of the judges and rejected the anonymous threats of death that has received the director of "Radio the Moon", the journalist Alpaca Velasco.  According to journalistic sources, more than eight hundred police they have bet themselves in the environs of the Parliament to prevent that the marches arrive until that enclosure, whereas in the Supreme Court more than one hundred agents they prevent the access of the demonstrators to the seat of the Court.  The protests have been pacific, although the participants have rejected with indignation the declarations of the president, who hours before had labeled "the forajidos" protestants as and calculated that they were "very little".  "Here it does not have forajidos nor we are four pelagatos", indicated a woman whom the exit of the power of president Gutiérrez asked, whom accused, like other hundreds of people, of "treasonous and dictator".  On the other hand, the minister of
Government (Inner), Oscar Ayerve, diminished the protests in Quito and said that in the capital "importance new features have not taken place".  Ayerve admitted the right of the people to pronounce itself and announced that the Government has the intention to support amendments to the statutory law of the judicial function, to reorganize the Supreme Court.  Exempt EFE autoconvoca tonight to the 'TABLAZÓ to follow with protests the manifestations of the citizens in Quito, who have had a protagónico paper from the night of Wednesday 13, has solved to follow with the protests under new initiatives, and for tonight of Friday a form of denominated expression ' Tablazó has looked for, which must as objective demand the resignation of president Gutiérrez and the diverse powers of the Ecuadorian state.  The proposal has been raised by the own Quito settlers, who through the transmission that maintains Radio the Moon, in constant form they have called to suggest protest forms, and for that reason the idea has arisen from 'tablazó According to has been explained, it is which to 21h00, all the citizens whom they love to protest, they are united in its districts, and with two tables in its hands they let know its displeasure with the necessary noise.  The initiative includes the accomplishment of marches by all the city, which make feel that noise that is come off striking of 'tablazó.  The manifestations have been lead to protest in pacific form, thus many of the summoned ones to these marches have become to concentrate in sites like the Avenue of the Shyris, to the north of Quito, in redondel of Villa Flora, to the south, and in the districts of the city that has forty spontaneous marshalling areas.  The reclamation that has been sent from the first moment at which the citizenship turned upside down in spontaneous manifestation, is that the resignation of president Gutiérrez is demanded, but the slogan of ' outside todos' has been added with which they express the rejection to the Ecuadorian political class, that has created one serious political crisis of illegality in Ecuador. 
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Outgrowth of uprising - government defies IMF

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ECUADOR:  Further protests - protesters target oil production

The unleashing of repression led to mass popular resistance, with state buildings trashed and looted

http://english.people.com.cn/200508/18/eng20050818_203279.html

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FRANCE:  Mass uprising over police repression and social alienation after youths are electrocuted fleeing cops

Running battles pitted riot cops against large numbers of youths, many of them hooded, who built barricades out of bins and burning cars

Crowds of youths burn symbols of authority, build barricades and fight police in Paris and other cities

The CRS presence, intended to suppress the revolt, is taken as a provocation, sustaining ongoing unrest

The revolt, focused in minority communities, forced police to flee on several occasions

Insurgents are demanding the resignation of the quasi-fascist minister Sarkozy, whose crackdown freakery has fuelled unrest

Police stations were besieged during the unrest, and insurgents formed teams to fan out and outmanoeuvre police

Insurgents showed sophisticated tactical awareness, forming small groups which evaded police assaults

As statists downplayed the unrest and engaged in macho posturing, it escalated repeatedly, with police lured into ambushes on the eleventh night

Unrest spread from Paris to 300 other towns and even into Belgium and Germany

The state went from one repressive measure to another, flooding areas with police and using archaic fascist/colonial curfew laws designed to smash the Algerian independence struggle

A bigot was killed after picking on youths seen burning rubbish bins, as youths defend themselves against the threat of arrest

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Analysis and political appeals (compilation)

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As the unrest calms in Paris, it begins in other places

Police curfews spark unrest in Lyon, with youths fighting police in the city centre

Sarkozy is forced to flee as crowds disrupt a speech to cops

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G8 PROTESTS - EDINBURGH, GLENEAGLES, AUCHTERADER, STIRLING

Liberals try to hijack dissent, head off effective protest

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Protest suppression threats create possibility of unrest

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Smygo archive of mainstream media stories

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G8 protests

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G8 protests roundup

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Massive but ineffectual "Make Poverty History" demo supports debt cancellation

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Mass march on eve of summit - thousands attend but little action organised

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Anarchists attacked by police while joining mass march

Police attack distorted by media as part of authoritarian hype

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Virtual rally accompanies mass demo

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Sail 8 boat protest flops

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Orkney anti-poverty march

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Jews against the G8

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G8 July 5 - street carnival/protest held in Edinburgh

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Media goons blame trouble on protesters as usual, arselick Geldof

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July 6:  small protest at Dungavel; others target oil refinery

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Faslane Big Blockade goes ahead - hundreds blockade the military base

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Protesters target Menwith Hill

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1500 on anti-war march

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July 7 - protesters march on G8 and tear down perimeter fence

Police attack with dogs, helicopters and riot goons

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Police play cat-and-mouse with Auchterader march, try to ban and then are forced to back down by the threat of unrest

Protesters blocked from attending by police repression held protests and blocked roads in Edinburgh

Sell-out Geldof also staged his own sectarian march

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Thousands of marchers join Auchterader march on summit

Some tear down the fence and get inside the security perimeter before being attacked by police

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Protesters kept from Auchterader, attacked by police in Edinburgh

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Police attacks on Stirling protesters headed for Auchterader lead to mass unrest

A Burger King is targeted and police lines attacked as protesters resist police repression

Rail and road links were blockaded by protesters

Police were forced to retreat under an onslaught on several occasions

Protesters using arm-links pushed back police lines

The M9 to Gleneagles was brought to a standstill by blockades and running battles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4654767.stm

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1120673160888B261&set_id=

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=751692005

This is how to deal with fascist pigs!  Black Block take on police state in Stirling, enforce freedom of movement against police lines, and sab corporations

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/rtsp/2005/07/317379.rm

Stirling black block

Anarchists succeed in storming main road despite repeated police attacks and blockades

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00139.html

Report from Stirling and related protests

http://www.counterpunch.org/tina07122005.html

 

Campsite besieged

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=894

Fascist pigs blockade Stirling eco-camp

This vindictive action was a kneejerk after police were outclassed in clashes in Stirling

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=78706056&p=787x643x

Stirling camp besieged

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050707070126511

 

Police persecution of activists and others - pub besieged

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/e4a6e11b65a07c6c/2f6863b75f799327?hl=en

Rundown of police repression from Legal Defence and Monitoring Group

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/132565b3e5fe2160/64f68f06f8fc4478?hl=en

Police fascism in Stirling

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/586/letters.htm

More on repression

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20228.htm

In run-up to G8, pigs encourage snitching of unusual actions/people, and SNP support anti-protester crackdowns

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20216.htm

Morag Balfour, SSP candidate for Glenrothes, has condemned police requests for personal details of visitors to Fife during the G8 summit as a "disingenuous breach of privacy".

Morag was responding to the revelation that hotels, bed and breakfasts, camping and caravan sites were being asked to provide details of bookings coinciding with the summit between 6-8 July 2005.

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20218.htm

Pigs try to divert protest from within earshot of Gleneagles, to rural village

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20221.htm

 

As told to SchNEWS: "I went up to the G8 protests with three friends....we were trying to find a quiet spot as far away from the Stirling site as possible. We found a lovely derelict farm, belonging to a friend of a friend of a friend. We put our tents up and twenty minutes later 11 van loads of Met police arrived, 7 of them Armed Response Units....They asked us if we knew each other and when we said "yes" they hauled us out of our cars, handcuffed us, threw us into a cell for 30 hours and finally charged us the next day.

"When I'd finally been to court and released on bail (conditions to leave Scotland directly with an escort and not to deviate from a set route etc.) and the police returned my possessions to me, my car keys were missing. It turned out that the Met had stolen all of our cars and sent them to a scrap yard, which wouldn't release them without a £200 payment. The cars had been legally parked and even the Scottish police were shocked that the Met had stolen them illegally. Anyway, long story short, I was in breach of bail 'cos I couldn't leave Scotland as ordered without my car, as all my keys and my boss's house, business and safe keys were on the keyring...and it all went downhill from there!!"

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news507.htm

One attendee at the protests in Scotland last week was sitting at a bus-stop waiting for a bus when the forces of Law and Order come screeching up beside him. Out jumped six of Scotland's Finest who promptly searched him and, having found nothing dubious on him, reached for a half-empty can of lager left under the seat he was on. Said suspect was then arrested for "street drinking" and held for 30 hours. This is despite the fact that the person-in-question has not touched alcohol for 15 years!

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news503.htm

 

Protesters occupy crane in debt relief protest

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=354692&in_page_id=1770

 

Environmentalists target Grangemouth refinery

http://icayrshire.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news/tm_objectid=15700681&method=full&siteid=73592&headline=activists-protest-at-oil-refinery-name_page.html

 

GOOD ONE!  Bush collides with cop while cycling at summit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4658327.stm

 

London bombings no shock to activists

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0708-02.htm

 

Class War activist's G8 blog

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00112.html

Personal accounts

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00249.html

John Ross's account of the G8 events

http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07192005.html

Personal account from Starhawk

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705212449201

Irish Dissent report

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705070910989

Various reports

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6911

Blog from the protests

http://worldrevolution.org.uk/index.php?id=36,129,0,0,1,0

Collection of links on the G8 protests

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/reports/index.htm

 

G8 ELSEWHERE:

Sheffield G8 meeting met with protests despite police state

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/398/index.html?id=np4.htm

G8 solidarity rally in Houston, Texas

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00027.html

Solidarity protest in Kansas City attacked by police

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00135.html

Bristol (UK) activists occupy posh flat development project in solidarity with G8 protests

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00136.html

Richmond G8 protest disrupts Massey Coal HQ

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050712131312987

West Coast G8 protest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050708221334880

Anti-G8 critical mass in West Sussex, UK

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050417050053956

School students walk out

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6960

 

PALO ALTO:  Anarchists outwit police on Reclaim the Streets march

Police cruiser smashed, and police forced away from march

Stores were targeted, and protesters de-arrested as police attacks were repelled

Goods were appropriated from some stores while others were trashed

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00319.html

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1738691.php

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1738667.php

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00388.html

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/1716119.php

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/1716116.php

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/1716115.php

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00344.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050523145355810

Anarchist anti-war rally in Palo Alto - demonstrators evade police

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1749518.php

http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=3051

Second anarchist demo in Palo Alto marks G8 summit

http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=3185

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2016

 

SAN FRANCISCO:  Anarchist protest coincides with G8

Anarchists sabbed corporate targets and used news-stands to block police manoeuvres

One pig was injured while involved in a vicious attack on protesters

Pigs allege protesters tried to block their car with a mattress and set it on fire

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/09/BAprotest09.DTL

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/070905_nw_officer_injured.html

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3573694&nav=5D7lbwvL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/10/BAG5UDLNU01.DTL

Vindictive statists prosecute protesters for self-defence

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3588113

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3578563

Whinging pigs complain about being outclassed

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3582142

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3581196

 

RICHMOND: Another G8 solidarity protest - protesters blockade Massey over mountaintop destruction

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783738485
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