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‘Anarchists’ leave trail of destruction, peaceful 3hr march forgotten
All of the articles surveyed on the day’s protest (of those written today) feature, upfront, the activities of a cadre of Black Bloc political vandals numbering somewhere from 50 to 100 people. Compare...
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G20 protesters clash with Vancouver police
Related: ‘Anarchists’ leave trail of destruction, peaceful 3hr march forgotten | Naomi Klein and 500 marchers crash party at tent city | Protesters flood the streets on first day of Toronto G20 summit...
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Black Bloc tactics sparked Saturday G20 vandalism, confrontation
It’s an incredibly loose definition of ‘anarchist’ that allies itself with Communists carrying a big banner of Mao around. (Interested researchers should mine the Globe and Mail liveblog carried here...
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Police Raid U of T Student Union for Hosting G20 Protesters
Dragnet arrests are an unconstitutional, immoral, heavy-handed application of state power, wholly destructive of the right to assembly. Got intelligence on a criminal? Get a warrant. You don’t arrest...
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Peaceful Eastern Ave jail solidarity action attacked by Toronto police
In addition to the nightmare of protesters being abducted and bodily thrown into unmarked vans, rubber bullets and tear gas ‘muzzle blasts’ were used as intimidation tactics against those who had...
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The G20′s ignominious end: Panic, outrage as police detain hundreds for hours...
“Police detain puppies” was briefly in the running for this headline, and really, it’s not as though it was much less worse. From civil rights observers to passerby to peaceful protesters to the, well,...
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Outraged G20 protesters rally against police abuse and arbitrary detention
Related: 20 G20 detention reports: ‘I will not forget what they have done to me’ | The G20: Brutal spectacle failed a city and its people | The G20’s ignominious end: Panic, outrage as police detain...
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Inside the G20 Eastern Avenue Detention Centre
Be sure to read these harrowing reports of 20 detainees as well. Related: Outraged G20 protesters rally against police abuse and arbitrary detention | 20 G20 detention reports: ‘I will not forget what...
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Canada Day: 2,000 protest G20 summit arrests
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. – Howard Zinn Related: Civil liberties association to sue police on behalf of G20 arrestees | Four detained journalists file complaints of assault, sexual...
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Good Intentions: Unpacking Occupy Toronto
by Todd Howe, WeAreChangeToronto October 20, 2011 Optimism. More than anything, it was optimism which hung in the air as two thousand people marched through the financial district to St James Park to...
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