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Correcting the media narrative of the G20 protests on April 1, 2009

07-04-2009 22:27

The media coverage of the G20 protests has been systematically biased, writes Musab Younis - ignoring the violent policing, the tactic of open-air imprisonment of demonstrators, and the real chronology of events. “It has taken remarkable obedience by the press,” writes Musab, “to refuse to ask some simple and obvious questions.”

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Video of Police Assault on Ian Tomlinson released.

07-04-2009 19:48

Police physically attacked Ian Tomlinson prior to his death...

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G20: a photo essay - chapter 3

07-04-2009 18:04

G20, coming soon to your local police state.

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Met Police apologises to photographers for abuse of powers at Memorial Demo

07-04-2009 16:30

The Metropolitan Police have apologised to journalists and photographers for abusing Section 14 of the Public Order Act when they moved a group of them away from covering an operation at the memorial demo for the late Ian Tomlinson on 2nd April at Bank tube station. It has now been confirmed through witness statements that Ian Tomlinson died as a result of the repressive policing on April 1st. The police and the media have attempted to coverup the fact that Tomlinson was killed as a result of the policing on that day. Police also injured members of the press on Wednesday 1st April, resulting in a broken arm and torn ligaments for two photographers.

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G20: a photo essay - chapter 2 (pt.2)

07-04-2009 15:15

G-20. Hit and sunk.

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G20: a photo essay - chapter 2

07-04-2009 08:49

Find the G20 before the G20 finds you.

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Burden of Shame

07-04-2009 08:09

For some it was all to much.

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G20: a photo essay - chapter 1

07-04-2009 06:51

When things are good, it's a G8. When things are bad, it's a G20.

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What Obama's Trip to Europe Revealed

07-04-2009 03:45

Declaring something a success doesn’t necessarily make it so. We learned this at the Bush-led G-20 summit only four months ago, when global leaders were expected to do something far-reaching in response to the world-wide economic crisis, instead of chatting about it. When nothing came of the meeting, we were told that the summit “succeeded” because it “laid the groundwork” for the next G-20 gathering, recently led by Obama.

The four months between G-20 summits was one of rising massive unemployment and social misery for millions of people, creating an urgency that was unmet by the world leaders in London.

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STRASBOURG ! PARLEZ VOUS ANARCHY ?

06-04-2009 21:13

Stop and Check ! Strasbourg residents show passes
The Heart of Europe ! A City Locked Down !
The Folly of an Elite ! .... Heard The Voice of Reason !!

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G20 Convergence - Kidspace

05-04-2009 21:14

kidspace
Here are some photos of the kidspace and childcare cooperative that was organised to facilitate the protest and activism of parents and carers around the G20 summit in London on the 1st and 2nd of April 2009.

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Putting Profit First – a Banking Perspective of Sat.28th March 2009

05-04-2009 18:56

A small minority of bankers clearly intent on disruption and provoking others into radical action were spotted parading their placards around central London on the Put People First demo on Sat. 28th March 2009 . The eight executives were there to add a dose of market rationality to this otherwise wide-eyed collective of 40,000 dreamers demanding Jobs, Justice and Climate. The bankers' message was clear: Leave it to the Market.

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G20 protests : PHOTOS

05-04-2009 18:24

Photos of the protests against the G20 are available on the website of [Contre-Faits->  http://www.contre-faits.org/spip.php?article97]

 http://www.contre-faits.org/spip.php?article97

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G20 SUMMIT EYEWITNESS REPORT

05-04-2009 16:12

As the G20 Summit takes place, we look at what the leaders are discussing, along with an eyewitness account of the G20 protests around the Bank Of England on Wednesday April 1st.....

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Anarchist taking over a building in Cheapside.

05-04-2009 15:15

The Pre-Breakout
Anarchist taking over a building in Cheapside.

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 4

04-04-2009 22:35

Poetry in motion...
The fourth and final part of this rather epic photo diary of the 2009 Climate Camp and G20 protests in London.

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 3

04-04-2009 22:12

Antisocial Climbers!
Third part of my pictorial diary of Climate Camp and G20 protests in The City of London.

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 2

04-04-2009 21:51

Note the leaf, I didn't place it, it just happened that way.
Second part of my pictorial diary of the G20 protests, mainly showing Climate Camp in The City of London.

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 1

04-04-2009 21:28

Shocking Exclusive: Man waves Fist at Protestors!!
On Wednesday of this week, in the belly of the beast, known as The City of London, normally a place purely for the generation of wealth witnessed an amazing transformation when thousands of protestors descended upon it's streets and occupied them for a brief flowering of human potential beyond the dysfunctional confines of what we laughingly know as global capitalism.

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Police Aggravate Peaceful G20 Climate Camp in the City of London

04-04-2009 14:17

The relationship between Police and public demonstrators continues to be strained, as events surrounding London's G20 Summit boiled over. With little or no real dialogue over public safety between law enforcement and the public, one can only ask- is this the shape of things to come?