With one week left to go before a significant protest the usual pre-demonstration press coverage would have seen scores of articles about 'hardcore anarchists thugs planning riot violence', and yet so far the only coverage I've seen has been a small article in The Guardian (see below) which doesn't even mention the date of the arms fair or for that matter the fact that protests will be occuring.

One assumes then that the reason corporate media is backing off from this one is that even they realise the usual mud slinging line would not really fit with a story of trying to stop a deadly arms fair - like, 'violent anarchists plan to stop weapons being sold' etc

With one week left to go it'll be interesting to see if anything else gets printed...

The latest copy of the Big Issue does a small feature which should raise some more interest but even that article does not give the protest details or the website address www.disarm-trade.org

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Guardian
Saturday September 1, 2001
Human rights anger over arms fair invitations
Richard Norton-Taylor
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4248913,00.html

Guardian ongoing Arms 'special investigation'
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade

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