Use of the police on the first day… (from a Japanese eyewitness)

On the first day, at the opening ceremony, some people who wanted to participate were segregated by the security, organized by SWP. Some were forced to stay out. Protest against that was answered by calling the cops.

And on the last… (from the article with url given below)

The stewards from the Stop the War Coalition (to whom the march had been ‘subcontracted out’), even faced by the mediation of ‘Europeans’ such as Piero Bernocchi, from COBAS, called the police and stood by watching as they arrested two more activists.

This is a really good insightful article about the whole event, from the initial stages of planning to the end. Its worth reading.

 http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/10/29/1410226