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Solidarityactions: Bern,Hannover,Heidelberg,Lugano
Solidarity actions and other actions to inform about the G8 summit took place in various places round the continent today.BUSH PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT HE IS A MORON
To be the Antichrist, you don't have to be smart, you just have to be evil.Bobbies defended The Empire
Strangely appropriate images of riot police at G8 blockades early on Wednesday neat Stirling.Blockade actions early morning Wednesday at the G8
Demonstrators attempt to disrupt the G8 meeting by blockading motorway near Stirling.Arrests of youth made on Princes St.
Police arrest local youths on Princes St.Geldof declares African empowerment and representation "not important"
Today, Bob Geldof finally put on the record what many development campaigners have suspected for a while - namely that the empowerment of African people to represent themselves and solve their own problems, rather than relying on rich, guilt-ridden celebrities to save them, is not important to him.Police at rest in Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh supports make poverty history. University of Edinburgh halls house the police.Police trash guy's bikelock and act like dicks
2:40 7.5MB Quicktime video.Police stopped a man riding his bike down the A9 this afternoon, grabbed his bike, used bolt-cutters on his bike-lock (presumably they were worried he might be able to use it to lock on to something) and refused to display uniform numbers or provide a receipt for damaged property. Note the particularly dick-headed look on this cop's face throughout the incident.
On the way to Gleneagles -- Edinburgh
On the 6th July, a few hundred people were stuck in Edinburgh waiting for their busses to go to Gleneagles -- at the end they decided to hold an impromptu march in the city.Police Iron Horse Mobile Freedom of Movement Preservers
Police deploy the ultimate street blocker in EdinburghBoogie on the Bridge
Stop the M74, Save the Climate!Glasgow, 2 PM, Commerce Street Bridge
Guided tour of Edinburgh courtesy of lost police
Police give protesters and locals an impromptu guided tour of Edinburgh.Blockade Interview
2:25 3MB QuickTime file.An interview with a blockader on the A9 between Stirling and Gleneaglesm. Multiple independent blockades succeeded in cutting road transport on the A9 multiple times today (6 July 2005). The interview took place around noon.
Thank God we live in a free country...
I spent the day on the streets of Edinburgh, where I witnessed democracy and the right to peaceful protest in its full glory.After months of negotiations, G8 Alternatives had negotiated the right to protest against the policies of the G8 counties, seen by many not as the solution to the world's ills, but the principal part of the problem.