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Reuters (with additional material by BBC). 16 March 2002. EU Hails Free - Market Deal, Thousands Protest. BARCELONA -- EU leaders clinched a deal on Saturday to break France's state monopoly on electricity and said it showed they were serious about free-market reforms that will help Europe match America's economic dynamism. A quarter of a million anti-capitalist protesters took to the streets of Barcelona after the European Union summit to denounce them for selling out to global capitalism. Thousands of Spanish police massed to prevent a repeat in Barcelona of violence at a summit at Genoa last July where a young militant was killed. Some witnesses said they saw isolated acts of vandalism and scuffles with police but the first couple of hours of the march appeared to pass off largely peacefully. Although the march was for the most part noisy but peaceful, a BBC correspondent reports that towards the end of the demonstration riot police fired tear gas amid running skirmishes with the protesters in the southern part of the city. "We're here to say 'no' to the European Union, which with each passing day is becoming a model for globalization and is more and more and more like the U.S. in favor of arms and war," Ada Colau, a spokeswoman for the organizers, told Reuters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
