----- Original Message ----- From: Darko Nadic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 11:23 AM Subject: [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Fw: Australian cops attack protesters STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK -----Original Message----- From: heikki sipil� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Australian cops attack protesters > > TORONTO STAR..... > > International News Updates > >Sep 11, 21:59 EDT (Toronto time) > >Australian cops attack protesters > >MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Baton-wielding Australian police, some on >horseback, charged through a human chain blocking access to an economic >forum, leaving several protesters with bloodied faces, as renewed >anti-globalization protests erupted Tuesday. > >The charge allowed several buses of delegates to enter the three-day Asia >Pacific Economic Summit - the latest target of an anti-globalization >movement - on its second day. > >But protest organizers warned the police action was an escalation of the >violence that could rebound in stronger protests shortly. > >The police tactic appeared to be in response to the success of about 5,000 >protesters Monday in stopping about 200 of the conference's nearly 900 >delegates from entering Melbourne's Crown Casino, the venue of the three-day >summit organized by the privately funded Switzerland-based World Economic >Forum. > >Conference organizers said virtually all of the delegates were able to >attend the conference Tuesday. Microsoft's Bill Gates was one leader due to >address the meeting Tuesday. > >''We were just linking arms and enforcing the blockade, when the coppers >came over the top of the barricade,'' said protester Frank Vanwierst, blood >pouring down his face as he sat in a first-aid tent outside the casino. > >''I had my back turned but I was told a copper with a shaved head whacked me >on the head with his baton.'' > >Protest spokesman Stephen Jolly said police violence could spur protesters >to retaliate, adding the demonstration will be boosted Tuesday by the >addition of several-thousand labour union members. > >''There's a hell of a lot of workers coming down here today and this is >going to heighten emotions something terrible I can tell you,'' Jolly said. > >In the worst of several isolated clashes Monday, dozens of protesters >surrounded and climbed over Western Australian state Premier Richard Court's >car before slashing its tires and spray-painting it with anti-capitalist >slogans. > >Police responded by sending in officers on horseback and staging a baton >charge. Five protesters and five police officers required hospital treatment. > >Two protesters were arrested Monday and one Tuesday. They were released and >were expected to be charged with assaulting police. > >One organizer described the protests as ''Seattle without the tear gas'' but >anti-globalization protests have only briefly flared into the sort of >violence that marred last year's World Trade Organization talks in the >United States. > >Prime Minister John Howard, who had to be taken into the casino by boat >because protesters sealed off all other entrances, condemned the protests in >a speech Monday night. > >''The right of lawful dissent on any subject is etched very deeply into the >Australian way of life,'' Howard said. > >''We did not see lawful dissent today, we saw hooliganism which is >unacceptable and un-Australian.'' > >Many of the demonstrators said the civil unrest was the only way to register >their distrust of the heads of global corporations. > >''We have no vote on who these major world leaders are,'' said Michael Gann, >a native of California who lives in northern New South Wales state. > >''They are not accountable to people because they are not voted into >office.'' > > >http://www.thestar.com/ > > ............................................. > Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ............................................. > > > > > >_______________________________________________________ > >KOMINFORM >P.O. Box 66 >00841 Helsinki - Finland >+358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 >e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.kominf.pp.fi > >_______________________________________________________ > >Kominform list for general information. >Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. > >Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >_______________________________________________________ > > ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Save your company time and money with Headlight.com! -Access courses from any Internet-enabled computer, at whatever time fits your schedule -Save 75%-90% compared to traditional classroom solutions. -Choose from 1,500 courses (Business, IT, desktop applications, etc.) Click here! http://on.linkexchange.com/?ATID=27&AID=1668
