From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [L-I] Cops, activists clash at G20 Canadian Press (with additional material by Globe and Mail). 16 November 2001. Several G20 protesters arrested. A small group of protesters in Ottawa spray-painted a building, smashed windows at a downtown McDonald's and faced off against police Friday, as demonstrations against the Group of 20 meeting got underway. Police in riot gear made several arrests. Many protesters marched into the nation's capital Friday afternoon, waving signs, chanting and speaking out against the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the G20 international finance ministers. "We're taking to the streets today," activist Jaggi Singh shouted to protesters on the street. He said that "people in India, people elsewhere, people in the south are at the forefront of the struggle against global capitalists." The Ontario Provincial Police, RCMP and Ottawa police have banded together to monitor the area all weekend. They blocked major downtown streets to traffic Thursday evening. Earlier, the protesters had crashed through a police barricade near the National War Memorial on Elgin Street and moved inside a police perimeter before they withdrew. "I didn't do anything," screamed one protester as he was handcuffed and shoved in a police vehicle. "I didn't do anything!" Two lines of police with dogs and shields later herded demonstrators west from the conference site, sealing off the city's core as they went. The crowd pushed over some newspaper boxes and dragged them into the street and at one point surrounded a police tactical van. Protesters taunted police, dancing and banging drums, but there was no direct confrontation. The demonstrations are expected to climax on Saturday when various union members plan to arrive for a larger march. At an Ottawa press conference Friday morning, representatives of organizations from five countries attacked the policies of both the IMF and the World Bank. "Freer trade, higher interest rates and wage-suppressing measures that the World Bank has been promoting has killed local industries, killed local farms, has gutted the productive capacity of countries around the world," said Steve Hellinger of the U.S. organization, Development Gap. "It has meant therefore that thousands upon thousands of people have been laid off from their jobs." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
