Mary O'Brien wrote: In their attempts to defame the s11 protests, the Australian TV news bulletins have been showing footage from a police riot outside the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle, USA, in November- December 1999. Australians (especially the media) should read a report on the Seattle police riot, published by the American Civil Liberties Union in the State of Washington (where Seattle is situated). The report, published July 2000, is entitled "Out of Control: Seattle's Flawed Response to Protests Against the World Trade Organization" The report is an indictment of the Seattle police. The report says: "Despite police and media descriptions to the contrary, the protests during the WTO conference did not constitute a riot. They were noisy and disruptive, yet demonstrators were overwhelming peaceful. Not so the police." The report goes on to describe the police riot in detail. Here is where to find the report: http://www.aclu-wa.org/ISSUES/police/WTO-Report.html -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
