doctordog
09-25-2009, 01:59 PM
Those Tea Party nuts don't have anything on these left wing nut anti capitalist when it comes to violence!
Riot police clash with G20 protesters in Pittsburgh
POLICE have fired mini "bean bags" and used tear gas in clashes with masked protesters attempting to march on the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
About 1000 people, some wearing goggles and brandishing anti-capitalist banners, are trying to reach the venue.
Pictures: Protesters and riot police clash in Pittsburgh
As the group left the city park where they had gathered in defiance of a ban on non-authorised rallies, police broadcast a pre-recorded announcement in English and Spanish declaring their protest an "unlawful assembly".
"If you do not disperse you may be subject to arrest or other police action," the message warned. Some protesters appeared to heed the warning, but most pushed on, despite signs that police were attempting to surround them.
Nick of London Shortly afterwards, riot officers blocked their path and fired tear gas grenades, as a cat and mouse game developed in side streets.
"They pushed us into a side street in a residential area and then shot tear gas at us. They shot like three canisters," said demonstrator Ross McCoy.
Earlier a group of 80 students waving red and black anarchist flags and black banners had set off from the city campus of the University of Pittsburgh to join hundreds more protesters in Arsenal Park.
"I'm an anarchist-communist who's here to show the G20 that they are not the only people whose lives they're affecting," said Martin Droll, a 20-year-old office worker from Philadelphia.
A few blocks from the planned starting point of the march, 200 Tibetan activists waving Tibetan and American flags staged a separate peaceful demonstration.
"We want to take the opportunity of Chinese President Hu Jintao arriving here today for the G20 to ask world leaders to press him to improve human rights in Tibet," said Nga Wang Tasha, president of the Original Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey.
"We also want to ask President Barack Obama, who made change a slogan of his campaign, to press for a change in the situation in Tibet."
Kevin Rudd is also at the two-day meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies.
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The city has put in place a massive security operation, with police drafted in from across the country, and National Guard troops in camouflage uniforms manning a ring of concrete road blocks around the meeting site.
"The city has bought a thousand canisters of tear gas. That's something people are concerned about, like what to do if they're gassed," said Noah Williams, a spokesman for the Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project.
State trooper Joseph Christy, a spokesman for the city's summit information centre, insisted the authorities had no intention of provoking trouble.
"We're planning for the worst and hoping for the best. If you go on YouTube you can see what they did in London and Seattle at events like this," he said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26122756-401,00.html
Riot police clash with G20 protesters in Pittsburgh
POLICE have fired mini "bean bags" and used tear gas in clashes with masked protesters attempting to march on the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.
About 1000 people, some wearing goggles and brandishing anti-capitalist banners, are trying to reach the venue.
Pictures: Protesters and riot police clash in Pittsburgh
As the group left the city park where they had gathered in defiance of a ban on non-authorised rallies, police broadcast a pre-recorded announcement in English and Spanish declaring their protest an "unlawful assembly".
"If you do not disperse you may be subject to arrest or other police action," the message warned. Some protesters appeared to heed the warning, but most pushed on, despite signs that police were attempting to surround them.
Nick of London Shortly afterwards, riot officers blocked their path and fired tear gas grenades, as a cat and mouse game developed in side streets.
"They pushed us into a side street in a residential area and then shot tear gas at us. They shot like three canisters," said demonstrator Ross McCoy.
Earlier a group of 80 students waving red and black anarchist flags and black banners had set off from the city campus of the University of Pittsburgh to join hundreds more protesters in Arsenal Park.
"I'm an anarchist-communist who's here to show the G20 that they are not the only people whose lives they're affecting," said Martin Droll, a 20-year-old office worker from Philadelphia.
A few blocks from the planned starting point of the march, 200 Tibetan activists waving Tibetan and American flags staged a separate peaceful demonstration.
"We want to take the opportunity of Chinese President Hu Jintao arriving here today for the G20 to ask world leaders to press him to improve human rights in Tibet," said Nga Wang Tasha, president of the Original Tibetan Youth Congress of New York and New Jersey.
"We also want to ask President Barack Obama, who made change a slogan of his campaign, to press for a change in the situation in Tibet."
Kevin Rudd is also at the two-day meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies.
Pay Kevin Rudd $1m, says senator
The city has put in place a massive security operation, with police drafted in from across the country, and National Guard troops in camouflage uniforms manning a ring of concrete road blocks around the meeting site.
"The city has bought a thousand canisters of tear gas. That's something people are concerned about, like what to do if they're gassed," said Noah Williams, a spokesman for the Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project.
State trooper Joseph Christy, a spokesman for the city's summit information centre, insisted the authorities had no intention of provoking trouble.
"We're planning for the worst and hoping for the best. If you go on YouTube you can see what they did in London and Seattle at events like this," he said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26122756-401,00.html