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Chris Anderson

16-Jul-04 17:57

Getting Used: How the Mainstream Media Helps Create Climate of Fear and Repression

Drawing almost entirely from mainstream press reports, the following report documents the climate of fear created by the media and police in the weeks and days before protests. It provides examples of how the mainstream press reported arrests during protests themselves, followed by descriptions of the actual reasons for the arrests once the protests were safely over.
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ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE

16-Jul-04 16:25

Questioning of photo student challenged

SEATTLE -- Ian Spiers had just hours to finish an assignment for his photography class. He was taking shots of a railroad bridge near the Ballard Locks when an officer with a German shepherd approached him, asked him what he was doing and requested some ID
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David Graeber

04-May-04 11:48

Lying In Wait

It is a little-known fact that no one at an anti-globalization protest in the United States has ever thrown a Molotov cocktail. Nor is there reason to believe global justice activists have planted bombs, pelted cops with bags of excrement or ripped up sidewalks to pummel them with chunks of concrete, thrown acid in policemen's faces or shot at them with wrist-rockets or water pistols full of urine or bleach. Certainly, none have ever been arrested for doing so. Yet somehow, every time there is a major mobilization, police and government officials begin warning the public that this is exactly what they should expect. Every one of these claims was broached in discussions of the protests against the Summit of the Americas in Miami in November and used to justify extreme police tactics, and we can expect to be hearing them again in the months before the Republican convention protests in New York.
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