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OfflineYouInfoIt
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649 arrests, yet no violence at IMF/WB protests
    #913350 - 09/27/02 08:19 PM (21 years, 5 months ago)

this is from cnn, if people arent being violent don't they have every right to dissent? or i guess its not tolerated anymore, land of the lock and key
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/09/27/imf.protests/index.html

Hundreds arrested at IMF protests

Police clash with demonstrators in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police in the District of Columbia drew a distinct and uncrossable line in the sand Friday for protesters targeting meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, taking 649 people into custody while avoiding the mass violence that has marred other such demonstrations in recent years.

Law enforcement sources estimated there were around 2,000 protesters throughout the day at different locations.

Some protesters threw rocks and smoke bombs in clashes with police on the rainy streets of the nation's capital, and others tried to block intersections and sidewalks. Those who caused a disturbance were taken away, while those who protested peacefully stayed, police said.

Metropolitan Police Chief Charles Ramsey said that some people had been taken into custody without formal arrest, including 40 picked up for blocking a sidewalk on Connecticut Avenue.

The protesters object to what they see as unfair IMF policies that benefit wealthier nations at the expense of developing nations. The IMF disagrees, saying it is the poor of the world who are benefited by its policies.

District of Columbia police arrested 21 people when they tried to block the intersection of 14th Street at Independence near the IMF meeting site. Another 40 people were arrested nearby in a skirmish with police that included rock throwing and smoke bombs.

In the first incident, 25 people sat down in the middle of the intersection, four of them chained together. Police gave the protesters two minutes to move, and only four complied.


Police sawed the chains of the four who were chained together. All 21 will be charged with failing to obey police order, said D.C. Metropolitan Police Capt. Ralph McLein.

In the second incident, police clashed with about 150 protesters at a Citibank branch at the intersection of Vermont and K Streets.

In Georgetown, several dozen protesters chanted and partially disrobed outside two Gap stores, protesting the company's labor and environmental record. (Full story)

The executive director of the environmental group Greenpeace USA, John Passacantando, was among those arrested during the day, according to Greenpeace officials, who said Passacantando was not participating in the protests but had been swept up in the arrests while riding his bicycle to work.

Between 200 and 300 protesters gathered in a park near the site of the IMF meeting, but police said there had been no problems there.

About 1,500 D.C. police officers were being assisted by 1,700 officers from other jurisdictions around the country, D.C. police said.

Finance ministers of the Group of 24, or "G-24" -- 24 countries whose collective task is to coordinate the positions of developing nations on monetary and finance issues and to ensure that those positions are adequately represented to the IMF and World Bank -- were meeting at IMF headquarters on Friday, ahead of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings, which begin Sunday.

The G-24 consists of eight member-states each from Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Finance ministers of the Group of 7, or "G-7," were also to meet on Friday to discuss economic and financial issues among the major industrial countries -- Canada, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Italy.


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Re: 649 arrests, yet no violence at IMF/WB protests [Re: YouInfoIt]
    #914492 - 09/28/02 09:11 AM (21 years, 5 months ago)

In reply to:

if people arent being violent don't they have every right to dissent?




yes but the people that were arrested, according to the article were acting in violent, detrimental ways right? im not saying the police were in the right cuz we all know that cops make up shit when they dont have evidence, but if its true than the protestors who were peaceful were allowed to continue their protests. if this sounds dumb, its early in the morning and my friend made me drive myself and some girls home early with a hangover cuz he hadto go work at AMC. peace


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Re: 649 arrests, yet no violence at IMF/WB protests [Re: YouInfoIt]
    #915845 - 09/28/02 09:05 PM (21 years, 5 months ago)

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Some protesters threw rocks and smoke bombs in clashes with police on the rainy streets of the nation's capital, and others tried to block intersections and sidewalks. Those who caused a disturbance were taken away, while those who protested peacefully stayed, police said.



Throwing rocks and setting off smoke grenades are dangerous activities. Breaking out the windows at Starbucks is no sweat off my back but to the guy running the Starbucks it's a big deal. Then there were the protestors that went to the Gap store and stripped protesting they'de rather wear nothing than wear Gap because Gap employs sweatshops...

Even the article you posted says that the disorderly trouble makers were arrested while the peaceful ones can continue protesting...  :grin:


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Re: 649 arrests, yet no violence at IMF/WB protests [Re: YouInfoIt]
    #917821 - 09/29/02 09:02 PM (21 years, 5 months ago)

hahahaha, dumbasses..anybody that is violently protesting shit about a Gap store should be gagged, cuffed and imprisoned.

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