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: despite countlss uses of propaganda and pretexts by the ministry the g8 protest has been very effective, of course the shooting has been justified again by blair. : HERES THE INFORMATION, FREE TO RE-DISTROBUTE : The Ya Basta–led march was headed by large perspex shields on wheels : and about : 500 or so padded-up militants. REVOLUTION and LRCI comrades formed a : contingent : of around eighty towards the front of the march. : The problem with the shields and the heavy padding is that it made the : progress : of the march painfully slow, enabling the police to attack it long : before it : reached the wall around the red zone. : Protective gear is a good idea provided it does not make its wearers : unwieldy : and unable to manoeuvre. Post-modern symbolism shouldn’t get in the way : of : functionality. : The march was attacked with enormous amounts of teargas—some dropped : from : helicopters. The concentration of gas was so great that it eventually : overcame : even those wearing gas masks. Police attacks eventually scattered the : march : which took some time to regroup. But we were able to do so and defend : ourselves. : A “red block” at the back, consisting of LCR service d’ordre members , : Rifondazione youth, and the International Workers League of Greece : (split-off : from the IST section) unfortunately withdrew up a hill and would not : rejoin the : confrontation with the police. : It was difficult to get an overall picture of the days events. There : were many : demos and sub-demos. Probably 70,000 demonstrators in all were engaged : around : the city. : Evidently some 350 Globalise Resistance people got close to the fence : but were : also heavily ged, clubbed etc. The Cobas march was also attacked by : police. : Various anarchists and autonomists trashed banks and attacked a small : prison. : But its was the police— as in Gothenburg— who were the real : perpetrators of : “violence and hooliganism”— not to speak of murder. During the day they : raided : the convergence centre, lobbing in tear gas grenades. : We—LRCI and REVOLUTION members are all OK so far—a bit overged— but : we will : be on the streets at 10.00am tomorrow and on the big workers : demonstration, : expected to be over 100,000, at 2.00pm

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