Ah sure isn't it just lovely watching the Brits finally bitch not to mention their curious cousins across the pond. The Brits finally figured the crap out (more than you can say for the cousins). Too bad the post empirical rabble didn't support the fight for justice in Ireland during the last 800 years not to mention their ancestor rabble pillaging, raping and plundering on every continent on the planet. Too bad the roused rabble turned a blind eye to the Irish Holocaust and other dastardly deeds like Bloody Sunday. Now it is I fear a tad too late to whine about brit justice (justus) etc. The shit they developped and practised in North Ireland is just for you and the scary bats are finally coming home to roost. Enjoy your future as a post yankee empire colony!

Do the Britlanders really think their pigs will stop at tasers? Then they need to brush up a tad on their glorious WASP history, Ireland being their first and last colony is a damn good place to start.

http://www.irishholocaust.org/

Onward thru the rabble, Sir Gordon and all things financial and sacred to the realm .

http://blog.wired.com/defense/anarchy_in_the_uk/index.html

There will be (more) blood needless to say.

The coppers must love these kind of things. Double overtime plus the chance to crack heads and electrocute people. Good times!

Those that advocate violence usually have never been associated with or been around violence. Careful what you wish for.

Something's fishy here. The protesters are called violent, before anything has happened. The only people who have thus far seriously threatened violence, reportedly, are the police.

-t.

I was mistaken and am much heartened! The Put People First march on Saturday was much better attended than I thought and than the media led us to believe. It looks like there were more like 80,000 to 100,000. Judge for yourself with this excellent clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9j5ZchuUUg&feature=response_watch

The reason the march appeared to have far less people was that it had been staggered wildly, with huge chunks being slowed down so that there were gaps of half an hour to an hour even. Many are suggesting that this was an intentional tactic of the policing.

Wednesday will see not only direct action and mass civil disobedience in and around the banking areas of London but also a massive Campaign Against Climate Change march elsewhere and also a massive Stop the War march starting outside the American Embassy. In one day, there will be something like seven separate marches and rallies around London. The sheer weight of numbers, the sheer spectacle, the actual volume of noise being made must filter through the media system to the world.

Do not misunderstand, I was not suggesting in my earlier post that we should be fighting or tasering the police. Then we will never win. The only way to win is to meet their violence with peaceful resistance. They spent two weeks last August trying to get us to be violent at the Climate Camp and they got none of it. That's how we won, by making them look like the political puppet thugs that they have been turned into. A special committee enquiry was set up because of the policing at the Climate Camp and for the first time it is in the open, the police are officially working as a political tool of the government. Their tactics have come in for severe criticism and they have been called upon to change the way they police at protests. That is a victory, one that was won by the tactic of peaceful resistance by a force of brave and dedicated activists who knew that violence on our behalf only plays in to the hands of the media and the police. I am proud to say that I was there. And being in my early forties, I was a camp 'elder'. The movement for change is mutating into something spectacular, thousands upon thousands of much younger people who are completely copped on, non-violent and utterly dedicated. The days of wild and raging punks have gone. We have been replaced by erudite, straight and profoundly courageous younger people. The future looks bright after all... It drinks green tea instead of rough cider and wears cagouls instead of pink mohicans!

In the mid-nineties, Reclaim the Streets had massive actions that would take over whole areas of the city with a 'flash' street party. We were unstoppable, the police were at their wits end but not once, not once was there a picture of violence on our behalf that the media could put up on the front pages. And you can be sure that if there had been violence from us, the media would have lapped it up.

Non-violence is critical. That's why we will distance ourselves from those being violent, mainly as they are extremely likely to be agents provocateurs who we know will be there in large numbers. The actions around the financial areas, 'The City' will be the ones where the flashpoints will occur.

Watch us America. Follow everything on IndymediaUK, on the twitter sites and the Climate Camp site. As well as using the crucial general sites such as this one, Common Dreams and Znet, Dissident Voice, Anti-war.com, Information Clearing House, Counter Punch, Democracy Now etc.

This is England slowly waking up. The real bite of the financial crash will not start hitting hard until towards the end of the year. So the G20 demonstrations are really just the start of a mass movement for change. With the support of the kind of people on this site and the kind of people who run this site, we can become an international movement. The countries who suffer the most from the financial behemoths, those countries that have little voice on the activist scene need to be heard and brought into this movement that will slowly gather pace and numbers.

And we must stand strong in solidarity. Violence must be kept out of the movement at all costs, that's the only way to defeat the media's transparent attempts to make people stay at home.

Once again, thanks for listening and stand with us on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd as we take our message to the utterly illegitimate 'leaders' of the world!

"Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come" Victor Hugo

The police are being used to maintain the choking grip that Capitalism has on the world. It's a dark day indeed.

Police are supposed to be catching criminals but of course, most of the world's greatest criminals live in mansions and own huge motor yachts.

Hopefully the protests will be very large and very forceful. We, the people, have had enough of this rigged game where a few have it all and most of us struggle while the rest starve.

It's time for a new World Order, one that advantages everyone!

www.dangerouscreation.com

Clingons have their trekie place among us.

Download Democracy Now podcasts daily. Listen during traffic and other times when your mind cannot be tranquilized by your favorite tunes. Amy Goodman is pure gold; I hope her voice recovers its strength before the summit. If the vox populi is the basis for democracy, there's more democracy overseas than in the U.S.

Bush's standard hand-picked audiences and, above all, his "free speech zones" located outside of hearing distance, visually obscured, unreported by FOX and other Murdoch sources along with infiltration and disruption of communications by Homeland Security have pretty much silenced street protest.

Tasers now; they're a hot topic because used with such abandon by those so armed. Seems an invitation to war.

Protesters, arm yourselves! They won't listen. Silence THEM!

Taser manufacturers could really clean up by selling to protesters.

get ready for the massacre as the elite, owning class attempts to scare off the populist backlash to their greed. Get ready for the elite-corporate media to paint the protesters as the enemy. Stay alert all, and don't let the cover-up and lies work.

I hope no one dies.

G-20 is in its death throes....

And neither the mighty Obama, nor the flip-flopping Gordon Brown, will be able to restore Capitalism, the God that failed...

Strike on you mighty Londoners !!!

Violent police armed with deadly tasers to attack peaceful demonstrators. This is the real message being sent by the London Times. I'd expect violent police to kill several with impunity, a la Zionists and violent police in the other English-speaking countries.

Did ya'all hear about the FBI agent/informant trying to recruit terrorists during his infiltration of a southern California mosque? http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-informant26-2009feb26,0,5747804,full.story
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.media/browse_thread/thread/c3b8405c1f4920ec

Hello again Common Dreams!

You are getting quite a confused picture of what is happening over here and I'm not surprised, the media have gone into overdrive doing everything they can to frighten people from exercising their right to protest and the G20 protests are many and varied.

The demonstration yesterday - Put People First - was a peaceful march ending in a rally where a handful of speakers gave a series of emotive speeches. The numbers were less than 35,000 in our estimate. Which is astonishing considering that only a month or so ago, 55,000 people marched in London in support of the Tamil Tigers, (An event which was hardly mentioned in the press)

The Put People First march was exactly the same ploy as was used in the G8 in Scotland. Back then, on the main Saturday, there was a huge rally called "End World Poverty" and everybody came wearing the white wristbands they had bought, bands played, speeches were made, promises were pledged and everything was peaceful and safe. In both cases, the general population were being given the opportunity to feel like they took part in something meaningful, slightly outside of their comfort zone, in effect, they "did their bit". But of course, that's just not the case. In reality, their consciences were assuaged, that's all. When I walked around Hyde Park yesterday, I saw stalls selling dissent in the shape of mugs and badges and T-shirts with pithy slogans, people selling thin and feeble magazines with names like "World Revolution Now" for three pounds, (Five dollars!) I saw a nation that is dreaming, fast asleep, being conned into thinking they are empowered, that they live in a fully functioning democracy and that government/big business actually listens. In the same way that the End World Poverty campaign was a con and a lie, something which the government paid mere lip service to and something that became a bandwagon of PR for various predictable rock 'stars', NGO's, governmental figures and nefarious companies. Nothing will ever happen from rallies such as these. The G20 care nothing for wishes put so politely and considering so few came, then what could possible motivate the G20 to care anyway? There's hardly a per cent of a per cent of the electorate there.

As with the G8 in Scotland, these PR exercises enable a split in the public’s view. Those of us who believe civil disobedience and direct action are the only way to bring about change are all too easily demonised. The other actions that happened in Scotland at the G8 were phenomenal, mass movements of brave people having the courage to face up to the police around Gleneagles and in fact charging right up to the gates of Gleneagles and pulling down the security fences around the golf club getting within a hundred yards of the 8 world leaders. In fact, on that main day of action, we had Chinook Helicopters coming in behind police lines at tree top heights and disgorging hundreds of riot cop reinforcements to stop us breaking through to the golf club and the meeting itself. You didn't read about that did you? No, just as will happen on April 1st, all you will get is reports of violence and destruction by an angry few who the brave police will manage to push back or capture but no major reports will go out of what will be a day of brave and innovative direct action and mass civil disobedience. In our media and in yours across the ocean, you will not read that at all.

So, with articles like the above and hundreds of others over the past week, the stage is set for the ‘reprehensible’, ‘the violent’, for those “who just want to cause trouble and won't abide by the law” to come on to the streets and get what they deserve at the hands of a brave police. We are the ones who are just asking to be tasered, right? Well, I'm sorry, but Naomi Wolf was absolutely right, no protest that abides by the law gets anywhere at all. As she said, you have to stop traffic where it is not planned to be stopped, you must refuse to go from A to B. And Howard Zinn is right too, the problem is not Mass Civil Disobedience the problem is Mass Civil Obedience.

I was ashamed by my country yesterday and have been ashamed by my country's press all week.

Watch what will happen America, from the Critical Mass bike ride at 9am on Wednesday morning right through to the evening in the City on April 1st. Watch what we do in our endeavour to be heard. In our endeavour to make a difference in the way that the Suffragettes famously did and in the way that countless others have done through history. Watch through the rest of the week. Watch the actions around the ExCel buildings where the G20 are meeting. Watch as a small but brave force take on not only the might of a seriously tooled up police force but also a ragingly bent media and a small army of agents provocateurs. But don't watch it on the news, don't watch it in your papers... Use the only lifeline to truth we have, those great sites that exists on the Internet such as Democracy Now, Indymedia, Information Clearing House and Counter Punch.

Either we force change to happen, against all the odds and at all costs or Orwell's vision of the future will come true:

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever."

Once again, I urge any of you who live in the UK or who have contacts in the UK to rally support for the only kind of demonstration that can possibly work, one that involves direct action and mass civil disobedience.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. All the best!

I can remember when British bobbies were unarmed--now they're carrying tasers to try to force the people to STFU. This piece's tone is contemptible, with its assumption that the police know in advance that protests will be "violent" and need to deal with the problem of protesters--no acknowledgement that governments have broken, have been taken over by corporations all over the world causing increasingly urgent problems for the world of nature, which includes animals, which includes humanity. When the humans attempt to stop the forward march of annihilation, the press lackeys work with the police lackeys on behalf of the corporate monster.
By the way, they probably DO know in advance--because they have carefully worked out plans to do as they have at prior protests--send in operatives dressed like anarchists to attack people's cars and small businesses, followed by police doing violence to real protesters while the provocateurs rush on to the next group. To the TV cameras, it looks like police are only responding to anarchist violence. But they were captured on camera doing this, including loading into police vans at the end of the day's work.

Just what the US lacks; a multitude of grassroots organizing, the likes of which we have not seen since the Weather Underground's "Days of Rage" in 1970. Hats off to all those taking part and let's hope the determination to put an end to class war being waged on the working class by the rulers will spread to the US. They have already had major demonstrations in countries all over Europe and elsewhere -- we just don't hear about them due to press censorship. For more on that visit Naomi Klein's website at "shockdoctrine.com".

Download Democracy Now podcasts daily. Listen during traffic and other times when your mind cannot be tranquilized by your favorite tunes. Amy Goodman is pure gold; I hope her voice recovers its strength before the summit. If the vox populi is the basis for democracy, there's more democracy overseas than in the U.S.

Bush's standard hand-picked audiences and, above all, his "free speech zones" located outside of hearing distance, visually obscured, unreported by FOX and other Murdoch sources along with infiltration and disruption of communications by Homeland Security have pretty much silenced street protest.

Tasers now; they're a hot topic because used with such abandon by those so armed. Seems an invitation to war.

Protesters, arm yourselves! They won't listen. Silence THEM!

Taser manufacturers could really clean up by selling to protesters.

Guess what, probably most of the groups were using "Facebook" to contact one another.....Research two of the members of Facebook's Board of Directors: James Breyer and Peter Thiel (Also, the venture capitalist who funded "Facebook")...Data mining is good according to NSA and CIA !!!!

If you know anything about history you should read about the Haymarket Square Riots of Chicago....My bet is that many of the groups have been infiltrated by the police and MI5 and those will be the people who initiate violent behavior in order to provoke a police attack........

The United States will not be getting the news unless Amy Goodman and Alex Jones are there.......