Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:32:26 -0500
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: [Fwd: Davos protest, 2000]


Several hundred anarchists smashed up a Swiss McDonalds today and the
overall protest was so big that the cops had to cede control of the town
of Davos to the demonstraters.

Chuck0

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Subject: Davos protest, 2000
Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 15:09:43 -0800
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Date: 29 Jan 2000 14:50:09 PST
From: Andrew.Bacelis-AT-directory.reed.edu (Andrew Bacelis)
To: ykboo-AT-PEAK.ORG
CC: unity-AT-mail.pdx.edu, ospirg-AT-mail.pdx.edu,
no2wto-AT-blitz.reed.edu,wto-action-AT-lclark.edu

"Seattle in Davos"

As in past years, there was an action against the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 29th, 2000. All the world's obedient
"opinion-leaders and decision-makers" were present. 
	 The local government passed a ban on demos that day, which together
with the remote location probably contributed to less than the usual
number of demonstrators. The 2000 that turned out included anti-WTO
activists from around Europe; members of Confederation Paysanne
(France); the Italian Green Party and New Communist Party, and other
members of parliament; Swiss, French, and German environmentalists; many
young activists with red or red&black flags; and representatives of the
Kurdish Workers' Party. Most demonstrations occurred while Clinton was
present.
	Tony Blair blathered "Seattle must never happen again." There were
several injuries in the police crackdown with rubber bullets and tear
gas, including French farmer and anti-free trade activist Jose Bove, who
sought medical treatment. The McDonalds in Davos had several windows
broken because of its perversion of the slogan "think globally, act
locally" into "think globally, eat locally" to sell hamburgers.


MORE INFO:

Bern antiWTO/ Davos action:
www.reitschule.ch/reitschule/anti-wto/index2.shtml

Sherwood Communications (Padua)
www.sherwood.it

CNN coverage:
cgi.cnnfn.com/output/pfv/2000/01/29/europe/davos_protests/


"two, three, many Seattles"
andrew