Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:13:09 -0500 From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca> Subject: Lori Wallach testifies to Congress on Black Bloc Leave it to the reformists to stab us in the back every chance they get. I believe that Lori is one of Michael Dolan's lieutenants. -- Chuck0 Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Trade of the House Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Seattle February 8, 2000 http://www.house.gov/ways_means/trade/106cong/2-8-00/2-8wall.htm [...] Then, mid-morning Tuesday, several dozen young people dressed in identical black garb and wearing face masks appeared and started marching in formation down one of Seattle's main streets, near the Convention Center. Despite their highly-regimented paramilitary appearance, they identified themselves as anarchists. They had popped up, disrupted a peaceful protest and then melted into the crowd the day at a peaceful protest in front of a McDonalds which had featured a French farmer handing out French cheese hit with high tariffs under current WTO retaliation on a dispute. Tuesday midmorning, once again, these few appeared and began smashing the windows of downtown stores, including Old Navy, Starbucks, Niketown, and FAO Schwarz. The peaceful protesters conducting the sit-in shouted "Shame!" and "Non-violent protest!" at the youths. Some grabbed the window-breakers, attempting to halt the property damage. Hundreds of Seattle police officers dressed in full riot gear stood by and watched, actively refusing to arrest the masked window-smashers even when peaceful protesters asked for assistance. Indeed, in one instance, a person restraining a black-masked vandal armed with a brick and poised before a store window was told by police to release the vandal or risk arrest for assault. The police then stood by as the released vandal smashed a row of store windows in front of them. << Chuck0 >> Homepage: http://flag.blackened.net/chuck0/home/ Mid-Atlantic Infoshop: http://www.infoshop.org/ Alternative Press Review: http://flag.blackened.net/apr/ ICQ# 62766441 Free Leonard Peltier! http://www.freepeltier.org/ "A society is a healthy society only to the degree that it exhibits anarchistic traits." - Jens Bjørneboe
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