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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. 



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