Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:22:26 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: Violence and support directed at Block Block


Mike: We appreciate your eyewitness account, but please read some other
accounts and news stories before you convey false information.

The Summit was never shut down, although the opening ceremony was
delayed for several hours. Bush had to cancel several appointments on
Friday, but the rest of the Summit happened. I haven't heard the exact
number of people who were arrested, but I've heard that it was around
250.

I'm skeptical about the SalAMI story. They don't like the use of
violence, but I really, really doubt that they'd pepper spray anyone.
This sounds like a false rumor.

Mike Pugsley wrote:
> 
> Jello Biafra spoke in my hometown on Monday. He said organizers estimated
> between 60 and 70 thousand people were in Quebec. Another estimate included
> all of the people from Quebec on the streets added another 30,000 people.
> This sounds about right as hours passed by before everyone from the march
> exited Old Port. I had estimated about 50,000 people in the march. Anyways,
> I have heard that members of the pacifist group Salami were pepper spraying
> members of the Blck Bloc and a large mob followed the Black Bloc after a
> bank was trashed, apparently two people in the mob were carrying guns. I saw
> one pacifist punch a Black bloc member, knocking him to the ground. The
> Labour March headed away from the summit and many people disagreed with this
> tactic, many leaving and joining the protest at the wall. There are reports
> of the Labour March being tear gassed. Sections of the fence were torn down
> in many different areas and people entered the security fence on several
> different occasions. At one point a bulldozer drove towards Black Bloc
> members tearing down the fence. The driver fled as the fence came down and
> the bulldozer had it's windows smashed. I heard reports of some serious
> injuries, including a rubber bullet to the throat and one person hit in the
> eye.

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