[www-features] Proposed: Street Confrontations at Melbourne G20 Protest

[pina at riseup.net]

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pina

> A story from Melbourne :)
> have been a little busy and it is very late. Can someone check the links
> and post after 6 hours please.
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> <a href="http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org">Melbourne</a>:
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> Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/g20_img_7350.jpg
> Street Confrontations at Melbourne G20 Protest
>
> =====Abstract======================
> The G20 is meeting in Melbourne, Australia 17-18 November, and has met
> with creative protests by local activists. G20 is a meeting of Finance
> Ministers of 20 important developed and developing nations, Reserve Bank
> Governors, the IMF and World Bank held every year. The G20 includes the
> Group of Seven industrial countries - the US, Germany, Japan, France,
> Italy, Britain and Canada - plus Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China,
> India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South
> Korea, Turkey and the European Union.
> <p>
> Police locked down parts of Melbourne city for the G20 Finance Ministers
> meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in the <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130419.php">expectation
> of protests</a>.
> <p>
> On Friday as delegates were arriving in Melbourne, businesses which
> profit from war or environmental destruction were <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10081&category_id=13">targeted
> for disruption</a>. On Saturday it was the G20 meeting resulting in <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10082&category_id=13">street
> confrontation</a> between protestors and police, including the damage of
> a police riot squad truck. Late Saturday night saw a police payback
> operation when about <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=10084&category_id=13">100
> police violently attacked festive G20 protestors</a>.
> <p>
> <b>Photos:</b>
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130692.php">1</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130701.php">2</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130726.php">3</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130741.php">4</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130755.php">5</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130764.php">6</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130776.php">7</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130792.php">8</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130800.php">9</a>,
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130843.php">10</a>,
> <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130848.php">11</a><br>
> <b>Videos: </b>
> <a href="http://engagemedia.org/g20">Engagemedia.org</a>
> <p>
> <a href="http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org">Melbourne Indymedia</a> |
> <a href="http://www.stopg20.org">StopG20</a> |
>
>
> =========Main===================================================
>
> <b>Saturday: Street Confrontations at Melbourne G20 Protest</b>
> <p>
> On Saturday activists rallied and marched against the G20 meeting.
> Protestors were on the offensive against the G20 meeting in Melbourne
> with some of the most <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130701.php">confrontational
> actions</a> of recent times in Australia.
> <p>
> The day started at 3.45am when the <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130653.php">police
> moved the christian embassy for the poor and the environment</a> out of
> sight of the Hyatt Hotel and the visibility of the G20 ministers and
> bureaucrats. Reverend Simon Moyle said "Pushed from place to place,
> refused representation and ignored, it reveals the bullying nature of
> the state's tactics against even peaceful protest."
> <p>
> A <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130800.php">rally
> at the State Library</a> drew thousands of people. After speeches the
> crowd marched down Swanston, up Bourke street, turning into Russell
> street. The crowd was festive, loud, and raucus, wanting to be heard (<a
> href="http://engagemedia.org/Members/EngageMedia/videos/g20_voxpop.mov/view">vox
> pop</a> video) by those meeting in the Hyatt Hotel. After sometime at
> the Russell Street Barricades, many people left this location for other
> barricades around the Hotel.
> <p>
> Read an indymedia <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130685.php">on the
> ground report</a>, after which <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130687.php">Police
> launched a running attack</a> down Collins St with baton wielding and
> attacks on many people. Police then organised to <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130691.php">move on
> protestors</a> from Exhibition St, quoting that they are facing an
> "insurrection" with a <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130764.php">police
> riot truck suffering damage</a>. (<a
> href="http://engagemedia.org/Members/EngageMedia/videos/SATRRAFFFOOT1.mp4/view">Barriers
> to change</a> video)
> <p>
> By 8pm a few hundred people were still at the barricades in Russell
> Street enjoying a strong party vibe with music.
>
> <p>
> <b>Payback: 100 Police violently attack G20 Festive Gathering</b>
>
> Late Saturday evening about <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130883.php">100 Police
> violently attacked a festive gathering</a> outside Parliament House
> injuring several G20 protesters. An ambulance was called to attend
> several people, while about 3 were arrested. There was a high level of
> aggression with police actively chasing and beating people.  [<a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/g20parliament.mov">Quicktime
> video 2.5MB</a>]
> <p>
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130885.php">Police
> Attack G20 Party Outside Parliament</a>
>
> <p>
> <b>Friday: Businesses Targeted by G20 Protests</b>
> <p>
> Decentralised protests targeting businesses involved with <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130550.php">war
> profiteering or environmental destruction</a> marked the first day of
> the G20 meeting. The Friday morning started with <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130531.php">two
> actions against warmongers and profiteers</a>: Tenix and the army
> recruitment office. Offices of the <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130554.php">ANZ
> Bank</a> were also closed down.
> <p>
> In the early afternoon one hundred activists <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130561.php">occupied
> Oricas Head Office</a> in Melbourne in protest at the supply of 6,000
> tons of cyanide a year to Barrick Gold in the contentious <a
> href="http://www.savelakecowal.org/">Lake Cowal Gold Project</a> in
> Western NSW.
> <p>
> <img src="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/images/200611clownarmy.jpg"
> align=right>
> Other protest activities around the city included the <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130564.php">Radical
> Cheerleaders</a> spreading the word that the G20 is coming to town, a
> protest march by <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130567.php">Falun
> Dafa</a>, <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130567_comment.php#130573">"anarchic
> cops"</a> and <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130567_comment.php#130576">clowns</a>,
> and a <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130581.php">christian
> vigil</a> as a Third World and Environment Embassy, outside the
> barricades near the Hyatt Hotel. An overnight <a
> href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130617.php">Meditation
> and prayer vigil</a> was held at Birrarung Marr park.
> <p>
> <a href="http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/130488.php">Peak
> Union statement on G20</a><br>
> <a href="http://stopg20.org/forum/7">Visions of creative dissent</a> |
> <a
> href="http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/128449.php">Australian
> Finance Minister Peter Costello upstaged by activists in October</a><br>
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