http://www.anarchymag.org/52/violence.html
"Stop the Violence!"? Policing the antiglobalization movement
The antiglobalization movement will continue to build in numbers, coherence and effectiveness as evidenced by the recent events in Gothenburg, Sweden and Genoa, Italy.
NBL. The international organizations will merely relocate their meetings to more defensible locations. The Canadian Rockies will be a little harder to storm during the next Gang of Seven meeting. Davos relocated to NYC where the 40K cops are used to imposing frozen zones and indulging in anti terror policing. Some may also choose to meet in US sunbelt cities whose auto-friendly streets are not protest friendly. Open prospects easy to defend. Politicos and police departments not friendly to socialists from out of town. And with an armed citizenry (concealed carry laws) and the death penalty.
(This will happen despite the currently overwhelming mainstream-media focus on Bush's crusade against non-US- and non-Israeli-controlled terrorism.) Just as importantly, more and more people around the world are increasingly sympathetic with the range of messages and goals associated with the antiglobalization movement. As a direct result, the establishment media around the world continue to work overtime to put a negative spin on the movement, while the national and international forces of repression are also becoming increasingly active, violent and deadly.
Even the Euro-wimps are starting to crack down on foreign terrorist cells operating on their soil. May make it harder for mass demo organizing. World War IV - The War on Terrorism - has already been and will continue to be hard on a movement that uses demos (as opposed to entity building) as its main strategic and tactical technique. DCF ---- "Kill a Commie for Christ" -- Courtesy of the National Commission for the Preservation of Ancient Right Wing Slogans