[IMC-News] IMC NEWS BLAST | Wednesday, 3 July, 2002
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IMC NEWS BLAST | Wednesday, 3 July, 2002 | http://www.indymedia.org
"G-8 Summit in Kananaskis, Protests in Calgary & Ottawa - The Struggle for
Global Justice Continues"
Compiled by the Indymedia News Blast Team
Breaking news:
IMC Alberta ~ http://alberta.indymedia.org
IMC Ottawa ~ http://ottawa.indymedia.org
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IMC NEWS BLAST: a selection of important news summaries, stories, opinions
and media found on a variety of the Independent Media Center websites.
An online version of this NEWS BLAST is posted here:
http://indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=189885&group=webcast
Translations will follow and will be posted as comments to the online version.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. SUMMARY
2. BREAKING NEWS
* Ottawa
* Argentina
3. KEY ARTICLES
* Eyewitness accounts and other reports
* Historical and Political Analysis
4. IMC COVERAGE
* Photos
* Audio
* Video
* General
5. SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATIONS
* International solidarity protests
6. MEDIA CRITICISM
* Critiques of corporate media coverage
7. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
* Other Alternative Media
* Activist resources
8. FEEDBACK
9. SUBSCRIBING / UNSUBSCRIBING
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1. SUMMARY
While the leaders of the G-8 held their annual meeting in a heavily
militarized, isolated mountain resort in Kananaskis, Alberta,
international activists converged in Calgary and Ottawa for several days
worth of teach-ins, creative direct actions, street marches, daily press
conferences, and independent media coverage. Protestors of diverse
backgrounds and affiliations voiced their opposition to corporate
globalization and their support for human rights, labor rights, and
environmental protection. The peaceful protests, marked by color, art,
humor, passion, and public meals, starkly contradicted the fear-mongering
messages repeatedly forwarded in the preceding months from government
officials, the police, and the corporate media. Few arrests were made, in
either Calgary or Ottawa, after several days of direct actions. The
presence of over 3000 police stationed in Calgary, continual police
surveillance, and an extraordinary sum of $300 million spent on security
measures, created a pall of intimidation.
Protest actions in Calgary included: a 3-hour snake march of 4-5,000
protestors through downtown Calgary; a symbolic Di-In; a global
Knit-In; a soccer play-in, where anarchists challenged the local police
to a match; and a car caravan to Kananaskis, to challenge the security
perimeter. "Take the Capital!" Protests in Ottawa included: a 2.5-hour
snake march of over 3000 protestors through downtown Ottawa; establishing
a squat in an abandoned house; and the Bikeshevik Velorutionaires ride from
Montreal, joined by Critical Mass.
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2. BREAKING NEWS
~ Ottawa ~
Ottawa squat update
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/07/756.shtml
~ Argentina ~
Not pacified by President Duhalde's stopgap condemnations of the police
killings of two demonstrators last week, more than 50,000 people
demonstrated in the Argentina's Plaza de Mayo against state repression and
for radical change in the country's economic and political order. For
updates see:
http://argentina.indymedia.org
http://sf.indymedia.org
(a separate newsblast on Argentina will be sent out shortly)
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3. KEY ARTICLES
~ Eyewitness accounts and other reports ~
Refusal of Visas for African Participants Parallels G-8 Process of
Exclusion by G6B
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2775.php
Critical Mass Bike Brigade by spyder
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2898.php
Peaceful march opens week of protest against G-8 agenda by Greenpeace Canada
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2971.php
Another world is possible - Calgary, June 24 by Greenpeace Canada
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3040.php
J23 INFO BULLETIN from the Calgary Legal Collective by Calgary Legal
Collective
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3008.php
Alberta Independent Media Press Center Opens by Peter Smith
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2998.php
Border Crosser on the way to the G8 Summit Turned Back by Rob Waite
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3027.php
Local impacts of G8 agenda exposed by Greenpeace Canada
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3149.php
People's Security Perimeter Established... mostly by People's Security
Perimeter Team
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3378.php
'Noone is Illegal' March - a protestor's perspective DnA
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/400.shtml
Despite the rain DnA
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/316.shtml
They'd rather wear nothing than wear Gap by mcnuts
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2703.php
J26 - Snake March and Die-In report by spyder
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3548.php
G8: unjust, undemocratic and unsafe by Greenpeace Canada
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3428.php
June 26th G8 Disruptions Succeed by Movement
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3608.php
Cross-Canada Rebellion Against the G8 by anti-G8
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3583.php
IMC Ottawa wraps up three days of Take the Capital - full archive by
Julien Lamarche
http://www.ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/633.shtml
~ Historical and Political Analysis ~
Canada Preps for G8 Summit by Dan Rubinstein, AlterNet
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3028.php
Open Letter to Prime Minister Chrιtien by Kairos Canada
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2976.php
A Short History of Neoliberalism by Susan George
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3101.php
The G8 and Thunder Bay by Mel
http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/800.php
The G8 - Breaking it down! Julien Lamarche
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/337.shtml
G6B Recommendations for G8 Leaders by Tammy Lea Meyer
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3402.php
G-8 Summit Sidelines Africa by Ross Crockford, AlterNet
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3505.php
G8 fails people and the planet by Greenpeace Canada
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3429.php
A Wake-Up Call for the G-8 by Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3506.php
G-8: Failing Model of Global Governance by Tom Barry, Foreign Policy in Focus
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/07/3783.php
Anti-Globalization: Why they protest. by Shane Nelson
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3427.php
Understanding the G-8
http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/g8.htm#gen
Going Down To Kananaskis: Fork In The Road For Our Movement by Macdonald
Stainsby
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/07/3821.php
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4. IMC COVERAGE
~ Photos / Calgary & Kananaskis ~
G8 cycle brigade by Yuill Herbert
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2683.php
Kananaskis Village - 'ghost town' before summit by
Richard Paszkowski
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2820.php
Militarization of Kananaskis by yuill herbert
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2902.php
Checkpoints en route to Kananaskis by Concerned Canadians
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3030.php
Barricades in Calgary; Speakers at G6B (6 Billion) Conference by Valdamere
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3042.php
5,000 march through Calgary with puppets and banners by humble
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2946.php
More photos of the Calgary march by yuill herbert
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2955.php
Police at the G8 Community March, Calgary by Jonathan Stade
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3019.php
June 23rd Parade Shots by mcnuts
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3488.php
CRAP (Corporate Rule Advances Poverty) @ the June 23rd Parade by mcnuts
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3475.php
Show-Down at the Hoe-Down J25! by Andrew Stern
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3613.php
Early Morning Ritual Before Start of Snake March by Andrew Stern
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3645.php
Snake March J26 by Andrew Stern
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3639.php
pictures from snake march by yuill herbert
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3343.php
Calgary J26 Snake March by Grant Neufeld Wednesday June 26
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3267.php
J26 Snake March - more photos by Shane Nelson
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3285.php
Calgary Black Bloc and Snake March photos by anti-G8
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3712.php
Caravan to Kananaskis Security Perimeter by Andrew Stern
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3656.php
G8 K-Country Caravan by mcnuts
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3462.php
We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than GAP Action by Andrew Stern
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3625.php
GAP protest by yuill herbert
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3096.php
gap ATTACK by Crow
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3383.php
Global Knit-In Photos, Calgary by Grant Neufeld
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/07/3783.php
Die-In Action J26 by Andrew Stern
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3631.php
G8 DI-IN - June 26th, 2002 by mcnuts
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3699.php
Anarcho Soccer! by Andrew Stern
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3635.php
more fotoz by A Big Black Bird - caw, caw
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3516.php
~ Photos / Ottawa ~
Taking the Capital: Day 1 Ottawa IMC Reporters
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/309.shtml
Best Photos of G8 Ottawa Day 1 Jake Wright
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/459.shtml
Ottawa Snake March by IMC SF Americanadian Crew
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/134676.php
Pictures From Ottawa Snake March and Squat June 26 kev@tao.ca
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/318.shtml
Occupation at 264 Gilmour, Ottawa Carol Hodgson
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/294.shtml
Taking the Capital: Day 2 Julien Lamarche
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/413.shtml
June 27th March, Ottawa Jake Wright
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/432.shtml
Protest on the Hill - Banners, Theatre, etc. Mike Gifford
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/415.shtml
Thousands of Protestors in 'No one is illegal' march Julien Lamarche
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/381.shtml
Pictures from "No one is Illegal" March, Ottawa Kevin Smith
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/538.shtml
Bikechιvik Vιlorutionaire Critical Mass Julien Lamarche
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/370.shtml
~ Audio / Calgary ~
G6B Opening Keynote Speech: Stephen Lewis, UN Secretary General Special
Envoy to Africa for HIV/AIDS by spyder
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2952.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/alberta/stephenlewis.m3u (MP3, 45mb)
Kairos's G8 Press Conference by Kairos Canada
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2984.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/calgary/kairos.m3u (MP3, 24kps)
Legal Collective Press Conference by G8 Legal Collective
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2997.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/calgary/legal_06_24.m3u (MP3, 24kps)
Mιdecins Sans Frontiθres G8 Press Conference by Mιdecins Sans Frontiθres
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3300.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/calgary/medecins_frontieres.mp3 (MP3, 24kps)
Halifax Initiative G8 Press Conference by Halifax Initiative
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3265.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/calgary/halifax_initiative.m3u (MP3, 24kps)
Greenpeace Canada G8 Press Conference by Greenpeace Canada
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3282.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/calgary/greenpeace.m3u (MP3, 24kps)
Interview with Austin C. Muneku by Greenpeace
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3151.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/calgary/austin.mp3 (MP3, 24kps)
Revolutionary Knitting Circle G8 Press Conference by Revolutionary
Knitting Circle
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3369.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/calgary/rev_knitting_low.m3u (MP3)
Upfront Media Collective Press Conference, June 26 by Alberta IMC
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3444.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/upfront_media_group_26_high.mp3
(MP3, 18.7mb)
Interview with Sarath Fernando, Co-Secretary of the Movement for National
Land and Agricultural Reform in Sri Lanka by Leigh Robartes
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3555.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/sarathfernandointerview.mp3 (MP3,
5.2mb)
G8 Watch - Response to PM Chretien's Summary by alberta imc
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3502.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/g8_watch_low.mp3 (MP3, 11.8mb)
Interview with Starhawk by spyder
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3607.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/snake_starhawk_inter.mp3 (MP3)
Interview with Canadian Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) member by spyder
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3606.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/snake_cep_inter.mp3 (MP3, 2.4mb)
Interview with Marema Toure, Development Consultancy, Senegal.(French) by
spyder and friends
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3605.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/marematoure.mp3 (MP3, 3.2mb)
Brian Kagoro: how the IMF, World Bank, WTO have led to crisis and
insecurity in Africa CKLN
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3453.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/brian.mp3 (MP3, 5.6mb)
~ Audio / Ottawa ~
Take The Capital Radio Audio Archives Take The Capital Radio
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/411.shtml
Take the Capital! press conference - morning, June 28th Julien Lamarche
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/517.shtml
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/ottawa/pressj28.mp3 (MP3)
Stefan Christoff, from the CLAC, talks about the J26 snake march and squat
action klc at ckln
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/302.shtml
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/media/2002/06//303.mp3 (MP3)
~ Video / Calgary ~
Live video from IMC G8, Epcor Centre by IMC Alberta
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2987.php
http://clients.loudeye.com/media/imc.ram (RealPlayer)
Greenpeace interview with Ralph Klein by Greenpeace Canada
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3029.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/ralph.ram (RealPlayer)
'Rolling Sunlight' solar truck comes to Calgary by Greenpeace Canada
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3302.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/truck_en.ram (RealPlayer)
J25 Day of Action video (5.2 mb) by Justin Rhode/Kiran Lerner
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3733.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/j25_day_of_action__5.2_.mov (QT
video, 5.3mb)
Ecological disasters paid by for by public money by G6B video crew
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3744.php
http://alberta.indymedia.org/uploads/pam_foster.mov (QT video, 12.4mb)
~ Video / Ottawa ~
Squat - Ottawa G8 Ottawa
IMC
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10618&group=webcast
http://ontario.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/squateqczqe.mov
(QT video)
Take the Capital Press Conference IMC
Ottawa
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10620&group=webcast
http://ontario.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/pressconfdmzz77.mov
(QT video)
Video Documentary From 'Take The Capital' Protests Matthew Moro
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/447.shtml
Video Archive - Ottawa Coverage IMC Ottawa Collective
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/06/358.shtml
IWW action at Starbucks, Ottawa G8 Ottawa
IMC
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10634
http://ontario.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/iwwnyqxiz.mov
(QT video)
Interview with spokesperson for GRILA, opposing Chretien's NEPAD initiative
IMC Ottawa
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10664&group=webcast
http://ontario.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/grilauydtie.mov
(QT video)
Ottawa occupation interview with CTV 501
Productions
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10683&group=webcast
http://ontario.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/ctvinterviewvvwbfs.mov
(QT video)
Video of Police attack on Squat house djfern
http://ottawa.indymedia.org/2002/07/758.shtml
http://www.cupe.ca/ad/pepperporch56k.mov (2.6mb, 2.5
minutes)
~ General ~
IMC Global Website, connected to over 80 local IMC websites
http://www.indymedia.org
IMC Radio (for special coverage and commentary on recent events)
http://radio.indymedia.org
IMC Print (weekly news summaries in distributable newsletter-flier format)
http://print.indymedia.org
IMC TV (ongoing video coverage from various IMCs)
http://www.indymedia.org/video/imc.ram
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5. SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATIONS
Vancouver Action J26: Connecting the Dots to G8 by Brian Seidman
http://vancouver.indymedia.org./news/2002/06/13013.php
Activists make anticupola of the G8 in Mali by infolivre collective
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3591.php
Edmonton Community Solidarity March by j smith
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3557.php
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6. MEDIA CRITICISM
G-8 Corporate Media Coverage
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/features/media/
Giant cable company interprets the G8 preparations by Media Watcher
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2723.php
AM Radio ad warns of potential 'health emergency' in Calgary by Thatcher
Collins
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/2907.php
Indymedia makes mainstream by BING
http://www.alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/06/3186_comment.php#3230
Pictures from the Park Mike Gifford
http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/2002/06/263.shtml
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7. KEY RESOURCES
~ activist resources ~
http://www.activist.ca/
http://www.g6bpeoplessummit.org/
http://g8.activist.ca/
http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/g8news.htm
http://politicswatch.com
http://www.protest.net
http://www.web.net/acgc/
http://www.zmag.org
~ other alternative media coverage and analysis ~
http://www.alternet.org
http://www.btlonline.org
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.counterpunch.org
http://www.democracynow.org
http://www.fair.org
http://www.fpif.org/
http://www.fstv.org
http://www.fsrn.org
http://www.mediachannel.org
http://www.pacifica.org
http://rabble.ca/
http://www.radioforall.org
http://www.stratfor.com
http://www.truthout.com
http://www.znet.org
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