WTO Seattle Protest Photographs

[Kurai Tsuki]

:ph34r:

[Kurai Tsuki]

Apple parody

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Black Bloc

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Demanding their voice.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Why did that lady see the need to stand in front of the sun? The picture would have been much better if it had been a full view of the paper meche puppet.

[Kurai Tsuki]

(insert token text here)

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Highway banner.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Protestors get on a bus.

[Kurai Tsuki]

A line of riot cops.

[Kurai Tsuki]

He must feel secure.

[Kurai Tsuki]

A demonstrator tearing down a WTO banner.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Michael Moore.

[gaf]

i know i did it and will do it again.i just hope we will not become dogs of war
because then we will loose.they want us to go there ,don't forget it or we will become as faschistes as they are. but i still say go, people go ,,,,,destroy the illusion
we can fight ,but we don't have to become what they are
apatride,autonomy ........let them sink in the shit ......

[Wenty]

i'd like to go sometime, if i ever visit the u.s that is.

[Kurai Tsuki]

These aren't happening right now, this is that famous WTO protest that happened in 1999. WTO conferances are held in varrying countries.

[gaf]

before the clash (south georgie)


ACTIVISTS : CIVIL LIBERTIES IN STATE OF EMERGENCY: CALL TO RESCIND EXECUTIVE ORDER

National, state and local activists planning demonstrations for the G-8 Summit are appalled by the “preemptive” State of Emergency called by Georgia Governor Perdue. While the threat of an emergency may be very real, a threat is not in fact an emergency. The Office of Homeland Security already has an alert system, and a command structure that organizes all local law enforcement and emergency response teams under one umbrella, so there should be no need to declare an emergency until and unless one actually happens. To prepare for, or to anticipate an emergency is an altogether different matter than to declare a preemptive State of Emergency for the sake of convenience for law enforcement structure. Governor Perdue's staff and spokes people have said that the state of emergency was called in order to facilitate a “command and control” center for law enforcement that includes military personnel, which is normally a violation of the Posse Comatatus Act, an Act created specifically to separate military and civilian law enforcement duties.

Powers granted to the executive branch under a State of Emergency are extreme and vast powers, and should be used only in the event of an extreme emergency. Under the Georgia Code section 38-3-51 that states the Powers of Emergency granted to the Governor, and the GEMA Act of 1981 that spells out the conditions and powers of a State of Emergency, the Governor would have the power to seize any property, public or private, close down events whether public or private regardless of permit status, detain citizens without charging them with crimes, impose curfews, override local ordinances and law enforcement, and to use military personnel for civilian law enforcement. These kinds of powers are similar to “martial law”, and should never be invoked unless there is an absolute emergency such as an act of nature, not as a “precaution”. The broadness of this particular Executive Order is disturbing, given that it covers 6 counties, for 30 days, and is overly vague.

Activists and organizers planning demonstrations for the G-8 Summit are deeply concerned about the casual use of this authority, and the potential for it's abuse. After the Miami Police Department, organized under the office of Homeland Security for the FTAA demonstrations, abused their authority, engaged in felony acts to suppress Free Speech, and used indiscriminate violence against nonviolent demonstrators, G-8 demonstration organizers are concerned that the powers granted under of a “State of Emergency” would be used to suppress their Civil Liberties. The Miami Police Department engaged in unconstitutional “preemptive” arrests, illegal searches, and harassment and intimidation of activists. Under the conditions of a “State of Emergency”, law enforcement would be allowed to engage in these kinds of activities “legally”. The potential for abuse is too great, and the conditions of an emergency do not yet exist, so this executive order should be rescinded until such time as there is a real and tangible emergency.

[commie kg]

Yeah, I was there.