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 PROTESTER CONFIRMED DEADA 20 year old man from Spain is confirmed dead, reportedly shot in the head and run over by the police, while reports of a woman being killed are awaiting confirmation. Tens of thousands of people are marching in Genoa in opposition to the G8 conference scheduled to start tomorrow. Reports of police beatings and live ammunition being used against the demonstrators are filling the newswires.
"When I tried to take photographs of the police bashing in a glass door of an apartment building...a policeofficer stormed at me, took my camera, ripped out the film and then crushed the camera with his boot...I saw a girl...being kicked by a policeofficer. When we tried to get to her, we were peppersprayed in the face. Obviously, the police do not want the public to know with what brutal force they are acting against protesters." Belguim Indymedia photographer in Genoa
 First Day of ProtestsA reported 50,000 people marched through the streets of Genoa today for the Migrant's/No Borders demonstration, a march in support of immigrant rights. More actions are planned over the next several days as thousands more activists arrive to protest the G8 summit being held this weekend. Locke High School in Watts is operated like a jail, and the students are the inmates, searched, harrased, and treated like criminals. Ms. Motevalli has never hesitated to raise her voice in anger over school police conducting warrantless searches of her students, but when she spoke up she was terminated and her contract was not renewed for the following year. 
[ Read the Article | Fired Teacher Speaks Out ]  National Day of Prison Protest: Speak-Out and Demonstration at Las ColinasThe San Diego Chapter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, in solidarity with the National Prison Reform Unity Project, organized a Speak-Out and Demonstration Saturday, July 14th, 2001 (10am—12pm), in front of the Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility at 9000 Cottonwood Ave, Santee, CA 92071-3093. [ read the coverage | related information | related article: PBSP hunger strike ]  Debtors and Anarchists Occupy Government BuildingsArmed with dynamite and Molotov cocktails, about a hundred activists occupied the building of the Defensoria del Pueblo in Bolivia yesterday, while several dozen others took over the office of the Catholic Archbishop. The activists are mostly workers who have borrowed small sums of money and been abused by the private banks' alleged usurious practices. [ Read more ] production: archives by date | single feature archives | weekly archives |
