Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:07:21 -0400
Subject: Quebec City made Seattle look like a schoolyard fight



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From: Mark Laskey <kronstadt-AT-juno.com>

Having been at both Seattle and Quebec City, I can honestly say that
Quebec City made Seattle look like a children's schoolyard fight. This
was the heaviest street fighting I have ever seen. Some of the numbers I
have seen reported include 30-35,000 demonstrators overall, two nights
of
rioting and heavy street fights throughout much of the weekend (which
often took place simultaneously in a number of different areas of the
city), thousand of rounds of tear gas used, 56 police injured (with
probably twice that many injured protesters), dozens of molotov
cocktails
used, 60 fires throughout the city on Saturday (mostly burning
barricades
and barrel fires on street corners), a few kilometers worth of security
fence torn down, over 400 arrests (with at least a half dozen, probably
more, pre-emptive arrests, which have received conspiracy charges), a
few
banks destroyed (with at least two set on fire), many damaged
multinationals, a damaged water cannon, a damaged tractor (which was
trying to drive at anarchists who tore down a section of fence), a
number
of police cars and riot vans destroyed, and some of the most organized
and innovative acts of resistance I have personally ever ever witnessed.

I find profound inspiration in knowing that the largest security
operation in Candian history could not stop a few thousand anarchists
and
a determined resistance...

Solidarity,

--------MaRK, Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-Boston)