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 | | From: | JA | | Subject: | Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:15:27 +1300 |
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 | DC IMC in now off line for uncertain reasosn, but:
Updated Breaking News from DC IMC
author: .
in case you cant get their site to load, we are offering a backup of
it as we can get it.
# Unpermitted march now at McPherson Square;
# Arrest at 15th and M at spontaneous march;
# 3:45 Coffins carried by protestors are burning;
# 3:44 At least 30 riot-police at 14th and Pennsylvania; stand-off
between police and protestors; whole area is filled with pepper-spray and
tear-gas; 16 mainstream journalists observed getting sprayed by police with
pepper-spray;
# 3:38 Police now sending reenforcements to 15th and H street;
# 3:33 Police reporting that one of two officers injured at 14th and
Pennsylvania has a broken arm;
# 3:32 Protesters are pushing through gates at 13th and Pennsylvania;
# 3:31 Two women arrested at 13th and Pennsylvania;
# 3:20 Police snipers appearing on rooftops around 14th and
Pennsylvania;
# 3:20 Two officers reported injured at 14th and Pennsylvania;
mainstream journalists being hit and pepper-sprayed by police;
# 3:18 Pepper spray and tear-gas directed at protestors at 15th and
Pennsylvania; at least 50 injured protestors; reports from police of "chest
pains" in protestor; mainstream media journalists being hit with pepper
spray; reports of bleeding from injured protestors;
# 3:18 Three sections of fence on inaugural parade route now broken
down by protestors; fence blocking off parade route has collapsed;
protestors battling police in streets; police still responding with pepper
spray and tear gas;
# 3:15PM: Much of the first 3 blocks of Pennsylvania has a significant
anti-Bush presence, hard to pick pro-bush demonstrators out of some
segments.
# 3:05PM: Spot in the fense near 14 and Penn, near Willard Hotel,
where they've rattled the fense, gotten it knocked over or bent over twice,
MPD pepper spray. Extra police are being deployed to this area.
# 2:57PM: Unconfirmed reports of 4 arrests at 8th and D NW
# 2:56PM: Pepper sprayed anarchists at 11th and E NW
# 2:52PM: Protesters at 14th and Penn have been "contained" --
surrounded by the police, according to one call.
# 2:50PM: Some anarchists at 14th and Penn are trying to pull-down
barricades, break through check-points. Check-points are being closed-down
by the police. Protests at 16th and H going well. (20 people laying on
ground)
# 2:33PM: Flags being burned at 14th and Penn. Some callers report
there has been a fight of some sort between anarchists burning a flag and a
Bush-supporter trying to take the flag from them.
# 1:50PM: Possible splinter group heading from D & 7 to Capitol area.
Riot police lining the streets at Penn & 14th and maybe 1,000 anti-bush
protesters in the area there.
# 1:45PM: Police car at Counter-Inaugural space has left, what appears
to be a plainclothes cop is still hanging out by the front access.
# 1:43PM: "Gas" at 7th and D NW
# 1:38PM: There's a police car (#137, MPD?) in front of the
Counter-Inaugural convergence space.
# 1:34PM: Police being dispatched to Pershing park, report of arrests
at D and 7th.
# 1:16PM: 1 uncorroborated report of rubber bullets, snow balls thrown
by some activists, several people say at least 2,000 anarchists.
# Die-in at 16th and H, a couple hundred people "dead," organizers say
they want more people to join them.
# 1:10PM: 1 person down, hit by pepper spray, maybe physical force
between 7th and 8th on G NW, police tried to prevent one "anarchist" march
from linking up with another, things are "heating up fast." One DC Radio
Coop/IMC contributor has also been hit by pepper spray. No arrests yet.
# 12:45PM: DAWN march is in the vicinity of McPhearson Square, people
are shouting "whose streets, our streets!" Mood is "serious, but energetic."
12:53: The square is filling up, plenty of police.
* 12:43: "Anarchist march" at 13th and L, say the police around them
were drawn away by "something else."
* 12:35PM: One arrest reported on "P circle," P street near Dupont or
Logan? Choppers and police cars heard converging on an area near Logan/in
Shaw.
* During Bush's speech, Code Pink held up banners "Bring the troops
home" and shouted. Police immediately took them away. After that another
group shouted, they were taken away. 2 more protests following that. Members
of the audience appluaded the police actions, shouted "USA USA," and some
through snowballs while other people tried to block cameras from covering
the protesters. Public radio noted this very briefly, and the CNN noted and
covered none of it as far as we can tell.
* 12:15PM Splinter group broke away from DAWN march at 16th and Q NW,
maybe 200-300 ppl says observer.
* 12:09 Billionaires for Bush finished auction of Social Security and
Arctic Wildlife Reserve at FDR Memorial.
* 11:55AM: Police chatter estimates DAWN (Malcom X/Meridian Park)
march at 10,000
* 11:50 am DAWN march from MalcomX park just started with 5-800 going
down 16th street. Police presence but not too heavy. People from Maine,
Michigan, East Coast corridor. Primarily younger protestors, but people who
have protested before. College students from Maine. 9 jump out vans are
following them behind.
* 11:41AM: Marches have left Dupont Circle and Malcom X/Meridian Park
* 11:31AM: Bush is about to be introduced at the inauguration platform
* DC Indymedia has been having cache/mirror dns issues. They may be
resolved. Nothing nefarious going on.
* The president preparing to go to the Capitol, "Operation Primary
Package" is underway
* 10:38AM: TSA confirms that there was a 2-car derailment, all trains
are being rerouted to New Carrolton, Union Station is "shut down" says TSA.
* 10:10AM: An uncorroborated report of a man in a suit, "dressed like
a congressman," arrested at the "yellow gate," Independence and S. Capitol.
Who he was and what he was arrested for is unknown.
* 9:41AM: Motorcade moving through at Washington and C streets.
* 9:32AM: Checkpoints B, C and E are open for access to the security
zone around the inauguration
* 9:06AAM: The critical mass reached U and 11 NW
* 9:01AM: 60-75 Critical Mass riders came by the DC Indymedia Space.
They are continuing their ride with cheers and high spirits. Reports are
that the police are staying relatively cool but are following the ride with
at least 1 jump out van.
* 8:52AM: Critical Mass has reached the Counter-Inaugural convergence
space with no reported trouble
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| | From: | JA | | Subject: | Re: Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:22:09 +1300 |
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| pictures:
http://dc.indymedia.org/media/all/display/22957/index.php
By Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Anti-war protesters, including some who carried coffin-like
cardboard boxes to signify the deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq, descended on
the capital Thursday. Some of their chants could be heard as President Bush
delivered his inaugural address.
The chants came toward the end of Bush's speech, and the president continued
his address without interruption or any sign that he heard them.
On Capitol Hill, some protesters were briefly detained by police, and then
released after Bush finished speaking, said Andrea Buffa, spokeswoman for
CodePink: Women for Peace, a social justice peace movement.
CodePink member Jodie Evans said she and other protesters got tickets to the
ceremony from members of Congress representing New York and California.
Earlier in the day, about 500 people rallied in a park several miles from
the Capitol.
"Worst President Ever" and "Four more years: God HELP America" were on some
of the signs. Protesters covered hundreds of cardboard boxes with black
cloth and American flags to symbolize U.S. troops and others killed in Iraq.
"It's important to show that when Bush's second inauguration goes into the
record books, there was healthy dissent," said Jared Maslin, 19 of Hanover,
N.H.
Aidan Delgado, 23, of Sarasota, Fla., returned to the United States last
April after his military service. He said he was a mechanic at Abu Ghraib
prison near Baghdad, which gained notoriety as a place of torture during
Saddam Hussein's rule and was the scene of alleged prisoner abuse by U.S.
troops.
"What I experienced in Iraq fills me with remorse," Delgado told the crowd
of protesters. "If we are going to preserve our nation at all, we need to
criticize what we did wrong and we have to criticize ourselves."
Several police cars lined the perimeter of the park, but the event remained
mostly peaceful.
At one demonstration, supporters of the president engaged in a shouting and
shoving match with some opponents of the war.
An anti-war group called the Rhythm Workers Union banged on steel drums and
danced in mud-caked boots.
Elsewhere in the city, more than 300 anti-war protesters -- organized by
CodePink -- sported beauty pageant style banners with "resist!" scrawled in
black.
"We're against the war mostly," said Shannon Fell, 22, of Detroit, who wore
a bright pink wig and feather boa.
Some protesters carried signs advocating abortion rights. Others urged
people to donate money to tsunami relief efforts. Some took issue with
Bush's environmental and economic policies.
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| | From: | tom | | Subject: | Re: Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:56:37 GMT |
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"JA" wrote in message
news:csq01e$tqs$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> pictures:
> http://dc.indymedia.org/media/all/display/22957/index.php
< >
> Elsewhere in the city, more than 300 anti-war protesters -- organized by
> CodePink -- sported beauty pageant style banners with "resist!" scrawled
in
> black.
>
> "We're against the war mostly," said Shannon Fell, 22, of Detroit, who
wore
> a bright pink wig and feather boa.
>
> Some protesters carried signs advocating abortion rights. Others urged
> people to donate money to tsunami relief efforts. Some took issue with
> Bush's environmental and economic policies.
Sounds like the usual rent-a-crowd.
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| | From: | israel t | | Subject: | Re: Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:17:46 GMT |
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| "JA" writes:
> The chants came toward the end of Bush's speech
How dare they show such disrespect to a gentle, kind and beloved president !
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| | From: | Diabolik | | Subject: | Re: Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:42:47 GMT |
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| Funny how the media never shows the protests, or the yanks killed in Iraq.
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| | From: | israel t | | Subject: | Re: Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:18:26 GMT |
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| "Diabolik" writes:
> Funny how the media never shows the protests, or the yanks killed in Iraq.
They yanks didnt die.
They just underwent spontaneous decomposition.
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| | From: | JA | | Subject: | Re: Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:03:41 +1300 |
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"Diabolik" wrote in message
news:Hv1Id.126853$K7.9062@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Funny how the media never shows the protests, or the yanks killed in Iraq.
They unexpectedly showed the protests in NZ on channel 3. Pretty harrowing.
(Where are you -what media do you read-see?)
>
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| | From: | Diabolik | | Subject: | Re: Breaking News from Washington DC IMC | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:53:33 GMT |
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"JA" wrote in message
news:cssca0$n1q$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>
> "Diabolik" wrote in message
> news:Hv1Id.126853$K7.9062@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Funny how the media never shows the protests, or the yanks killed in
Iraq.
>
> They unexpectedly showed the protests in NZ on channel 3. Pretty
harrowing.
> (Where are you -what media do you read-see?)
I'm in OZ, I see BBC, Foxnews, German News, French News, RAI News, ABC,
etc...
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