Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Montebello Anti-SPP Demonstrations Aug. 20




From Montebello, Monday night...

The tear gas appears to have started around 5 :30 PM. By that time, much of the corporate media had left Montebello, and many of the demonstrators had left for Ottawa and Montreal.

โ€˜Theyโ€™re going to wait for the media to leave before they start to clear the demonstrators,โ€™ my friend Kabir had remarked 20 minutes before. Heโ€™d called it.

Before this point, the entire affair had been reasonably mellow, a street party punctuated by a line of unmoving protestors in front of police. A Red Cross official I spoke to had noted that they had received few injuries by 5PM, six hours after the demonstration had started, although police had sprayed pepper-spray at the crowd on a few occasions.

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