PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AFP) - Police fired tear gas to disperse a group of masked anarchist protesters attempting to march on the venue of the Pittsburgh G20 summit Thursday.
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Riot police intervened after a 1,000-strong crowd, some of them black-clad hardliners wearing goggles and brandishing anti-capitalist banners, set off on a two-mile (three-kilometer) trek towards the conference venue.
As the group left the city park where they had gathered in defiance of a ban on non-authorized rallies, police broadcast a pre-recorded announcement in English and Spanish declaring their protest an "unlawful assembly."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090924/world/finance_economy_g20_demo
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Heavily armed guards squash the protest of the people ?
Free assembly meets riot squad multiple victims reported ?
Heavy hand of the government disperses protesting crowds ?
Dissent of government policy hunted down in the streets ?
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Here in North America -- the Canadian press gives this headline
Police fire tear gas to disperse G20 protesters
What would they have titled this if it happened in one of those nations we just don't trust all that much ?
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Riot police intervened after a 1,000-strong crowd, some of them black-clad hardliners wearing goggles and brandishing anti-capitalist banners, set off on a two-mile (three-kilometer) trek towards the conference venue.
As the group left the city park where they had gathered in defiance of a ban on non-authorized rallies, police broadcast a pre-recorded announcement in English and Spanish declaring their protest an "unlawful assembly."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090924/world/finance_economy_g20_demo
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Heavily armed guards squash the protest of the people ?
Free assembly meets riot squad multiple victims reported ?
Heavy hand of the government disperses protesting crowds ?
Dissent of government policy hunted down in the streets ?
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Here in North America -- the Canadian press gives this headline
Police fire tear gas to disperse G20 protesters
What would they have titled this if it happened in one of those nations we just don't trust all that much ?