AFP Hypes Anti-Trade Crowd
Covering the anti-globalization protests during last week’s G20 meetings in Pittsburgh, AFP reporter Karin Zeitvogel reported on September 25:
Thousands of people peacefully demonstrated during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, but police reportedly arrested 40 as they clashed with a smaller group late Friday.
Waving banners and chanting slogans, protesters on Friday flooded into city streets lined with police in full riot gear, still tense after violent anti-G20 protests in the eastern US city late Thursday.
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Security forces in Pittsburgh said there were up to 4,500 marchers, but Peter Shell, president of the Thomas Merton Center which helped organize the march, estimated
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