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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.

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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