<p>In events like the G20 protests and clampdown there emerge real opportunities for recognition and understanding that are not always so readily a...

By Jeff Shantz - 07/12/2010

One of the interesting revelations of the G20 fallout is the extent to which many in the social movements or “the Left” are ruled by the morals, values and prejudices of the dominant classes. This has been expressed in the numerous calls for repression of the black bloc by would-be figure heads of the comfortable Left in Canada...For some the rule of law should have held against the black bloc. Others turn to the rule of law as a statist security blanket providing the basis for...their “peaceful protests,” which the black bloc supposedly infringed upon.

During last week’s G20 summit, police arrested or detained over a thousand people. With guns drawn, they kicked people awake, they threatened, pepper sprayed, TASERed, tear gassed and beat those in the streets. Although the politicians declared the policing at the summit a success, popular anger at the police is at an all time high.

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Halliburton, the company once headed by former
Republican Vice President Dick Cheney contributed $15,500 to federal
candidates during June, according to a Center for
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