We are seeking any information on the civilian cars that were trashed yesterday.

By Stefan Christoff - June 27, 2010

Quickly without warning police lines moved in on the protest. Both heavily armed riot police and undercover agents charged at the people gathered, trampling over some protest participants who sat on the road chanting in unison. Quickly police swung baton blows randomly into the crowd and pushed the solidarity gathering away from the warehouse jail.

kcurtis sent the news that Piratbryån, the lobbying organization out of which The Pirate Bay sprang, has disbanded. (The torrent tracker is alive and well.) "Piratbyrån had many purposes, but could be described as a pro-piracy lobbying organization. It was founded in response to Antipiratbyrån, the local anti-piracy outfit in Sweden.

Toronto - Two Toronto Police Services officers have just approached the Alternative Media Centre asking to speak with it's members at 1:22pm.

They were immediately asked for a warrant but said informed that there was no warrant and that they were investigating a complaint. 

BERLIN - The G8 bloc of wealthy nations promised five billion dollars Saturday for health and nutrition programmes that benefit women and children in developing countries.

‘It's better to kill us first," Olikoro says, naked apart from a piece of cloth slung over his shoulder. An AK 47 rests by his side as he stares at the Omo river and ­contemplates his stark, ruined future.

By Sarah Colgrove - June 27, 2010

A journalist covering the G20 for the British newspaper The Guardian was brutally assaulted and arrested when police executed a mass arrest on a peaceful protest...[Another journalist] reported seeing a journalist who identified himself as working for The Guardian held by two cops while a third punched him in the stomach because he "talked too much", then drove his elbow into the collapsed journalist's back.