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Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Dyck Report, Part II
1. Protest
We got up at 5:30, made it down for 6:30 and waited an hour until we were about 300. Then we took off through downtown towards the Sheraton Hotel (site of the mini-ministerial). Tom & I met a cool guy named Marc, and together had fun toytoying and chanting down the streets. Our march met up with another 400-strong march, and together we faced the security perimeter that had been erected around the hotel (two days before). The Sureté de Québec were in full effect, and I chatted with them a bit. It was too early and sunny for any real violence, so the march turned and followed the perimeter. About a dozen Black Bloc types put roadblocks in the way of the many police vans following us. 5-0 weren't too happy, especially when protesters tipped over dumpsters and made our own perimeter. So then we were between our barricade and theirs. Lots of singing and dancing, and Tom & I helped a CBC cameraman whose gear and van had been beat up. Then the Montreal riot police swarmed out and chased everybody up an alley. Tempers were raised, and that's when I had to go to class and Tom went to work. Five minutes later, we found out, the BB boys smashed some windows and cars, giving the police a pretext to declare the march illegal and all protesters arrestable.
Too bad they didn't tell anybody.
Jaggi Singh, notable activist, was arrested immediately even though he was blocks away talking to the media at the time, and my friend Marc Stamos was dragged in, too. But most of the people dispersed and some made their way to the "Green Zone", a safe area dozens of blocks away. Two hours later the police showed up there with paddy wagons and started indiscriminately arresting people, including passerbys, journalists and whole families. Latest word is that 340 were taken in, kept for eight hours without food/water/toilet/lawyer and charged with illegal assembly. Obviously, these charges will be tossed out, but it still sucks. (Why were we protesting? Here's some WTO background.)
2. Love
Oui Mike, je suis tombé en amour avec une jolie fille californienne nommée Katherine. She's wonderful, smart, works with helping refugees and recently rocked the LSATs. We get along well. She loves French absurdist theatre, communal living and me. And she's cute as a button. ALSO: She writes letters to the editor. Often!
posted by sasha @ 9:56 PM
