"Protesters hope to highlight issues at G-20 summit" by Ramit Plushnick-masti and Dan Nephin, Associated Press | September 19, 2009
PITTSBURGH – An anti-war group plans to set up a tent city during the Group of Twenty economic summit this week to focus attention on the plight of women and children made refugees by war.
The group, Code Pink, will be among many groups and thousands of activists aiming to use the G-20 summit to spotlight causes including the environment and social injustice.
Now I don't want to knock the protests too much; however, this is why Code Pink gets the coverage it does:
CodePink is a CIA Front of Controlled Opposition
This is why they continue to be found in the halls of Congress and hearing rooms -- to give the appearance of dissent and democracy.
When was the last time WeAreChange or 9/11 Truthers were featured by the MSM and not run out of the room?
Related: Geithner Testilies
Kerry Turns Deaf Ear Toward Veterans
CodePink: CIA Operatives in Pakistan
What the hell were they doing in Pakistan?
Yes, the layers of controlled-opposition deception in AmeriKa are vast.
History shows protesters can successfully use media-saturated events to push their causes, such as when demonstrators at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul were credited with forcing South Korea's shift to democracy, said Mauro Guillen, a globalization expert at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. "They just want to attract the attention away from the official agenda and put other things on the agenda," Guillen said.
Yeah, if you are part of the approved, agenda-pushing cause.
If not, you get savaged, denigrated, and disrespected?
Protests can also turn violent.
Yeah, if you have a bunch of agent provocateurs in the crowd, cui bono?
In 1999, 50,000 protesters shut down World Trade Organization sessions in Seattle as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. There were some 600 arrests and $3 million in property damage. At the most recent G-20 meeting, held in London in April, thousands of people protested, and one man died after a confrontation with police.
Yeah, the COPS KILLED HIM!!
Domenico Lombardi, who sits on the advisory board of the G-20 research group that provides materials to the G-20 participants — 19 world leaders and representatives of the European Union who control more than 85 percent of the world's money — said the summit is a good target for protesters. One of the most prominent issues raised by protesters involves globalization, a term that encompasses everything from technologies to economic policies that have made the world "borderless and interdependent," Guillen explains.
Note the kind and gentle treatment of these protesters?
So unlike those icky, anti-agenda town-hallers or the American people.
Protesters say the ill effects of globalization can be seen in developing countries disproportionately affected by fluctuating commodity prices or communities left dangling when industries move to other places, Guillen said. "It's useful to think about winners and losers, and as a society, it's important to remember the losers," he said. "What do you do about the people who are being left behind?"
Nobody remembers who finished second, and at the rate jobs have been flying out of this country, it would appear no one really cares.
Fathali Moghaddam, a Georgetown University psychology professor whose book "The New Global Insecurity" comes out in January, said all issues are linked to globalization. For example, Moghaddam calls the environmental protesters "green fundamentalists" who believe "that globalization is ruining the environment, ruining local economies, ruining local cultures and that corporate values are being put above everything else and corporate values are global."
Well, I would simply call them fart-mist fundamentalists because of the global warming BS; however, they are CORRECT on their other assertions about globalization!!!!
"The enemy they see out there are these political leaders who they believe represent either corporate interest or imperial interest or some interest that is helping globalization," Moghaddam said.
Then THEY SEE VERY CLEARLY!
None of the summit members represents a poor country, "and the issues that really affect large areas of the world are not being tackled," added Lombardi, also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development Program. "Now that they are faced with the pleasant prospect of rebound of the global economy ... they can focus on broader issues, such as climate change, sustainable growth, food security, issues of interest to the world at-large," Lombardi said.
Translation: the PLAN for GLOBAL GOVERNANCE CONTINUES!
The more organized and established protest groups have scheduled events for the week. One of the larger events, The People's March, is being organized for Friday by the Thomas Merton Center, a Pittsburgh activist group that cites peace and social justice as its objectives. "I think part of this is public education and public involvement, getting the word out on the many issues that exist," spokeswoman Melissa Minnich said. "The G-20 isn't simple enough that you can sum it up in one issue."
Pete Shell, of the group's anti-war committee, said instead of funding wars, the U.S. ought to be investing in jobs, housing issues and alternative energy.
On Wednesday, several thousand people are expected downtown for a festival and rally for clean energy jobs at the city's Point State Park. The event is organized by state Sen. Jim Ferlo, D-Allegheny, and involves the United Steelworkers union and the Alliance for Climate Protection, founded by former Vice President Al Gore.
Yes, AGENDA-PUSHING, MSM-APPROVED PROTESTS with GLOBALIST BACKERS are GOOD!
Code Pink's Pittsburgh director, Francine Porter, said she hopes her group's tent city in Point State Park from Sunday night to Tuesday night will be a reflection of the suffering of refugees.
How about some 9/11 TRUTH and a call to END the WARS!!!
Why focus only on the RESULTS of IMPERIALISM without REALLY CHALLENGING IT?
Porter, a critical care nurse and mother of two who lives in the suburbs, said she became an activist after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. She had begun to question the world around her and wondered why others would cause America harm and why the U.S. declared war on Iraq.
Newspaper doesn't care to investigate those views, huh?
Her husband is a staunch Republican who she said doesn't agree with her activism, which she says has taken time away from her daughters, ages 12 and 16. The other night, she spent 2 1/2 hours on the phone with an attorney preparing for a federal court case on whether Code Pink could use the park. The group won.
Maybe you will be GLAD when they AREN'T SENT OFF to WAR, 'eh, dad?
"For a really long time, I wasn't conscious and I wasn't active," she said. "But there's no going back. I can't imagine my life any other way."
Yes, once you see the TRUTH you can NEVER GO BACK!!!
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PITTSBURGH - Nick Mancini Hartner is like a lot of other downtown business operators: He doesn’t know what to expect if thousands of protesters show up for the Group of 20 economic summit....
Security plans include a vehicle-free, three-block perimeter around the convention center and a ban on most vehicles elsewhere in the city’s dense, triangular downtown - most likely leaving protesters and foreign dignitaries to experience an emptier-than-normal Pittsburgh when the two-day summit begins Thursday.
Thousands of protesters are expected for the summit, a gathering of leaders of the world’s 20 top economies. Many businesses are closing....
Yup, THAT is the GLOB'S CONCERN: $$$$ What a shock!
Commuting uncertainty and fear of protests like those that rocked April’s G-20 in London are fueling the momentum to stay away, said Robert Arnoni, chief executive of Specialized Security Response Inc., based in a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Not MSM and government-approved then.
The uncertainty has caused businesses to take precautions against nontraditional protests or violence....
Yup, PEACE PROTESTERS are VIOLENT, pfffffttt!!!
Meanwhile, the Nebraska-based cyber security firm Solutionary, which has had a 24/7 operations center in Pittsburgh, is guarding computer networks for more than a dozen area companies from vandals or “hacktivists,’’ said chief technology officer Mike Hrabik....
Oh, COME ON!!!
See: Boston Globe Protecting Jewish Mafia
Whatever Happened to Those Korean Hackers?
FBI posts fake Child Porn hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects
Government-Hosted Porn
Yeah, how come you guys NEVER CATCH THEM?
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