The G20 Protests: Global Economic Meltdown – Video
http://current.com/items/90015124_the-g20-protests-global-economic-meltdown.htm
1 April 2009 – Financial Fools Day: As the 29 G20 leaders gathered in London, thousands came out on to the streets of the financial district to protest a wide range of issues from climate change to the failing capitalist system and tax payers bailout of the international banking system.
10,500 police were drafted in, at an estimated cost of £10 million, to police the protests and protect the banking institutions from what the police had deemd “the summer of rage”. The end product was two policers suspended, scores injured and hospitalised and one man dead after being attacked by an unidentified member of the TSG (Territorial Support Group) riot squad.
Please watch it!
Film By JasonNParkinson[NUJ & IFJ Freelance Investigative Video & Print Journalist]
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