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1/2 Political Junkies on G-20

1/2 of http://www.2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com (Maria) blogging on the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh.

Peoples' March to the G-20 (Now! Nonviolent and permitted!)

Posted by: Maria in Pgh on Sep 25, 2009

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I trust the good people from the Thomas Merton Center -- who are old hands at this sort of thing -- to get it right:

Peoples' March to the G-20
Friday, Sept. 25 - Pittsburgh, PA
5th & Craft Avenues, Oakland
Nonviolent and permitted

•12:00 pm – 5th & Craft Avenues in Oakland: Opening Rally, then a march down Fifth Avenue to the City-County Building downtown.

•2:30pm – Rally at the City-County Building, then a march down 5th Ave, across the 7th St. bridge, to East Park on the North Side.

•4:00pm – Closing rally at East Park.

More info here.




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Only in Pittsburgh: A Penguins Rally Breaks Out in the Middle of a G20 Riot

Posted by: Maria in Pgh on Sep 24, 2009

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Only in Pittsburgh!

In the middle of this:



You have this:



On my teevee I could also see a guy waving a replica Stanley Cup.

(h/t to Spork for finding Pens banner photo)

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MSNBC showing Pittsburgh G-20 protesters being gassed

Posted by: Maria in Pgh on Sep 24, 2009

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Happening now.

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The Return of Fort Pitt

Posted by: Maria in Pgh on Sep 24, 2009

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(Since we can't embed video on this site, here's the soundtrack for this post.)

Practically every other piece at the Post-Gazette's "The Big Story" blog paints Fort Pitt downtown Pittsburgh as a ghost town -- with the exception of a massive police presence. I know if I were visiting downtown Pittsburgh for the G-20 today from out of town (or out of country), I wouldn't exactly be getting the warm & fuzzies from scenes like these:

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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco

Posted by: Maria in Pgh on Sep 23, 2009

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...this ain't no fooling around 

From the P-G:

 Witold Walczak, the legal director for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, said, "It's hard to imagine a situation where a peaceful group that makes food . . . could attract this much firepower and police attention and not be harassment," he said.
 
What Walczak is referring to is a pattern of harassment by law enforcement against not only G-20 demonstrators, but those who would support them. And, the summit hasn't even started.
 
The Pennsylvania branch of the ACLU is documenting "problems G-20 protestors have encountered with law enforcement in Pittsburgh" here and Chris Potter's Slag Heap blog has also been doing yeoman's work on this issue as well.

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Trepidation

Posted by: Maria in Pgh on Sep 20, 2009

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First, by way of introduction, I'm a Pittsburgh native who's been blogging about all things political at http://www.2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com for the last five years.

On May 28th when the White House announced that Pittsburgh would host the G-20 Summit my first thought was what a great opportunity to showcase our city immediately followed by one word: Seattle.

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