The media constantly condemn violence, yet peaceful actions don't get reported even when they include over a quarter of a million people!

Reports from Globalise Resistance Protesters
The Independent on Sunday travelled on our train. Their article stress the variety of the protesters, and the fact that people went to protest peacefully.

Police Violence and Intimidation
BBC News Online has an eye-witness report of a police raid on two schools where protesters were organising. One building included the media centre of the Genoa Social Forum. The GSF is the umbrella body for all the protest groups involved - it rejects violence, and has been negotiating with the authorities for weeks. Computer disks have been seized, including those of Italian lawyers who were representing some protesters. Around 50 people have been arrested.

Around twenty people were taken to hospital after police beatings. The picture (left) shows the bloodstains left after police beat protesters. There is more information on Indymedia Italia.

The photo below, from Reuters, shows police attacking a helpless protester on the ground.

The Killing of Carlo Giuliani
Carlo was killed by a conscript to the paramilitary police, on national service, himself 20 years old. The Observer asks:

"Why did other police vehicles, less than 30 metres from the besieged Land Rover, not intervene? Why were police armed with lead bullets rather than non-lethal rubber pellets?

What strategic blunders allowed a young conscript to be so isolated and terrified? And what sort of training does this paramilitary police force give such conscripts?"