How should authorities handle protest groups of up to 100,000 protesters?
How should authorities handle protest groups of up to 100,000 protesters?
This essay is going to look into anti globalization and police brutality within such demonstrations.
First what do we mean by anti-globalization? Anti-globalization is the umbrella term for a group of people protesting for different causes, things including environmentalism or animal rights even things like third world debt. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1305000/1305103.stm 27 September 2001)
Authorities in many European nations have been accused of heavy handedness in dealing with these protesters, this essay will look at the kinds of accusations been made by protesters and outcomes of the allegations, it will include public witnesses statements and overall outcomes.
There are so many demonstrations going on around us its going to be hard to talk about them all so I will focus on just a few so that it will make clear the kinds of allegations being made.
It's July 2001, here in the UK the protest group known as the Critical Mass, a cycle group which campaigns for better public transport and an end to the car, are preparing for their monthly cycle. They basically ride around city centers on their bikes. A few hundred people normally turn up each month to generally irritate British drivers in attempt to get more people to do the same. (www.critical-mass.org. 1st October 2001) However in Italy a different kind of demonstration is going on, a more violent demonstration is about to start.
The main eight world leaders of the United Kingdom, United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Russia meet up annually to discuss world economical issues, so then a protest is called to demand better rights and freedoms for immigrants and refugees. It is the start of the demonstration against the G8 summit.
This essay is going to look into anti globalization and police brutality within such demonstrations.
First what do we mean by anti-globalization? Anti-globalization is the umbrella term for a group of people protesting for different causes, things including environmentalism or animal rights even things like third world debt. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1305000/1305103.stm 27 September 2001)
Authorities in many European nations have been accused of heavy handedness in dealing with these protesters, this essay will look at the kinds of accusations been made by protesters and outcomes of the allegations, it will include public witnesses statements and overall outcomes.
There are so many demonstrations going on around us its going to be hard to talk about them all so I will focus on just a few so that it will make clear the kinds of allegations being made.
It's July 2001, here in the UK the protest group known as the Critical Mass, a cycle group which campaigns for better public transport and an end to the car, are preparing for their monthly cycle. They basically ride around city centers on their bikes. A few hundred people normally turn up each month to generally irritate British drivers in attempt to get more people to do the same. (www.critical-mass.org. 1st October 2001) However in Italy a different kind of demonstration is going on, a more violent demonstration is about to start.
The main eight world leaders of the United Kingdom, United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Russia meet up annually to discuss world economical issues, so then a protest is called to demand better rights and freedoms for immigrants and refugees. It is the start of the demonstration against the G8 summit.