arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

VIDEO:
http://dc.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/arrest_k_vermont_9_27_02vymm7l.mov

PHOTO:
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33283&group=webcast

Photo de l'armee avec un video qui filme les arretes:
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33434&group=webcast

The DC Independent Media Center held a press conference on Monday, 9/30, on the repressive tactics by the DC Metro Police Dept. preventing journalists from reporting what they were observing on the first day of protest against the Fall meetings of the IMF/World Bank. Additionally, the MPD targeted specific DC Independent Media Center (DC IMC) journalists--arresting and incarcerating them--in violation of freedom of the press. Video proof was
presented of two specific IMC reporters being targetted and then arrested.

US News and World Report, the Washington Post, a Canadian journalist with Magnum Photo, and other journalists were also arrested the same Friday morning, along with over 600 people. The specific issues and voices of the Friday protests did not get in the news, partly due to the arrests of journalists.

Speakers in the second half of the press conference were from the Pagan Cluster, the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, and the Radical Action Network of Trainers, representing some of the arrested. They likened the undemocratic nature of World Bank and IMF decisions, to the denial of democracy, freedom of speech and assembly, enforced by the MPD on the streets of Washington DC. The police also arrested Legal aid observers and medics.