Thursday, April 2, 2009
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London, G 20: anger explodes
heavy air, tension, screaming, shouting mass of people in the compressed against those who think he's taken it all: work, money, dignity. Hood that blacks with clubs and stones smashing the windows of the main banks in the City, surrounded by cops fleeing protesters and demonstrators who escape being chased by the cops. Hands and dance together in clubs macabre ballet of violence. The typical rain that has always distinguished The British capital is always there lurking, but the city woke up today is different from usual, in spite of mirrors a world in crisis. Thousands of people take up Threadneedle Street and vent their impotence, shouting their anger against white-collar workers, who have speculated with their money, against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have made the world just a little bit more wrong than than it was against the black of the industries that buries the green of nature, against unbridled capitalism without humanity, against those twenty heads of state talking about issues that do not live and do not understand, that afflict their lives, and that basically they are only numbers to be stacked again. Too much enthusiasm and too much anger to be controlled in a space so infinitely small, too difficult to contain, and the anger explodes. Retracts into the redness of the faces in the swelling of veins. It involves hundreds of people, young people from different backgrounds and political ideas: anarchists, communists, anti-capitalists, environmentalists, anti-globalization, all united against, against a world that does not want and they never wanted. Today the flag of the square has no color, to abandon, and leaves to go against, violence. 88 arrests so far, and at night the police enter some houses occupied by so-called "squotters" to arrest suspected perpetrators of the day of urban warfare, but Scotland Yard announces tomorrow will be like today. Not need to be an officer of the police to predict and even have a crystal ball, just breathing the same air with the others to understand that can only be so that the voltage will be the usual dense clouds, another black day is approaching. To make matters worse comes a dead man, a boy three decades found slumped in an alley. The police say well done for a cardiac arrest, because the protesters beaten up by the blows of billy clubs. And while discussing them in the palace, Sarkozy and Merkel once again make the Franco-German axis and transparent economic rules require that the host countries tax havens are penalized and reported in a blacklist. Britain and the United States resists, it is too much too fast. But we must act quickly, you risk a lot in this game, perhaps the balance of that world order by the columns of the Guardian says the secretary-generals of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. And meanwhile the people out there waiting, and hopes for themselves and for their children to be able to stop.
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