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...first headquarters) has seen its reputation tarnished of late. In the wake of the July 7, 2005, London bombings, Met police marksmen mistook Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes for a terrorist and fatally shot him as he boarded an underground train at Stockwell station. More recently, in April, as U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders arrived in the city for a G-20 summit, news vendor Ian Tomlinson was making his way home past a climate camp that had been erected in the financial district when he was pushed to the ground by a policeman. He later died...
...resonance. These included not only the London headquarters of totemic bogey corporations for the eco movement, such as mining giant Rio Tinto and energy company E-ON, but also the sites linked with de Menezes' and Tomlinson's deaths. (See video of the G-20 protests in London in April...
...repressing social movements. They know how to win the battle of the story, to convince people they're in the right. But at the G-20, they lost it." Kat, another seasoned climate camper, agrees. She recalls watching riot police lash out with batons during the protests in April. "We put up our hands immediately," she says. "They didn't know how to deal with us being nonviolent...
...photographing crowds. Chief Superintendent Ball confirms that police will photograph people as they enter the climate camp. It's important, she says, to know who is on site in case determined troublemakers infiltrate the ranks of peaceable environmentalists. (See pictures of the G-20 protests in London in April...
Most surprising was how easily and painlessly the reform slipped into Mexican law. The bill was originally filed in October by President Felipe Calderón, a social conservative who is waging a bloody military crackdown on drug cartels. Congress then approved the bill in April - as Mexico's swine-flu outbreak dominated media attention. And finally the law went into the books without any major protests either in Mexico or north of the border. (See pictures of cannabis culture...