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...that make up the core of the sprawling antiglobalization movement. With the lives of people on both sides of police lines in greater peril, some groups are grasping for a new strategy. The environmental activist group Friends of the Earth announced last week that it will stay away from Genoa. "We're not going because we've received no guarantees it will be peaceful," says Duncan McLaren, a spokesman. Others may yet pull out. Says Fleur Anderson, head of campaigns for the Roman Catholic relief charity CAFOD: "We'll be monitoring the situation the whole time we're in Genoa...
...hurling aggression, they don't condemn the use of violence. In 1998 Ya Basta! gave rise to a more expansive anarchist movement that calls itself Tutte Bianche (White Overalls) and draws its members from Italy's 200 "social centers"--communes where young radicals organize and live. Both groups have Genoa police on edge. Last month Ya Basta! issued a "declaration of war" against the G-8 gathering...
...President, while you're in Genoa, just remember the big truths. Business cycles cycle and Europeans complain about Yank unilateralism - that's what they do. But every big shot in Genoa this weekend knows full well that the American consumer is the one that's got the whole world economy in his hot little hands...
...protestor was killed Friday in dramatic clashes between Italian police and thousands of demonstrators in Genoa, the site of the current summit between the leaders of the world?s largest industrial powers...
...protestors are demonstrating against a variety of aspects of globalization - the crowds included union members, environmentalists, farmers and anarchists - and filled the streets of Genoa, battling police with bottles, stones and firebombs. At least 20,000 police officers and soldiers are stationed in the city during the summit, and they responded with batons, tear gas, water cannons and possibly live ammunition...