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Everyone is sure, however, that the now inevitable demonstrations have become combustible. At last September's IMF-World Bank summit in Prague, demonstrators put 20 policemen in the hospital and injured 103 more. The Goteborg melee ended with three people shot, the first time live ammunition has been used against antiglobalization demonstrators in the Western world--an incident that has radicalized many of them. (A 19-year-old Goteborg protester who was shot in the stomach remains hospitalized.) "Things are coming to a head," says Shaun Dey, an activist in the London-based outfit Globalize Resistance. "The way things...
Each national branch of AFA sends at least one of its members to attend the large anticapitalist demonstrations. The disorder committed by the group at each respective protest is coordinated by local AFA members. That's why, two weeks before the Goteborg summit, a team of Swedish police began shadowing radical cells in Denmark that were mobilizing for Goteborg. "We made extensive effort to contact the AFA people who were the ringleaders," says an official. After a bus carrying a group of suspicious Danes entered Sweden, a single cop went undercover to monitor their moves. "He trailed behind them, watched...
Welch placed a call to Andrew Card, chief of staff to President Bush, who was about to sit down with European leaders in Goteborg, Sweden. As the GE boss recounted the conversation to TIME, he told Card that he would appreciate "whatever help you can give us." In the formal meetings in Sweden, GE never came up. But on June 15, in Warsaw, Bush said he was "concerned" that the Europeans had rejected the merger. Monti was furious--not with Bush, he told TIME, but with those who had sought the President's help. Three days later Monti said...
About George W. Bush's trip to Europe [WORLD, June 25]: the thousands of protesters in Goteborg, Sweden, had a clear message: America, or at least its President, is too enthusiastic about the death penalty and not adequately concerned about the environment. President Bush should heed this message because there are plenty of people in his country who feel the same. Protecting the environment and reducing armed conflict are serious responsibilities that require a great deal more than just showing up and speaking intelligibly. Why is it that the so-called leader of the free world can get by with...
...easier to cope with such a development if Europeans are modest about their own habits. Whatever may have been true before last week, this is hardly the time for Europeans to claim they are more virtuous than the gun-loving, arrogant Americans. Ask the police and the demonstrators in Goteborg what they think of European values...