Ottawa: Day 1

About 400 people marched through the streets of Ottawa today under the anarchist and anti-capitalist banners and flags. One Independent Media Center activist was also arrested ostensibly for videotaping police. A fairly orderly march ensued. The marchers pretended to prepare for rushing the meeting hall where the G20 Finance Ministers are at, then at the last minute retreated down a side street. As they marched along a McDonalds franchise had it's windows broken out along with an anti-abortion billboard. All in all it was a peaceful protest except for about ten extremists that also pushed over a United Way billboard and punched a CTV cameraman (violence toward animals?), an interesting choice for "anarchists". One has to ponder whether the violent few really where anarchists or just simply non-tactical. Those interested in finding out more about economic sabatoge as a tactic may find http://www.earthliberationfront.com of interest, then again the ELF does not condone endangering others while engaged in guerilla tactics against animal and economic exploiters.

More updates to follow. Webcast and coverage at http://ontario.indymedia.org