Corporate News Preys on Differences in Tactics of Protest Groups at G8

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Sat, May 31, 2003 2:01PM

This will happen more and more, as things escalate, and the massive demos aren't effecting quick change. How to cope? Whenever one group comes out to publically 'condemn' the tactics of another group, the media eats it up and uses it to isolate and attack the smaller group. All groups need to *think* before they speak.

Protesters at G-8 so diverse they clash among themselves
Rolland Quadrini / AP
G8 protesters clash with riot police firing tear gas outside a fast-food restaurant in Annemasse, southeastern France.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANNEMASSE, France, May 31 — The thousands of protesters converging on this year's Group of Eight summit are an eclectic bunch with a grab-bag of divergent interests — so much so that some of them clashed on Saturday with Socialists sympathetic to their cause

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