Police Arrest Three Men After Protest Over CNN's War Coverage

(AP, November 11, 2001)

ATLANTA -- About 200 people rallied against CNN's coverage of the war in
Afghanistan, leading to three arrests.

"CNN, half the story, all the time," they chanted Saturday at CNN
Center.

The protesters said millions of refugees and residents in Afghanistan
face starvation but CNN isn't telling the story.

A network spokeswoman did not return a call seeking comment on Sunday.

Several of the demonstrators wore bandanas over their faces.

George Ward, 21, from Columbia County, was charged with criminal
trespass. Samuel Sabel, 21, from Montgomery, Ala., was charged with
violating Georgia's anti-mask law, which dates from the height of the Ku
Klux Klan era, along with simple battery and obstruction. Matthew James
Wallace, 20, of North Carolina, was also charged with violating the
anti-mask law.

Anonymous Comrade writes: "An eyewitness reports an explosion on the right side of the plane (I believe
it is a 767/A300 airbus with 246 passengers and 9 crew members) where the
wing joins the body of the plane. Another witness reports debris falling
from the sky before the plane crashed. There are two crash sites, one being
the spot where most of the plane crashed and another where one of the
engines crashed. I do not know if the wing came off the plane, but
eyewitnesses report seeing the plane fall out of the sky after the explosion
in a way that sounded like how a dove falls after being hit with shot. It
reportedly fell to the left, which leads me to suspect that the right wing
detached, along with the two separate crash sites. I am no expert, but I am
unfamiliar with what sort of mechanical failure would cause an explosion
where the wing meets the body. Perhaps the engine exploded and the way it
blew out caused the appearance of an explosion in the right side of the body
of the plane. I tried to access MSNBC as soon as a colleague told me about
the crash and I heard something about the jets having not been scrambled,
but then the network choked up on me, so I do not know what this was in
reference to. The BBC is reporting a military plane circling the crash site,
but that the Pentagon says they had no indication of any problems with the
plane before it crashed. The airbus was headed to Santa Domingo, so it was
full of fuel. Several buildings on the ground are on fire. The crash site is
a heavily populated residential part of Queens."

World War III Report, # 7

Nov. 10, 2001

Bill Weinberg

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

7.5 MILLION LIVES IN THE BALANCE

Aid organizations continued to issue urgent calls for a halt in the US bombing of Afghanistan so food and supplies can be delivered before winter, warning that millions of lives are at risk. They again protested that the US ration drops are only complicating matters.

Facing harsh criticism, the Pentagon plans to change the yellow packaging on the food drops which have caused confusion with yellow-cased cluster bombs, Newsday reported Nov. 2. "It is unfortunate that the cluster bombs, the unexploded ones, are the same color as the food packets," said Gen. Richard Myers, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, the change could take a while, because 2 million rations were already produced in the yellow packages. Half of these have already been dropped. Oxfam protests again that the Pentagon should leave aid to the aid agencies. "It just points up the confusion created when we mix military and humanitarian approaches," said Oxfam America president Ray Offenheiser.

Here's a mainstream article that might inspire you to COME TO OTTAWA FROM
NOV. 16-18th!!

They say that they expect 5,000 protesters. Let's prove them wrong and
surprise the Ottawa Police with 20,000.

It's time to take a stand again.....no more hiding behind "vigils".

SEE YOU THERE

please forward....

Anarchists vow to shut down G-20, others pledge peaceful protests
By DENNIS BUECKERT

OTTAWA (CP) - Anarchists are threatening to shut down the G-20 meeting which
opens in Ottawa next Friday, and protest organizers are preparing for the
possibility of arrests and injuries. While most protest groups say they are
committed to peaceful tactics, some anarchists are striking a more militant
tone.

"We propose that we attempt to shut down the IMF/WB/G-20 meetings as well as
we can, by snake marching militantly through the downtown core of Ottawa,"
says a Toronto group called The Black Touta.