The latest "anti-poverty" protest tactics:
Anti-Olympic activists trashed the premier's downtown offices yesterday, protesting the evictions of poor people from the Downtown Eastside for the 2010 Games.
They trashed the reception area, and the office of the premier's chief of staff, Laura Dauphinee, but did not get into Premier Gordon Campbell's inner sanctum or reach the office of Ken Dobell, one of the targets of the protest.
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After trashing several rooms, but not the downtown cabinet room, the protesters sat down on the floor awaiting police.
"There was a lot of furniture overturned, a fax machine damaged, a number of ornaments and pottery that has been smashed," Chow said."The two staff members were visibly shaken. They were frightened for their safety."
This article brought back memories of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) protests of the late 1990s. These people went to such lows as to throw a slab of concrete through a Queen's Park window and to cut the hamstring of a police horse to frustrate the cops.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:17 PM
