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IMF Thuggery at Kings College Cambridge: VIDEO + PIC

Cambridge Anima | 11.04.2010 00:21 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | Cambridge | World

Security goons attack students and Cambridge people protesting the IMF!

Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKnmVJaUefQ

Banner Drop - Pic Nicked from The Huffington Post
Banner Drop - Pic Nicked from The Huffington Post


Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKnmVJaUefQ

On Saturday 10th April 2010, protesters sent a message to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who was giving a speech at the inaugural conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) conference in Kings College, Cambridge.

A banner was successfully dropped behind the platform where Strauss-Kahn was delivering his address reading 'IMF part of the Problem not the Solution'.

Other protesters attempted to enter the conference hall to get the message across that IMF's corporate 'solutions' are unwelcome, however they were violently removed. Security goons made no attempt to ask protesters, who were all lawfully on site, to leave but instead attacked them.

Campaigners were pushed aggressively and dangerously on stone staircases and a goon head-butted a young protester, unfortunately this only lead to the goon's own head bleeding.

This is a good illustration of the true nature of corporate thugs, like the IMF. The truth behind their respectable façade is that they are nothing more than an anti-social menace destroying and taking for their own gain while the majority of the world suffers.

Another report from the day can be found at
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/448864.html
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back to the future

11.04.2010 00:42

Nice action. Reminds of the early days of Indymedia....  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2001/09/10543.html

Good to keep up the pressure on the IMF and WB!

Krop


Irreparable Monetary Farce!

11.04.2010 01:23

Good action here people!

Didn't know this was happening, and you are right re: YouTube vid, they were illegally detaining you, as Proctors and security gaurds do not have legal powers to imprison anyone, although bizarrely under English law they could make a citizens' arrest (I'm assuming they didn't exercise this power)!

As for the bovver boys who roughed you up, well so much for the IMF coming to Cambridge for some good PR and the frankly transparent attempt to earn kudos by hosting an event in an Oxbridge town - it all backfired, didn't it?
;-)

That'll teach 'em!!

Infamous Mutha Funka


nice one...

11.04.2010 22:43

and good you all kept calm, and were unflustererd by the security.

westcider


Good banner, excellently dropped, a solution?

12.04.2010 07:50

Nice work but what is the solution?.. Try this?  http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

"Imagine a world without war, poverty, misery or money. Imagine a world where all people work together in a spirit of cooperation and not competition. Imagine this safer saner world and you are closer to understanding what the Zeitgeist Movement is about."

 http://www.thezeitgeistmovementuk.com/

Peace LOUD!

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