(last) Year In Review: G20

More stuff I didn't post last year. I had tons of pictures from the G20 (click the tag below) so naturally some of them didn't get posted.


Joe Kennedy, citizen journalist


Nice cameras


Dumbasses

Empty Downtown.

Downtown, G20 thursday.

G20

Tibet, guarded. Got to love that freedom of speech.


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Pictures from the G20. I was only there for one day of it, I was in philly for the weekend. What I saw was benign enough, with a little teargas action and seeing the whole city in complete lock down was not TOO bad. After I left things had got a little out of hand and if you can get a pretty good idea of it on Joe's blog. What really worried me though was the police themselves. There were riot police everywhere and alot of innocent people got arrested during the mass confusion in Oakland, and I couldnt help but feel like the police got a bit out of hand and really abused their awfully absolute power.

I keep thinking back to this Zimbardo psychology experiment.

I cant help but think that with riot gear, gas masks covering their faces and batons, the police just went on a complete power trip. Exercising their control in the sickest way possible; really, shooting a kid in the face with a pellet gun doesnt make you a man. Some photographers were forced to delete some of their pictures, some were even arrested.








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72 Hours of G20

The above video was shot by my roommate Joe. He was transcribing(?) his experiences of the G20 on his phone, and when that died on a notebook, and then later on his iPod.. He's written it all up on wonderful blog post that I recommend you read, its very interesting and gives you a great insight into some of the events.

Read his post "72 hours of G20" here

G20:Free Tibet

Probably my new favourite picture

I was only in Pittsburgh for one day of the G20. Even though i saw one of the smaller riots, I missed the big ones over the weekend. Im kinda really mad about alot of stuff that happened, and ill get to that in a future post.

For now, here are pictures from the Free Tibet demonstration.