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Such a conclusion is hard to reach from media coverage of the Forum. U.S. coverage was unfriendly, but the New York Times on Nov. 10 managed to capture an important nugget of truth overlooked by a more sympathetic European press. The Times led with discussion of pre-emptive border controls and precautionary measures to defend Michelangelo’s David but faltered over the anti-climactic facts of the day. There were no arrests; there was no “serious violence.” Pairing anti-climax with sarcasm, the Times reports: “[a female protestor] used...
Likewise, Florence was populated by progressives of every conceivable stripe. There were splits and negotiations: the anti-hierarchical groups created their own space on the outskirts of the Forum, which mirrored a tension between the “old guard” who were doing much of the speaking and the overwhelming youthfulness of the conference. Tensions occasionally came to a head: during the forum on gender, the panel of distinguished women began a traditional litany of demands only to find themselves heckled by younger women who exclaimed “How progressive is subsidized childcare if it means that...
...attributed the peacefulness of Florence to a new commitment from European police forces and Forum organizers to cooperatively weed-out the infamous “Black Bloc” and “ensure that troublemakers did not infiltrate the march for peace.” There is a sense that Europe is over the Genoa bump. But the violence in Genoa was not solely the work of a few agent provocateurs. There is a nastier calculus at work when half-a-million civilians try to stop a meeting defended by 10,000 military police...
...strategy and networking session for a new European left. Fifty-five thousand people from 88 countries gathered for five days of multi-lingual debate attempting to articulate their new-found unity. They continued a conversation sparked by Genoa and formalized at this spring’s World Social Forum in Brazil. The expectation of violence lay in the mischaracterization of the gathering as a “no-global” action. The people were the same. So were the slogans. But the purpose at hand was new: craft a positive vision. Un’ altra Europa è possibile...
...said that by cutting financial backing to the station, Stavis is threatening the media’s ability to provide a forum for debate on Israeli government policy...