A-Infos (en) US, NY, ABC Nightline Cancels special on group organizing to protest WEF

["P-Luck" <pluck@dojo.tao.ca>]

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ABC Nightline has decided not to run a potentially sympathetic piece it had 
prepared on a group of protesters organizing against the World Economic Forum 
in NYC. The Group of anarchist oriented protesters, despite strong 
misgivings, had bent over backwards to work weeks in advance with ABC, 
granting hours of interviews and discussions with two different producers and 
camera crews, demonstrating medic and direct action trainings, and allowing 
ABC to film them at the demo. 

Among the reasons cited by ABC Nightline producer Ted Gerstein is that there 
was not enough of what the corporate media likes to call "violence" at the 
demonstration. Ted acknowledged that the actions taken by ABC sends a strong 
message to protesters that you're "damned if you do and damned if you don't." 
ABC is a member of the World Economic Forum, and has been widely criticized 
for sending in undercover reporters to videotape protesters' meetings. 

Additionally, members of the group ABC was filming were targetted 
specifically by the police. Despite the fact that ABC was supposed to be 
following the group, they were not on hand to video tape any of the arrests. 
Eyewitness accounts, and an IMC video, shows those targetted for arrest were 
not engaged in any confrontational or disobedient act at the time of arrest. 

The producers involved expressed regret that the higher ups at ABC cancelled 
the special, but are unlikely to stand up against ABC. 

You can call the producers to voice your outrage / disapointment, or better 
yet tell ABC to fuck off when they attempt to cover future anti-corporate 
globalization events. And if they ever attempt to infiltrate another one of 
our meetings, I reccomend that we confiscate and destroy their equipment! 

PRODUCERS NUMBERS
Ted: Work: 212-456-2583, Cell 917-881-7593 
Phil: cell: 202-258-0127 



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Salutations Libertaires
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