Fences and Windows by Naomi Klein

Author:Naomi Klein [Klein, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-36653-5
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2002-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

III

FENCING IN THE MOVEMENT: CRIMINALIZING DISSENT

In which copious quantities of gas are inhaled,

friends are thrown into vans by cops dressed as

anarchists, and a boy dies in Genoa

Cross-Border Policing

Law enforcement officials swap intimidation tricks

May 2000

“We have learned the lessons of Seattle and Washington,” RCMP Constable Michèle Paradis tells me on the cellphone from Windsor. She is in charge of media relations for the meeting of the Organization of American States that is coming to Windsor, Ontario, this weekend, where she will be joined by a few thousand protesters who object to the OAS’s plans to expand NAFTA into all of Latin America and the Caribbean.

“And what were those lessons?” I ask.

“I’m afraid I can’t answer that,” she says.

This is unfortunate, because there are any number of lessons that the Canadian police could have learned about how to treat protesters in the wake of the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and the demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. In the absence of any elaboration from Constable Paradis, here are the key lessons the Mounties appear to have learned from their colleagues to the south.

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