“Pfft!”
That’s the sound of the fizzling out of G-20 protests one year after Toronto.
In swanky Cannes, home of Botox film festival attendees, there were no chants, no photos of activists on the rampage at France’s G-20 summit, which wraps up today.
Media reports indicate that one protester gathering against ‘corporate sponsoring’ drew a paltry total of only five participants.
A dramatic contrast to the June, 2010 G-20 summit in Toronto.
“The 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests began one week ahead of the summit of the leaders of the G-20 on June 26 and 27 in Toronto. Protests included demonstrations, rallies, marches, as well as a destructive riot that broke out on June 26 which caused vandalism to several businesses in Downtown Toronto. A reported 1118 people were arrested in relation to the protests, the largest mass arrests in Canadian history.” (Wikipedia).
It’s not as if protesters hadn’t planned to grab news headlines in France.
They’d been planning an “anti-G-20” summit, hoping to dodge French gendarmes in nearby Nice for the past year.
The No-Show Protest in Cannes is going down with little mainstream media attention.
Where have all the G-20 protesters gone? No need to hire Sherlock Holmes to track them down.
They’ve gone to ground in hundreds of city parks and with media blessings G-20 protesters have gone OWS.
In other words, thousands of activists with the means to travel to some of the world’s toniest places, have failed as miserably as the G-20 leaders whose goal it is to save a faltering world economy.
There is little difference between some of the martini-sipping G-20 leaders and the group that always showed up to loudly protest them. As far as the leaders are concerned, there’s no such thing as Go To Meeting software when canape and champagne are footed by their unasked taxpayers.
As far as their protesters are concerned, they like to point out that many non-government organizations (Maurice Strong founded NGOs) are now part of the stakeholders and decision-making process at G summits, and they scored claimable ‘brownie points’ by convincing the G-20 in Cannes to think seriously about the notion of a tax on financial transactions.
Protesters should check in with average people struggling against the economy to save homes and jobs. They know enough to never believe the promises of politicians.
No one will ever write the Requiem of the Failed G-20 activists because their story is still being written in the takeover of city parks to further the Marxist process called Class Warfare.
OWS work with little if any interference from government authorities to bring down the free enterprise system.
It’s a lot more fun being the de facto campaign team to re-elect Barack Hussein Obama.
In places like Cannes, protesters had to face off some 12,000 extra police whose job it is to keep public peace around the G-20 summit. In parks like Zuccotti, they get a free ride from the media and get to keep the rapes taking place on OWS grounds internal.
G-20 activists have left off pretending to protest world leaders and have moved into squat mode in the the backyards of ordinary people who can no longer safely use their own city parks.
Judi McLeod——Bio and Archives
-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
