Indybay and ECR's breaking news reports from 3/19/2005

3/19 7:41pm
All 9 who were arrested have been released. Reports of injuries from pain compliance. 8:00 gathering has apparently been called off

3/19 6:30pm
Indybay has recieved a report of a reconvergence of the breakaway at 4:30pm at Height and Fillmore. 60-80 people marched to Buena Vista park chanting "while you're shopping bombs are dropping". Property damage at Gap and McDonalds. No arrests. There has been a call for jail solidarity at 850 Bryant at 8pm for the 9 arrested at the 14th and Valencia lockdown.
3/19 4:45pm
NLG Legal Support reports that a total of nine protesters were arrested at 14th and Valencia. Witnesses of this incident with photo or video have been asked to contact the NLG at (415) 285-1011.
3/19 4:05pm
Nine of those who were sitting in the intersection have now been arrested by a combination of SFPD, and CHP. Since the protesters were taken away in a Sherif's Dept van its assumed they were taken to 850 Bryant.
3/19 4:00pm
The police are using pain compliance to break apart the people sitting in the intersection. The first person arrested was not allowed to get his glasses out of his bag before being thrown into the police van.
3/19 3:50pm
After marching around South of Market, around 100 protesters with the breakaway march are trapped on the sidewalk near 14th and Valencia. 14 people have sat down in the middle of the inetrsection.
3/19 3:15pm
Breakaway march has left Civic Center.
3/19 1:20pm
SF: Most of the march has arrived at the Civic Center. Speakers including Tom Ammiano and Danny Glover demand a US withdrawal from Iraq and a less militaristic US approach to the world.
3/19 12:25pm
SF: Thousands of spirited protesters trickle out of park for march to Civic Center. No incidents with police at this time. Live reports being called in via cellphone on Enemy Combatant Radio (from demos in SF, the Central Valley, and as far away as Alabama and Pennsylvania). Bright Path Video is attempting a roving broadcast of the march on the move from their live webcam.
3/19 11am
SF: Various contingents of protesters gather at Dolores Park. Speakers on large stage relay information on struggles for liberation all over the world, such as movements in the Philippines. Nurses, teachers, and various other labor groups assemble at tennis courts and rail against anti-labor policies of Schwarzenegger in California and Bush nationally.
3/19 8am
Breaking protest news is starting to be reported on the Chicago Indymedia site. Their radio stream is now live.
3/19/2005 7am
Protesters have already taken to the streets of Tokyo, Istanbul, Copenhagen, London, Bombay, Lahore, Rome, Ankara, Athens, Brasilia, Glasgow and many other cities around the world demanding an end to the US occupation of Iraq. Photos.
3/18/2005 10:30pm Photos of Arrests from anti-war protest in Aukland, New Zealand.
3/18/2005 evening An anti-war vigil was held in Reedley, a rural community about 35 miles Southeast of Fresno. Photos
3/18/2005 6:30pm-8:30 pm Anti-War activists met the evening commute on I-80 with 50 ft. anti-war banners. Photos
3/18/2005 Pictures from anti-war protest in Melbourne, Australia.
3/18/2005 Video from anti-war vigil at C.S.U. Fresno.
3/18/2005 6:30am-8:30am A dozen Not In Our Name activists displayed banners over Interstate 80, Freeway 580 and in front of the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. Photos