Evening Roundup: PROTESTS – September 7, 2007

Links to coverage of the APEC 2007 protests in Sydney this week from media around the Pacific rim.

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Sydney Morning Herald

First APEC arrest's a real sauce
Edmund Tadros

Police have made their first protester arrest in Sydney's Hyde Park this afternoon after a man squirted tomato sauce on a pro-US banner. LINK

G20 accused faces extradition
David Braithwaite

A Melbourne man wanted on 16 charges relating to the G20 summit will be extradited after his arrest in Sydney by a NSW police APEC squad yesterday. LINK

ABC News Online

Activists clash over Bush in Sydney

There have been angry scenes in Sydney's Hyde Park, where supporters of US President George W Bush have confronted anti-APEC protesters. LINK

Inymedia Sydney

Police Blacklist to be Defied by Activists

Four of the Sydney people on the Police Security Blacklist last night challenged the list as unconstitutional, but their legal arguments were rejected by the NSW Court of Appeal, sitting in an extraordinary evening session. Despite losing the legal argument, the four men - Dan Jones, Paddy Gibson, Dan Robbins and Tim Davis-Frank - have declared they will defy the ban and participate in Saturday's anti-war march by the Stop Bush Coalition. LINK

APEC Security Savaged by Satirists

It took just a few minutes for a satirical skit by comedians to pierce the $250 million Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation meeting security coccoon in Sydney on Thursday. With three black cars, a couple of motorbikes and men in black running alongside, the motorcade breezed through two police security checkpoints arriving outside the Intercontinental Hotel where US President George Bush is staying. LINK

Greenpeace

Massive NSW coal mine approved = climate chaos

The Iemma Government yesterday approved the new 10million ton per year Moolarben coal mine in the Hunter Valley. It is a climate disaster. When built, the mine will emit millions of tons of greenhouse pollution, and makes further mockery of this government’s claims to take climate change seriously. LINK

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