The DC Independed Media Center

The DC Independed Media Center welcome team has posted a schedule of S29-related events including workshops and conferences leading up to a weekend of peace rallies and marches taking place in lieu of the IMF/World Bank protests. I’d like to recommend an activity that should be relatively safe, but after Genoa I don’t think it would be responsible to take a guess. March organizers were denied a permit as far as I can tell, and, although I would expect the black blocs to behave, it’s anybody’s guess whether the provocateurs will be out and what police will be prepared to do to protestors (“We’re going to go [to the protest] and take care of business: kill, kill, kill,” said one cop). I am torn up by the fact that I fear my baby boy would not be safe at a peace march, but there you go.