G20 Anti-capitalist protesters take to French Riviera 01.11.11

Protesters from Germany, Spain and Italy have been arriving since Monday at the "Old Abattoir" cultural centre where a "People's Summit" is to be held in parallel to the summit of Group of 20 leaders in Cannes on Thursday and Friday.

"We refuse to give the powerful the right to impose their solutions on crises that they created. Alternative paths exist," said pamphlets distributed by the organisers of the protest march on the Mediterranean city's outskirts.

Nice police said they had arrested three Spanish men on the city's renowned Promenade des Anglais seafront in possession of "bolts, mountaineering axes, balaclavas and gas masks" ahead of the march.

Interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said the men had T-shirts and badges with "Black Cross" written on them, which he said meant they might be part of the militant Black Bloc protest movement.

Cannes itself is to be locked down during the summit, with protesters kept a safe distance away from the world leaders -- around 30 kilometres (20 miles) down the Mediterranean coast -- in Nice.

Groups including environmental advocates Greenpeace, Attac, the Human Rights League and anti-racism organisations are organising the march that is to begin around 1400 GMT, along with other environmental and left-wing groups.

Around 2,500 extra police have been drafted in to deal with the protest that organisers hope will draw 10,000 people.

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[whyyesyes]

It's fascism, not capitalism. The wicked clique use the market as a weapon.

Those aren't cops, btw, it's a foreign invading army.

[pgthinker007]

I think they are confused...

These guys should protest against socialism, not capitalism.

I love capitalism:-)