With coloured chalk, black spray paint and bellicose chanting, anti-globalization activists were able to deliver their slogans yesterday with little interference from police or grammar school teachers.
Here's a sample of what was seen and heard around the capital:
Signs and Graffiti:
- "Yankee go home" -- chalk graffiti outside U.S. embassy
- "Little brother is watching back" -- outside U.S. embassy
- "We will not be White maled" -- protest sign
- "Feed Bush more pretzels" -- outside U.S. embassy
- "Privitisation (sic) = exploitation" -- on construction barricade
- "The G-Hate sucks ... the entire world" -- banner with image of G8 vacuum cleaner sucking globe
- "McDeath" -- on bordered up Elgin St. McDonald's
Chants:
- "Bush is a terrorist!" -- outside U.S. embassy
- "1-2-3-4 ... we don't want your fascist war!" -- outside U.S. embassy
- "1-2-3-4 ... this is class war ... 5-6-7-8 shut down the G8!" -- outside the U.S. Embassy
- "Whose streets? Our streets!" -- during snake march
- "The people, united, can never be defeated" -- chanted in English, French and Spanish
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