This event started peacefully enough at Liverpool Street Station. Large numbers of people took over the station and danced to tribal drum beats. After a while the group of people which was rapidly growing in size advanced upon an unsuspecting London.

Streets were quickly shut down. No traffic - just a huge party it seemed. Before long though, the police started to step up. After seeing the police reverse a van into a huge group of people, and run people over repeatedly I was pretty outraged by their silly antics. We were even more outraged
when we found out that this was the third time in less than half an hour that the police had run someone over.

It was hardly surprising that things did turn nasty. However, most of the protest was pretty peaceful, with large groups of people sitting in the middle of roads and preventing any traffic from advancing.

Later, Reclaim the Streets managed to set up a soundsystem in the Life-Building Car Park. This was a pretty chilled out occaision with no trouble - until the police decided to try and move people on again.

This proved a costly mistake, as a huge group of around 10,000 people descended on the City street, broke into NatWest, the Treasury, the Bank of England and various other offices like a Mercedez garage and McDonalds.

All of these properties were damaged - simply because the police wanted to interfere in a dangerous and undemocratic way with an anarchic demostration and street party. The police just couldn't resist trying to pop out of every side street - to be greeted by a barrage of missiles. These ranged from bottles and cans to huge boulders.

We know that the police *had* to make their presence felt in some way or another, but to surround a crowd with hundreds of police vans, with a whole army of arrogant, thick-headed and violent riot-gear-clad policemen, is not the way to do things. I bet the police give medals for acting brutishly during this type of so called illegal protest, instead of getting a good reprimand, or even, SHOCK-HORROR, the sack or a prison sentence.

We were appalled by the BBC reports of the event. The violence that ZZ saw caused exclusively by the Police being arrogant, violent and very, very intimidating. We saw people (innocent bystanders - not even protestors) get attacked at the very beginning by out-of-order police officers. We saw a police van reverse at speed through the crowd and injure people. ZZ will gladly give evidence against the police if the person injured contacts us.

ZZ does not support the BBC. If the BBC reads this report, it can personally be blamed for personal boycots against their propaganda and dumbing down. They did not highlight the causes or the reasons behind the protests, in particular failing to mention the hundreds of thousands who marched against corporate control around the world. The BBC wholeheartedly failed to report at all in fact. They need a good ear bashing by the television commission.

The fact that three paedophile protesters in Nottingham Prison got more air-time than the thousands who brought London to its knees seems to beg belief. Also, the fact that the BBC would not have reported on the protest if it had not been for violence seems to highlight the fact that the BBC, and the media at large, is partially to blame for any pre-meditated violence which may have occured.