Here, I’ll let y’all have a crack at ‘em:

Queens ‘Tin Can’ Anarchist Held One Pound of Liquid Mercury

Since mercury is liquid at room temperature, freezes around -40 °C and boils above 350 °C, one wonders what the point of stressing “liquid” here is… unless it was a rather unseasonable day in Queens.

And then:

Donald Douglas: All Dumb is Liberal

I could swear I’m being called dumb there. Unclear. I feel dumb for not updating my “about” page lately, but whatever.

Go get ‘em, tigers.

Another Anarchist who was largely responsible for organizing the riot from Twitter was Mike Gogulski of nostate.com. A self-described, “Future stateless person,” Gogulski is an unabashed anarchist who no longer lives or works in the U.S. but has vowed to overthrow the current system of society. Through Twitter on his cellphone he was able to coordinate fellow protesters’ movements by tweeting where police officers were, where they were going, and what they were planning to do. Anyone who wanted to see these tweets just had to look at a feed entitled “#resistg20.”

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed possible to exhibit astounding levels of cluelessness by picking up a few scattered bits of information, and then doing your own little paint-by-numbers in between.

For Peter’s benefit, I’ll point out a few things wrong with what he wrote:

Rioting policeman assaults citizen at G20 protest in Pittsburgh. Photo by Foo Conner.

• The “riots” were almost entirely police riots. With the exception of some property damage (reported to have been largely caused by a single person), nearly all of the violence was either committed or instigated by police. No shock here. Protest is now a national security threat.
• I don’t have a “cellphone”. We call them “mobile phones” over here in Slovakia.
• I wasn’t a protester.
• I don’t do vows.
• I’m already a stateless person.
• I don’t know anyone who was involved in the protests.
• If I’ve ever been to Pittsburgh, it was only because the city was en route to someplace else.

What I was doing for a large number of hours was monitoring a Pittsburgh-area police/fire/EMS radio scanner linked up to an internet audio feed, and then repeating information I heard there to Twitter. For example:

• # (scanner) “All TAC Teams: Meet @ 5th & Oakland Ave” #resistg20 #g20 6:14 AM Sep 26th
• # Corrected: (scanner) arrest reported at Bouquet and Forbes #g20 #resistg20 6:13 AM Sep 26th
• # (scanner) arrest reported at (uncopy) and Forbes #g20 #resistg20 6:13 AM Sep 26th
• # (scanner) “hammer and anvil up on tennyson … clear the tower” #g20 #resistg20 6:10 AM Sep 26th
• # (scanner) one SWAT commander called “Oscar Mike”, code for “off air, in action for a while” http://bit.ly/2h2or4 #g20 #resistg20 6:08 AM Sep 26th
• # (scanner) “Waiting for booking team for 9 people now” (loc unknown) #g20 #resistg20 6:05 AM Sep 26th
• # (scanner) “Large crowd forming at Oakland and Forbes” “Bringing LRAD down for dispersal” #g20 #resistg20 6:01 AM Sep 26th

And so on. Some of these tweets were picked up by others on the #resistg20 hashtag and who had followed me, and repeated to others, some of whom may have been subscribing to their tweets or hashtags via their mobile, er, cell phones.

Who knows what effect any of this had. Hopefully, getting information on police movements, plans and locations out via Twitter to a few folks on the scene helped some avoid getting gassed, beaten, subjected to head-splitting sonic weapons emissions and/or arrested.

How’s that Obama-charged hope working out for you?

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Twitter users to follow: @g20actionalert, @resistg20. Hashtags: #resistg2o, #reportg20

Live streaming police/fire/EMS G-20 ops radio traffic from Pittsburgh area here.

G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh 24 September 2009

Resistg20 organizing hub, comms hub. (Lovely, one of their Twitter accounts has been suppressed)

Recent tweets from @resistg20:

1. 40 cops, w/ bus, headed towards friendship park #resistg20

2. From #Pittsburgh to #Greece, fuck the police.

3. A comms facility was raided, but we are still fully operational please continue to submit reports #resistg20

4. RT @heidilore: RT @resistg20 37th and butler, police deployed smoke and gas #resistg20 #g20

5. denny and liberty has 200 protesters rallying #resistg20 #g20

6. Standoff with pigs #resistg20

7. 37th and butler, police deployed smoke and gas #resistg20 #g20

8. TEAR GAS

9. police threatening chemical dispersal at 38th and liberty #resistg20

10. police have given a dispersal order at 36th and liberty and no can hear the order #resistg20 #g20

11. g20pgh: police have given a dispersal order at 36th and liberty and no can hear the order

12. march heading south on 39th #resistg20 #g20

13. no way to get from “strip district” to downtown. use 16th st bridge #resistg20

14. Water cannons on lm38th and liberty. Be careful #resistg20

15. Please remember to Call in your reports to 412-567-1420 as we are having trouble receiving sms. Good luck out there! #resistg20

16. student march has ended at arsenal park #resistg20 #g20

17. student march is making a left onto liberty, police helicopter overhead and cops on the streets watching #resistg20 #g20

18. student march is making a left onto liberty, police helicopter over head and cops on the streets #students and #workers SHUT THE CITY DOWN

19. Police are staging at 21st and smallman near arsenal park #resistg20

20. police staging at 21st and smallman near arsenal park #resistg20 #g20