From Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper
Most of the messages G20 summit protesters wanted to get out may have been hijacked by a few hundred thugs bent on smashing windows and torching cars.
Ole Woody Guthrie
But social activist and writer Naomi Klein was at least able to get a column in The Globe and Mail this June 28, talking about how unwilling the G20 leaders did to control bankers and other financial institutions that played such a major role in causing the latest global recession.
Coincidently enough, and just a few days prior to the June26/27 summit, CBC Radio’s The Current interviewed American folk singers Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger about protest songs fitting for events such as this.
During the interview, Arlo Guthrie read the following lines written by his father, the late folk-singing legend Woody Guthrie, more than half a century ago but in too many ways, still just as relevant today. They read as follows; “I never stopped to think about it before, but you know a police man will just stand there and let a banker rob a farmer or a finance man rob a working man. But if a farmer robs a banker, you would have a whole darn army of cops out shooting at him. Robbery is a chapter in etiquette.”
Meanwhile you can read the Naomi Klein column by clicking on the following link – http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/opinion/sticking-the-public-with-the-bill-for-the-bankers-crisis/article1620729/ .
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