Protests against summit draw 3,000

[Robbien]

By BEATA PASEK

Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland - About 3,000 anti-globalization activists marched Thursday against a European economic summit, protesting capitalism, unemployment and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Police barriers kept protesters several hundred yards away from the hotel where hundreds of business and political leaders, including some 20 heads of state or government, attended the second day of a conference on the future of the expanded European Union. No arrests were reported.

Banners read "Capitalism Kills, Let's Kill Capitalism," "Shut Down the Summit of Unemployment, War and Corruption, "Away with Global U.S. Terror," and "No Blood For Oil." Many protested the U.S.-led war and occupation in Iraq, which the Polish government has supported by sending troops.

"I think it's a shame that Poland participates in this war, and it's a shame that our society is so sleepy that it doesn't protest against the terror," said student Alek Kocon, 20.

The European Economic Summit is organized by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, which anti-globalization groups view as an exclusive club representing the rich.

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[Joanne98]

1. Anti-globalization and Iraq war protests merge

This is their worst fucking nightmare. In Poland no less. We're off to the races now. There's no turning back. :)