NOW Online Edition From the Summit of the Americas, Tooker Gomberg reports for NOW magazine in this exclusive online feature. Couldn't go and check out the Summit for yourself? Now you can see and hear what went on through Gomberg's eyes.

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Thursday night we hopped aboard a Mob4Glob (Mobilization for Global Justice) bus bound for Quebec City, arriving early Friday morning in time to join the mass march downtown. It was festive and peaceful ... until we confronted the infamous fence.

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The fence comes down and Canada goes to war with its own people.

 
 
 

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A lively Prison Support Camp was set up outside the Orsainville Jail.

 
 
 

More Summit news and reports from NOW magazine:

  • Showdown on the Rez (NOW - April 18, 2001, vol. 20 issue33)
  • The Riot Was a Gas (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • Rough Justice (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • Tooker Taken (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • Singh's Risk (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • NDP Appalled (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • Local Action (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • They've Grown Up (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • Pals Share the Taste of Tear Gas (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • Thank God for a Riot (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • Danger Power (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)
  • La Belle Protest (NOW - April 25, 2001, vol. 20 issue34)

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