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  • G20 A lone protester carries a placard featuring the image of Burma/Myanmar's imprisoned Suu Kyi in a plea for leaders to commit to action on democracy in the isolated nation.  During the summit, with the limits on freedom of movement and speech Toronto appeared closer to the repression of home.
    G20 Protester Demands Remember Burma.jpg
  • G20 An officer bars a man from heading home down Spadina during the G20 summit because he lacks identification with his address.  Frustration runs high.
    G20 Police Line Identification Pleas...jpg
  • G20 Toronto has become a ghostly city of barricades a week ahead of the Group of Twenty Summit as Front Street is ribboned in heavy metal fencing.
    G20 Toronto City of Barricades Royal...JPG
  • G20 A Lone Woman Walks the Front Street Perimeter of the Group of Twenty summit security fence.  Piles of uncollected garbage accumulate in front of Union Station.
    G20 Lone Woman Walks Fenced Front St...JPG
  • G20 Protest A sign outlines the requirements and restrictions involved when approaching the Group of Twenty summit's Security Fence.  No mention is made of the infamous five metre rule which alleged that police had the right to arrest anyone approaching within five metres of the fence and refusing to provide identification.  Ultimately, this widely circulated media story proved a complete falsehood.
    G20 Protest Security Fence Restricti...jpg
  • G20 Refuse Resist Recycle.  Paranoia carried the day and saw the removal of garbage and recycling receptacles from all areas of downtown in the immediate vicinity of the Group of Twenty summit, and replaced by clear plastic bags.  Not exactly handy, but then there wasn't anyone around.
    G20 Refuse Resist Recycle.JPG
  • G20 Protest A procession of riot police boots and batons moves down Toronto's Bay Street towards the Financial District during the Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest Riot Police March Boots.jpg
  • G20 Protest Riot Police form a phalanx in front of a hot dog cart, killing business.  The flipside is that the officers endured brutally long shifts, minimal breaks, and pretty grim-looking rations.
    G20 Riot Police and Hot Dog Sales.jpg
  • Toronto's G20 Protest boasted almost as many photographers as protesters. It became hard to tell them apart.  Cameras are aiming to a solitary sit-in protester in front of Much Music on Queen Street.
    G20 Protest Cameras.jpg
  • Bicycle Police block a mass of protesters from the strip of University Avenue in front of the United States Consulate.
    G20 Protest Behind Police Lines.jpg
  • G20 Toronto has become a city of barricades a week ahead of the Group of Twenty Summit as Front Street is ribboned in heavy metal fencing.
    G20 Toronto City of Barricades Front...JPG
  • G20 Toronto has become a ghostly city of barricades a week ahead of the Group of Twenty Summit as Front Street is ribboned in heavy metal fencing.
    G20 Toronto City of Barricades Front...JPG
  • G20 Toronto has become a ghostly city of barricades a week ahead of the Group of Twenty Summit as York Street is ribboned in heavy metal fencing.
    G20 Toronto City of Barricades Traff...JPG
  • G20 The American and Canadian Flags are faintly visible behind the heavy metal mesh of the Group of Twenty Security Fence. Stars and Stripes and Maple Leaves.
    G20 Stars and Stripes and Maple Leav...JPG
  • G20 Gates Fences Barricades -- the intersection of York and Front Streets is virtually empty a week ahead of the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 Gates Fences Barricades York and...JPG
  • G20 Front Street restaurant the Loose Moose feels penned in by the Group of Twenty security fence.  Little discussion has been given to how business owners and their employees will be compensated for the costs associated with declining traffic and shutdowns during the summit.
    G20 Fenced In Not So Loose Moose.JPG
  • G20 Royal Canadian Mounted Riot Police March Wielding Billy Clubs Down Bay Street Aiming to quell a gathering of peaceful protesters in the Financial District.
    G20 Royal Canadian Mounted Riot Poli...jpg
  • G20 Protest A Riot Police Officer offers the conciliatory Peace Sign gesture from behind his riot shield, while protecting storefronts.
    G20 Riot Police Offer Peace Sign.jpg
  • G20 Protest  Police officers gather around a damaged police car attacked by anarchist protesters as it followed the end of the Labour-organized Group of Twenty summit protest migrating along Toronto's Queen Street.
    G20 First Police Car Attacked.jpg
  • G20 Tibet Protest Against Chinese human Rights Violations and Occupation.  The local community turns out in force to draw attention to Chinese attrocities in their homeland.
    G20 Tibet Protest Against Chinese hu...jpg
  • G20 Protest Riot Police Break out the Big Toys.  A riot officer brandishes a tear gas gun while others have bands of zip ties at the ready for mass arrests.
    G20 Protest Riot Police Toys 2 Tear ...jpg
  • G20 Toronto riot police stand on guard for Tim Horton's doughnut franchise, blocking access to the Toronto Convention Centre.  Stop means STOP.
    G20 Riot Police Guard Tim Horton's.jpg
  • G20 Protest 'Not in Our Name' s placard proclaims hoisted well above the summit protesters.
    G20 Protest Not In Our Name.jpg
  • G20 Protester Led Away US Consulate Arrest.  Regular and riot police lead an elder heckler away, making an arrest at the United States consulate during Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protester Led Away US Consulate ...jpg
  • G20 RCMP Riot Police Stand ready, manning barricades protecting the United States' Consulate during summit protests.
    G20 Protest Riot Police Wave Billy C...jpg
  • Burqa-clad women beg with their children alongside a dusty road near Balk, ashort distance from Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.
    Afghanistan Balkh Burqa-clad Women B...JPG
  • A sample of the embroidery that distinguishes the quality between burqas, offering a curious "fashion sense" to dress which is intended to ensure modesty.  More current versions reveal the legs in the front, with a pleated drape flowing to the rear.
    Afghanistan Burqa Shop Reveals a Sen...JPG
  • A Group of Twenty Spirit Banner catches the wind from a lamp post in front of the Royal York Hotel, but there are precious few out downtown to see it behind the security fencing.
    G20 Spirit Banner on the Royal York ...JPG
  • G20 A pair of videographers take to Front Street readying to report on the security fence construction, and the absence of people a week prior to the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 Videographers Readying To Report.JPG
  • G20 Police Barricades are stacked on a trailer in front of the United States Consulate on University Avenue a week before the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 United States Consulate Police B...JPG
  • G20 Protest A trio of protesters produce identification taunting police to allow them to approach the Group of Twenty summit's Security Fence.  The infamous five metre rule which alleged that police had the right to arrest anyone approaching within five metres of the fence who refused to provide identification -- widely circulated in the media -- proved a complete falsehood.
    G20 Showing ID To Approach the Fence.jpg
  • G20 A private security officer risks dismissal to observe life on the opposite side of the security fence as riot police mass in front of Union Station.
    G20 Security on Opposite Sides of th...jpg
  • G20 Protest A group of youthful women modeling anti-Group of Twenty-sloganed t-shirts with riot police in the background at the College Street Police Headquarters.
    G20 Modeling With Riot Cops.jpg
  • G20 Protest A young man in business attire but for his sneakers offers a satirical interpretation of the vandalism behind him with his placard, suggesting "Everything is O.K."
    G20 Protest Everything is OK 2.jpg
  • G20 Protest Members of the anarchist "Black Block" have set fire to an abandoned police car in Toronto's Bay Street Financial District.
    G20 Protest Black Block Flaming Poli...jpg
  • G20 A solo protester sits head bowed in front of a line of riot police boots and shields at Queen and John Streets in front of Much Music.
    G20 Protest Solo Sit-in Riot Police.jpg
  • G20 Protest A labour organization Marshal serves as Crossing Guard, trying to keep protesters moving in front of a phalanx of riot police.
    G20 Protest Labour Organization Mars...jpg
  • G20 Protest Riot Police Break out the Big Toys.  A riot officer brandishes a tear gas gun while others have bands of zip ties at the ready for mass arrests.
    G20 Protest Riot Police Break out th...jpg
  • G20 Riot Police are gathered in force after a breach of their line at John Street beside Much Music during the Group of Twenty summit protests.  A sign contrasts Toronto with an Orwellian New World Order.
    G20 New World Order Riot Police 2.jpg
  • G20 Protest New World Order Riot Police watch as protesters decry the Orwellian similarities of Toronto during the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 Protest New World Order Riot Pol...jpg
  • G20 An R.C.M.P. riot officer tries to intimidate indicating that he's watching during protests of the Group of Twenty summit outside the United States consulate.
    G20 Riot Intimidation Eye.jpg
  • G20 RCMP Riot Police Stand Ready Behind barricades protecting the United States' Consulate during Group of Twenty Summit protests.
    G20 Protest US Consulate Barricades.jpg
  • G20 Protest US Consulate Bike Cops block University Avenue.
    G20 Protest US Consulate Bike Cops.jpg
  • Two women beg in front of a mosque in Balkh.  The Taliban may be gone from the north of Afghanistan, but the burqa is still omnipresent, albeit in a range of colours.  Fashion changes from year to year, Brown, Green, White and Gold all having come to pass.  Blue is still the colour worn by the majority of Afghan women.
    Afghanistan Out Of Fashion Burqas.JPG
  • G20 Is This Democracy? A Bike Cop Tries to Prevent the Photographing of his unit on the Sunday before the Group of Twenty summit.  Despite the draconian measures implemented for the summit, Canada still bills itself as a democracy.
    G20 Is This Democracy Bike Cop Tries...JPG
  • G20 Toronto's Entertainment District at York and Front Streets is completely deserted and largely fenced in a week before the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 Toronto's Deserted Entertainment...JPG
  • G20 Flags and Barricades.  The Canadian Maple Leaf flutters in a blue sky, while being imprisoned at ground level by a myriad of security fencing.
    G20 Flags and Barricades.JPG
  • G20 Emergency No Parking.  Its difficult that there could be much of an emergency fully a week ahead of the Group of Twenty summit, but the paranoia must go on.
    G20 Emergency No Parking.JPG
  • G20 Workers Busy Themselves Constructing the Cage that is the security fence along Front Street with only five days before the Group of Twenty Leaders descend on the city.
    G20 Workers Busy Themselves Construc...JPG
  • G20 A finished section of the security fence on Front Street surrounds the Royal York Hotel.  The inner fence is made of a rigid, heavy metal mesh which will not be easy to cut or break.
    G20 Finished Section of the security...JPG
  • G20 Bicycle Officers Take a Breather at the corner of York And Front Streets on the Sunday prior to the Group of Twenty summit.  The security fence separates lanes of Front Street in the background.
    G20 Bicycle Officers Take a Breather.JPG
  • G20 A young protester shows off the rubber bullet fired at him in Queen's Park after the Labour Protest of the Group of Twenty summit.
    G20 Rubber Bullet In the Hands of Pr...jpg
  • G20 Youthful Protesters are stopped for questioning along Queen Street, allegedly for mapping the locations of police deployments.
    G20 Youthful Protesters Stopped For ...jpg
  • G20 Ageless Protest An older couple pause to photograph riot police officers behind the security fence on Front Street at Union Station.  The couple were subsequently warned that the small and docile group of protesters milling nearby might turn violent and that they should leave.
    G20 Ageless Protest Photographing Ri...jpg
  • G20 Protest Accessorizing her protest attire, a young woman sports a hot pink gas mask to show her fashion sense during Toronto's Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest Gas Mask Fashion.jpg
  • G20 As protesters from the anarchist "Black Block" have rampaged up Yonge Street, one youthful protester holds a somewhat ironic sign urging calm.
    G20 Protest Everything is OK.jpg
  • G20 "Black Block" Protesters Attack a Flaming Police Car in Toronto's Bay Street Financial District during the Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 "Black Block" Protesters Attack ...jpg
  • G20 Protest Members of the anarchist "Black Block" have set fire to an abandoned police car on Bay Street, in Toronto's Financial District.  How the cruiser came to be abandoned in the middle of an open intersection is not known.
    G20 Protest Flaming Police Car Bay S...jpg
  • G20 A solo protester casts a contemptuous gaze towards a line of riot police boots and shields at Queen and John Streets in front of Much Music.
    G20 Solo Sit-in Riot Police 2.jpg
  • G20 Protest Smiling Riot Officer. A riot officer lowers his shield and engages a pair of protesters in conversation, demonstrating the best of the police services on display and revealing a human side amongst imposing glares.
    G20 Protest Smiling Riot Officer.jpg
  • G20 Riot Police are gathered in force after a breach of their line at John Street beside Much Music during the Group of Twenty summit protests.  A sign contrasts Toronto with an Orwellian New World Order.
    G20 Protest No Crossing Riot Police.jpg
  • G20 A riot police officer wears a gas mask during the Group of Twenty summit protests in Toronto.
    G20 Protest Gas Mask Riot Police.jpg
  • G20 Afghan protesters demand the return of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay.  The young man has lived out his teens and early adulthood in the American prison.  Successive Canadian governments have all but ignored his plight.
    G20 Protest Bring Omar Khadr Home.jpg
  • G20 Protest Riot Police Move into action aggressively with guns at the ready at the United States Consulate during Group of Twenty summit protests.
    G20 Protest Riot Police Move into Ac...jpg
  • Bicycle Police block mass of protesters from United States Consulate.
    G20 Protest Blocked From US Consulat...jpg
  • Contrary to common belief, there are a wide variety of styles and colours of burqa, ranging in price from about ten dollars (a good day's pay), to upwards of thirty five dollars.  Marks of quality include embroidery and pleating.  Blue is still the more "popular" colourm but white is also quite a common sight.  The green, brown and gold are apparently "last year's colours". I kid you not.
    Afghanistan Herat While a Burqa Shop...JPG
  • One wonders if there is a symbolism behind the choice of blue paint, on this billboard depicting a woman some would consider too immodest in Herat.  Ironically, the modesty covering of choice in Herat exposes a woman's face.
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  • G20 A pair of police officers report for duty at the Royal York Hotel on Front Street a week before the summit -- just another day at the office.
    G20 Day At The Office.JPG
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