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participants in protests include peace, environmental, labor and social
justice organizations.[7] Alternate events will include a Peoples'
Summit (not a protest) at the beginning of the week leading up the
summit, followed by tent cities, demonstrations and other summits.
Preceding the summit, there will be an alternative conference on
Tuesday called Freedom Conference 2009,[8] that stresses conservative
grassroots solutions and free-market approaches. During the first day
of the Summit the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project will hold a march
and a day of direct action. On the second day there will be Peoples'
March and rally in downtown Pittsburgh.
>At
around 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday, September 23, Greenpeace activists hung
a banner, warning of the dangers of increased CO2 emissions, from the
deck of the West End Bridge.[9] While traffic was held up for a period,
the eight activists surrendered peacefully.
>On
Thursday, September 24, police fired gas similar to tear gas at 700
people to disperse a protest march a few hours before the start of the
G20 Summit.[10] Police also used a sound cannon on the protesters,
believed by city officials as the first time the cannon had used on
protesters within the United States [11].
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