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Sep 22, 2009 9:28 pm US/Eastern
Protestors Demonstrate As G-20 Approaches
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The G-20 Resistance Project organized a community picnic in Friendship Park.
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As the countdown continues to the G-20 Summit, more protestors are arriving in Pittsburgh to send a message to world leaders.
Several demonstrations were held Tuesday, including an unauthorized protest by an environmental group in front of Citizens Bank on Grant Street.
Police in riot gear kept close watch as marchers stayed on the sidewalk on their way to Point State Park.
The protestors represented a number of environmental issues and causes.
"I am here today because I live in the Appalachian Mountains and these mountains are being devastated so that 60 percent of the energy in this country can be powered off of coal that's underneath them," Deb Hollingsworth, an activist, said. "And mountain top removal, long wall coal mining are destroying the communities of this region and about to destroy the community that I live in."
Other protestors marched to raise awareness for more HIV/AIDS money and research.
Also, the G-20 Resistance Project organized a community picnic in Friendship Park.
Military helicopters made several flyovers during the event and about a dozen of police officers on motorcycles circled the event a few times before it began.
"The G-20 represents a violent attack on our communities," Noah Williams, a spokesperson for the resistance project, said. "I think that as communities, we need to come together and defend ourselves against it."
The group is also planning an unpermitted march aimed at disrupting the summit later this week that will start in Lawrenceville.
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