And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist ________________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ VALPARAISO, Chile, May 22 (AFP) - Chilean police detained 180 protesters outside the congressional building here while President Eduardo Frei delivered his annual address to lawmakers, witnesses said Saturday. Police confronted some 1,000 rowdy protesters in this port city some 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of Santiago, using clubs, tear gas and water hoses. One policeman was seriously injured while hundreds of protesters were beaten or suffered after inhaling tear gas, reporters on the scene said. The unrest started two hours before the two-hour presidential address Friday, and continued until Frei had left the congressional building. College students, dock workers and indigenous groups shouted anti-government slogans, set up roadblocks and threw stones at police. Students called for more federal grants and scholarships while dock workers asked to be compensated for the loss of revenue resulting from privatization. Indian protesters, meanwhile, demanded the return of Mapuche lands taken over by lumber companies in the country's south. Inside the legislative building, fist fights and shoving matches broke out between lawmakers when Frei said he would continue to work to free former dictator Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet, who is under house arrest in London faces extradition to Spain to answer charges for human rights crimes committed during his 1973-1990 regime. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
