ABSTRACT
Meetings of high-profile transnational organizations like the World Trade Organization and G8 are, as a matter of routine, accompanied by equally high-profile demonstrations by labor, environmental, and antiglobalization activists. Anticipating protests, law enforcement agencies seal off areas surrounding meeting sites, transforming vast urban territories into militarized zones. Police rely on a dizzying array of surveillance and communications strategies to undermine activist strategies, including infiltrating activist groups, monitoring activist communications, making preemptive raids on activist meeting places, and videotaping protest actions for later analysis.
