Carnival Against Capital

The day itself featured a Critical Mass and an action by the Campaign Against Arms Trade, before a large march converged in different streams upon the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange for a street party.

Using then new technology, the protests were reported on the internet by independent media activists from London and Sydney, in a step towards the Indymedia network.

[5] On 29 January 1999 the Daily Mirror ran a full-page article entitled "Police spy bid to smash the anti-car protesters."

A Critical Mass bicycle ride brought the City of London traffic to a standstill in rush hour.

[4] The Association of Autonomous Astronauts began their 10-day festival Space 1999: Ten Days Which Shook The Universe with a blockade of the Lockheed Martin offices at Berkeley Square.

Disregarding borders, with no importance given to race or colours, the power of money humiliates dignities, insults honesties and assassinates hopes.

[11] The spontaneous procession erupted in anger at London Wall when a woman was hit by a reversing police van and had her leg broken.

A fire hydrant was set off, symbolising the freeing of the Walbrook river, and the lower entrance to the LIFFE was bricked up.

[4] In the early afternoon a small group of protesters broke into the Cannon Bridge building, smashed up the reception area and tried to access the LIFFE trading floor, but were prevented by a security screen.

But we’d stopped short of planning a full-scale occupation.The rest of the afternoon became a battle as police using horses and personal incapacitant spray containing CS gas pushed the protesters down Lower Thames Street and out of the City of London.

[citation needed] Writing in Z magazine, Katherine Ainger described the global protests, which were "as diverse as the groups taking part".

Politician Kim Beazley was custard pied in Melbourne for participating in a conference set up by Shell, whilst in Sydney there was another street party.

A march shut down the stock exchange in Montevideo, Uruguay and ended with the burning of a model television set.

[9] In total there were protests worldwide in 40 countries, in cities including Tel Aviv, Minsk, Madrid, Valencia, Prague, Hamburg, Cologne, Milan, Rome, Siena, Florence, Ancona, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Zurich, Geneva, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Austin (Texas), Boston, and Eugene (Oregon).

In Australia, a team worked to create all day coverage, collecting stories, photos and videos from activists and publishing them in a news feed.

[17][18] In Eugene, Oregon Rob Thaxton was sentenced to 88 months in jail after throwing a rock at a police officer while trying to avoid being arrested.