ACTIVISTS PRACTICE TO AVIOD VIOLENCE AT UPCOMING DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

373159 12: A participant flashes victory signs while learning rope climbing and rapelling techniques at the six-day Democracy Training Camp in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu, CA, July 18, 2000, in preparation for the upcoming Democratic National Convention. The camp is sponsored by the non-profit Berkley, CA-based Ruckus Society for the purpose of teaching non-violent protest techniques. The Ruckus Society has sponsored such camps to organize disparate activist groups for mass actions at such events as the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle in 1999 and the meetings between World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC this spring. (Photo by David McNew/Newsmakers)