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Autonomous Activists Denounced Police Violence And Neoliberal G8 in Japan

Jong Pairez | Anti-G8 protesters from various autonomous groups and collectives held silent protest infront Japanese Embassy in Manila, Tuesday noon, denouncing police violence and corporate free trade during the 34th G8 Summit in Japan 2 Comments more...

Debt campaigners reiterate challenge versus G8 to cancel illegitimate debts

Freedom From Debt Coalition | In a public forum in Sapporo, around 200 kilometres from the venue of the official G8 Summit in Lake Toyako, Hokkaido, members of Jubilee South- Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development stressed that debt is a global problem 0 Comments more...

Aklas Laban Sa G8 Benefit Gig Photo Essay

Jong Pairez | Manila, Philippines- A benefit gig against G8 was held Sunday night, it was joined by youngsters from various autonomous groups and collectives to plot the upcoming Solidarity actions and resistance this coming week. 0 Comments more...

Canadian Miners Briefly Held By B'laan Tribesman

cyber pirate | ZAMBOANGA, Philippines- Two Canadian mining consultants were briefly abducted by members of a tribe opposed to a major copper project in the Southern Philippines. 1 Comments more...

Artists and Hackers United at Sukabumi

TX-AP2008 | SUKABUMI, West Java - A network of individuals and groups who are into media activism have come together in an event called Transmission Asia-Pacific 2008 (TX-AP) 0 Comments more...

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ACTION AGAINST G8 LIVE UPDATES JULY 1-9, 2008

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The G8 Summit will be held this year from July 7-9 in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan. This will be a culmination of a series of ministerial preparation meeting beginning in March. The G8 Action Network, a network of various Japanese organizations and movements, is calling on all social movements, peasant organizations, women, migrants, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks and civil society from all over the world who are resisting free trade in its many forms, war and militarism, the privatization of essential services and natural resources, illegitimate debt and the domination of global finance, and fighting for and building real people based solutions to global warming, to come and join us in the week of action against the G8 here in Japan.

WHY MOBILIZE AGAINST THE G8?

The G8 nations account for just fourteen percent of the world’s population and yet decisions made at these summits dictate the course of the rest of the world. And now more than ever, the evidence is stark that decisions that these nations have made have brought nothing but worsening poverty, increasing insecurity, deepening indebtedness, militarization and wars and now they are pushing for market based solutions to climate change which threaten to endanger the future of the planet. The host of the summit, the Government of Japan, says that it will make this summit a summit on the climate. This is rank hypocrisy. The reality is that the government, under pressure from Japanese industry, is backing away from mandatory limits to greenhouse gas emissions.

We can no longer let this continue. The time is now for all of us around the world to come together and join forces to make our voices heard and stop the G8 from doing any further damage to the world.

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