G8 Solidarity action in Berlin

Globe and Mail
July 11, 2008

Stephen Harper’s performance at the G8 this week in Japan emitted a bracing whiff of Canadian imperialism. Did you know there once was such a thing back in the days of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII? It doesn’t mean that Canada had its own empire but that it identified with [...]

Japan-G8: Final statement by international activists

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
President Bush made the private joke in the summit’s closing session, senior sources said yesterday. [...]

TOYAKO, Japan - While the world’s major industrialised nations expressed satisfaction over their three-day summit meetings that concluded Wednesday, non-governmental organisations, after some early and limited approval, were deeply disappointed with the outcome on the whole.

Prior the G8 Summit in Japan this year indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Ainu Mosir. This is the official declaration they have prepared.

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When you're in the business of saving the future - and you give yourself a specific deadline, such as 2050 - you need to make sure that every single day between then and now counts. Unfortunately, the G8 Summit was a waste of three whole days. Gathering in Toyako, Japan, G8 leaders offered nothing new on the food crisis, gave the wrong answer to rising oil prices and deferred climate action.

Leaders of the world’s richest nations have kept alive hope of a global agreement to combat climate change by agreeing to cut their carbon emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2050.
Environmental groups said the agreement at the G8 summit in Japan did not go far enough, and the search for a deal moves [...]

G8: Japan at the forefront of global governance

WASHINGTON - A powerful coalition of civil society groups is demanding that world leaders gathered for the G8 meeting Jul. 7-9 in Japan urgently address such key issues as hunger, climate change, and energy.
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) ran an ad in the International Financial Times Monday calling on G8 leaders to [...]

TOYAKO - The Group of Eight major powers agreed Tuesday to at least halve global carbon emissions by 2050, in what leaders hailed as a breakthrough but environmentalists called toothless.
After a night of tough negotiations in the Japanese mountain resort of Toyako, leaders of the world’s eight most powerful economies agreed to toughen language on [...]

Anti-G8 activists: Protest is oppressed

Japan: G8 Protests move in on Lake Toya

Pictures from the G8 Protests

An interview with South Korean activist Dopehead Zo, by Sarah Lazare, Marina Sitrin, David Solnit and Asha Colazione.

DATE, Japan - Protesters and police engaged in a tense stand-off on Monday as Japanese authorities blocked demonstrators from nearing a summit of the world’s most powerful leaders at a secluded mountain resort.
Around 50 anti-globalisation protesters, mostly from abroad, marched towards the Group of Eight leaders’ luxury hilltop hotel but before they could come close [...]

Call for Solidarity with Counter-G8 Protesters in Japan

Indigenous people ask G8 for climate talk inclusion
Fri Jul 4, 2008 10:53am EDT
By Yoko Kubota

SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) - Indigenous communities from around the world urged G8 rich nations on Friday to help them participate in global climate change talks, saying they contributed least to but are most affected by global warming.

Japan July 7th-9th - In the lead up to the G8 Summit in Japan from July 7th
through 9th, Japanese authorities have arrested domestic activists and have
detained numerous foreign independent media journalists and anti-G8 protesters.
At least six independent journalists and ten academics have been detained by
Japanese immigration officials in the past weeks, including Andrej Grubacic,

Japan: Legal funds needed for anti-G8 activists

Berlin says G8 Funsai! (Smash G8!)

Anti-G8 Solidarity Action in Singapore

Protests precede G8 summit

SAPPORO, Japan - Thousands of farmers and activists from around the world demonstrated Saturday in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo ahead of next week’s summit of the Group of Eight rich nations.
Japan mobilised thousands of riot police to prevent any violence on the streets of Sapporo, the closest major city to the lakeside resort [...]