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星期一， 2008年7月7日
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由Danielle · Demetriou | flailing在风的Dreadlocks，人在每只手散发了剧烈啼声，当他跑了在安静的国家车道下往我，挥舞一根竹棍子。

通常，我会转动并且出逃。 但我们是在训练的两个演奏的角色为示威者为星期一的G8山顶做准备在北海道在北日本，并且我自己的面孔由一条邪恶的革命围巾盖。

数以万计抗议者通过街道在遥远的湖Toya前进了，跳舞并且打鼓了他们的方式在一家高度被巩固的旅馆附近，领导将见面。

为许多人，焦点从Gordon Brown的姿态和Carla Bruni的衣橱内容在气候变化已经转移了对学生、农夫、工会会员和无政府主义者设法打乱行动。

日本，在，在哪里之前这样抗议训练营从未被设定，非常认真采取威胁： 它在安全全国各地部署了40,000武装的警察并且是消费£142百万。

警察在一个流动抗议浮游物之后拘捕了三个示威者，在恼怒的扭打，包括圆盘骑师。

抗议者在一个农村阵营仔细地计划他们的反应在附近的Tobetsu。

节目包括直系活动车间，抗议战术讨论，法律情况通知的训练，木偶做，橄榄球比赛和打鼓会议。

装扮西部抗议者，通信机渗入了阵营，遵守一项严密的“没有媒介”政策。

它是20分钟通过薄雾被覆盖的山和下毛毛雨的天空支持的绿色领域走。 但是，当五颜六色的帐篷串开始了看见，汽车在距离可能也被看见，供以人员由密切注视注意行动的简单的衣裳警察。

阵营在一所前学校的地面被设置了，繁荣昌盛的anti-G8横幅在读的微风和一个大标志振翼： “供选择的村庄”。

在招待会帐篷里面，二名日本活动家懒散了在沙发，被实施规则名单和礼貌地请求每日Y1,500 (£7)捐赠帮助跑阵营。

抗议者的大约四分之三从各种各样的背景，包括工会会员，农夫、活动家和日本共产党是日语。

Many of them are students, but there were plenty of older Japanese citizens as well, including Hiroshi Tsuchira, 71, a retired airport worker.

“Life is difficult for people in Japan and I have never been to march this big before but it is important for people to hear our voice,” he said. “Our future will not be good if it lies in the hands of the G8 leaders.”

Other activists came from San Francisco, London and Nantes.

They included people from charities like Oxfam and more riotous protesters from a French anarcho-syndicalist commune.

“We are protesting against a structure of capitalism that has been created by the G8 summit,” said Nakata-san, a political science student from Tokyo. “We want to create our own ideal system in this campsite community.”

Despite its anarchic credentials, the campsite offers a perfect template of Japan’s renowned organisational skills. Neat piles of placards, T-shirts and recycling bins line the entrance, while leaflets offer advice on protest etiquette.

Japanese bamboo flute music is as prominent as punk rock on the internal sound system, which also broadcasts sudden and surreal messages: “Will volunteers please help peel vegetables for dinner!” or “Rave party in the gym at 5pm!”

The gym is a vast space filled with piles of anti-G8 banners and brightly coloured protest “puppets” – including eight wooden creations on sticks emblazoned with skulls on one side and the faces of G8 leaders on the other.

And there are many meetings. After a long discussion about colour-coded washing-up bowls and whether sheets should be used with futons, the cultural differences suddenly came to light.

“Is there nothing else to talk about?” muttered Sarah, a straight-talking activist who spent two months travelling overland to Japan from London. “I’m stunned.”

Beneath the veneer of domesticity, serious training sessions are under way for the 1,000 protesters at three camps near Lake Toya.

One teaches how to avoid arrest. “It was hands on, direct and practical,” said James, a 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate. “It’s useful for people who want to go to these protests and make an impact without getting arrested.”

From intricate diagrams of where to stand in a crowd to stunts like dressing up as clowns, the discussions are painstakingly detailed.

For protesters who need to sleep, there are tents or, for an additional fee, three neatly organised rooms, equipped with futons and blankets.

And for those too hungry to continue training on behalf of the world’s poor, there are delicious vegan meals of curry, risotto, seaweed salad and fresh fruit prepared by a “food collective” that also works around the clock to make fresh hemp bread from cannabis seeds.

Late arrivals were disappointed to learn that they had missed the last of the direct action workshops laid on over previous days. They were masterminded by Lisa Fithian, an American activist - and so fearful are the Japanese authorities over the risk of disruption to the summit that she was reportedly only allowed into the country on condition that she left before the summit had even begun.

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