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G8G8 leaders condemn us to povertyThursday, July 10th, 2008By Sadie Robinson | An enormous economic crisis is gripping the world. In the Global South millions of people are being reduced to levels barely above starvation, as rising food and fuel prices help drive back years of slow improvements to health. In Cambodia, the Irin news agency reports that farmers are abandoning tractors and other farm equipment because they can no longer afford petrol. This in turn is ... tagged G8Planet Burns While G8 FiddlesThursday, July 10th, 2008By Ramesh Jaura | 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. "The summit (in Toyako on the northern Japanese island Hokkaido) has been another betrayal of the poor and citizens of G8 countries," Kumi Naidoo, co-chair of the Global Call to Action ... tagged G8EMPIRE OF THE VANITIESMonday, July 7th, 2008SchNews | In the run up to the annual meet and greet by world leaders (and ensuing mass insurrection on the other side of the police lines) at the G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan, it’s time we took another look at the Group of Eight (the USA, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, Japan and Russia). The G8 has been top of activists’ hit lists since the '90s ... tagged G8Protesters train at camps before Japan G8 summitMonday, July 7th, 2008By Danielle Demetriou | Dreadlocks flailing in the wind, the man emitted a fierce cry as he ran down the quiet country lane towards me, brandishing a bamboo stick in each hand. Normally, I would turn and flee. But we were both playing roles in a training exercise for demonstrators preparing for Monday's G8 summit in Hokkaido in northern Japan, and my own face was covered by a menacing revolutionary scarf. Thousands of ... tagged G8, Globalization and World-NewsWorld’s top scientists say G8 must lead way on carbon captureTuesday, June 10th, 2008 G8 governments must lead the way in developing technology to catch carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations as part of immediate action on climate change, scientists urged today. The national science academies in the G8 countries - along with those of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa - called on their leaders to take measures to cut emissions and ...
tagged Climate-Change and G8Brown urges G8 action on food scarcityThursday, April 10th, 2008Patrick Wintour The Guardian, Gordon Brown raised fresh concerns about the impact of biofuels yesterday, as he put rising food prices on the world agenda by writing to fellow G8 leaders to prepare an international package on food scarcity. He wants the issue to be on the agenda of the G8 summit in Japan in July, and said he had concerns about the way ... tagged G8 and UK-NewsAnti-G8 activist detained and beatenThursday, March 13th, 2008German activist Martin Kramer, en route to Japan to prepare for the Hokkaido G8 summit protests, was arrested by police in the city of Vanino in the Habarovsk region of the Russian Far East March 3. He was turned over the FSB agents, in whose hands he was harshly interrogated and beaten. Martin was accused of carrying "extremist" and "secret" documents. These included archival materials from the ... tagged G8Greenpeace boats enter G8 exclusion zoneThursday, June 7th, 2007Fred Attewill and Patrick Barkham Thursday June 7, 2007 Guardian Unlimited 
German police run over a Greenpeace boat in the exclusion zone near the G8 summit at Heiligendamm. Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters
Greenpeace today launched a major incursion into the marine exclusion zone surrounding the G8 ...
tagged G8Anti-Globalization Protesters Block Access to G8Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Patrick Donahue Anti-globalization protesters blocked roads leading to the Group of Eight summit venue in the northern German seaside resort of Heiligendamm today, as they attempted to disrupt the arrival of world leaders. Demonstrators avoided roadblocks and crossed through oat fields and forests to approach a 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) barbed- wire perimeter fence surrounding the hotel complex, blocking access to Heiligendamm from the press center 8 kilometers to the west at Kuehlungsborn. Protesters ... tagged G8No firm climate targets from G8, U.S. saysWednesday, June 6th, 2007Tabassum Zakaria and Crispian Balmer A summit of major powers in Germany will not agree to any firm targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday as G8 leaders gathered on the Baltic coast. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, chairing the annual meeting of the Group of Eight (G8), had hoped to secure U.S. backing for a pledge to halve emissions by 2050 and limit warming of global ... tagged G8Authorities Build 7 Mile Fence Around G8 SummitThursday, May 31st, 2007Police today shut off public access to the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, the venue for next week’s Group of Eight summit in Germany. Authorities have built a seven-mile fence around Heiligendamm at a cost of £8.5million. Police closed off public access to the resort at about 7am (0600BST), said spokesman Manfred Luetjann. Only residents, police and others with business involving the June 6-8 summit will ... tagged G8US ‘fundamentally opposed’ to G8 emissions proposalsSaturday, May 26th, 2007The US appears to have rejected draft proposals by Germany for G8 members to agree tough measures on greenhouse gas emissions, leaked documents have shown. Wide-ranging US amendments to a draft communiqué prepared ahead of June's G8 summit in Germany cite a "fundamental opposition" to the proposals. Germany wants all G8 members to agree timetables and targets for major cuts. In the document, US officials make major changes to the communiqué. In comments printed ... tagged G8 |
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