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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: G8 Summit in Georgia
		In June 2004 the G8 Summit was hosted by the United States on Sea Island.
		G8 Summit is unique in that it gathers together the leaders of the most powerful nations, and consequently the meeting has attracted a great deal of attention and requires careful planning.
		The G8 nations adopted policies to deal with such issues as famine, peacekeeping, and reduction of national indebtedness, which are central to economic policy on the African continent.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3043 (797 words)

	G8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abacci > Abaccipedia > G8 > G8 The Group of Eight (G8) is coalition of eight of the world's leading industrialized nations: the United Kingdom, France, Germany (West Germany to 1991), Italy, Japan, and the United States, (the G6, 1975), Canada (the G7, 1976), and Russia (1998), as well as the European Union.
		The hallmark of the G8 is an annual economic and political summit of the heads of state with international officials, though there are numerous subsidiary meetings and policy research.
		The summits are often the focus of anti-globalization movement protests.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=G8 (384 words)

	all4all.org \| G8 Protests in the US 2004
		PGA is the international network which called for the J18 and N30/Seattle protests in 1999.
		On June 8th - 10th 2004 the G8 Summit will be staged on Sea Island, 80 miles south of Savannah in the United States.
		This location has been specifically chosen by the G8 because it is impossible for protestors to access and therefore groups in the United States have put out a call for decentralised actions.
	www.all4all.org /2004/06/855.shtml (204 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim president.
		March 22 - Palestinians protest in the streets after an Israeli helicopter gunship fires a missile at the entourage of Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City, killing Yassin and 7 others.
		Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /2004 (5587 words)

	EPIC Protestor Privacy Page
		The Washington Post reports that authorities had argued that screening of protesters was necessary due to fears of a terrorist attack which the judges found to be an insufficient reason for the search.
		At demonstrations in Miami organized to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas, protesters were prevented from joining permitted marches, jailed and attacked with violent force.
		According to the lawsuit, protesters in cities across the United States are being forced to assemble in "protest zones" blocks away from where the president or vice president was speaking (and blocks away from the media), while supporters of the administration's policy are allowed to hold their signs up in front of the building.
	www.epic.org /privacy/protest (3874 words)

	Russia Cracks Down on Anti-Globalists Ahead of G8 - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Protests are to get under way Friday, a day before the summit begins, in a climate of diminished expectations and heightened fears.
		Russian authorities have vowed not to allow this year’s summit to be riven by protests, such as last year’s chaotic array of blockades and window-breaking in Scotland or the violence in Genoa, Italy, in which one protester died.
		City officials have refused permission for a march that protesters wanted to conduct that would have ended at the Neva River berth of the Aurora, the gunship that fired the shot that was the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/07/14/g8protests.shtml (1250 words)

	Russian Communists Protest Against G8 Summit in St. Petersburg - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Protesters forced their way through police, who were apparently under orders to show restraint.
		The anti-globalist protesters based at the suburban Kirov stadium attempted their own march but were stopped by police.
		Despite the modest scale of the protest, demonstrators at the Communist rally appeared to enjoy at least some support from passers-by and onlookers from windows, who waved their hands and raised clenched fists in gestures of support.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/07/15/protests.shtml (954 words)

	G8 - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The hallmark of the G8 is an annual economic and political summit meeting of the heads of government with international officials, though there are numerous subsidiary meetings and policy research.
		Since the agenda of G8 is usually about controversial global issues, critics often refer to the G8 as an unofficial "world government." The annual summits are often the focus of anti-globalization movement protests, notably at the 27th G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
		Critics assert that members of G8 are responsible for global issues such as global warming due to carbon dioxide emission, poverty in Africa and developing countries due to debt crisis and unfair trading policy, the AIDS problem due to strict medicine patent policy and other problems that are related to globalization.
	www.voyager.in /G8 (1505 words)

	2,000 Body Bags and Detention Center Readied For G8 Protesters
		When it was announced a year ago that President Bush would be hosting the 2004 G8 Summit on Sea Island (Sea Island as in cotton, as in slaves), the upscale resort where George Bush Snr and Barbara spent their honeymoon, there was a surge of civic pride in this sleepy corner of coastal Georgia.
		In a flurry of public officiousness, 17 Czech house framers whose visas had expired were taken off the island in handcuffs and deported; the fact that they had been working here a year before the location of the summit was announced did little to mute the trumpeting of this national security coup.
		A State of Emergency granting extra powers to local law enforcement was announced by the State Governor on 7 May, and while nowhere has yet been "set aside" for the protesters to protest (a quaint notion in itself), a playing-field over on the mainland has been fenced for use as a detention centre.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/june2004/060804bodybags.htm (2022 words)

	G8 Summit: Activism in a Police State (June 30, 2004)
		Yet when the biggest G8 protest included no more than 250 activists, locals weren't talking about the violence between police and protesters; they were talking about why hardly any activists showed up.
		Organizers argued that such crackdowns on G8 activism were part of the same police model used at the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) protest in Miami, Florida in November 2003.
		Though the G8 activist events were somewhat overshadowed by the enormous police presence and small protester turnout, they were successful in promoting alternative visions of a more equitable and peaceful world.
	www.eatthestate.org /08-20/G8SummitActivism.htm (1029 words)

	Junichiro Koizumi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The GDP growth for 2004 is expected to be one of the highest among G7 nations, according to the IMF and OECD.
		Fukuda resigned on May 7, 2004 and was replaced by Hosoda.
		Koizumi, who at the time of retirement will be the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, is a fan of Richard Wagner, X Japan, and the Japanese Pop band Morning Musume, and has released a CD of his favorite songs by Ennio Morricone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junichiro_Koizumi (2772 words)

	Bush Urges G8 Colleagues To Support Mideast Reforms - US Department of State
		The G8 Stands With Regional Reformers: The President underlined the achievements that are possible when established democracies of the G8 stand with Middle Eastern partners on their political and social aspirations.
		He pointed to recent successes where the G8 supported the organization and conduct of elections in Lebanon, recently freed from the yoke of Syrian occupation, as the international community jointly with Lebanese citizens demanded the departure of Syrian troops.
		The G8 provided resources to enable the Palestinians to hold fair and free elections and, by speaking out against human rights abuses and the jailing of political opponents, the established democracies were able contribute to the release of political figures, such as Ayman Nour, and help protect participants in street protests.
	usinfo.state.gov /ei/Archive/2005/Jul/07-670096.html (945 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe
		The protesters were kept away from Bush, whose motorcade of around 20 vehicles swept past lines of riot police manning cordons.
		Fears of a repeat of the mayhem that marred a G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001 led Italy to bolster security massively until Bush leaves on Saturday.
		Authorities said they would allow peaceful protests, but they deployed some 10,000 police who were out in force around rail and metro stations and in piazzas.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/04/pope_pressures_bush_on_iraq_amid_rome_protests (749 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Pope pressures Bush on Iraq
		Riot police with shields and batons scuffled with small groups of masked protesters, some of whom threw bottles and flares, but there were no reports of serious injuries or major clashes of the sort that marred a G8 summit in Italy in 2001.
		A few masked protesters threw bottles at riot police and skirmished with other protesters, while others blocked traffic, set dustbins alight, lit flares and daubed slogans on walls.
		The protesters were kept away from Bush, whose motorcade of around 20 vehicles swept past lines of riot police.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/04/pope_pressures_bush_on_iraq_amid_rome_protests_reuters (778 words)

	UofT G8 Information Centre: What the G8’s Sea Island Summit Means for the World Ahead
		It was hosted by a country whose historical record as a G8 host was relatively poor, and by a president considered to be a unilateralist unwilling to adjust to advice from allies or the constraints of multilateral organizations.
		Yet all G8 leaders of the twenty-first century G8 have come to accept that it is the prerogative of the host to arrange summit outreach much as that individual desires to make his summit work.
		Kirton, John and Ella Kokotsis (2004), "An Evaluation of the G8's Commitment to the Kananaskis Pledges." Discussion paper prepared for a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations G8 Africa Roundtable, Washington DC, February 4, 2004.
	www.g7.utoronto.ca /scholar/kirton2004/kirton_040727.html (8459 words)

	Georgia politicians make protesting G8 Summit illegal - The NewStandard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		May 27, 2004 – In anticipation of protests at the G8 Summit in Georgia next month, Governor Sonny Perdue has declared a pre-emptive state of emergency while local authorities have granted police the right to close down demonstrations.
		The City Council of Brunswick followed the declaration by changing its laws last week so that police can halt protests if a "state of emergency or disaster is lawfully declared." The state of emergency order covers six counties and will be in effect between May 31 and June 20.
		Protest organizers and civil libertarians are outraged and are accusing the governor and Brunswick officials of unlawfully trying to stifle dissent.
	newstandardnews.net /content/?action=show_item&itemid=419 (305 words)

	(DV) Dangl: How New Police Strategies are Cracking Down on the Right to Dissent
		Hundreds of preemptive arrests took place at The Free Trade Area of the Americas protest in Miami in 2003, and at this year’s G8 Summit on Sea Island, Georgia, roughly 500 protesters were met by a police and military force of nearly 25,000.
		Benjamin Dangl: From what I’ve heard of the FTAA protests in Miami, and what I saw at the G8 protests in Georgia, there seems to be a new police strategy to chill dissent.
		They got to know many of the protesters and were sympathetic to their wish to be able to exercise their First Amendment right to engage in demonstrations and rallies.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /July2004/Dangl0727.htm (956 words)

	CNN.com - Economic summit will likely focus on Mideast - Jun 9, 2004
		Throughout Tuesday, G8 leaders were given red-carpet ceremonial welcomes at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, about 80 miles north of the summit site on Sea Island, a secluded enclave accessible from the mainland by a single causeway.
		At this year's G8, protests are being limited to the city of Brunswick, on the mainland side of the causeway.
		The G8 summit, which rotates among participating nations, was last held in the United States in Denver in 1997.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/06/08/g8.summit/index.html (1010 words)

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		Next, the media raised the specter of thousands of out-of-state protesters devoid of respect for local property invading coastal Georgia, marching across residents' lawns, throwing rocks through shop windows, sleeping and defecating in public parks, and leaving in their wake a smelly mess of destruction reminiscent of Sherman's march to the sea.
		In his "Notes on the G8", Jeffrey Keating writes, "We met at an elementary school which had been built without windows to protect the kids from emissions coming from the nearby Hercules chemical plant, a plant which had already contaminated the land the school was built upon.
		The irony of Glynn County being selected by the White House as the location of the June 2004 G8 Summit to "showcase the complementary benefits of environmental stewardship and a strong economy" is staggering.
	www.toes-usa.org /TOESBrunswick.html (4449 words)

	saveourcivilliberties - 2004.05.24 - Police empowered to halt G8 protests under Georgia's state of emergency
		Protest groups have been trying for months to get a permit to demonstrate in the city when the summit arrives in two weeks.
		Brown said the city was not ordering police to halt summit protests because of Perdue's order, though he acknowledged the new law makes that possible.
		The ACLU and the city have been trying to negotiate a settlement with a federal judge, and other changes made to the law last week were intended to quiet protesters' concerns that the law was too restrictive.
	www.saveourcivilliberties.org /en/2004/05/369.shtml (737 words)

	G8 2007 - Germany \| WOMBLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		News and info on mobilisations against the 2007 Group of 8 (G8) meeting, to be held in Germany.
		On the 6th June, we organize the action day and blockades at the military airport in Rostock-Laage (near the highway A19 Berlin-Rostock), which is part of the infrastructure of the G8 Summit Conference and the militaristic policies of the G8 governments.
		During the G8 summit there will be a ten day ban on demostrations and assemblies within as well as 200 metres around the fence in Heilgendamm.
	www.wombles.org.uk /g8 (1332 words)

	Fluxview News Video ~ Protest SOA RNC DNC G8 Kucinich Bush Workers
		Protests lasted through out the day even though George Bush was only in town a couple hours.
		On the third day of the G8, the March for a Free Palestine began at Overlook Park as the activists expressed their discontent with the wall in Israel, 75 people including a small fl bloc broke away from the march and took over the causeway.
		The 1st Breakaway Action @ G8 Activists wanted to legally walk the crosswalks at the intersection of route 17 and the Causeway, the only road in and out of Sea Island, and were denied.
	www.fluxview.com /v/Fluxview-News-Video-2004.htm (1326 words)

	G8 Security Clamps Down on Local Residents - The NewStandard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Savannah; June 12, 2004 – During this weekâs G8 Summit on Sea Island, Georgia, suspicions of possible terrorist or protester violence led police to investigate, search and harass local citizens in Brunswick and Savannah, two cities near the Summit.
		Robert OâToole, the Deputy Superintendent of the Boston Police Department, was in the area to monitor both the G8 protests and law enforcement security measures.
		Like many other police involved in the G8, he said the extreme militarization was justified by the possibility of violence from protesters or terrorists.
	newstandardnews.net /content/?action=show_item&itemid=526 (962 words)

	This is Autonomous Action: The Untold Story of the anti-G8 Protests : NC Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the Asheville Global Report (http://www.agrnews.org): "June 10th, an unknown number of individuals shut down access to Research Triangle Park (RTP), in the Raleigh-Durham area, to protest the silencing of dissent, the destruction of the environment, and the undermining of democracy by corporate and government interests, according to a press release.
		The action brought local attention to the global issues related to the G8, attention which would have been harder to draw to those issues otherwise now that the media under-reports anti-globalization and anti-capitalist efforts.
		This protest shut down business in one of the highest concentrations of destructive corporate activity in the United States.
	chapelhill.indymedia.org /news/2004/07/11098.php?theme=1 (1073 words)

	UK Indymedia - UK G8 2005 Feature Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Despite three protesters slowing down the eviction by nearly a week with refusing to give up their hiding place in a tunnel, the eviction of the last and main protest site is anticipated to start today.
		Although police from all over the UK were busy containing protesters in pens, arresting, searching and holding them under section 60 [Legal Support Group statement], discontent with the G8 agenda was voiced in many significant places and eventually supported by international solidarity.
		Movement against the G8 started very early this morning: while the beacons of dissent were still burning in the dark in the Ochil Hills, hundreds of people were making their way out of the Stirling convergence eco-camp 'Hori-Zone' to head for Gleneagles.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/actions/2005/g8/feature/archive.html (3079 words)

	THE HANDSTAND
		The great protests against the WTO at Seattle in 1999 and the G8 at Genoa in 2001 changed the face of radical politics in the west.
		A defeat for the coalition in Iraq would be a tremendous boost not just to the people of the Middle East and others under threat from US intervention, but for everyone fighting their corner against neoliberal attacks.
		The organisers are calling a protest at Canary Wharf to coincide with the ESF, calling for a living wage for all the cleaners at all the banks there.
	www.thehandstand.org /archive/september2004/articles/antiwar.htm (1844 words)

	Global Protests - Global Policy Forum - NGOs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anticipating protest at the 2004 Sea Island G8 Summit, the State Governor granted extra powers to local law enforcement.
		Organizers planning protests at the Sea Island G8 Summit say that law enforcement officials are employing tactics similar to those used at the 2003 FTAA protests in Miami.
		At the 2004 G8 Summit, thousands of National Guardsmen, police, secret service agents and other law enforcement officers outnumbered a few hundred protesters.
	www.globalpolicy.org /ngos/role/seaislandg8.htm (304 words)

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