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The G8 summit 2008 took place in a luxury hotel in the remote area of Lake Toyota on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Organisers wanted it to run smoothly without disturbances. But activists from Japan and elsewhere mobilised, expressing their protests with demonstrations in several cities and near Lake Toyota, with camps, a convergence centre and cultural activities such as punk rock concerts and movie screenings.
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29-10-2008 18:08
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| Demonstration march on the last day of the G8 summit, heading towards a lake where it was held. Some of the demonstrators walked the 20 kilometres to a parking lot near Lake Toya, others chose to use the bus shuttle service. But none of the demonstrators got to see the conference hotel. |
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length: 04:47 min
| date: 09.07.2008
| video-hits: 306
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| Several activists announced a "Saferspace" in Camp Toyoura. One of them tells what a Saferspace is and where the concept comes from. |
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length: 02:05 min
| date: 08.07.2008
| video-hits: 65
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| One activist tells about the principles in a Saferspace Booth. |
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length: 01:54 min
| date: 08.07.2008
| video-hits: 15
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| An activist tells about people who participated in the Saferspace project and about the reactions in Camp Toyoura. |
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length: 01:38 min
| date: 08.07.2008
| video-hits: 50
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| Before the G8 summit started there were riots in Nishinari, the poorest part of Osaka, which lasted for several days. Nishinari is inhabited by workers who have no regular jobs. At least 26 were arrested. |
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length: 03:25 min
| date: 07.07.2008
| video-hits: 79
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| The "Rage and Football Collective" called out for football against G8 already several months before the summit. Among others, the matches took place in Tokyo and Camp Tobetsu. |
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length: 04:03 min
| date: 07.07.2008
| video-hits: 522
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| The peace walk through the centre of Sapporo on 5 July 2008 was the biggest demonstration during the G8 summit. A huge procession of people walked through the city - but strictly limited to only one driving lane. A big number of political groups, initiatives and unions participated in this mass rally for peace. |
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length: 03:37 min
| date: 05.07.2008
| video-hits: 39
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One single block of anti-capitalist and anarchist activists tried to break through the absurd banishment of the demonstration to just one driving lane. After that many more police were ordered in. At the end of the walk 4 people got arrested.
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length: 03:06 min
| date: 05.07.2008
| video-hits: 31
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| After the Peace Walk a bus of Japanese Nationalists on a propaganda tour through Sapporo passes a group of G8-activists. The bus gets stopped by them. |
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length: 01:51 min
| date: 05.07.2008
| video-hits: 15
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| The activists pitched their camp in a former school building, 1 1/2 train hours away from Sapporo. In this Alternative Village activists were not only able to spend the night, but to test a different way of life. |
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length: 3:45 min
| date: 04.07.2008
| video-hits: 215
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| On 04 July 2008 the first protest march related to the G8 summit moved through Sapporo. A rather small demonstration against poverty and precarious living. |
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length: 9:09 min
| date: 04.07.2008
| video-hits: 193
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| Weeks before the G8 summit demonstrations and activities took place in several Japanese cities. On 29 June 2008 activists and homeless people demonstrated together in the business quarter of Shinjuku against precarity and G8. |
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length: 02:46 min
| date: 29.06.2008
| video-hits: 69
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