G8 Japan Content

This page compiles all the content published around GCAP's mobilisation on the G8 summit 2008 in Japan. You can subscribe to this page's RSS feed by clicking on the RSS icon on the top-right hand side of the page.

G8 inspired cartoon contest winner

Toso Borkovich from Serbia was the winner of the cartoon contest organised by GCAP Azerbaijan on the occasion of the G8 meeting in Japan. More cartoons on http://cartoon.azerphoto.com/

GCAP del.icio.us links for 09/07/08

 

G8: super-heroes... or super-zeroes?

They didn't don their super-heroes outfits, and they certainly weren't very heroic. The G8 wrapped up their summit in Japan with feeble words and little action.

G8: Fighters needed to battle poverty

Ad ran on the International Financial Times on the last day of the G8 summit.

Fighters against poverty needed

This ad ran today in the International Financial Times, asking the G8 to close the summit with something more substantial than a few photo-opp poses.

G8 fiddles while world burns - 2008-07-09 - Japan

“This Summit has been another betrayal of the poor and citizens of G8 countries. The outcome shows a lack of understanding of the heart of the issues causing hunger and desperation in many countries already. We hope the citizens of these eight countries will put more pressure on their out-of-touch leaders. The planet is burning while the G8 is fiddling,” said Kumi Naidoo, Co-chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP).

No great expectations... no surprises

GCAP Philippines activist Ana Maria Nemenzo on the first day outcomes of the G8 summit in Japan.

GCAP Philippines: Activists dress up as Bush and Fukuda during the G8 domination protest

More pictures at http://s316.photobucket.com/albums/mm351/G8FDCaction

G8 Day Three: Anti-poverty campaigners frustrated by shaky G8

"In our view the G8 fails dismally to provide the global leadership the word is expecting from them. In light of the scale of global challenges we face right now, it’s a real shame" (Toko Tomita, TICAD IV NGO Network and Hunger Free World)

Global anti-poverty campaigners say G8 come out shaky on climate, food, development and Africa - 2008-07-08 - Japan

REACTION FROM: INDONESIA, PHILIPPINES, CANADA, BENIN, UGANDA, SOUTH AFRICA AND JAPAN

GCAP del.icio.us links for 08/07/08

 

GCAP Philippines: End G8 domination protest - Manila, Philippines

Groups representing workers, farmers, women and the youth troop to the Japanese Embassy in Pasay City, Manila to dramatize the protest against the global economic domination of rich nations that has burdened poorer nations like the Philippines.

Kumi Naidoo, GCAP Global Council Co-chair, giving an interview to UK Channel 4 news

Kumi Naidoo talks about the G8, food crisis, aid, and other issues.

GCAP co-chair Kumi Naidoo talks to UK Channel 4 News

Video: Kumi Naidoo talks to John Snow from Channel 4 News in the UK about the G8 summit (interview starts around 1:37 on video)

G8 Day Two: Summit start a damp squib

Amidst the pouring rain the summit in Japan started with G8 leaders meeting with counterparts from some of the world's poorest African nations at the Africa Outreach day, a series of meetings to discuss G8 commitments to the continent.

G8: The world's wishes are in front of you. Don't cut them down.

A full page advert ran today in the International Financial Times.

GCAP del.icio.us links for 07/07/08

 

'G8 leaders' confronted with our Tanabata wishes

'G8 leaders' stand amongst thousands of balloons representing over one million wishes for action now on aid, education, health, the food crisis and climate change.

Tanabata wishes at the G8 summit

Balloons and banners represent the over one million wishes gathered demanding action now from the G8 leaders at their 2008 summit in Japan.

G8 Day One: Explosive beginning for GCAP campaigning

After a windy start , GCAP's mobilisation at this year's G8 got off with a bang at the opening of the Alternative Summit in Sapporo. We joined forces with the Oxfam mobilisation team on the ground and negotiated some challenges (including the simultaneous bursting of about 100 small balloons) to present the Tanabata petition and our key messages using thousands of white balloons.

Medics fight with the G8 to get back the promised $50million for healtcare

GCAP campaigners Anil and Shukria pose as medics from developing countries fighting with the G8 leaders to keep the $50 billion promised for healthcare.

GCAP campaigners hand over petitions to G8 delegates

Yesterday GCAP campaigners in Canada, Germany, Italy, Russia and the UK handed over the Tanabata petitions to the G8 delegations.

UK's Drop the debt - whiteband paperchain

Drop the Debt collected over 10,000 offline petitions for the G8

Gordon Brown sent off to Japan with 60,000 wishes for action

UK campaigners have sent Gordon Brown off to the G8 in Japan with strong anti-poverty messages. On 3 July, a Tanabata tree and a 60,000 strong petition were delivered to the Prime Minister’s door.

G8 wishes for Canada's Stephen Harper

Make Poverty History activists in Ottawa deliver thousands of wishes from Canadians to Prime Minister Stephen Harper before he leaves for the 2008 G8 meeting in Japan.

GCAP Germany hands over Tanabata petition to Bernd Pfaffenbach

Deine Stimme gegen Armut campaign send G8 sherpa Bernd Pfaffenbach off to Japan with a bamboo tree brimming with Tanabata wishes gathered in Germany. Credit VENRO Peter van Heesen

G8 leaders to make their own Tanabata wishes

Japanese 'taiku' drummers, rallies, bamboo trees and hand-shakes... Today, to send them off well-prepared on their journeys to Japan, G8 prime ministers and delegates in Canada, Germany, Italy, Russia and the UK were presented with over 1 million Tanabata wishes demanding Action Now.

GCAP Germany brings 10,000 wishes to the chancellory

Japanese 'taiku' drummers, 200 people and 10,000 wishes were gathered in front of the German Chancellory ahead of the G8 2008 in Japan

G8 cannot ignore the voices of the people - 2008-07-03

‘TANABATA’ WISHES DELIVERED AROUND THE WORLD AHEAD OF G8

GCAP people at the G8

GCAP members will be at the G8 meeting in Japan.

Don't let greed win over justice

The Financial Times (FT) ran an alarming article uncovering that "Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations are set to backtrack on their landmark pledge at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 to increase development aid to Africa to $25bn a year."

G8 – what’s in your suitcase?

On July 7th, leaders of eight of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nations – the G8 – will pack their suitcases and travel to Hokkaido, Japan for their annual meeting.

UK campaigners send off Gordon Brown to the G8

60,000 wishes for action were delivered to Gordon Brown ahead of his trip to the G8 2008 summit in Japan Credit: Oxfam

G8 2008

Photos and images from G8 related actions during 2008

GCAP Campaigners let the Tanabata action fly at the G8 summit

G8 leaders get the message at the summit: we want Action Now on aid, education, health and climate change!

GCAP hands over People's wishes to the Japanese Prime Minister

GCAP Korea representative, Hykungung Kim was one of a group of international NGOs to meet Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda in Tokyo on Wednesday June 18th. She also tied a white and, the symbol of the campaign, around the wrist of the Prime Minister who stood for a photograph beside the campaign symbol, a Tanabata bamboo tree.

GCAP Korea representative hands over Tanabata wishes to Japanese PM

 

Man-Made solutions to Man-Made Problems - 2008-06-12

Opinion Piece

Tanabata send-off with popular mobilisation in Russia - Russia

In Russia hand-in popular mobilisation events will happen in several cities Tyumen, Tolyatti, Nizhnij Novgorod, Vladimir, St. Petersburg and possibly the Japanese embassy in Moscow.

Azerbaijan: International Cartoon Web Contest - Azerbaijan

GCAP Azerbaijan are running a «G8» INTERNATIONAL CARTOON WEB CONTEST open to all cartoonists to send their wishes for action to the G8 leaders meeting in Japan.

G8 Summit Action - Hokkaido, Japan

 

Tanabata send-off for Canada's Stephen Harper - Ottawa, Canada

In Ottawa, Canada, the send-off action on July 3 in front of the Prime Minister’s office will deliver a Tanabata tree decorated with people’s wishes.

Tanabata send-off for Germany's Bernd Pfaffenbach - Berlin, Germany

In Berlin a press conference organized by the Deine Stimme gegen Armut campaign will be followed on July 3rd by a rally in front of the Chancellory during which dozens of bamboo trees, will be tied with strips of paper/wishes, accompanied by Japanese 'taiko' drummers. In the afternoon a delegation of NGO reps will hand over a bamboo tree with "wishes" and demands by development NGOs to G8 sherpa Bernd Pfaffenbach.



Tanabata send-off for UK's Gordon Brown - London, UK

GCAP UK will be doing a hand-in to Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street in London on July 3rd with a decorated bamboo Tanabata tree. Oxfam, World Vision and CAFOD are amongst the groups involved as well as BOND and partner networks promoting the action including trade unions.

G8 2008 - GCAP demands

GCAP has concrete demands for the G8 governments meeting in Japan, in the areas of Aid, Climate Change, Debt, Education, Food Crisis, Gender Equality and Women's Rights, Health, HIV/AIDS and Water and Sanitation.

London 18 Jan 2008 - Card's handover to Japanese Embassy 1

 

G8 2008/Tanabata Web Banners

Use these banners and images to link back to the G8 action page 2008 http://www.whiteband.org/actionnow

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