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G20 Focus: The Anti Anarchist

I’ve been watching anger build for weeks about the G20 summit, including in myself. The paradox of 85% of the world’s power and wealth coming to London in the form of world leaders to discuss the crumbling financial system vs years, as a campaigner, telling the same world leaders that the financial system that served them so well is not working...

Submitted by Vikky.Wilkes

G20 Focus: Capitalism Doesn't Work

It was almost over before it even started. An old guy dressed up as a "banker-eating zombie", who served as our assembly point, did not appreciate being told by police to stand outside rather than inside London Bridge train station. Nonetheless, around 50 of us set off with the heart of the financial crisis in our radars, with our "Capitalism Isn...

Submitted by Jody.McIntyre

G20 Focus - Lemmer's Rogue Report

At the G20 protests, there was one group of people awaiting the action more eagerly than the anarchists. Cameras at the ready, press passes dangling around their necks, some with PRESS labelled hard hats and knee pads, the media of the world were ready for… well, it appears the media isn’t really sure what it was witnessing.

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer

G20 Focus: The Bank Riots

After a couple of minutes of milling around, the numbers had well and truly arrived, with our London Bridge contingent bringing the most. For me this represents the truth, because it is financial crimes and our flawed system of capitalism which is behind every problem the world faces today. Wars are run purely for profit, companies emitting huge...

Submitted by Jody.McIntyre

G20 Focus: Black Horse Down

This article was written as we were being barricaded in the city of London by a mass of Police officers, after participating in the G20 Meltdown protest to mark the G20 summit hitting our city on Thursday 2nd April 2009. The protest was organised as a message to the 20 world leaders gathering in London that the people were no longer going to...

Submitted by ben.anderson

G20 Focus: Inside Climate Camp

The atmosphere was buoyant, the sun was shining and we were all getting into the festival spirit, complete with face painting, huge games of snakes and ladders and upbeat drum music. Admittedly, it was a little bit odd that all this was taking place not in a field in Somerset, but on a street deep in the city of London, Bishopsgate to be precise,...

Submitted by Kevin E.G. Perry

G20 Focus: The Anti Anarchist

Submitted by Vikky.Wilkes

G20 Focus: Climate Rush

The future’s bright, as long as the future’s green. So the ‘Financial Fools Day’ protests were attended by thousands and seen by millions, but the spectacle it became was as useless as a stock market trader promising they’ll take care of your money.The whole point of the day was ruined through the actions of a few,...

Submitted by lance.boyd

Blog: Russell Myrie

As a wise person once said, these are some very crucial and critical times. Massively so. The next few days could well decide how the next few years and decades pan out. In the immediate future however, the global economic crisis needs to be sorted out somehow, someway.It's so crucial that the Obama's first international visit (sorry to my cuzzes...

Submitted by Russell.Myrie

Feature: Financial Fools' Day

This Wednesday, April 1st 2009, will be a protestors dream. Twenty-four hours before the leaders of the world's richest nations meet for the G20 summit in London, groups will be taking to the streets across the capital to make their message clear - Capitalism Is Not Working. The Put People First March on Saturday was only the start! To make...

Submitted by Jody.McIntyre