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IMC REPORT | G8 What Really Happened? CLICKABLE LINKS this time.

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IMC REPORT | G8 What Really Happened?
by IMC News Blast Collective


IMC News Blast About G8 Events

IMC NEWS BLAST | Tuesday, July 24, 2001

GENOA G8: What happened?


A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound from the Independent Media Center network, http://www.indymedia.org. (Links to various sources of IMC coverage of Genoa G8 are at end of this blast.)

by Indymedia News Blast Team


CONTENTS
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A. SUMMARY OF EVENTS
B. ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS
C. BACKGROUND AND COMMENTARIES
D. PHOTOS AND VIDEO
E. AUDIO
F. PRINT
G. THE GENOA SOCIAL FORUM (GSF)
H. SELECTED ALTERNATIVE PRESS LINKS
I. CONTINUING IMC COVERAGE


A. SUMMARY OF EVENTS

Over 200,000 people converged on Genoa, Italy this past weekend to express dissent against the closed meetings of the Group of 8 and the policies they espouse and to discuss alternatives to the current undemocratic nature of global social and economic planning. The \'G8\' - leaders of the world\'s most economically powerful countries - meet yearly to discuss general international policy directions.

Solidarity demonstrations against the G8 summit and the police violence that has characterized it, have been organized worldwide in Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Bologna, Boston, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Finland, Greece, Helsinki, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Madison, WI, Manchester, Melbourne, Miami, Milan, Montreal, Naperville, IL, New York, Oslo, Paris, Peru, Philadelphia, Portland, Rome, Salzburg, S
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