poDcast 22: G8, are you listening?

The world wants peace, justice, and greener policies. Solana Larsen speaks to protesters, journalists and bloggers who are finding new ways to get the message across at the annual meeting of global leaders.

8 - 06 - 2007

Welcome to the openDemocracy's poDcast.

This week we discuss the different ways world citizens have been engaging with the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. Climate change and poverty in Africa are high on the agenda for the leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. But will they really respond to demands from global social justice activists? There's only one way to find out.

Solana Larsen talks to Ricken Patel from Avaaz.org in New York, German journalist Jan Hendrik Becker and openDemocracy columnist Patricia Daniels who has been reporting on the Alternative G8-Summit in Rostock and much more on our openSummit blog.

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Let's become unstoppable

from English Blog on Tue, 2007-06-12 09:12

365,000 of us stood together at the G8 summit to save our planet. 200,000 of us added our voices to the global chorus in the last 10 days alone. Gazing out on the Baltic, amazed, tired and humbled, taking a deep breath. You're here too. Overhead, the p...

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media.toad said:

Tue, 2007-06-12 16:32

Hiya, we are a group of media activists and just returned from the anti-G8 action. While in Germany we have been producing a daily podcast about the actions, meetings and workshops we attended. I listen regularly to the openDemocracy podcast and certainly during the G8 we took a dfferent approach and interviewed very different people. It might offer some additional insight to oD podcast listeners... Go here to find out yourself and listen to our podcasts: http://www.flashradio.wordpress.com