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Wednesday June 25, 2008 13:43
by foxy pirate
This year's G8 will be held in Hokkaido, Japan. There are many issues on the table, but one of the most crucial is fighting and explaining the worsening oppression of migrants in Europe and North America.
That means a challenge to all to explain to the ordinary workers and middle class of both Europe and North America that recent laws have disallowed family members join their relatives, criminalised migrants and hardened their living conditions.
None of this has secured the lifestyle or jobs of supposed "native Europeans".
Europe's 174 detenion centres are a secret shame barely hidden. Each year an estimated 3,600 migrants drown in their attempt to enter the EU in Spanish waters alone.
http://www.icmpd.org/
That government admits only one in three bodies are recovered. Ending this evil does not begin within fortress Europe. Ending that evil means ending the states of denial .
The G8 Media Network is a network of independent journalists and grass-root media organizations in Japan. It was established to report on the voices and activities relating to the 2008 G8 Summit to be held in Lake Toya in Hokkaido Japan.
Since last July, they are working with NGOs and grass-root groups in order to report on the global issues discussed in the G8, such as poverty, economic developments, environment, human rights and peace initiatives domestically and internationally.
The site is now prepared to co-ordinate reporting and share activism amongst those at the G8 in Japan and those in parallel actions within Fortress Europe and North America.
