War of Words — a blog from War on Want
Welcome to War on Want’s blog — a space to engage with radical opinion and ideas. What you read may not reflect War on Want policy (yet). But we hope it will inspire.
APEC World Leaders Dinner Gets Occupied!
Lots of interesting articles around at the moment, so thought I'd post yet another one : )
Where now for the Occupy protestors?
Interesting little piece on Channel 4 news about the roots of Occupy and what might be next...
DAVE’S BLOG FROM THE G20 COUNTER SUMMIT - PART 3
Final part of the blog from the Nice G20 counter summit.
Dave's blog from the G20 counter summit - part 2
War on Want's Dave Tucker is in Nice at the G20 counter summit
- he is unable to upload his blog at the moment - so I'm puttinghis posts up for him!
Dave's blog from the G20 counter summit - part 1
War on Want's Dave Tucker is in Nice at the G20 counter summit - he is unable to upload his blog at the moment - so I'm putting his first post up for him!
G20 Seoul protests in pictures
For those who haven't seen any photos of the amazing G20 protests in Seoul last week, there's a great selection here courtesy of our friends from Via Campesina and the Transnational Institute. To give a sense of how many people turned out, look at this one:
Forget the G8, this is the D8
You won’t have heard about it in the media, but the D8 has just completed its seventh summit in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The summit declaration committed the eight members of the group to a new trade agreement based on South-South cooperation – the latest in a series of agreements challenging the mercantilist model promoted by bankrupt institutions such as the WTO.
You're sexy, you're cute...
...take off your riot suit. This is amazing! In the wake of the recent G20 policing charade in Toronto, this video seemed very appropriate.
