Meredith Bragg: a 15-year-old high school student, she marched with a contingent of Calgary Youth for Human Rights

“I have a lot of problems with the G8. It’s completely undemocratic how they’ve decided to come together. They’ve just decided that they are the most powerful nations and that they can run the entire world following their own rules.

LONDON - "Crumbling" under public protest, the French government reversed it's decision late yesterday (Wednesday, July 18) to cancel the Globalise Resistance train.

The train was scheduled to shuttle 450 activists to Genoa, Italy for the demonstrations against the Group of Eight (G8) summit there. Organizers were informed that the French government's rail company, SNCF, was no longer honouring the booking, despite a fully paid deposit.

July 19-22, Genoa Italy

A ring of steel enclosed 4.5 square kilometres around Ducale Palace. This was the "red zone." Plastic bullets, truncheons, gloved fists, water canons, tear gas canisters and live ammunition met the 300,000 protesters. It was the police and Italy's Carabinieri (paramilitary) in Genoa who instigated the violence during the demonstrations against the Group of Eight (G8).

The most frightening and sinister tactic employed by Italian security forces was the creation of their very own Brown-Shirt Bloc.

Yanar Mohammed is a member of the Committee for the Defence of Iraqi Women’s Rights. She lived in Iraq through the horror of the 1991 Gulf War. Now in Canada, she is part of an international network of Iraqi women organizing to end the sanctions against the country and stop the war.

"The earth is a living being and a conscious presence. And she wants us to survive."

You've said that the anti-war movement "has to be a peace and justice movement." How is our justice different from the justice that George Bush is calling for?

Justice is something that restores a balance. It's not just about revenge - it means you have to address the causes of violence.

Toronto’s peace march on February 15 saw many people out on their firstdemonstration, as well as long-time activists.

Pat Fritzel: this 66-year-old farmer describes herself as a granny who is raging; she drove to Calgary with six other members of the Salmon Arm chapter of the Council of Canadians

“The governments are in the pockets of the corporations. Im concerned about poverty in the third world and in our own country.

LONDON - In an attempt to silence dissent against the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy this week, French authorities have cancelled a train chartered by British protesters.

All of the Globalise Resistance train's 450 seats were filled when organizers were informed yesterday (Tuesday, July 17) by French authorities that the charter was cancelled.

Ticket-holders included environmentalists, trade unionists, teachers, students, pensioners, socialists and children.

Virginia Setshedi: she travelled from Soweto, Johannesburg, to speak out against the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) at the Group of Six Billion (G6B) People’s Summit; an active member of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, she is leading the fight against power privatization in South Afr