The latest G8 summit took place at a plush mountaintop hotel on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, where 21,000 police were mobilized. em>Walden Bello spoke to Democracy Now about the declarations of the summit and the attempts to keep activists at bay

Walden Bello outlines the development of the G7 and G8 in his speech at the opening plenary of the People’s Summit in Hokkaido, Japan.

Nick Beams reports on the lack of co-ordinated policies from the world’s major national governments at the G8 summit