G8 Summit in L’Aquila: Best stunts
The 2009 G8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy is now over. Our leaders ended up promising to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions of 80% by 2050, and to work towards keeping temperature levels from rising 2 degrees Celsius, but what we will remember the most of this reunion are the brilliant stunts performed by environmentalists, justice and poverty fighters.
Here are the
best stunts encountered last week during the G8 meeting in Italy:
GCAP
The GCAP, Global Call to Action against Poverty, stunt of July 7th was pacific, but straight to the point. 30 activists putting pressure on huge inflatable pools with the 'press the 8' campaign printed on it, the message could not be more obvious!
GCAP? Is a growing alliance of trade unions, community groups, faith groups, women and youth organizations, NGOs and other campaigners working together across more than 100 national platforms. GCAP is calling for action from the world’s leaders to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.
Aquila’s earthquake victims
L’Aquila’s population, touched by a deadly earthquake last April, welcomed with hate the leaders of this world during the G8 summit. Some 24 000 inhabitants of the region are still without a roof, living in tents after 4 months. To protest against the poor crisis management, some « homeless » showed their discontent with a touch of humor by displaying enormous white letters on a hill nearby Aquila.
“Yes We Camp!” was the slogan they used to refer to Barack Obama’s « Yes We Can» motto, and also to laugh at the comment Silvio Berlusconi made not long after the disaster, suggesting to the refugees to “take it as a weekend camping trip”. That «trip» has been going on for way too long!
Greenpeace
The
most adventurous stunt was surely made by none other than Greenpeace. On July 8, Greenpeace climbers rappel down the face of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming.
Oxfam
#1 Circus Maximus
The
Award for the best executed stunt has to go to Oxfam, a group of non-governmental organizations from three continents working worldwide to fight poverty and injustice. The group staged various stunt photos during G8 meeting, like this one of the Circus Maximus in which the eight world leaders ‘fiddle while Rome burns’, ignoring the world crisis around them.
#2 G8 Feast
On Thursday July 9th Oxfam/UCODEP did another Big Head stunt, to let the G8 know that while they are feasting,
1 out of 6 people in the world go hungry.
#3 Cooking up the planet
My favorite stunt was this one, 8 leaders boiling the planet in a pot while spicing it up with Co2.
On the final day of the G8, here is what
Farida Bena, Head of Oxfam International & Ucodep Campaign office Italy had to say about the awaited reunion:
«[...]after almost 2 years of working, sweating, worrying about the G8 there’s nothing more I can do to squeeze out positive results out of this summit for the world’s poor. What I see instead is yet another series of big announcements, good intentions and no action. The only concrete results have that the G8 now recommends to keep global warming below the ceiling of 2° degrees Celsius and that there seems to be new money on food and agriculture. ‘Seems’ because we still don’t know how much money of the $20 billion pledged is actually new. It might be just another way of re packaging old money pledged in the past. Meanwhile, though,
the number of people who go hungry every day on this planet has gone up to 1 billion…»
Sources & Photo Credits:
www.whiteband.org
Chair Summary of this summit reunion
www.lepoint.fr
Oxfam.org
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