G8 protests in Evian

Submitted by martin on 16 May, 2003 - 9:52

By Dan Katz
Evian, a small French town on the border with Switzerland, will be the heavily guarded venue for the G8 summit, to be held at the start of June.
Protesters will assemble around an exclusion zone, converging on the French side around Annemasse and, over the Swiss border, in Geneva. Anti-capitalist camps and "villages" will settle on both sides of the border. Activists from dozens of campaigns and political organisations will attempt to blockade roads leading to Evian, and prevent delegates, many of whom will be staying in Geneva, from attending.
Four-counter summits - on debt, the WTO, pensions and privatisation, and on Iraq - will convene on Saturday 31 May. And on Sunday 1 June mass demonstrations will take place on both sides of the border. The protests will continue until 3 June when the summit is scheduled to end.

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