This demonstration wasn’t challenging inaction on poverty. Today was about challenging the power concentrated in the G8 and the exploitation that results from their power. Essentially, and as the latest step in a continuity of action from Seattle ’99, the protest was a disruption of the image management of the powerful.
The bit I was in involved walking up a road, grinding to a halt, and going home three hours later. I’m exhausted. Might post more later. As for what else went on, I leave as a task for the reader to filter through this lot:
Indymedia coverage
BBC coverage
Bah.