2004 G8 Protests
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The protests against the 2004 meeting of the G8 Summit in Sea Island, Georgia, took place over the course of several days in the cities of Brunswick and Savannah, Ga.
The protests began with an anti-war march in Brunswick on June 8th and an anti-G8 march in Savannah. A vigil on the night of June 9th attracted 300 people and the Fair World Fair was launched. Tensions between police and protestors grew during an environmental march the following day, during which a group of demonstrators faced down riot police outside of a chemical plant.
The last and most eventful action, the March for a Free Palestine, took place in Brunswick. Several activists made a replica of part of the wall being built between Israel and Palestine, and burnt it to the ground. A breakaway march took over the causeway leading to the G8 meeting and ended in a sit-in in front of a security fence. The police arrested some fifteen people.
The protests were considerably smaller than other American protests over the past few years, including the 2003 Anti-War movement and the Summit of the Americas in Miami seven months earlier. While those events drew thousands of people and sometimes as many as 100,000, the convergence in Georgia drew about 500-700.