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No to globalization, make history: shut down the G8. In Gleneagles, Scotland in 2005 they were more than 10,000, while in Heiligendamm, Germany in 2007 it was a record 50,000 or more protester all resolve in there call to save humanity. Despite the massive police presence Germans, Serbs, Croats, Nigerians, Ghanaians, Americans etc all stand side by side forming a bulwark, a human wall with there hands linked together in spite of being tear gas, pepper spray and douse with water cannon, chanting anti-globalization songs, most of them were even arrested. Symbolically also, similar protest were also taking place all over the world.

Why, is the world united in its resolve to halt a process that has advance the course of humanity in its entire ramification? The process of Globalization has its root from the 19th and 20th century when nation states have started crystallizing and competing for sphere of influence around the world, long before it was "discovered" by Raymond Vernon in the 1980's. Globalization is a cloned but advance form of capitalism and imperialism.

Globalization in its current variant started manifesting immediately after the second world war, a period that also witness the ascendancy of the United States in global politic. The death of colonial rule, due most to the decolonization struggles of third world society and emerging states actors and the collapse of Soviet Union due to its policies of Glasnost and Perestroika which signal the end of the cold war and also accelerate this process. From the late 1980's the advancement in the use of computers, satellite technologies and fibre optics among other scientific and technological wonders made it possible for information and communication to be process in seconds and in massive amounts to any part of the world.

Globalization is a fluid and emotive concept, whose various interface can best be apprehended through an in depth study of the concept of capitalism. Globalization have impacted positive, just like capitalism on economic growth, technological development and cultural advancement, so also, like capitalism it has brought untold miseries, pains and abysmal poverty to an overwhelming majority of humanity.

Most of the protesters in Gleneagles in 2005 and Heiligendamm in 2007 are protesting in other to pressure the G-8 developed countries and their policy makers to adopt the best rule for governance as it relate to the global economy so as to mitigate or eradicate the deleterious effects

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