It was an international day of protest (also known as J18) timed to coincide with the 25th G8 summit in Cologne, Germany. The carnival was inspired by the 1980s Stop the City protests, Peoples' Global Action and the Global Street Party, which happened at the same time as the 1998 24th G8 Summit in Birmingham .

The negotiations were quickly overshadowed by massive street protests outside the hotels and the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The protests were nicknamed "N30", akin to J18 and similar mobilizations.

2014年5月3日 · Starting at Liverpool Street station and proceeding into the City of London's banking district, the day was to end with the worst rioting in London for a decade, about which the police attributed a...

More than 4,000 people took to the streets of London in protest at the burden of debt owed by the world's poorest countries to the Group of Eight nations. They were joined by about 300 cyclists,...

The protest of the 4,000 J18 marchers escalated into a riot when the demonstrators were hijacked by anarchists who were intent on violence and who targeted unprotected police.

On June 18, 1999, thousands of demonstrators converged at the Liverpool Street train station. Organizers distributed masks in four different colors and the participants broke up into four different marches in order to divide and confuse police; a spontaneous fifth march emerged, as well as a Critical Mass composed of hundreds of bicyclists.

2006年5月12日 · Street protests in London. More info, reports and photos: http://www.urban75.org/j18/index.html (c) urban75.

A special collection is made of materials relating to the Carnival Against Capitalism, better known as “J18”, a riotous protest that took place in the City of London on 18 June 1999. It marked the first of a series of large anti-globalisation protests at international summits in the following years.

2009年6月18日 · So while the 1997 anti-election “Never Mind the Ballots” action seemed to signal a teaming up of the environmental movement, sound system culture and radical sections of the working class, J18 1999 in particular was meant to take that a …

1999年11月26日 · The police in London fear a rerun of the violence that hit the City during the "carnival against capitalism" on 18 June - dubbed J18 - when hordes of anti-capitalist protesters ran amok. And...