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Greenpeace activists occuped four coal-fired power stations in Italy yesterday, as G8 leaders met in L'Aquila to discuss issues including action on climate change. More than 100 Greenpeace activists from 18 countries took part in the protests to draw attention to the group's campaign for action by world leaders on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.In Rome, activists from Oxfam International donned masks of world leaders and dressed up as chefs, stirring a mock Earth in a pot representing the planet's rising temperature.The climate change protests came a day after anti-globalization groups in the capital blocked roads and rail tracks and clashed with police in violent protests against the G8. Nearly 40 activists were detained.The organization also occupied working plants near Venice and Genoa and staged a protest at an old oil-fired power station at Porto Tolle in northern Italy that is being converted to coal.
