Contrary to popular media portrayal, the ones protesting aren’t a hive mind.  There’s many agendas, some reasonable (i.e.: opposition to the trade barriers placed on many poor countries), some not (the “more foreign aid!!” types come to mind…).  But looking at the big picture, even if someone doesn’t really have much of an agenda, it still makes sense to be skeptical, simply because of what such an organization means.  The existence of the G8 itself is a statement, and that statement is “well, the economies of the nations we claim to represent make up a lot of the global economy, so lets pat ourselves on the back and bend the whole thing to our will”.

A free market domestically doesn’t require national councils yammering about what goes where.  As such, it should go without saying that a global free market doesn’t require an international one, especially one that assumes by default that the efforts of individuals despite their governments should determine which politicians get to throw their garbage on the rest of the world.  When such a gathering exists, any anti-state type worth their salt should at least raise an eyebrow — it’s obviously not there to bake cookies, y’know…