Students from Manchester are coming to the G20 for all sorts of reasons. Students will be the future, and the G20 is playing with ours and everyones futures, in an unsatisfactory way. Many student groups are coming down, from those involved in Oxfam and Fair Trade, to political groups, from people usually out of the activist limelight, to committed campaigners.

The G20 are playing with everyone’s lives, so we’re coming down to make sure they behave. Ultimately, with governments of the world wasting money on bailing out the bankers and all sorts of other ridiculous enterprises, students are pissed off that their futures are ignored, in that education funding is paltry, and nobody is adequately responding to climate change, which will effect the youth of today but not the bankers of today. We’re coming down to make this message clear, and we recommend as many other students do too!

- University of Manchester Students Union

March 23rd, 2009 Put People First