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
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TUC press release – 23 March 2009
As the global trade union movement publishes its statement to the G20 summit today (Monday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has said that the “stakes for the G20 summit are incredibly high” and that “it cannot be allowed to fail”.
Brendan Barber said: “This is a truly global crisis and the first recession to flow from a collapse in the financial system since the 1930s. Individual states can make a difference, but in a global crisis we need a global response.
“But there are worrying signs that the G20 leaders will not rise to the occasion. While there does seem to be a consensus to do something about tax havens, reports suggest that European leaders are resistant to a fiscal stimulus while the USA is opposed to more global regulation.
“We need both – as today’s global union statement makes clear. Without a big co-ordinated fiscal stimulus this could be a deep and dangerous recession that may easily turn into a prolonged slump. Read more…
March 23rd, 2009
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With millions of devotees in the UK, it’s a fair bet to say that thousands of people coming to the Put People First march on 28 March will be members of Facebook.
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February 24th, 2009
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PRESS RELEASE – 11 Feb 2009
A huge new platform of unions, development agencies, faith and environmental groups plans to tell world leaders attending the G20 summit in April that only just, fair and sustainable policies can lead the world out of recession.
The alliance, which includes the TUC, Oxfam, ActionAid, Friends of the Earth and CAFOD, is calling on people to join a major demonstration for jobs, justice and climate in London on Saturday 28 March, five days before the summit.
Under the banner Put People First – March for Jobs, Justice and Climate, the groups will demand decent jobs and public services for all, an end to global poverty and inequality, and a green economy.
The march will assemble on the Embankment en route to Hyde Park for a rally to be addressed by speakers and celebrities from the UK and around the world. Read more…
February 11th, 2009
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