Quoting kmart cowgirl from 17:05, 2nd Jul 2005
just returned from the rally and protest in edinburgh! amazing!
Quoting rae from 19:39, 2nd Jul 2005
Why on earth slag it off? It's something, which is more than's been done before.
with all the millions of non-starving non-african middle-class corporate refugees i encountered in Edinburgh? I hope they were listening well because im pretty sure most of them were more worried if the TV cameras could see their fashionable "make poverty history" wristband or if they had missed Coldplay on the telly than much else...Quoting kmart cowgirl from 23:07, 2nd Jul 2005
But you asked what we did today. You ask what we accomplished, and for the last few lines all I have done is echo your cynicism. But I can tell you what we did today in one line:
We entered a conversation.
Today we saw 500,000 people in Britain and numerous others worldwide enter a converstation about poverty, about debt relief, about aid, trade justice and the problems of Africa. We entered a conversation with ourselves, with our communities and with our leaders.
It is very easy in our western liberal democracies to fain political participation by going to the polls and electing new leaders once every few years. But all too often we forget that those leaders represent us. We don't just have to deliever our opinions and give those leaders mandates on election day, rather we have to be active every day of our lives, because we are confronted with the political every day of our lives.
Today thousands of people took up the challenge to be political, and that is a bold statement in a conversation that has been going on for far too long without the voices of average people. And not only that but in making a fuss, we diverted the attentions of even more people who didn't take up the challenge.
Quoting rob 'f*ck off' wine boy from 00:16, 3rd Jul 2005
Become an Aid worker love.
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