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The Global Justice Now tent was a vibrant hub of energy and activity all weekend. As well as joining the picket lines, we hosted 14 events from Friday to Sunday, which ranged from extremely-well-attended to so-popular-you-couldn’t-get-near-the-tent. Our Corporate Courts vs Climate Justice workshop was especially popular - completely packing out the tent two days in a row!
On Saturday, dozens of people showed up to hear from Lourdes Huanca, a Peruvian activist and feminist who spoke to us of the fight against oligarchy and patriarchy in Peru, and for full equality for women and migrants everywhere.
Comedian Mark Thomas closed the Friday for us with his Evening Rant and, as well as giving us all a good laugh, he left us with the rousing words: “There is not one single progessive law in this country that didn’t start as a popular movement, with grass-roots people taking action. It’s always up to people to change things. We make the change.”
This weekend has shown us that we can work across divides and differences for a common goal; it gives us a very real reason to be hopeful. We are learning to work together, to expose the injustice and unsustainablity of our current economic system, and fight for something better.
We couldn't have done it without all our incredible volunteers and activists. Thank you everyone who helped with setting up, packing away, outreach, and in particular our amazing youth network, who ran some incredible, and extremely popular, workshops.
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