Commerce Justice At Brighton: Twenty years in the past on Sunday twenty sixth September 2004 I spent the day in Brighton, not with my bucket and spade on the seaside however with my Nikon D100 digital camera, and each a wide-angle and telephoto zoom lenses.
I used to be there with round 6000 different individuals at an occasion organised by the Commerce Justice Motion going to foyer on the Labour Social gathering convention – who at the moment had been in authorities with Tony Blair as prime minister.
In accordance with its site, “The Commerce Justice Motion is a UK coalition of almost sixty civil society organisations, with hundreds of thousands of particular person members, calling for commerce guidelines that work for individuals and planet.“
They need not free commerce however truthful commerce “with the foundations weighted to make sure sustainable outcomes for bizarre individuals and the surroundings. We imagine that everybody has the precise to feed their households, make a good dwelling and defend their surroundings. However the wealthy and highly effective are pursuing commerce insurance policies that put earnings earlier than the wants of individuals and planet.”
And naturally the wealthy and highly effective are nonetheless in cost, nonetheless driving headlong in the direction of international disaster whereas concentrating on amassing international energy and huge fortunes, quantities far past what anybody can truly spend or profit from. Actually the world doesn’t want – and can’t afford – billionaires.
We’d like a fairer system to share the world’s sources, and truthful commerce has a big half to play on this. Again in 2004 the Commerce Justice Motion tried to get our authorities to vary its insurance policies however with little impact – and it’s nonetheless attempting to take action.
On the internet web site they checklist that they’re calling on the UK authorities to:
- Be certain that commerce guidelines enable governments, notably in poor nations, can select the very best options to finish poverty and defend the surroundings;
- Be certain that commerce guidelines don’t enable massive enterprise to revenue on the expense of individuals and the surroundings.
- Be certain that selections about commerce guidelines are made in a method that’s totally clear and democratic.
My description of the day in Brighton in 2004 was that it started with a rally on the promenade and “continued with a march alongside the seafront to the centre the place the Labour celebration annual convention was in session. With round 6000 on the march, it straddled a few quarter-mile of seafront. “
“Exterior the convention centre there was a two-minute silence earlier than an extra a number of minutes of deafening cacophony from whistles, banging on drums and saucepans and the rest that might make a noise.”
“Then poll papers calling for commerce justice had been collected in and put into massive poll containers alongside the seafront. Many individuals had introduced playing cards accomplished by associates and an excellent begin was made in the direction of accumulating the million signatures geared toward.“
On My London Diary I divided the photographs into 4 teams, Common, Audio system, Performers and photos from the March. This now appears slightly complicated, however this was a time when few of these accessing the positioning had been then on broadband. So there have been pages of enormous postage-stamp sized thumbnails which might load moderately quickly, with the instruction “Click on on any picture to load these; they are going to be gradual to obtain except you might be on broadband.“
The hyperlinks on the September My London Diary web page nonetheless go to the pages of thumbnails, however you may go on to the bigger pictures now on the hyperlinks beneath.
Common
Audio system
Performers
March & Poll
Flickr – Fb – My London Diary – Hull Images – Lea Valley – Paris
London’s Industrial Heritage – London Images
All pictures on this web page are copyright © Peter Marshall.
Contact me to purchase prints or licence to breed.
Tags: poll containers, poll papers, Brighton, Caroline Lucas, Christian Support, Code Pink, deafening cacophony, truthful commerce, Common, Labour convention, Labour Social gathering, march, celebration convention, performances, performers, peter Marshall, protest, rally, seafront, Audio system, Commerce Justice, Commerce Justice Motion, two-minute silence
You may depart a response, or trackback from your personal web site.
