Whether you wore a white band, sent an email or if you were one of the 250,00 people who came to Edinburgh to make their voices heard, the fact that global poverty was at the top of this year’s G8 agenda is thanks to you and thousands like you.
In the event, the G8 leaders failed to respond fully to the challenge that this historic movement of people placed before them.
It is imperative that world leaders do more – and we need your help to keep the pressure up when they meet in September to discus the Millennium Development Goals, in December for trade talks at the World Trade Organisation and on into 2006.
All the great movements in history, whether it was the anti-apartheid movement, the civil rights movement or the women’s emancipation movement, took some time to achieve their goals but ultimately succeeded.
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