Put People First: G20 Counter Conference Saturday 7 November 2009 Westminster Central Hall - London

Alternatives to the G20 - Book NOW!http://www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk/autumn/counterconference


In March, we marched in our tens of thousands to demand the G20 Put People First. But so far the G20 has only tinkered round the margins of the global economy, in an effort to return to business as usual. 

On 7 November, as the G20 returns to the UK, the agenda is to nurse an already failed economic model back to life, while looking to sew up an unjust international climate deal outside the UN process.

The G20 bailed out the banks to the tune of billions, and now the only choice offered is what cuts are made to pay for it. 

Government intervention to create a Green New Deal is slipping off the agenda, and yet strong alliances are forming - environmentalists and trade unionists have been standing side by side at Vestas to save the UK’s largest wind turbine factory.

• In the run up to Copenhagen, how do we get a global agreement that truly puts climate justice at its heart?
• How do we respond to the jobs crisis and growing poverty around the world?
• How do we ensure the global green new deal the world needs?
• How we do we show that cuts are not the only option, and demonstrate what Putting People First really looks like?

This counter-conference will bring together activists, campaigners, academics, trade unionists, policy makers and YOU to share ideas on what the alternatives are to cuts, cuts and more cuts, and how we must organise across our issues, of jobs, justice and climate, to make the alternative the reality.

Speakers include:

• Lidy Nacpil, Jubilee South
• Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Danish prime minister and president of the Party of European Socialists
• Louise Plaatjes, UNI Africa
• Andrew Simms, new economics foundation
• Vincent Dlamini, Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions
• Jon Cruddas MP
• Deborah Doane, World Development Movement
• Diane Elson, University of Essex
• Jesse Griffiths, Bretton Woods Project
• Noel Hatch, Compass Youth
• Billy Hayes, general secretary of CWU
• John Hilary, War on Want
• Vimbai Mushongera, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
• Catherine Howarth, FairPensions 
• Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Friends of the Earth
• Neal Lawson, Compass
• Larry Lohman, The Corner House
• Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper
• Mel Whitter, UNITE

Book your FREE place now for an inspirational day of discussion and organising.
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