Friends ‘stand up’ to fight world poverty
Quakers take part in Global Call to Action Against Poverty's campaign
Friends across the country ‘stood up’ last weekend as part of the three day Stand Up campaign coordinated worldwide by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) movement. As well as the symbolic act of literally standing up, repeated in homes, public spaces, schools and churches around the world, participants also lobbied their democratic representatives on the subject of global poverty – and, in the case of Quakers, on the need to connect development issues with a robust approach to combating climate change in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit in December.
It was great that [Lib Dem candidate Tony Hill] could see that people from more than one part of the community were coming together on this ... Tony was in agreement with us on the need for grassroots new ways of thinking.
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