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Campaigning with others
Writing to MPs
Challenging others to work for justice
Calling for an the end to slavery
Nichola Lovett, Rita Syron and Daphne Norden joined the final mile of the 1,000 mile March. A team of marchers from every continent except Antarctica had marched 1000 miles from Northern Ireland, through Scotland, Wales and England to call for the UK government to cut carbon emissions. They began on July 14 and have met MPs, companies and many people with the one message that the UK takes full responsibility for its emissions of greenhouse gases. The march was organised by Christian Aid and ended with a service at St Paul’s Cathedral. Individuals and churches around the UK and those of us at the service in St Paul’s committed themselves to call for a strong and effective climate change bill and to press the government to take a strong stance at the UN climate change meeting in December in Bali. This is vital as climate change is hitting poor countries already, with flooding, drought and unpredictable weather conditions. People are forced from their homes, diseases are increasing but poor countries have contributed virtually nothing to the problem. The lifestyle of a person in the UK contributes ten times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in a year than that of a person in sub-Saharan Africa.
Overseas:
Lending from rich countries to poor has been unjust, irresponsible and self-interested. Loans have financed useless or overpriced projects. Loans have financed useless or overpriced projects. Loans and credits have been given to oppressive regimes to buy arms which have been used against their own people. Paying off debts has taken funding from health and education. See www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk
At home:
Many people live on credit. Some are paying 170% interest on cash loans. Debt is on our doorstep. See www.church-poverty.org.uk
2.4 million people are trafficked each year and 1.2 million are children. They are enslaved in agricultural work, domestic work, factories, prostitutions. “Stop the Traffik” is working to stop the sale of people, see traffickers prosecuted and protect the victims of human trafficking. See www.stopthetraffik.org
The UK is the second largest exporter of arms in the world. Arms are for nothing except killing. We have been campaigning to close the Defence Export Services Organisation, a government agency that supports the arms trade. See www.paxchristi.org.uk and www.caat.org.uk
Sisters Kath and Nichola formed part of a human chain around the DESO in a campaign to close it.
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