| 6.30pm |
Gordon Brown addresses meeting in St Bartholomew's church. |
| 4.30pm |
WDM's Arts of resistance event is fully packed. 400 people
turn up to listen to a lively mix of speakers and music including
a belly-dancing rap artist called Jelly Bone. |
| 3.33pm |
Trade campaigner Pushpanath Krishnamurthy urges everyone:
"Please tell your friends, your family, everyone you know
- and tell them about trade justice." Campaigners head back
along the sea-front. |
| 3.18pm |
People pass their voting cards down to huge transparent ballot
boxes lined up along the sea-front. |
| 3.06pm |
Mass noise starts and is ear-shattering. Banging trays, drums,
saucepans, colanders, tambourines, spoons, campaigners make their
shout for trade justice unmistakeable! |
| 3.04pm |
Trade campaigner Pushpanath Krishnamurthy shouts "Trade
Justice" in four languages, and tells UK campaigners that
they part of a global movement. He counted down the crowd to a
2 minute silence in solidarity with trade campaigners worldwide
which he described afterwords as "deafening." |
| 3pm |
The crowd is still growing as well as the noise as they start
to gather in front of the conference centre. Great carnival atmosphere! |
| 2.12pm |
Campaigners start to march down the seafront accompanied by
samba bands to the front of the conference centre where the Labour
Party are meeting. |
| 1.50pm |
5000 are now gathered on Brighton beach. TV's Casualty star,
Kwame Kwei-Armah says: "It's wonderful that the government
have come to where we are, but we need to know that free trade
is not necessarily fair trade." Neville Gabriel from South
Africa says: "I am here to join hands with you and to say
plainly and clearly that this sort of global economic apartheid
must stop - and it must stop now" |
| 1.05pm |
Rally starts with speakers from Bolivia and South Africa talking
about the experience of poor communities affected by unjust international
trade. Seafront is awash with colours and banners for Trade Justice
announcing campaigners from Burnley to Brighton. |
| 12.33pm |
2000 have now arrived on the beach front near the pier to
be entertained by a lively East African band. Supporter Sharon
Green from Wimbourne in Dorset said: "I am here because I
want to change the international trade rules which mean that the
rich get richer and the poor get poorer." |
| 11.48am |
U2's Bono sends message to campaigners in Brighton: "There's
a melody line coming through that people are starting to pay attention
to...that free trade doesn't equal fair trade... Our job is to
turn the volume up and keep the heat on." > Full
quote |
| 11.30am |
Campaigners start to arrive in Brighton by bus, train and
car |
