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Date: 16 April 2005 10:11:13
Well, I'm home from the Wake up to Trade Justice
and am feeling wrecked, but well happy.
The event wasn't quite what was expected, organisers said they were expecting about 4 to 5,000 in the event about 25,000 people turned up!!! This was brilliant but meant that there were too many people to be able to get into all the venues we wanted to. Mind you we weren't complaining, it was one of those really positive cases of the unexpected.
Anyway it was still a good night, particularly as it remained dry and reasonably warm. Probably my most surreal aspect and favourite moment came at about 1:30am this morning. I was sitting in St.Martin-in-the-Field church (Trafalger Square), looking at the architecture, listening to Thea Gilmore playing a folk version of the Buzzcocks song, 'Ever Fallen in Love with Someone you Shouldn't Have Fallen in Love With?', with Third Party dozing on my lap. Now that's the sort of thing I kinda hope heaven is like.
And finally, before I get some sleep, if anybody is in any doubt what it's all about, and why we want to Make Poverty History and achieve Trade Justice, a statistic we heard last night was a child dies every 8 seconds. That's the eviqualent of a jumbo jet full of children every 30 minutes. If God really created everybody with equal worth we can't continue to treat some life as more important than other.