Issue 5 – Thursday 3 August
A Message from Lloyd
Lloyd Russell-Moyle
The Democracy Centre on camp is one of the largest and, by all accounts, one of the most exciting centers on camp. We have a number of main areas of work, from the PARTY Court – where drug companies to the asylum process will be put on trial – to the Youth Parliament, is it all happening down in the Kent Pavilion.
Six years ago world leaders gathered and agreed the eight Millennium Development Goals to help improve the lives of thousands of millions of people around the world. Unfortunately those world leaders have failed the people of the world, they will not be able to meat the targets in time. Young people here at Global Village have been meeting daily to look at what they can do to make the difference. Often protest makes us feel good but the young people who have been filing through the doors of the Youth Parliament are committed to making and creating change to this world that is effective as well as making us as individuals feel good.
From today the Youth Parliament will be working differently, with the Cocoa Parliament today looking at making fair trade reality for everyone. On Friday we will be creating six commissions around the questions that have been published in todays paper. We need villages to send at least two people to participation in these commissions. These groups will research and work to get answers and actions to the questions that the parliament is working towards.
Actions are the name of the game and the commissions will be open on Saturday and Sunday for people to feed into and devise how we can change this world into a better, fairer place. The commissions will present their work to the whole of Global Village for the final youth Parliament and Declaration of Youth Empowerment on Monday. The commission will be making decisions how we can change this world where past generations have failed.
We can make a difference but only if we stand strong and create change that is a reality, we will make a difference if young people of the world stand up together. We can stand together only if everyone at Global Village starts that chain reaction.