EWJF 2010, A World in Crisis... What is the alternative?

The Edinburgh World Justice Festival 2010 will take place from the 15th to the 23rd of October. In its fifth edition, the Festival centres on the theme: ‘A World in crisis.. What is the alternative?

 2010 is the European Year Against Poverty and Social Exclusion and with only five years left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the people of the world are watching in despair as money continues to be spent on bankers bonuses and illegitimate wars. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Come andget involved, listen and be inspired as organisations and individuals come together to put forward their ideas for positive change.

In the summer of 2005, while the G8 met in Scotland and made promises that have yet to be kept, a people’s movement was born in Edinburgh. Under the banner of “Make Poverty History” a quarter of a million people marched on Edinburgh’s streets calling for an end to man-made poverty through changes to a glaringly unjust global trade system and a suffocating debt burden. Since then, the Edinburgh World Justice Festival has continued to keep world justice issues on the agenda in our city.

You don’t have to have any prior knowledge of the issues to join in, all of the venues are accessible and all events are free.  The range of organisations and individuals contributing to the festival, as well as the variety and quality of the events they are delivering, are testament to what can be achieved when we all work together.

Have a look to the scheduled events. We hope that you can come and join us.

The Festival is organized  by a small group of volunteers, so your help would be very much appreciated.
We usually meet on the 4th Monday of every month, at 7:30 p.m. in Edinburgh, but we will hold extra meetings in the weeks prior to the Festival.  Venues may also change, so if you plan to attend our meetings, please contact us t by emailing:

info@ewjf.org.uk.