ACTION: make a noise about global poverty on 18 September

Millennium Development Goals

Protest against poverty

September 2010

As part of Stand Up and Take Action, a global mobilisation, the TUC is urging people concerned about global poverty to assemble in Westminster to 'Make a Noise for the Millennium Development Goals' from 1pm on Saturday 18 September in Old Palace Yard, opposite the Palace of Westminster. Join us with drums, bells, whistles, pots and pans. The time for silence has passed. It is time to make ourselves heard.

The mobilisation will take place just two days before world leaders meet at the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Review Summit. This is the last realistic chance to deliver the promise to half extreme poverty on time. The TUC has joined with other civil society organisations in the UK to call for action and has written direct to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg MP, who will be leading the UK delegation at the UN summit.

We will record a message that will be played to delegates at the MDG Review Summit in New York from 20-22 September. We are calling on world leaders to 'Keep your promises - deliver a funded, timetabled breakthrough plan to meet the MDGs'.

On 18 September, millions of people across the world will 'Make a Noise for the Millennium Development Goals'. Be one of them!

Please put the date in your own diary, and encourage friends and workmates to attend. And join us on Facebook.

Stand Up and Make a Noise in Westminster is organised by UK campaign groups (including the TUC), facilitated by the Global Call to Action against Poverty (of which Make Poverty History was the UK platform in 2005) and the UN Millennium Campaign.

If you want to organise your own Stand Up and Make Noise event, check the Bond website for further information.