Stand Up and Take Action Against Global Poverty‏

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 today (Saturday 18 September) in Old Palace Yard, opposite the Palace of Westminster.

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.

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.
http://standagainstpoverty.org/suap/