At 6am today three protesters from the Brighton world development movement scaled a crane adjacent to Waverley Bridge in Edinburgh and unfurled their banner.
“No more Brownwash” is a play on "greenwash" according to Andy Player, 37, one of the group’s activists.
“Gordon Brown has been carrying out a marketing campaign to convince trade justice groups, the public and the world that he is serious about making poverty history.
"Actually his plans for debt cancellation and increased aid will simply open up new markets for privatisation and the foreign investment policies that international financial institutions have been peddling for 25 years, and that have made the situation worse.”
Player says the protesters’ actions today, as well as the skirmishes with police yesterday, are a result of widespread disillusionment with the way fair trade solutions have seemingly dropped off the G8 agenda.
“This also comes out of frustration with what happened on Saturday. Instead of the issues being properly presented, we were faced with ill-informed celebrities coming out with platitudes. That frustration was seen on the streets of Edinburgh yesterday.”
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