‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in a network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects others indirectly.’ – Martin Luther King Jr.

Never has this statement been truer than in today’s world, where global trade and production lines mean that my lifestyle choices directly affect my neighbours thousands of miles away. Many of the most powerful governments and institutions in the world believe that ‘Free Trade’ is the way forward – enabling businesses to operate in any country in the world without barriers or taxes from host nations getting in the way. However, local companies and producers in these nations are often the ones who lose out...

SPEAK, as part of the Trade Justice Movement, is campaigning for trade justice. We believe that each of us can take actions which affect our global neighbours for good and not for harm. Inequality - The three richest people in the world control more wealth than all 600 million in the world's poorest countries
Poverty - 2.8 billion people - nearly half the world’s population - live on less than $2 per day
Unfair Rules – Unfair trade rules deny poor countries $700 billion every year
Imbalance - At the last full meeting of the WTO the EU had 500 negotiators and Haiti had none.