Glastonbury festival-goers join Radiohead in Britain's biggest political lobby

Britain's biggest music festival is part of Britain's biggest political lobby as it links to the Trade Justice Movement coalition's campaign for fairer international trade.

Revellers at Glastonbury are joining the fight for trade justice and sending messages to their MPs as part of 'Scale Up for Trade Justice'.

Billy Bragg at Glastonbury's Left Field Stage

Campaigners kicked off the lobby marathon at noon on friday by unveiling a 50 foot banner on the bank behind the Pyramid Stage with the slogan 'Make Trade Work for the Whole World'.

Glastonbury headliners, Radiohead are supporting the campaign. Ed O'Brien, Radiohead guitarist, said: "We want to make sure every MP gets a clear message that British voters want the rules on international trade rewritten."

Supporters of the campaign, which brings 42 organisations together in the Trade Justice Movement, will be paraded across the site setting off from the Green Futures Field on Saturday 28 June, making their way to the Left Field tent.

Over 3,000 people at Glastonbury have signed up to fax their MP so they can lobby them 'virtually' from the festival for trade justice. Over 15,000 people at Glastonbury have signed a petition that will be presented at the WTO summit in Cancun, Mexico, in September. The summit will see trade ministers from all over the world coming together, and will be crucial for the future of world trade, and the futures of millions across the developing world.

Trade Justice Movement member, Oxfam, is also working throughout the festival to sign people up to its Make Trade Fair campaign. Anyone at the Festival interested in finding out more should go to the Trade Justice Movement stall in the Green Futures field where they will be able to join the lobbying and send a message to their MP.

Media contact for the Trade Justice Movement at Glastonbury: Eliot Whittington,

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