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The G20 Aftermath

November 22, 2006

The G20 has been and gone and we can all breathe again! We had some great conversations about the G20 in the lead up and look forward to many more good conversations in the next few weeks. As an organisation, the only thing we really put our name to on the weekend was the prayer vigil on the front of the Collins Street Baptist Church steps. We tried to create a Credo vibe of offering hospitatlity to those who were around by having a sausage sizzle. The march didn't come down Collins Street as we had expected so it was a little bit quieter than we anticipated. However it was a great day. The only real downer was watching 'arterial block' come down Collins Street leaving a path of destruction. Other than that the protest was carnival like. The other downer was that it seems that the G20 didn't really spend much time discussing the relief of extreme poverty.
Here are some of our photos...


It was great to hang out with some of the Collins Street Baptist people, the security guards, regular Credo community punters, journalists and protesters. The sign 'this church is open' was an important one.

Busy cooking the BBQ.

Here we are giving out food to people on Collins Street. We tried to conjure up the images of Jesus feeding the five thousand and the story of 'manna' from heaven. People were quite surprised and grateful for our hospitality... especially the hungry camera crews!

The Narthex in the Church made a great chill out and reflection space for people to think about the "economy of God' where there is enough all. It also stayed nice and cool! We had images projected, candles, ice crosses and blackboards so that people could share their thoughts.

Kyla, ex Urbanseeder, got me a ticket to the Make Poverty History concert... just another thing on that weekend! It was a highly successful concert that was pitched to get particularly young people involved in thinking about issues of poverty. This shot was taken from my camera when Bono and Vedder sang 'Keep on rockin in the free world'!

The 'Credo Cross' sits outside the 'G20 Christian Collective' Embassy.

Posted by brent at November 22, 2006 01:33 PM