Ben Westwood visits Guildford University

I attended Guildford University at the request of Malcolm Darko to give a talk to the students there as a part of the ‘Intellectuals Unite’ campaign.
I decided that I would speak about the main campaigns that I & Climate Revolution have been involved in & why.

The campaigns I spoke about all deal with countering the lies & misinformation being told to us by the ruling elite, corporations & the mainstream media, the ‘official story’. Lies whose intent is to keep telling us that everything is alright, that the world is being run correctly & that we should trust those in authority, let them get on with their business & not interfere.

Unfortunately the damage being caused by this ‘business’ is now staring us more & more in the face & if we don’t act against it billions of people will suffer & potentially die.
The first campaign I mentioned was manmade Climate Change as this is of course mankind’s biggest responsibility & concern for the future & it is within this issue that most of the other campaigns fit. Global Warming, our future.

After this I mentioned the campaigns against Fracking, against drilling for oil in the Arctic, against industrial fishing & polluting the Oceans & about the efforts to save the rainforests of the world.
Other campaigns I mentioned were the ones against TTIP or the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Pact, the campaign to support Julian Assange whose website Wikileaks has given us the true facts behind the ‘official story’. The campaign against imprisonment without trial or charge epitomised by the US military base Guantanamo & in which we successfully managed to secure the release of Shaker Aamer who had been held there for 14 years.

I mentioned the support for the Junior Doctors dispute currently taking place & finished off with the ‘Politicians Are Criminals’ campaign which we instigated here at Westwood & which seeks to illustrate the true state of affairs in the modern world & the importance of finding out information for yourself.

I impressed on the students the importance of taking part in the affairs of the world themselves & about the effectiveness of campaigning.