Polly Higgins, international human rights lawyer and founder of the campaign gave a recorded presentation to an audience of over 200 at the Sub Rooms in Stroud. The fast growing campaign team all took part in the event. Trish Dickinson hosted a ‘Conversation Cafe’  where the audience discussed their feelings and thoughts about what they had learnt and committed to actions to take the campaign forward. Simon Hamilton from the Hamilton Group also addressed the gathering. Local singing group Eco Voices sang an Earth Chant, and we were priviledged to hear Tessa and Keith McGinn.

The event inspired the ‘Rolls to Rio’ local campaign, in which hundreds of people of all ages and backgrounds, including lots of school children, wrote their own personal messages to Prime Minister David Cameron asking him to attend the Rio Summit and call for Ecocide to be made a fifth crime against peace. Many turned into works of art. The campaign team managed to get signatures by having stalls on the street and by attended local events. The scrolls were presented to Local MP Neil Carmichael. He was lobbied him hard and promised to deliver them in person to the PM.

Look Again was honoured to contribute to the campaign by documenting it through photography.