The Global Race Equality Action Trust – GREAT TRUST, a race equality and human rights think and doing tank headquartered in the UK, hails the election of Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States of America as the beginning of a new dawn of equal opportunities, diversity and genuine democracy.

A spokesman for the GREAT TRUST, Koku Adomdza, who is also President of Friends of Obama UK said that “This is an historic moment that demonstrates the power of equality, diversity and unity, the power of good people working together for progressive change. This is victory for new platforms, new ideas, new approaches and new solutions to the problems that afflict society. It is a clear message that it is time to turn our backs on the old bankrupt forms of people organization, leadership and time for a new vision and a sense of direction and purpose for a sustainable world built on the respect of fundamental human rights. We congratulate Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic Party of the United States, his most able campaign team and the American people for heralding a new dawn of hope for all Americans and the world. The GREAT Trust urges other countries, political parties, world leaders and citizens of the world to seize this special moment in history to make the world a better place, a more equal experience and a more perfect world – economically, politically, culturally and socially.

“We of the GREAT Trust feel justified in our ideals, propositions and objectives in building a new global coalition for progressive change, the launch of a new 21st Century renaissance sophisticated enough to withstand the challenges of times, to manifest the concept of one human race and fundamental human rights for everybody. A new Dawn has broken, bigotry has been dealt a devastating blow but the work now enters a new phase that requires new ideas and models.”

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Notes to Editors

The Global Race Equality Action Trust – GREAT Trust is a progressive think and doing tank that advocates for new platforms, schools of thought, approaches and solutions to race equality and human rights issues. While we salute the selfless contributions of genuine race equality and human rights champions from all walks of life, who often operate in difficult circumstances, we consider the untold human misery that engulfs the majority citizens of the world as an indictment of the inadequacies of the status quo that can no longer hold. Resistance to progressive change, fear of power and wealth-sharing, lack of vision and responsible leadership have blighted the necessary transformation required to consolidate the sacrifices and gains of yesteryears, prevent the necessary advancement of the race equality and human rights agenda, and above all threaten to roll back the successes of the past. The GREAT Trust signals and communicates the fierce urgency of time and hope to traverse this inertia. We call on all people over the world to stand up and fight for their fundamental human rights, reject the old approaches that have so abysmally failed to withstand the test of time and cowered in the phase of adversity, organise together on a new platform to effect progressive change and make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place.

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