Glastonbury 2024: Greenpeace share plans to promote “protest, activism and voting”
nme.comGlastonbury‘s charity partner Greenpeace has announced its programme for this year’s festival, promising to “change hearts and minds” and encourage “protest, activism and voting” ahead of the UK’s General Election.This year’s Greenpeace Field is set to focus on three “central pillars” for “effective climate action” – protest, activism and voting.
The General Election will take place the week after Glastonbury on July 4.“Greenpeace is uniting the British public to push the next government – whoever it is – to take climate change seriously,” the charity said in a press release.The charity have also launched a campaign called Project Climate Vote, which is aiming to raise awareness of how voting is “the most impactful action you can take for the climate”.
Greenpeace is asking festivalgoers to “pledge to be a Climate Voter” and vote with the planet in mind while also encouraging others to do the same.“Project Climate Vote isn’t party political.
But it is a vital way to force all political parties to massively up their game,” they said.The line-up of artists performing at the Greenpeace Field has also been confirmed.
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