We The 99 People’s Summit: The World Belongs to the Many, Not the Few
11 November 2025
While the world’s most powerful economies meet behind closed doors at the G20 Summit (22–23 November 2025) at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, movements from across Africa and the Global South will gather under the banner of We the 99, about 10 kilometres away at Constitution Hill, to offer human and practical alternatives to a global economic system rigged in favour of elites and billionaires.
From 20 to 22 November 2025, We The 99% People’s Summit for Global Economic Justice will transform the historic Constitution Hill into a living space of resistance, imagination, and renewal. A people’s counterpoint to the Group of Twenty’s policies that have deepened inequality and ecological crisis worldwide.
Bringing together grassroots movements, workers, artists, and activists from across the globe, the People’s Summit will expose the structural injustices sustaining the current economic order and demand a just redistribution of wealth, power, and opportunity. It stands as a declaration that those who bear the burdens of unjust debt, austerity, and exploitation will no longer be spoken for, they will speak, act, and organise for themselves.
“Inequality is not a mistake, it is caused by political choices made in boardrooms and cabinet councils by elites and billionaires. They have deepened inequality and destroyed the environment that sustained our communities. We the 99, draw a Redline against this injustice - People before Profit. The people who created this crisis cannot be the ones to fix it. Real solutions to fix this mess must come from We The 99, who are the Global Majority,” said Kearabetswe Moopelo of New Economy Hub, and Programme Coordinator for We The 99 People’s Summit.
“Gen Z around the world have spoken. Young people, workers, carers, and small holder farmers have raised their voices. People on the front line of the climate breakdown and hit by economic inequality have sounded the alarm that enough is enough. The global economic system is rigged for the 1% against the rest of humanity and the planet,” said Jenny Ricks, General Secretary of the Fight Inequality Alliance.
The Summit’s three-day programme will feature political dialogues, movement barazas, art installations, and performances by leading cultural activists including iPhupho L’ka Biko, DBN Gogo, The Brother Moves On, Lebo Mashile, and Maglera Doe Boy. It will culminate in The 99% Uprising Festival, a public celebration of collective resistance and renewal, where art and activism meet to reimagine the world anew.
The We The 99 People’s Summit stands as a bold counterpoint to elite decision making, rooted in the conviction that global economic governance must be reimagined by and for the people. Over three days, Constitution Hill will become a living demonstration of people-centred alternatives: spaces for learning, strategising, and celebrating the power of the many over the few.