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• When: Friday 27 January, 6pm
• Where: Roof Room, Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton (near to the train station)

The COP27 climate talks, held in Egypt last November, saw important announcements around providing compensation for countries in the global south which will be badly affected by climate change. But there was little new progress on ending fossil fuel use.

At the same time there was good news on countries leaving the Energy Charter Treaty, an investment deal which is being used to block effective climate action.

James O’Nions, head of activism at Global Justice Now, will join us to talk about what this means for climate justice, and making polluting corporations pay for the climate crisis in 2023. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussing ideas for taking action. We will go to the pub afterwards for a New Year’s Social. Would be great to see many of you there!

On Monday 14 March 2022, we co-hosted an event on vaccine inequality with Global Justice Brighton Youth at Friends Meeting House. Speakers included Nick Deaden (Global Justice Now), Fatima Hassan, (Health Justice Initiative, South Africa) and Megan Schmidt-Sane (Institute of Development Studies, UK).

Global vaccine inequality is the result of our broken pharmaceutical industry, rooted in colonial history that extracts from the Global South to enrich the Global North. Economic rules designed by rich countries drive record profits for multinational companies and block the demands of countries in the Global South to gain control over vaccine production.

The talks focused on how countries in the Global South are fighting back against the profit-driven pharmaceutical system, and what we can do to transform health provision globally to dismantle these colonial dynamics.

We are really looking forward to taking part in Brighton International Women’s Day 2020 on 7 March at Brighton Dome and Brighton Museums. This year’s theme is Women and the Climate Emergency and there is a fantastic programme with many different activities.

Global Justice Now has been campaigning on climate justice for many years. The climate crisis has become impossible to deny for anyone but the most hardened denier, and in many parts of the world women are particularly hard hit by the consequences of it. But they are also often the ones leading the way to tackle the crisis. Also, in November this year the UN climate talks for world leaders (COP26) will be happening in Glasgow.

Dottie Guerrero, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Global Justice Now, will take part in a panel discussion chaired by Caroline Lucas MP on Women and the Climate Emergency at 2.30pm in the Brighton Dome, Concert Hall.

Global Justice Brighton & Hove will be present all day with a stall. We will have lots of material on our current campaigns. This is a great opportunity to meet and chat to us.

One of our priorities for this year will be the post Brexit trade deal being negotiated between the US and the UK. We need volunteers to help run stalls, organise a public event, do outreach, social media and much more.

A recent report by Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, explores how Southern Africa loses billions of dollars every year through trade misinvoicing and unjust debt. ACTSA places these huge financial outflows in the context of unrealised economic and social rights in the region. Listen to the report’s author, Sunit Bagree, discuss the report’s findings and proposed solutions. Sunit, who is Senior Campaigns Officer at ACTSA, will also be available to answer questions on the broader state of human rights in Southern Africa 25 years after the end of apartheid, and the role of international solidarity in supporting contemporary struggles for justice in the region.

Join us for this free public talk at the University of Sussex, Arts A103, Falmer Campus on Wednesday, 30 October 2019 from 6.30pm. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions and answers. Everybody welcome. The venue is wheelchair accessible and can easily be reached by public transport. Please email globaljusticebrightonandhove @ riseup.net with any queries.

This event is organised by Global Justice Brighton & Hove and Global Justice Now Brighton Youth.

Reading:

The Money Drain: How Trade Misinvoicing and Unjust Debt Undermine Economic and Social Rights in Southern Africa

Honest Accounts 2017: How the world profits from Africa’s wealth

 

 

The World Transformed is a four day politics, arts and music festival running alongside the Labour Party Conference in Brighton from 21 to 24 September 2019. Global Justice Now will be present with speakers, including Director Nick Dearden and Head of Policy and Advocacy Dottie Guerrero, at a number of events some of which are listed below; though do check the programme for further events. We will also be present with a stall. See you there!

Empire 2.0 – how do we end Britain’s destructive footprint on the world

Panel • Friends Meeting House – Meeting Room

Date: Sat 21.09.19 at 1pm – 2:30pm

From Empire to the present day, how has Britain’s international economic policy has impacted on the rest of the world (from Slavery and Empire onwards) and what policies do we need to change this?

Everything you wanted to know about climate negotiations but were too afraid to ask

Workshop • Komedia – Studio

Date: Sun 22.09.19 at 9am – 10:30am

The Paris Agreement is done – we’re saved right? No. There’s no point thinking about institutions – leave it to the liberal NGOs, yeah? Also no.

Climate change negotiations may seem impenetrable. They may seem like our best chance to limit ecological breakdown, a necessary evil, or a greenwashing extravaganza. Whatever you think, they are coming to the UK in 2020 and the left better be ready.

This session will be about the politics behind the policy and what we can do over the next 18 months. Activists who want to know what to expect from the COP26 summit, this is your session.

Building a Movement that Supports Migrants

Workshop • Friends Meeting House – Lecture Room

Date: Sun 22.09.19 at 1pm – 2:30pm

Labour needs a compelling, bold vision for challenging racism, exploitation and attacks against migrants. But what does such a vision look like? Who ought to create it? And how can the Labour movement go beyond the existing framework and racist rhetoric set by the media and the right?

This event will launch a migration charter issued by migrant rights groups calling for an immigration policy based on justice, dignity and fairness, and will work with activists to discuss how they can bring this vision into being.

Remain, reform, revolt: In and against Europe

Panel and Discussion • Green Door Stores

Date: Mon 23.09.19 at 11am – 12:30pm

Labour is now committed to demanding a referendum and backing Remain against a Tory Brexit. Everyone on the left agrees we can’t settle for the status quo in the EU. But, however you describe it (reform, transform, revolt) what does changing Europe mean? Doesn’t the EU’s constitution make it impossible to democratise it or change its policies? In an interactive session, we’ll talk practically about what a left movement – in and out of government – can do about democratic reform, the environment, migration, and workers’ rights.

Winning on an internationalist platform

Panel and Discussion • Friends Meeting House – Lecture Room

Date: Mon 23.09.19 at 11am – 12:30pm

Learn about how we can act “for the many” globally, not just locally. Join this participatory workshop to identify transformative international climate, migration, trade and finance policies, winnable narratives and allied constituencies.

Back in November 2017 the new trade bill was quietly introduced in parliament, it recently passed the second reading stage. As it stands the UK parliament has very limited powers over trade and if the bill passes in its current form, Westminster MPs will have less influence over any EU-UK trade deal than MEPs in Brussels or even deputies in Belgian regional assemblies. On the other hand, it will give trade secretary Liam Fox and the UK government huge powers to negotiate trade deals without parliamentary scrutiny and accountability. These days trade deals aren’t just about trade, but they affect every area of life such as social policy, labour standards, consumer rights, environmental protection – all things that are in the public interest. It is an extremely worrying and undemocratic development. But we can stop it if we mobilise enough people power!

Join Global Justice Brighton & Hove to discuss what a truly accountable and democratic trade policy could look like and what you can do to make it happen!

When: Tuesday, 27 February from 7-9pm

Where: lovethatstuff Fair Trade Shop, 8 The Boardwalk, Waterfront, Brighton Marina, BN2 5WA

 

Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 runs from 26 February to 11 March.