News and information about Global Justice Cleveland
Join members of East Cleveland WDM on their annual summer walk. This is a chance to informally discuss issues relating to current campaigns such as the corporate takeover of food in Africa.
Meet outside the Ship Inn, Saltburn ready to start walking at 7.30pm and bring a picnic. The walk will end with a visit to the Ship Inn.
If you want to check the walk is on phone Caryn on 07773 048250.
Barbara Welford, from East Cleveland WDM, explains the ‘Stop the corporate takeover of Africa’s food’ campaign to our new Labour MEP (on left of photo), at Saltburn Farmers’ Market on Saturday 14th June.
Members of the group also introduced WDM’s new campaign to stop the corporate takeover of Africa’s food with members of the public by attracting them with a large cake in the shape of Africa.
129 campaign postcards were signed to send to 10 different MPs, both local and even as far away as Argyll and Bute in Scotland.
We have decided to set the dates of the next few meetings:
Monday 24th March
Thursday 1st May
Monday 9th June
Please get in touch if you want to come and find out more about the work of WDM.
We meet in The Marine Hotel, Marine Parade, Saltburn-by-the-Sea starting at 8.15pm.
We held our AGM on Monday 10th February in The Marine Hotel, Marine Parade, Saltburn. The meeting looked back on the previous year and planned for the year to come.
Hear about the international climate change talks in Warsaw through the eyes of Ronagh Craddock. Ronagh has been attending the talks representing the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqS6dA6iD0c[/youtube].
Ronagh spoke to the group at a meeting in December.
When: Friday 6th December
Where: Emmanuel Church Hall, Saltburn
Time: 7.30 – 9.00pm
To mark the start of the climate talks in Warsaw, Danny Chivers, who visited Saltburn in 2011 has made a new video with the excellent film-maker Richard Roaf and New Internationalist magazine. They are working on a series of friendly, lively videos to make climate change easier to understand. The first one has just been launched at http://nononsensevideos.org/climate-science – it’s their attempt to explain the basics of climate change science in just four minutes, using a top hat, a bathtub and a van full of gibbons. This one’s straight-up explaining the basics of why climate change matters, but the later ones are going to get further under the skin of the issue to look at the vested interests blocking progress and what action we can take to overcome them.
Following a similar event last year we got together as a group to share a meal and watch a film. This year we watched a series of short films provided by WDM, with the title ‘Whose food, our food’, exploring issues around food sovereignty. Food sovereignty puts the people who produce, distribute and consume food at the centre of food systems, instead of markets and corporations. The films provoked an interesting discussion on the production of food both locally and globally.
