Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty.
We are a small group, but through membership of Global Justice Now, are encouraged to make a difference – by joining with campaigners throughout the UK.
The Big One
In April members of Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire joined ‘The Big One‘ in London. This was organised by Extinction Rebellion. It was a four day action, where people from over 200 groups and movements, gathered throughout Westminster and at the Houses of Parliament. We are in the middle of a Climate Emergency and were asking politicians to take the situation seriously… not make decisions based on the number of votes that will be gained.
Remembering Rana Plaza
On April 24th 2013 the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh, killing 1134 garment workers and leaving 2,500 workers injured. Some of the injured are unable to work 10 years after the tragedy. Many people were working for manufacturers that are well known in this country – we may have bought clothes from the people who suffered during this disaster.
The Rana Plaza event in Highfields, Leicester on April 24th 2023 was to remember the people who needlessly lost their lives working in an unsafe building – and to renew the call for clothes manufacturers to provide decent pay and working conditions for all of their workers.
Duing the meeting we also heard about the working conditions of garment workers in Leicester. Our clothes are often produced by people working long hours with low pay. As a Global Justice Now local group we hope to support this important campaign. When we buy cheap clothes, it is likely that the garment workers were not paid much for their work.
Stall at the National Justice and Peace Network Conference in July 2023
The conference theme this year was ‘Sustainability ? Survival or Shutdown’.
Global Justice Now resources were greatly appreciated and it was brilliant that so many of the resources had been produced in the last few months.
Have you read the booklet ‘Monopoly Capitalism – what is it and how do you fight it‘. It is well worth downloading.
The FIVE biggest corporations earned more than the poorest 2 BILLION PEOPLE in the last year – a quarter of the world’s population.
