Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire

Event

East Midlands Teach in

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WDM East Midlands Day in Leicester

 – Saturday 1st June, 11am -to 3pm

Meet other WDM group members, share experiences, and come up with ideas and solutions for effective local campaigning.

Where: Christchurch, 105a Clarendon Park Rd, Leicester, LE2 3AH

The day will include:
• A Carbon Capital workshop on WDM’s new climate and energy justice campaign
• Update on WDM’s other campaigns
• Film screening of Seeds of Freedom
• Skillsharing and action planning

This is a free event. We can also offer travel subsidies. Bring your own lunch – drinks provided.

Please contact Mary Steiner on mary.steiner@btopenworld.com or 0115 922 6702 to let us know you’re coming.

The event is organised by WDM groups in the East Midlands.

Food Sovereignty and FareShare Leicester

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Come along to Christchurch, Clarendon Park Road on 26th February between 6pm and 8.45pm.

WDM Leicester and Christians Aware have arranged a speaker meeting to highlight problems of poverty and hunger:

Dan Iles of WDM will talk about food security, the right of people to choose their own food systems. Food sovereignty advocates listening to farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, rural youth and environmental organizations, as well as the market and the dominant global food system.

Sheila and Peter Yates will talk about FareShare Leicester. FareShare is a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty. In 2011/12, the food redistributed by FareShare contributed towards more than 8.6 million meals.

Please join us.

Call to scrutinise Government aid giving

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Visitors to the Christians Aware Advent Fayre at Christchurch on November 28th, signed WDM cards to Malcolm Bruce, Chair of the International Development Select Committee.

  • The cards protest at the priority given to pro market multinational/private sector approaches to aid giving.
  • They also ask the committee to hold a public enquiry which would scrutinise this trend at the Department for International Development (DfID).

    • WDM stall Christians Aware Fayre

    Some people who stopped to talk had first hand experience of work in developing countries and endorsed the initiative taken by WDM.

    WDM stall at Christians Aware Advent Fayre

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    Why not visit our stall at the Christians Aware Advent Fayre on Wednesday 28th November.

    The Advent Fayre is at Christchurch, Clarendon Park Rd from 10am – 4pm
    (near to Queen’s Rd).

    Come along to our stall and campaign to tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice.

    Coffee and tea will be available from 10.30am and simple lunches from 12 noon.

    At the Fayre there will be Christmas cards, new and second hand books, crafts, Traidcraft goods, foods and Christmas gifts.

    Short films on food speculation

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    Alison from Leicester WDM was filmed at the CND garden fete for a local community website in Leicester – check out the films below:

    Banks and the global food crisis:

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkh1nEBdpGA&list=PLC2C9632FD9FF64F1&index=2&feature=plpp_video[/youtube]

    Food speculation simulation

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb6X_tw1AeE&list=PLC2C9632FD9FF64F1&index=3&feature=plpp_video[/youtube]