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Corporations V Farmers. The battle for food sovereignty in Tanzania

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Dan Illes with a group to Tanzanian farmers on his recent Fact Finding visit to Tanzania
Dan will speak at our event on 27th April in Liverpool

dan Illes Tanzania talk

On 27th April we have a great opportunity to hear Dan Illes on  how the farmers in Tanzania are fighting  back against the new agribusiness corporations  stitchup and land grab of their assets and live hoods.

The central venue for this important meeting is yet to be decided.

Here’s what Dan will be talking about on the evening:

Tanzania is a country at forefront of the global battle for control over our food. On one side corporations are lining up to seize control over the country’s land, seeds and soil. On the other side passionate small-scale farmers are strengthening their networks and deepening pre-existing knowledge in an attempt to keep control of their resources.

For this reason, Dan Illes from  Global Justice Now spent 10 days traveling around the country with the job of collecting stories and finding out how we can offer our solidarity to the growing food sovereignty movement. In this talk Dan will guide you through the main players in struggle over Tanzania’s food system and discuss the wider context in Africa and around the world

 

 

Invite from Friends of the Earth Liverpool

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On Wednesday 18th November Global Justice Merseyside are invited to the monthly meeting of FoE to give a presentation on the work and campaign activities being done by our local group’

We will speak about Global Justice Now ethos and campaigns generally, the TTIP campaign, the role of High Street bank in bankrolling Climate Change and then  show a thirty minute film on Food Sovereignty

 

Bankers Day Out – supporting Wirral Trade Justice

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I'm celebrating my huge bonus
I’m celebrating my huge bonus

Our  thanks to Glynn and Wirral Trade Justice for inviting Global Justice Merseyside to deliver our ‘Bankers Day Out’ sketch at their AGM on Friday 17th October.

The sketch was delivered in the form of a live television interview with Global Justice  Senior spokesman commenting on our High Street un-cute bankers celebrating their outrageous  bonuses – profits from  fossil fuel financing of the big mining corporations: Angle American, Glencore Xtrata, BPH Billinton   who have invested staggering millions  in extracting fossil fuels in countries like Burma, Indonesia, Columbia and  South Africa.

97 per cent of Climate Scientists say that climate change is driven by the emissions from coal, gas and oil burning that is causing the temperature to rise. Only 20 per cent of the fossil fuel that has been invested in can be extracted is to remain below  the  2 degrees Centigrade  maximum that would potentially tip climate into irreversible climate change disaster.

There is a huge dilemma confronting the governments, financiers and people of the world.

Part of the problem then is of over valuing the fossil fuel ‘asset’ in ground.  Investments already committed to extraction of the other 80 per cent are quite useless as the continued mining and use  of the fossil will cause temperatures to rise up

If the extraction continues at the present rate our grandchildren shall experience a very different harsh world to the one we inherited and will not thank us for that.

Keep it ( the fossil fuel)  in the ground is the best approach to keeping our planet from over heating.