Along with Friends of the Earth and XR Nottingham, we had stalls in central Nottingham calling for climate justice, with corporations and billionaires paying their share, and a just transition for workers and communities globally. We also called for secret Corporate Courts to be excluded form future trade deals. They subvert democracy and inhibit governments from taking climate action.
This was a national demonstration with many organisations calling for billionaires and corporations to pay for the cost of living and climate crises they have caused.
We organised a coach from Nottingham, as you can see from our banner!
We were all set to have a stall, as usual, at this very popular annual event. But after over 30 years without incident, at the last minute the insurers refused to insure it unless stalls with any promoting political, religions or cultural issues were excluded. So along with 28 other stalls we could not be there. Together with several other organisations we held a protest rally outside the Arboretum, as well as going in to express our solidarity with the organisers.
They are working with the insurers to try and ensure that next year, our stall and all the others are able as usual to participate.
The big pharmaceutical firms are more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments while abandoning the global south. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financialising medicine.
Nick Dearden, our Director, has written a book, Pharmanomics, about this and what a pharmaceutical industry could look like.
We were excited that Nick came to Nottingham to talk about his research and signing copies of the book at Five Leaves in central Nottingham.
Global Justice Now’s annual National gathering was held in Nottingham at the Contemporary on 1st June. An inspiring event with some great speakers on “The ecological crisis of capitalism and our alternatives”.
Will you join us in Nottingham’s Trinity Square (by the Victoria Centre) in just FIVE days time to demand climate justice from world leaders at COP28?
You are warmly invited to come together with climate & community groups, cost of living campaigners, and trade unions to demand action on climate change and the cost of living crisis globally on December 9 11am -1pm.
There will be a host of inspirational speakers, a burning ballroom! (Don’t know what that is? Neither did we, but XR Nottingham filled us in…) and Veggies vegan catering.
Find out more about our ten demands for #COP28 here:
https://climatejustice.uk/our-demands/
Join on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/15RY5ReJJ
And find out more about the Global Day of Action: https://climatejustice.uk/9-december-day-of-action-for-climate-justice/
