Playing Corporate Monopoly at the Nottingham Green Festival. Like life it’s rigged in favour of corporations, but sometimes the little people win.
Precarious Trajectories
We will be screening the film Precarious Trajectories, followed by a discussion with the director, Simon Parker, on Monday 19th June from 7:30 to 9 at the Friends Meeting House, 25 Clarendon Street, Nottingham, NG1 5JD. All are welcome.
The film is set on location in Libya, Italy and Greece during 2015-2016, at the height of the Mediterranean migration crisis. It focuses on the perilous sea crossings that hundreds of thousands of refugees have undertaken in recent years in order to arrive at what they hope will be the safer shores of Europe through the eyes of Ruha from Syria and Ahmed from Somalia.
The film itself is 35 minutes, to be followed by a discussion led by the director, Simon Parker. It is free, but it will be helpful to know numbers, so please book tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precarioustrajectories-film-and-discussion-tickets-35013496310
Having difficult conversations about migration
Hope Not Hate put this training on for us on 25th February. This was excellent training, covering techniques for empathetic listening and socratic questioning. We will be following it up by activities in Nottingham, including campaigning to persuade Marks and Spencers to stop advertising with the Daily Mail, which is relentlessly negative about migrants.
Building global justice: East Midlands gathering Sat 16th April
Join activists and campaigners from Global Justice Now for a day of discussion, debate and opportunities to plan concrete campaigning activity.
Key sessions:
- Reclaiming the Food System: How we can challenge Monsanto and build food sovereignty (Heidi Chow, senior campaigns officer, Global Justice Now)
- Another Europe is Possible: The progressive case for staying in the EU (Alex Scrivener, policy officer, Global Justice Now)
Plus updates on trade justice, the politics of migration and local campaigning. With activists from Global Justice Now groups in Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Northamptonshire.
Sat, 16th April, 10.30-3.30pm, Friends Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP
To book your free place sign up at Eventbrite or phone Mary Steiner on 0115 922 6702 to let us know you’re coming.
Drinks provided. Feel to bring your own lunch, there are also plenty of places nearby to buy food.
Can we achieve the climate change targets agreed in Paris (COP)21) in December 2015?
There will be a panel, question time and debate on this held at Nottingham Trent University, NEWN LT4, Newton building, Main Entrance, from 5pm to 7pm on Thurs 4th February.
Speakers include reps from Global Justice Nottingham, Nottingham Friends of the Earth, This Changes Nottingham, Frack Free Notts, and politicians Mark Spencer MP, Barry Gardiner MP, Lib Dem and Green Party Representatives.
See http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/events/4/home.aspx/event/182805/default/ACE_Week_-_Can_we_achieve_the_climate_change_targets#details
This Changes Everything
The film This Changes Everything presents portraits of communities on the front lines of climate change, from the Alberta Tar Sands to the coast of South India.
Interwoven with these stories is Naomi Klein’s narration, presenting the idea that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
It was shown on Wednesday 27 January, 7pm, at Nottingham Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham NG1 4EZ, followed by a discussion.
This screening was jointly organised by Global Justice Nottingham and This Changes Nottingham.
