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Friday 21st June, 2019. 18:15 – 21:00

(tea and coffee available from 18.15, film starts at 18.25 prompt)

FREE. All welcome!

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe.

[2017, Dir. Ai Weiwei, 2h 20mins, partly in English, partly with subtitles, Age 12+]

Along with many others we will be protesting against Trump’s visit to Britain, and his horrendous policies, on migrants, climate change and so many other things.

There will be a local protest at Speakers’ Corner (the Brian Clough statue) at 5.30pm on Friday 13th July, followed by a giant conga round the Market Square.

There will also be a coach going to London – see https://www.facebook.com/events/185619325480065/ for details and to book tickets.

If you go to London, join the Global Justice Now Chicken Bloc  – http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/events/chicken-bloc-together-against-trump

FREE PUBLIC EVENT

Speakers: Sibongile Tshabalala, deputy general secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa James O’Nions, head of activism at Global Justice Now

7pm, Wednesday 8 November Friends Meeting House, 25 Clarendon Street, Nottingham, NG1 5JD

More info and book your free place >>

In spite of medical advances, millions of people around the world suffer and die from treatable conditions because they cannot afford to pay for expensive medicine.

Drug companies can charge runaway prices because new drugs are protected by legal monopolies. This model has made the pharmaceutical industry the most profitable in the world.

The companies justify high prices by claiming they need to recoup their research and development costs. But nine of the top ten pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than on research and development. And the majority of innovative early-stage research is actually publicly-funded.

We say it’s time to put people before profit in the global drug industry.

Reserve a free place now >>

Playing Corporate Monopoly at the Nottingham Green Festival.  Like life it’s rigged in favour of corporations, but sometimes the little people win.

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

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.