Campaigning for justice for the world's poor in Oxfordshire
Banbury Canal Day is a relaxed riverside festival in – you guessed it – Banbury. We’ll have a stall somewhere, collecting signatures for one of our ongoing campaigns. But we need enough volunteers to fill the rota. Can you help? The festival takes place a short walk from the train stati0n, so you don’t need to be Banbury-based to get involved.
At our September meeting we’ll decide what campaign to focus on for Banbury Canal Day 2015.
“In January, after five long years of punishing austerity followed by deepening poverty, inequality and social crisis, the Greek people demanded a change of course. They gave their new government a mandate to end austerity and renegotiate the terms of Greece’s bailout loans.
“But five months into the negotiations, Greece’s powerful creditors are refusing to budge. The ‘Troika’ of the European Union, the IMF and the ECB are demanding more of the same austerity ‘medicine’ that has plunged Greece into crisis.”
The Jubilee Debt Campaign has created a petition calling for Greece’s debt to be cancelled:
http://jubileedebt.org.uk/actions/greeces-debt-petition
38 Degrees members are coming together at hundreds of locations across the UK to campaign against TTIP on Saturday 22nd. People will be collecting signatures for an enormous petition against it. Put your postcode into the 38 Degrees site to get info on what’s happening in your part of Oxfordshire.
This mobilisation isn’t organised by Global Justice Now, but we fully support its aims.
The Gates Foundation is one of the world’s biggest charitable funds. But it holds investments in fossil fuels. How can an organisation dedicated to wiping out poverty justify contributing to climate change? Now there is a petition asking Bill and Melinda Gates to divest the Gates Foundation of fossil fuels. Anyone can sign!
3pm, Saturday 11th July
Friends Meeting House, St Giles
A talk by Professor Joy Hendry on Science, Stories, and Indigenous Wisdom. Admission £5 (£3 students). This event is not organised by Global Justice Now.
Global Justice Oxford monthly meeting
Tuesday 14th July
Oxford Town Hall, 7:30pm
Our monthly meeting is a chance to plan activities and share news of national campaigns. We usually show a (very) short film or two as well. Non-members are very welcome.
