Campaigning for justice for the world's poor in Oxfordshire
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London is organising a debate on controversial trade deal TTIP on 11 January. Participants include Natalie Bennett, Green Party leader, and Mark Dearn of War on Want. It will take place on Monday 11th January. This is not a Global Justice Now event.
http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/events/ttip-debate
Sustainable Wallingford is screening a Canadian documentary, Shattered Ground, about fracking and the effect it has already had in Canada and the USA – a timely warning as the UK government tries to introduce it over here. Tickets are £5. It’s happening at the Corn Exchange, 7:30pm.
The UK Green Film Festival is the UK’s annual environmental film festival. Taking place each year over a single week, up and down the country, the festival screens some of the very best films from around the world, exploring some of the big environmental issues of the day. Two films will be shown in Oxford as part of the festival, both at the Ultimate Picture Palace.
Good Things Await (Sat 9th May) Documentary about a Danish farmer threatened by authorities who don’t like his biodynamic approach.
Bikes vs Cars (Sun 10th May) Documentary following individuals around the world fighting to challenge the dominance of the car.
Kit Jones of Zero Carbon Britain is speaking in conversation with COIN (Climate Outreach and Information Network).
Background: Zero Carbon Britain 2030 was a report commissioned by The New Economics Foundation and prepared at CAT, the brilliant Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, by a fleet of top consultants. It gives a precisely audited route-plan for Britain to go carbon neutral by 2030. After this no-one can ever again say it’s impossible!
The book is very long and has since been supplemented by other studies – but this talk will give you the gist without doing all that reading! Come to the Turl Street Kitchen at 7pm on Tuesday 2nd December to hear it. This event is not organised by WDM.
For the first time the whole conference will be held under one roof (at Oxford Town Hall), with key debates on the dairy industry, flooding, soil fertility and TTIP. Speakers at this year’s conference include Robert Craig (Farmers’ Weekly Dairy Farmer of the Year and Nuffield Scholar), Dr. Elaine Ingham, (internationally acclaimed authority on the life of the soil), Neil Darwent (BBC Farmer of the Year), Prof. Mark Eisler (Chair of Global Animal Health, Bristol University), Carrie Balkcom (Exec Sec of the American Grassfed Association) and Daniela Howell (CEO of the Savory Institute) among many others.
This year’s practical stream, Farming Outside the Box, has been organized by John Turner (farmer and co-founder of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association) and Dr. John Meadley (agricultural scientist and chair of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association). The focus of these sessions is on farmers taking greater control over their suppliers and markets, making better use of their farm’s natural resources and addressing the resistance to chemicals that nature is developing.
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This event is not organised by WDM. We’re mentioning on our website because it promises to have something for everyone interested in farming, growing and food. Organisations such as the Land Workers Alliance and the Soil Association will have a presence at this event.
Disco Soup is a fun food-sharing event organised by Abundance Oxford. Head to Bonn Square on Saturday 1st November for free food and live music. So much edible food is regularly thrown away; Abundance Oxford aims to show just how much by rescuing some of this food and giving it away for free. (And it will be tasty!) Join in the chopping, peeling and cooking (and of course eat the end results!) between noon and 5pm. This event is not organised by Oxford WDM.
We’re part of Global Justice Now, a democratic membership organisation which campaigns against inequality and injustice in the global economy. We want to see a world where ordinary people control the resources they need to live a decent life, rather than corporations and the super rich calling the shots.