Saturday 8 June: Waterfest 11am – 5pm
Saturday 15 June: Winnersh Summer Fete 1pm – 4.30pm
Friday 21 June: Stall to raise awareness of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty in Broad Street – with XR 10.30 – 1pm
Sunday 23 June: East Reading Festival 12 noon – 6pm
Saturday 3 August : Earley Green Fair 10am – 3pm
There’s Water and then there’s WaterHow much do you know about the Philippines? It rarely features on our news.
Mick Lacey, our speaker, has family there. Mick has a strong view on justice and injustice in the world economy. Using his experience of the Philippines, he will report on how the economy of his family’s hometown was affected by globalised capitalism’s reaction to the opening of China to international investment.
Mick will provide some samples of traditional Filipino foods from 7pm before the meeting. Please invite your friends and please use the link below to advertise the event if you have a Facebook page:
Meetings for 2024
January 24 Courageous Campaigners in Columbia Cleodie from Global Justice Now RISC 7.30 pm
March 27
May 22
July 24
September 25
November 27
East Reading Festival: 23 June 12 noon – 6pm: Campaigning stall
Campaigning Activities
We have continued our campaigning activities throughout the summer and autumn of 2023. As well as holding stalls at many of the Reading Festivals, we campaigned in Broad Street on national event days such as ‘Make Polluters Pay Loss and Damage’ outside Barclays bank in September and ‘Make Amazon Pay’ in November. In December a few of us went to London to join the COP 28 march.
November 8: ‘Pharmanomics’ RISC 7.30 pm
We were lucky to have Nick Dearden (Director, Global Justice Now) come to Reading for the launch of his new book. Pharmaceutical companies make billions of pounds in profit while billions of people are left without essential medicines. In his book, Nick exposes the current problems and shows a pathway to a fairer, safer system of producing medicines for all. Nick says he is genuinely optimistic about the future because he has seen very promising developments around the world.
Wed 27 September ‘The debt crisis: building solidarity, winning justice’. RISC 7.30 pm
Heidi Chow, Executive Director of Debt Justice, was our speaker. She explained how the rules of our economy are based on the interests of wealthy individuals, governments and corporations, who have turned people’s needs into a source of profit. Debt extracts high rates of interest from those who can least afford it. Heidi went on to show that a more just system requires radical system change to redress this exploitation.
