Thursday 4th June, 7pm-9pm
Our monthly meeting to discuss upcoming events and campaigns. New members welcome.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
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Global Justice Sheffield – May meeting
Thursday 7th May, 7pm-9pm
Our monthly meeting to discuss upcoming events and campaigns. This meeting will focus on the Agribusiness campaign – Stop the Corporate Takeover of Africa’s Food, and an update on noTTIP activities. New members welcome.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
TTIP lobbying and campaign workshop
Thursday 12th March, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Workshop lead by Guy Taylor – TTIP campaigner for Global Justice Now.
Get up to speed with learning how to lobby MPs/MEPs on TTIP. The workshop will cover the key TTIP issues, then show us how to argue our points, how to ask difficult questions and teach us how to respond to difficult questions from MPs, MEPs and the public.
This workshop is open to individuals and groups campaigning on TTIP. If you would like to attend this workshop, please email us at globaljusticesheffield@gmail.com so we have an idea of numbers for planning purposes.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
TTIP International Day of Action
Saturday 18th April, 11am-2pm: #noTTIP International Day of Action
Civil society groups from across the EU and further afield have called for an international day of action against TTIP and other trade deals on 18th April.
In Sheffield we are going to be undertaking a fun action in Fargate to engage the public and raise awareness of the issues around TTIP. We’ll have some giant hulahoop-sized “coins” for passers-by to have fun spinning: “TTIP = corporate profits” on one side and “People power, no TTIP” on the other. And we will be collecting signatures for the anti-TTIP petition to the European Parliament, and to alert members of the public to all the anti-people changes that big business is trying to sneak in behind our backs.
Meet: at upper Fargate, opposite Norfolk Row and near Next.
Volunteer: to help out on the day (meeting at 10am), we need people to help collect signatures. If you can help out, please contact Oliver: o.blensdorf@gmail.com.
The action is a joint one between Global Justice Sheffield, local supporters of 38 Degrees, Friends of the Earth Sheffield, Sheffield Trades Council, and others. If other groups can join in, please do!
Global Justice Sheffield – April meeting
Thursday 2nd April, 7pm-9pm
Our monthly meeting to discuss upcoming events and campaigns. Main business: planning and roughing-out materials for our summer stalls. Our two main campaigns, which have obvious important links with each other, are Stop the Corporate Takeover of Africa’s Food, and Stop TTIP (the corporate-driven, democracy-destroying proposed US-EU trade deal).
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
TTIP: building the fightback – conference organised by War on Want – Manchester
2015 is the pivotal year for TTIP. We’ll be holding a conference this March – sharing fun and practical ways to take action to get TTIP off the table. This trade deal will result in over a million lost jobs, tear up the food safety regulations that keep us safe from toxic chemicals and genetically modified ingredients, scrap digital safety laws and throw new banking regulations out of the window. TTIP offers a nightmare vision of the future, and we must resist it. This event will be a major public demonstration of our commitment to a fairer world, and we really hope to see you there.
Venue: Methodist Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JQ
