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Saturday 20th January, 7pm – 11pm

Organised by Sheffield Friends of the Earth, this evening of entertainment is being held to raise funds for anti-fracking community groups in and around Sheffield threatened by big fracking corporations such as Ineos. Stop the industrialisation of our countryside. Stop fracked water coming into our city.

Full Price £18 Please state your meal option: Traditional Haggis or Veggie Haggis

Further details

If you wish to volunteer to help on the day the price is £12. Please contact Richard Souter on 07741104735 if you wish to volunteer. Email him on souter_r@hotmail.com

Saturday 3rd February, 1pm–4:30pm
Resisting the Corporate Trade Power-grab: the people’s fight-back in South-East Asia

Download the Trade half-day flier

Join us for this exciting workshop on the corporate trade power-grab.

International corporations are intensifying their efforts to achieve new-style trade-deal terms. They aim to get rid of democratically decided protections for people and the planet – just because these safeguards stop them making even bigger profits!

Corruption, censorship and repressiveness in high places just make this easier for them, and are therefore key challenges for the people’s fight-back.

Come and hear some impressive stories of unrelenting courage, determination and organisation, and how Global Justice Now! is working in solidarity from our campaign base in the UK.

All are welcome to this half-day public workshop, all welcome. Free. To guarantee a place, email globaljusticesheffield@gmail.com.

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, St. James’ Street, S1 2EW.

Main speaker, Dorothy Grace Guerrero. Dottie Guerrero is highly qualified to lead an excellent half-day workshop on how people’s movements in the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia, amongst other countries in South-East Asia, are refusing to accept the escalating efforts of international corporations to push for new-style trade deal terms to seize control of government priorities, in order to get rid of democratically decided protections for people and the planet – just because these safeguards stop them making even bigger profits!

Now Head of Policy at Global Justice Now’s national office, Dottie is originally from the Philippines, and has lived in The Netherlands, Germany, Thailand and South Africa. She previously worked with the Asian regional organisation Focus on the Global South, Asienhaus Deutschland and Institute for Popular Democracy in the Philippines. She also worked as guest lecturer in MA Development Programs in universities in Asia and Germany.

Her work as organiser, researcher/analyst, educator, and campaigner in social movements and NGOs spans almost 30 years. She works on and writes about climate change and energy issues, impacts of globalised trade and investments on people’s livelihoods in Asia, China’s new role in the global political economy and other economic justice concerns.

Thursday 4th January, 7pm-9pm:
Join us for our first meeting for 2018. We will be discussing upcoming events and campaigns. New members welcome.

Venue: Dog & Partridge, 56 Trippet Lane, Sheffield S1 4EL

Thursday 7th December 2017

Campaign meeting and Christmas social

Note: we have now changed to meetings on the first Thursday of each month.

Join us for our Christmas social, where over a drink you can meet us and ask questions about our campaigns. Open to all, don’t be shy!

Venue: the snug in the Dog and Partridge pub, at 56 Trippet Lane, S1 4EL.

Wednesday 8th November, 7–9 pm

Sick of corporate greed: it’s time to put people before profit in the global drug industry. Free public meeting, all welcome. Speaker from South Africa: Sibongile Tshabalala, deputy general secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. Plus James O’Nions, head of activism at Global Justice Now. Event organised by Global Justice Now and supported by Youth Stop AIDS.

Venue: Friends Meeting House, 25 Clarendon Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 5JD.

Join members of Global Justice Sheffield on the train to Nottingham: the 17.05, due arrive in Nottingham at 18.00, then a 20–30-minute walk, or public transport. Return train: the 21.46, due in Sheffield at 22.36. Off-peak return ticket: £13.90, or £9.20 with Senior Railcard.

Thursday 2nd November 7pm-9pm: Global Justice Sheffield monthly meeting

Note: we have now changed to meetings on the first Thursday of each month.

Our monthly meeting to discuss and plan upcoming events and campaigns.

New members welcome.

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)