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April campaign meeting

February 1, 2017 by sheffield

Wednesday 12th April 7pm-9pm: Global Justice Sheffield monthly meeting

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)

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March campaign meeting

February 1, 2017 by sheffield

Wednesday 8th March, 7pm-9pm: Global Justice Sheffield monthly meeting

Our monthly meeting to discuss and plan upcoming events and campaigns. We will be discussing plans for the Food Sovereignty campaign.

New members welcome.

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

Filed Under: Blog

World Basic Income – First Annual Conference (Manchester)

February 1, 2017 by sheffield

The world’s first conference on world basic income, to be held in Manchester (UK) on 4thFebruary 2017. The event will explore this new practical solution to global inequality and poverty. Please register at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-basic-income-first-annual-conference-tickets-29640483484

To find out more about the proposal for worldwide basic income, please see our website at www.worldbasicincome.org.uk.

With speakers from a wide range of disciplines and organisations including The Guardian, Share The World’s Resources, CapGlobalCarbon, universities, political parties and campaign groups, the event will explore through panels and discussions:

  • The context – inequality, poverty, cash transfers and basic income

  • Practicalities of distributing cash – funding, distribution, and ownership

  • Building a movement – grassroots mobilising, influence in high places; pilots, experience and evidence

This conference launches a new movement for global justice and poverty eradication, and we hope you will be able to take part.

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Urgent action: STOP #CETA

January 12, 2017 by sheffield

STOP #CETA

MEPs will be voting on CETA on mid February. Ask your MEPs to vote NO!

[A] Actions

1. Email our two local Labour MEPs (details below).

2. Send our Stop CETA tweets to as many people as possible. You can also use these on Facebook and other social media.

Tweet 1: URGENT: MEPs are voting on CETA mid-Feb. Ask yours to vote NO! Take action: http://groups.globaljustice.org.uk/sheffield/2017/01/12/urgent-action-stop-ceta/

Tweet 2: .@LindaMcAvanMEP #CETA poses a major threat to our democracy, public services and the environment. Vote NO to CETA

Tweet 3: .@rcorbettmep #CETA will give power to Corporations, threatening democracy, public services & the environment. Vote NO to CETA

Make sure you include the full stop at the front of the tweet. And you can swap the text of around and double your efforts.

A couple of fun cat-related Stop CETA tweets. Images to add to the tweets/Facebook etc are below to download & use.

Tweet 4: The fat cats have their eyes on our democracy. Stop #CETA. Take action:  http://groups.globaljustice.org.uk/sheffield/2017/01/12/urgent-action-stop-ceta/

Tweet 5: Don’t pretend CETA won’t happen. It will, if you don’t take action now. Stop #CETA. Take action: http://groups.globaljustice.org.uk/sheffield/2017/01/12/urgent-action-stop-ceta/

And you can of course make up your own.

3. Get as many people as possible to do the same!

[B] The key MEPs to contact

In the European Parliament, the Labour MEPs are part of the Socialists & Democrats group, which has not yet decided on its official position on CETA. It is currently “inclined to vote yes”, but a lot of them are anti-CETA and there may well be enough waverers who could be persuaded to tip the balance against.

In the UK, it is the Labour MEPs who may respond if there is enough public pressure on them. The Conservatives are determined to drive CETA through Parliament, and the LibDems are very pro-CETA. The Yorkshire & Humber Labour MEPs are:

Linda McAvan

79 High St, Wath upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 7QB.

Home: 01709 875665, Email: lindamcavan@lindamcavanmep.org.uk

Twitter: @LindaMcAvanMEP, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linda.mcavan

Key position: Chair of the [International] Development Committee: so see the final main paragraph. of the Employment Committee’s Draft Opinion

Richard Corbett

Unity Business Centre, 26 Roundhay Road, Leeds LS7 1AB

Phone: 0113 2430554, Email: richard@richardcorbett.org.uk

Twitter: @rcorbettmep, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rcorbett

Key position: Deputy Leader of the Labour Group Members of the EP

You can use ‘Write to Them’ to send a letter online. Go to https://www.writetothem.com, put in your postcode, and write away. This includes to MEPs in other regions.

[C] Message guidelines

Keep it short. Use your own natural ways of saying things. No need to go out of your depth, it’s your personal values and experience that you are expert in, and that will make your message convincing.

  1. On CETA’s economic damage, if you want to quote something that carries undeniable weight, you can’t do better that the one-page Draft Opinion on CETA put out in November 2016 by the European Parliament’s cross-party Employment and Social Affairs Committee, below (PDF: note 1). You can also find it on our website. Pick out a particular point that most concerns you and say why, or just refer to the opinion in general.
  1. On the attacks on democracy and on social and environmental public-interest policies, the best thing to look through – just to pick out bits that catch your attention – is an everyday-language legal analysis of CETA by Gus Van Harten, of Osgoode Hall Law School, available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2850281

[D] Why CETA must be rejected by MEPs

For a run-through of the main dangers of CETA, see PDF (note 2).

PDF: CETA – Opinion on CETA & Why CETA must be rejected by MEPs

Example letter to MEPs re CETA vote

To download the cat-CETA images to use on Twitter, Facebook etc, right click, then save as…

Tweet - eyes off democracy SMALLER

Tweet - don't pretend SMALLER

Filed Under: Blog, News

EU Committee on Employment and Social Affairs opinion on CETA

December 20, 2016 by sheffield

The EU Committee on Employment and Social Affairs has drafted a no holds barred opinion on CETA, to the EU Committee on International Trade. It makes it clear that CETA will:

  • barely increase jobs, and will more likely increase unemployment.
  • widen the income gap
  • negatively inpact on the EU’s 20.9 million SME’s (small-medium employers)
  • privilege investors over labour rights, and will
  •  divert trade away from developing countries, particularly Africa

Full text on page three of this document.

 

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February campaign meeting

December 16, 2016 by sheffield

Wednesday 8th February, 7pm-9pm: Global Justice Sheffield monthly meeting

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)

Filed Under: Blog

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Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 10th, 7.00-9.00 pm

This will be a planning meeting, with the main item finalising arrangements for our Festival of Debate event with Jason Hickel on April 29th.

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