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Global Justice Now AGM and “Hope in the Dark” gathering

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Global Justice Now is holding its AGM in Sheffield this year on July 9th, 11.00 am, in the Owen Lecture Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Owen Building, S1 1WB.

Members and affiliated local groups are invited to attend the AGM. To join, please register for a “+ AGM” ticket on the link below.

This will be followed at 1.00 pm by the “Hope in the Dark” national gathering:

“Climate breakdown, reparations and a just transition”,

1-6 pm, Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University.

Join the national gathering to discuss what a just global transition looks like, and how climate justice movements are taking a stand the world over.

Please make sure to book in advance at: globaljustice.org.uk/hope

Speakers:

  • Lumumba Di-Aping – Former UN climate negotiator
  • Esther Stanford-Xosei – Reparations scholar-activist
  • Nick Dearden – Global Justice Now
  • Nick Anim – Jubilee for Climate
  • Maggie Mason – South Lakes Action on Climate Change

With panels and workshops on:

  • The case for climate reparations
  • Vaccine inequality
  • Climate and trade
  • Debt and climate justice
  • Mobilising towards a globally just transition

For more information and to register, please go to:

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/hope-dark/

 

Day of Action on Corporate Courts, Saturday, May 21st, 10 am – 4 pm

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We are planning to have a campaign stall in Sheffield city centre on The Moor (near the former Debenham’s), to campaign on the issue of “corporate courts” and the Energy Charter Treaty. We will be engaging with the public and encouraging people to sign petition cards addressed to the Prime Minister and the International Trade Secretary. asking them to
  • Exit the Energy Charter Treaty
  • Stop joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

Corporate courts (ISDS) give fossil fuel companies the power to sue governments for taking action on the climate emergency. They are an obstacle to a clean energy transition and to achieving climate justice.

Fossil fuel companies are already using corporate courts to sue governments for over $18 billion – and that’s just a start. Industry insiders reckon the amounts at stake could be over $9 trillion. The UK needs to drop corporate courts in new trade deals, and exit the Energy Charter Treaty.

You can see more about the issue of corporate courts here, including case studies, and also read the campaign briefing.

If you are in Sheffield city centre on Saturday, May 21st, please come and join us on our stall.
Or you can sign the Global Justice Now petition here.

Life Or Debt: Big Money, Injustice and the Global Climate Emergency

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As part of the Festival of Debate, Global Justice Sheffield are organising a talk and discussion on “Life Or Debt: Big Money, Injustice and the Climate Crisis” on Wednesday, May 11th, 7.00-9.00 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW.

The debt crisis in the Global South is preventing countries like Zambia from fighting the climate crisis, as well as draining away resources needed for public services. Zambia pays more in external debt payments than on health, education, social protection and water and sanitation combined.

Zambia’s debt is 46% of government revenue. Meanwhile, several African countries such as Uganda have resorted to harmful oil extraction in order to generate the resources to pay off their external debts.

There is no climate justice without debt justice, and the increasing proportion of Global South debt owed to private creditors has already reached around one-third, often at much higher rates than other lenders.

Heidi Chow, Executive Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, will reveal how private lenders in the Global North are fuelling the debt crisis, and will lead discussion about the action needed – from immediate debt-cancellation, to the challenge of genuine transformative change.

For more information and to register, please go to:

https://festivalofdebate.com/2022/life-or-debt-big-money-injustice-and-the-global-climate-crisis

For the full Festival of Debate programme, please go to https://festivalofdebate.com/

Global Climate Justice Summit, Saturday, November 27th

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The postponed Global Climate Justice Summit day of workshops and talks will now take place on Saturday, November 27th, 10 am – 4 pm, at the Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW.

For more information and to register for this event, please see the links below:

Eventbrite link for the event:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-global-climate-justice-summit-talks-workshops-discussions-tickets-180146682577?fbclid=IwAR0S2kRvASkh9j6tiy8fDPN1iwaR38BcQvVseLAmONOpW7MLodUsMtzB4_4

Eventbrite link for the online summit:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-global-justice-summit-talks-workshops-and-discussions-tickets-181111468277

Day of Climate Action, Saturday, 6th November

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We will be joining the Sheffield march and rally on Saturday, 6th November, as part of the Climate Campaign bloc. We will be marching with our Global Justice Sheffield banner.

  • Assemble at 12 pm at Devonshire Green.
  • March to City Hall at 1 pm.
  • Rally at City Hall at 3 pm.

AGM and October meeting

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We are holding our much delayed AGM on Thursday, October 7th, 7.00-9.00 pm, at the Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW. This will be our first face-to-face meeting since the start of the Covid pandemic.

The formal business will be followed by a discussion on the theme of “Looking forward to COP26”.

Please join us, although only members of the group will be able to vote on matters at the AGM.