Global Justice Sheffield
14th to 22nd October
Following on from our recent film screening of La Buena Vida, War on Want have a week of action Unmasking BHP – a week of arts, protest and discussion to mobilise around the London-listed mining company’s annual shareholders’ meeting (17th October). Visit the War on Want website for more information.
Saturday 26th October, 2-5pm
Friday 20th September, 11am-3pm
Global Justice Sheffield will be joining millions who will walk out of our workplaces and homes, to join young climate strikers on the streets, and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.
Our house is on fire — let’s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone.
11:00am: meet up at Devonshire Green
12:00 noon: march along a route round the centre of Sheffield, arriving at Barker’s Pool / City Hall by 1pm
1:00pm – 3:00pm: rally with speeches by striking youngsters, trade unionists, Sheffield Climate Alliance etc.
More information on the SCA website.
Thursday 10th October, 7-9pm
Our monthly meeting discussing and planning upcoming campaigns and activities.
Note: this has been postponed from our usual 1st Thursday.
Venue: Dog & Partridge, 56 Trippet Lane, Sheffield S1 4EL
Thursday 7th November, 7-9pm
Our monthly meeting discussing and planning upcoming campaigns and activities.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW.
Wednesday 2nd October
6:15pm: Global Justice Sheffield AGM, all welcome.
6:45pm: Refreshments
7:00pm: Film screening, La Buena Vida (The Good Life), with time for questions and discussion up to 9:15 pm.
La Buena Vida: Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the community of Tamaquito, a village in the forests of northern Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need to survive. For centuries, they’ve hunted in the mountains, foraged for fruit and reared hens, sheep and cattle. But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by the El Cerrejón coal mine.
The companies such as Glencore, Anglo American and BHP Billiton, promise the villagers the blessings of progress, but the Wayúu place no value on modern, electrified houses – on the so-called “better life”. Instead, they embark on a fight to save their life in the forest, which soon becomes a fight to survive. La Buena Vida is the story of the Colombian village of Tamaquito, told against a global backdrop of rising energy consumption being driven by the pursuit of growth and affluence.
To be sure of a place for the film screening, email globaljusticesheffield@gmail.com to book.
Venue: Central United Reformed Church, 60 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB
