Global Justice Sheffield

Global Justice Sheffield

Events

This Crisis Demands Action

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Saturday, November 12th, 12.00 pm

THIS CRISIS DEMANDS ACTION

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March and demonstration: Assemble 12.00 pm at Barker’s Pool, Sheffield City Centre

On Saturday 12 November Global Justice Now will be joining environmental campaigners, trade unions, racial justice activists and many more in taking to the streets to demand climate justice. We’ll be marching in solidarity with people all across the world as part of the Global Day of Action called by Egyptian groups at COP27. With pressure mounting due to the global cost of living crisis, a record-breaking year of climate catastrophes, and the prospect of yet another unelected prime minister, this is our opportunity to show our leaders, our communities and our international allies, that we’ve had enough of inequality, injustice and climate collapse. On 12 November we take a stand for a more just and sustainable future.

Global Justice Sheffield will be supporting the Climate Justice Coalition South Yorkshire march and demonstration.

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/

 

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.