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Online screening: Two Worlds – how big pharma divides the planet

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You are welcome to join an online screening on Tuesday 3rd February at 7.30pm.

The screening has been organised by Global Justice Nottingham and Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire.

Titled ‘Two Worlds’, these short films expose the big pharma companies that are putting profit before helath around the globe – and the people fightin back to make medicines accessible to all.

The short films last for 27 minutes and they will be followed by a discussion with Tim Bierley of Global Justice Now.

If you would like to join the screening, please email globaljusticeleicester@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

public health not private wealth

Two events to join this week

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There are two events that may interest you:

Thursday 7th December at 6pm, Nick Dearden will be giving the annual lecture of the Nottingham University based Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice. The talk is entitled ‘Pharmaeconomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health’. You are invited to join this Zoom-only  event.

Here is the link to register for the talk. Please join us.

Saturday 9th December at Noon – Now We Rise (organised by Leicester Friends of the Earth)

Meet at Leicester Clock Tower for a short march to the Town Hall Square where we’ll form a human oil slick for a mass photo, calling on the UK government to stop extracting fossil fuels and support the people most affected by chimate change. Dress in black if you can.

This is the Global Day of Action for the COP28 UN Climate Summit. People across the world will be calling for climate justice and human rights.

More information can be found here.

Warm Homes and Climate Action Gathering in Leicester on 18th November

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WarmHomesLeics

Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire joined other members of the WarmHomesLeics Coalition.

It was brilliant to meet so many local groups and individuals who shared our determination to call on the government to take Climate Change seriously.

Members of the WarmHomesLeices are given below (with new groups joining us all the time):

Our WarmHomesLeics Coalition is part of a national United for Warm Homes campaign with local and national groups across the country.

Together, over the next 6-12 months, we aim to build enough pressure on our MPs and their political parties to get the current (or failing that, the next) government to do the following:

  • Provide real financial support for people in fuel poverty now
  • Set up and fund a nationwide street by street home insulation program, starting in the areas with the highest levels of fuel poverty
  • Provide real support for UK renewable energy generation
  • End government support for the fossil fuel industry.

Find out more on the Climate Action Leicester and Leicestershire website

Have  you asked your MP to sign the Warm Home Pledge? – if not, send a message to your MP on the Warm Homes website.

Warm Homes Initiative – launches on Saturday 18th November

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Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire has signed up to the Warm Homes Initiative.

The aim of the Leicester and Leicestershire Warm Homes coalition is to get the government to tackle fuel poverty and the climate
crisis by building public pressure and making Warm Homes an election issue.

We are asking government to:
– Provide more (and properly targeted) financial support for people in fuel poverty now
– Put in place a nationwide street by street home insulation programme
– Provide real support for renewable energy generation
– End support for the fossil fuel industry.

Join us at the launch of the Warm Homes Inititive at the Highfields Centre, Leicester, LE2 0DS. from 1.30pm – 3.30pm

  • 1.30-3.00 gathering with stalls, activities – including for children – and free cake.
  • 2.45pm Take a huge photo of everyone, the finished ‘warm homes’ quilt and all the local MPs and Parliamentary Candidates who agree to come (we’re inviting all of them that we can track down, to come and talk to representatives from our Warm Home Coalition partners, meet people, see the quilt and be in the photo).