This website has been quiet, over the last few years but Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire continues to be an active group.
Over the last few years we have met regularly as a local group (on Zoom) and campaigned on issues including Trade Justice, Climate Justice, Corporate Courts (ISDS), Palestine and campaigning for Warm Homes.
In Leicester we joined the ‘Now We Rise‘ Day of Action. As world leaders gathered in the UAE for COP28, the Climate Justice Coalition called for mobilisations across Britain on 9 December.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Global Justice Leicester and Leicestershire joined local climate campaigners to give out leaflets in Leicester City centre – outside Barclays bank. We had good conversations with passers by. People were concerned about climate change and were keen for action to be taken to stop banks making profits at the expense of our planet’s future.
From 2016-2022, the UK’s ‘Big Four’ banks (Barclays, HSBC, Natwest and Lloyds) provided over £300 billion in funding to the fossil fuel industry. Barclays made £7 billion in profit in 2022.
In the same year around 25% of Pakistan was covered in water due to flash floods and the UK saw record heat of over 40 degrees.
Find out more by reading the leaflet: Make Polluters Pay for Climate Chaos
Have you signed the petition: Make pollutes pay for their climate damage?
