Global Justice Nottingham

Global Justice Nottingham invites you to join an event on the UK’s economic relationships and continued arms sales to Israel – and the struggle to achieve justice for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Trading in oppression: how the UK’s economic ties with Israel support the occupation of Palestine

📅 When: Monday 16 March, 7pm
📍 Where: Fellows Morton & Clayton, 54 Canal Street, Nottingham, NG1 7EH
🎙️ Speakers:
Tim Bierley, Palestine and tech campaigner at Global Justice Now
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (speaker tbc)

Since the US-brokered truce took effect in October, Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians have continued but with much less public scrutiny. Israel has reportedly killed hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, its military remains present in 58% of Gaza, and it has banned dozens of aid organisations from working in Palestine.

Meanwhile Israel continues to deepen its stranglehold on the West Bank, with settler attacks on Palestinians increasing in the last year and the government announcing major new projects for settlements illegal under international law.

As our media and politicians turn away, how can we keep the pressure on and translate the huge movement for Palestine into real change?

The UK is a key trade partner for Israel. Many UK-headquartered companies invest in firms involved in Israel’s illegal settlements, our government continues to license arms sales, and allow trade in surveillance technologies used to control and oppress Palestinians.

Meanwhile, big tech companies with deep links to Israel’s occupation and genocide are eating into the UK’s own digital infrastructure – raising further questions over the digital economy built around us.

Please join us on 16 March to discuss why the UK continues to assist Israel’s illegal occupation and how we can force a change.

 

On 3rd and 12th February 2026 we teamed up with Global Justice Leicester and Global Justice Sheffield to hold online screenings of a series of seven short films from the sharp end of a deeply unjust pharma system, where huge parts of the world are preventing from accessing vital medicines; but also including stories of hope, with people organising for a better future. People from across the East Midlands and South Yorkshire attended, and Tim Bierley, Global Justice Now’s pharma campaigner, introduced the films and conducted a Q&A session afterwards.

 

 

Along with Friends of the Earth and XR Nottingham, we had stalls in central Nottingham calling for climate justice, with corporations and billionaires paying their share, and a just transition for workers and communities globally. We also called for secret Corporate Courts to be excluded form future trade deals. They subvert democracy and inhibit governments from taking climate action.

 

This was a national demonstration with many organisations calling for billionaires and corporations to pay for the cost of living and climate crises they have caused.

We organised a coach from Nottingham, as you can see from our banner!

We were all set to have a stall, as usual, at this very popular annual event. But after over 30 years without incident, at the last minute the insurers refused to insure it unless stalls with any promoting political, religions or cultural issues were excluded. So along with 28 other stalls we could not be there.  Together with several other organisations we held a protest rally outside the Arboretum, as well as going in to express our solidarity with the organisers.

They are working with the insurers to try and ensure that next year, our stall and all the others are able as usual to participate.

 

The big pharmaceutical firms are more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments while abandoning the global south. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financialising medicine.

Nick Dearden, our Director, has written a book, Pharmanomics, about this and what a pharmaceutical industry could look like.

We were excited that Nick came to Nottingham to talk about his research and signing copies of the book at Five Leaves in central Nottingham.