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September 24 Film screening of ‘Two Worlds: People without medicines. Profits without limits.’
We will be joined by Tim Brierley from Global Justice Now. This will be followed with a discussion. There will be Fair Trade refreshments. Free but with voluntary donations.
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We see it as important to raise our voice at this festival largely devoted to activities concerned with cycling. As heavy rain was forecast for early afternoon, Jackie had put together a micro stall consisting of one well-stocked table showing prominently the Global Justice Reading logo, but no gazebo this time. We managed, with our band of helpers, to engage many passers by on mining in Colombia. Families particularly enjoyed our quiz/game supplied by Global Justice Now, with small prizes and sweets for taking part, whether or not all their answers were correct. Despite the focus being primarily on cycling, the three hours before the heavy rain arrived was most productive, and we managed to get packed up very quickly to avoid being soaked! Another successful day!
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We are fortunate this year to have Andrew Micklebrough to organise the stall in Earley as the Coordinator was not available. Again a very successful event at this niche festival with many visitors and leaflets to give out.
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Waterfest is an all day popular event in Forbury Gardens, Reading, through Reading Abbey and along Chestnut Walk by the River Kennet. This year we had a stall by the roundabout as there were no allocated sites, but it was along a frequented path and we had many participants who stopped to chat, listen to our message and sign our petition. It is a busy and tiring event (!) even with our welcome helpers but it is always successful.
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Global Justice continues to be active in Reading.
The programme of meetings for the year is:
Activities 2025
We are continuing to campaign for our UK government to remove corporate courts from all its trade deals. Last year we succeeded in getting it to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty because that included the clause on corporate courts. We have stalls at
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RISC, 35 – 39 London Street, RG1 5HL
Multinational mining firms are suing Colombia to the tune of $13 billions. They are using ‘corporate courts’, which are written into trade deals such as the UK-Colombia investment treaty. These secretive tribunals protect the profits of overseas corporations at the expense of human rights and climate action.
But now Colombia is taking a stand against corporate courts, and it has asked for our help to scrap the UK-Colombia deal.
Entry is free but donations accepted. Fair trade refreshments
We’re part of Global Justice Now, a democratic membership organisation which campaigns against inequality and injustice in the global economy. We want to see a world where ordinary people control the resources they need to live a decent life, rather than corporations and the super rich calling the shots.