Thursday 5th April, 7pm-9pm
Join us for our monthly meeting. We will be discussing upcoming events and campaigns. New members welcome.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
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How fair is Fairtrade?
Saturday 10th March, 9:30am-1pm
Event organised by the Sheffield Methodist Circuit Justice & Peace Mission Action Group
Sainsbury’s have recently introduced their own fairly-traded brand of tea and there have been recent challenges about the efficacy of ethical consumerism to actually reach the world’s poorest people. This event will take a look at the challenges posed in a book, ‘Doing Good Better’, by William MaCaskill and we will hear from two speakers about their experiences of Fairtrade. This promises to be an interesting morning with opportunities for questions and discussion, as well as refreshments and home-made cake! Please come along and join us.
Programme
9.30 Refreshments
10.00 Introduction
10.05 Effective Altruism and the challenge to Fair Trade
10.20 Richard Hyde, director of Twin Trading talks about his experience
11.00 Discussions/question
11.20 Coffee and cake
11.40 Carolyn & Ian Morris talk about their role as Traidcraft Ambassadors
12.20 Discussions/question
12.40 Concluding remarks
12.50 Close
March campaign meeting
Thursday 1st March, 7pm-9pm
MEETING CANCELLED due to poor weather conditions
Join us for our monthly meeting. We will be discussing upcoming events and campaigns. New members welcome.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
February campaign meeting
Thursday 1st February, 7pm-9pm:
Join us for our monthly meeting. This month will be the rare chance to hear a journalist from Kongo-Kinshasa who has kindly agreed to give us a first-hand account of life in this francophone West African country: Mariyus Noko Ngele, with Francois Guesdon kindly attending to translate.
We will also be discussing upcoming events and campaigns. New members welcome.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
Anti-fracking fund raiser – A Burns Night and Ceilidh
Saturday 20th January, 7pm – 11pm
Organised by Sheffield Friends of the Earth, this evening of entertainment is being held to raise funds for anti-fracking community groups in and around Sheffield threatened by big fracking corporations such as Ineos. Stop the industrialisation of our countryside. Stop fracked water coming into our city.
Full Price £18 Please state your meal option: Traditional Haggis or Veggie Haggis
If you wish to volunteer to help on the day the price is £12. Please contact Richard Souter on 07741104735 if you wish to volunteer. Email him on souter_r@hotmail.com
Workshop: resisting the corporate trade power-grab: the people’s fight-back in South-East Asia
Saturday 3rd February, 1pm–4:30pm
Resisting the Corporate Trade Power-grab: the people’s fight-back in South-East Asia
Download the Trade half-day flier
Join us for this exciting workshop on the corporate trade power-grab.
International corporations are intensifying their efforts to achieve new-style trade-deal terms. They aim to get rid of democratically decided protections for people and the planet – just because these safeguards stop them making even bigger profits!
Corruption, censorship and repressiveness in high places just make this easier for them, and are therefore key challenges for the people’s fight-back.
Come and hear some impressive stories of unrelenting courage, determination and organisation, and how Global Justice Now! is working in solidarity from our campaign base in the UK.
All are welcome to this half-day public workshop, all welcome. Free. To guarantee a place, email globaljusticesheffield@gmail.com.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, St. James’ Street, S1 2EW.
Main speaker, Dorothy Grace Guerrero. Dottie Guerrero is highly qualified to lead an excellent half-day workshop on how people’s movements in the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia, amongst other countries in South-East Asia, are refusing to accept the escalating efforts of international corporations to push for new-style trade deal terms to seize control of government priorities, in order to get rid of democratically decided protections for people and the planet – just because these safeguards stop them making even bigger profits!
Now Head of Policy at Global Justice Now’s national office, Dottie is originally from the Philippines, and has lived in The Netherlands, Germany, Thailand and South Africa. She previously worked with the Asian regional organisation Focus on the Global South, Asienhaus Deutschland and Institute for Popular Democracy in the Philippines. She also worked as guest lecturer in MA Development Programs in universities in Asia and Germany.
Her work as organiser, researcher/analyst, educator, and campaigner in social movements and NGOs spans almost 30 years. She works on and writes about climate change and energy issues, impacts of globalised trade and investments on people’s livelihoods in Asia, China’s new role in the global political economy and other economic justice concerns.
