Global Justice Sheffield
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Thursday 7th April, 7pm-9pm: Global Justice Sheffield monthly meeting
Our monthly meeting to discuss and plan upcoming events and campaigns. New members welcome. This month we will be particularly focusing on our International Food Justice action on 16th April and the AGM & public meeting with a film showing, on 25th May.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 10 St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (nr Sheffield Cathedral)
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After Paris – Where Now?
Saturday 27 February 2016, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
In the aftermath of the Paris Climate Summit , one thing seems clear – above all, it is grass-roots action at the local level that will change the political climate to make real, transformative action possible.
Schumacher North, together with partners and supporters across the Yorkshire region, are now launching a Zero Carbon Yorkshire movement to make sure Yorkshire is among the first UK regions to formulate and deliver a viable Zero Carbon strategy.
We want to work with activist groups, local authorities, businesses, public sector bodies, universities and individuals in every Yorkshire city, town and district to design local Zero Carbon Plans, and combine these into a regional strategy that will command huge public support – then start to put it into action.
To do this, we need your help!
We are calling on climate activists, concerned citizens, business people, local politicians of every stripe – basically everyone! – to join us on February 27th for a day of Open Space conversation to help us create a vision for a better, cleaner, greener Yorkshire that will be free of fossil fuels in the shortest possible time – providing an example for all other UK regions of what needs to – and can – be done if we are to tackle the 21st century’s greatest challenge.
Please join us, tell all your friends, visit the new Zero Carbon Yorkshire website, join the Facebook group – and book for the event at: https://zcylaunch.eventbrite.co.uk
Venue: Leeds Civic Hall
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Saturday 20th February, 9:30am–4:00pm
This is a chance to find out about and discuss what is happening in Latin America.
Why has the US blockade of Cuba not yet been lifted? What is happening in Venezuela after the defeat of Hugo Chavez’s PSUV party? Other workshops will consider the struggles of women in Central America, environmental destruction and climate change, Mexico drug wars and state repression.
Workshops: Cuba’s political victory, new challenges. Latin America, ALBA and the global crisis. Mexico, drug wars and state repression. Extractive industries and political repression in the Andes. Women’s rights in Central & Latin America. Eyewitness from Colombia. Venezuela – revolution in peril.
Speakers from Cuba Solidarity, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua Solidarity, Central America Women’s Network, Colombia Solidarity and Venezuela Solidarity.
Admission £8 / £5 (concession) includes lunch.
For more information and to book your place at the conference, email cscsheffield@btinternet.com
Full details: http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/events/55/sheffield-csc-latin-america-day-school.
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Saturday 16th April, 11am – 4pm
Where: top of Fargate, Sheffield city centre.
We are running a combined city-centre action in solidarity with the International Day of Peasant Struggle (which falls on 17th April).
For small-scale farmers to have control of their own livelihoods through fair access to land and water
For all of us to have affordable healthy food in line with our culture
Join us in demanding an end to new global business attempts to impose land grabs and affordable patented seeds.
Jointly organised by: War On Want, Sheffield Friends of the Earth, Grow Sheffield, Regather, Sheffield Climate Alliance, Village Aid, The Food Assembly and Global Justice Sheffield.
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Saturday 4th June, 10am-6pm – London
The annual national AGM & Conference, this year in London. A day of workshops, discussions and information sharing. Keynote speaker is Diane Abbott. Workshops on trade, energy justice and aid, plus campaign surgery and open space. More information and book your free place.
Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
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Thursday 3rd March, 7pm-9pm: Global Justice Sheffield monthly meeting
Our monthly meeting to discuss and plan upcoming events and campaigns including discussing our contributions to the 16th April city centre action.
Venue: Dog & Partridge, 56 Trippet Lane, Sheffield S1 4EL
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.