Not the G8: A real agenda for global justice
Event date: June 15, 2013 11:00
Tagged as: conference development economic_crisis environmentalism g8 global justice leeds movement patel raj social_struggles world
Leeds University Student Union, Lifton Place, Leeds LS2 9JZ
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An activist conference organised by WDM with international speakers, workshops, films and exhibits.
With speakers including:
- Raj Patel, bestselling author of Stuffed and Starved: the hidden battle for the world food system
- Dorothy-Grace Guerrero, climate justice programme co-ordinator, Focus on the Global South, Thailand
- Luís Bernardo, campaigner with Attac Portugal
- Deborah Doane, director of the World Development Movement
This June, the G8 countries are meeting in the UK for the first time since 2005. David Cameron wants to present himself as a leader on social justice, but the policies he is actually pushing represent the usual G8 consensus, where corporate interests come first.
Yet all over the world, social movements are imagining and creating real alternatives - from food sovereignty to fair and progressive taxation, from energy justice to comprehensive public services.
Join some great international speakers to discuss pressing issues such as the power of the finance sector; to debate what we in the UK can do about them; and to demand a real agenda for global justice which expresses our common humanity the world over.
Sessions will include:
- Feeding the world in the 21st century: Do we need corporations?
- What’s so wrong with neoliberalism?
- ¡No a la mina! An introduction to anti-mining struggles
- Carbon Capital: how the finance sector drives climate change
- Not the G8: What does a real agenda for global justice look like?
- Practical skills session on creativity and activism
Plus short films, campaign stalls and a global justice bookstall from Radish booksellers.
Register your free place here: http://www.wdm.org.uk/not-the-g8
Contact email: ralph.allen@wdm.org.uk
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