Groups and activism news

Global Justice South East London have been meeting fortnightly since the start of lockdown and are continuing to do so. They’ve found this suits them better than meeting in a noisy pub, and ensures members who are shielding can take part too. They’ve had a focus on educating themselves and letter writing.

Global Justice Reading gave out 200 of the new US trade deal leaflet at the local farmers’ market, where their focus on food standards was well received. They also got a good turnout for their first online public meeting in September where speakers from Global Justice Now, Keep Our NHS Public and the GMB union spoke about the threat of the US trade deal.

Global Justice Central London also took the US trade deal campaign to a farmers’ market, this time in Walthamstow (picture below).

Global Justice Portsmouth have been preparing for One World Week (www.oneworldweek.org) in October with a focus on climate and a green recovery. They’re organising joint events with other groups locally.

Global Justice Nottingham has been meeting over Zoom, and with some assistance from the office has had a banner against the US trade deal made, which they plan to use during October.

Global Justice Manchester held a webinar on trade, climate change and the

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global south, with Dorothy Guerrero from Global Justice Now and Andy Higginbottom from the Colombia Solidarity Campaign. They also handed out US trade deal leaflets at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Manchester.

A member of Global Justice Richmond and Kingston has set up a new website and blog about tax havens as a resource for those opposing them. Find it at https:// onshoreresident.wordpress.com

Our campaigner Daniel Willis spoke to the Global Justice Cambridge online group meeting on the direction of aid spending under Johnson’s government.

There aren’t many freshers’ fairs happening this year, but Anglia Ruskin University is one of the exceptions, where the new Global Justice Cambridge Youth group ran a stall (see photo above).

Youth network groups will be running online workshops throughout October, with the Leeds youth group doing a screening of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything via Zoom.