Come to our public meeting on Monday 10th October, 7pm at the Brighthelm Centre on North Road to hear Bongani Mthembu from South Africa and Deborah Doane, director of WDM, speak about the urgent need for climate justice ahead of the UN climate talks in South Africa in December.

Bongani Mthembu is from Umlazi, South Africa’s second biggest township. He is a member
of a Durban environment group, and campaigns against industrial pollution in the area. He
is working to educate ordinary South Africans about environmental injustice, and organising
demonstrations at December’s talks, calling for solutions that also tackle poverty and
inequality.

Bongani will be joined by Deborah Doane, director of the World Development Movement,
which is hosting the event.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas joined our Sussex University campus protest outside its Barclays branch last Monday.

As students enrolled in clubs and societies during the annual Freshers’ Fair, we took to the pathways of the university in outrage at the bank’s role in profiting from commodity speculation, guaranteeing massive price hikes in basic staples and forcing the world’s poor consumers into starvation.

“It’s outrageous that Barclays still have a space on the Sussex campus,” says Catherine Rowe, a Masters student and a member of our group. “They’re literally making a killing.”