Bristol WDM is in need of some more active organisers:

If you want some experience of taking an active role in organising events, planning stunts, running stalls and representing Bristol at national events please email danrowaniles@googlemail.com or come along to one of our regular meetings.

The organising committee is really laid back and we welcome new ideas and fresh angles of global justice campaigning.

More than ever before, rich industrialised countries are using the UN climate talks as an excuse to advance corporate interests. In the run up to the climate talks in Durban, South Africa, this December people across Africa and the world are demanding climate justice.

Join us to hear speakers from social movements on the front line of the campaign in Durban. Find out how you can take action against the UK’s unfair policies that are prioritising corporate profits via discredited institutions such as the World Bank. Not only will this fail to tackle climate change, but it will also deepen existing global inequalities.

Bristol: Tuesday 11 October

7pm at Unitarian Meeting House, Brunswick Square, Bristol BS2 8PG. [Google Map]
With Desmond D’Sa, Murray Worthy (WDM policy officer), and Alice Cutler (Trapese Collective).

• Next Meeting

• We are taking a break for the summer so our next meeting will not be until the last two weeks of September or early October.   Details will be posted as soon as we know them but it should be a good meeting.   Read on…..

• We are working with the national WDM groups organiser, Katherine Talbot,  to get their climate justice campaigner, Kirsty Wright, to join a panel of speakers at the meeting.   Kirsty attended the recent Bolivian Conference on climate change as a result of which a “People’s Agreement” was drawn up. This calls for the voice of the people most impacted by climate change to be given a proper place in the UN climate change discussions and she will be speaking about what she learned from the conference in the lead up to the next UN climate change conference in Mexico in early December.

• For our other panel members we hope to get someone from the Bristol Transition Movement to speak about what’s going on locally around climate change and peak oil and we would also like to have a representative from the Global South to talk about how it is affecting their country/region.