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3 reasons you should join us for Freedom of Movement on Saturday

Nicki Carter

15 March 2019
Migration

On 23 March 2019, Our Future Now will host an afternoon and evening of learning, resisting and dancing. We present this event in the spirit of protest against our current border controls, and in celebration of solidarity beyond difference. We will explore what a world with freedom of movement for all could look like. Here are three reasons why you should join us:  

Our cultural picks of the month

Global Justice Now

14 March 2019
General

Things to read, listen to and watch. Here are some cultural picks put together by people at Global Justice Now. 

How racist myths built the population growth bogey-man

Hiba Ahmad
Hiba Ahmad, Global Justice Now

09 March 2019
Climate and energy

The environmental movement in the Global North needs to address the elephant in its white and middle-class room – the myth of overpopulation as a driver of climate extinction.

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Government defeated in Lords over meaningful vote on future trade deals

Trade justice

Trade justice campaigners have welcomed the government's defeat over Amendment 12 to the Trade Bill in the House of Lords. A cross-party amendment to give parliament the power to hold the government to account for its trade policy was passed by 215 votes to 168.

Liam Fox ‘acting like 18th century monarch’ as plans for trade deals unveiled

Trade justice

The Department for International Trade has today set out a woeful set of proposals for the scrutiny of trade deals after Brexit, campaign group Global Justice Now has said. It follows a written statement by the secretary of state, Liam Fox, designed to allow the government’s Trade Bill to proceed in the House of Lords.

‘Woeful lack of democracy’ as Liam Fox launches US trade negotiations

Trade justice

MPs are set to debate four post-Brexit trade deals on Thursday, in a move likely to launch formal trade negotiations with the USA and Britain’s application to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But campaigners have warned MPs that the debate shows the almost complete lack of power which they will have to guide, scrutinise or stop trade deals after Brexit.