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Get the latest news and analysis on global justice issues and join in the debate. Our bloggers include Global Justice Now staff as well as activists from around the world who work on a broad range of subjects. Views expressed by guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the views of Global Justice Now. 

Our blog links experiences in the UK to issues affecting people globally, and covers everything from energy justice, climate change and the WTO, to TTIP, food sovereignty and aid.

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My week with La Via Campesina

Heidi Chow
Heidi Chow

27 July 2017
Food

It’s not every day you get the opportunity to spend a few days with one of the world’s largest social movements. La Via Campesina represents 200 million small-scale food producers, agricultural workers and farmers across the world.

Freedom of movement and securing labour rights are both important principles, and must go hand-in-hand

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

25 July 2017
Migration

Prejudice against immigrants was one of the deciding factors in the Brexit Referendum. The issue of migration touches many raw nerves. There are many big national and personal interests at stake, as well as key principles, especially now that the number of people being displaced by conflicts and seeking refugee status is increasing.

How do we deal with nightmare mega-farms & post-Brexit food insecurity?

Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith

19 July 2017
Food

There’s been two pretty terrifying stories about food and farming in the media this last week.

Two leading Bolivian voices for climate justice need our support

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

17 July 2017
Climate and energy

For several years, Global Justice Now, as part of the global networks Climate Justice Now! and Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, has worked with Pablo Solón, former chief climate negotiator of Bolivia to the UN climate negotiations, in pushing for just solutions to the climat

We confronted the M&S board with 60,000 voices against the Daily Mail

Kahra Wayland-Larty
Picture of Kahra in Richmond park

12 July 2017
General

Over the past few months, we’ve been lobbying Marks and Spencer to drop their funding of the Daily Mail and its hate-filled, divisive reporting of migrants and refugees. Together, over 63 thousand Global Justice Now and SumOfUs supporters have petitioned and emailed M&S boss Steve Rowe and hundreds of us have sneaked campaign materials into M&S stores.

To the board of M&S - your advertising is fuelling harassment and violence

Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith

10 July 2017
General

This is a letter being delivered to the board of M&S today at their Annual General Meeting, signed by 72 different anti-racist and migrant solidarity groups across the country.

To the board of M&S,

We represent 72 organisations across the UK who campaign against racism and for migrants’ rights

Fancy becoming a 'citizen researcher' in pursuit of trade democracy?

Laura Williams
Laura Williams

04 July 2017
Trade

As we expected, the Queen’s Speech included mention of a trade bill to be brought to parliament at some point in the next two years. Detail was predictably scant, and timetables are rarely apparent but it’s a signal for us to get things in motion for our new campaign on trade democracy.

A Peoples Food Policy - a vision for a better food system

Heidi Chow
Heidi Chow

26 June 2017
Food

After his failed backstabbing leadership bid, Michael Gove’s sudden return to the frontbench in the recent cabinet reshuffle was a shock to many.

Five reasons to add Demand the Impossible to your summer plans this year

Ed Lewis
Ed Lewis

23 June 2017
General

Demand the Impossible is holding a FREE summer school on politics and activism in Manchester 24-28 July 2017 for 16-25 year olds.

 

 

Are Big Pharma holding patients to ransom to boost their profits?

Morten Thaysen

23 June 2017
Pharma

The NHS has been forced into yet another secretive deal with a big pharmaceutical company to ensure access for cancer patients to the newest medicines. But while access to new drugs is obviously good news for cancer patients, the deal itself paints a bleak picture for the future of our NHS.

Theresa May did not win a majority for her Brexit of deregulation. We can’t allow her to take it forward

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

22 June 2017
General

The Grenfell Tower fire has come to symbolise everything rotten in modern Britain. Deregulation and privatisation have turned the class divide into a gaping chasm. The government exists for the richest, while the rest are thrown on the mercy of the market.  

5 reasons to be worried about the new Trade Bill

Effie Jordan
Effie Jordan

21 June 2017
Trade

We are calling on the UK government to include five guarantees in the Trade Bill that would make the trade process democratic and accountable to the public.

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