Youth network group activities

Climate change and neo-colonialism

Host a speaker event

Choose from these events, Global Justice Now can provide a speaker. Email [email protected] if you’d like more info on any of them.

De-colonise the global economy!
How our trade, debt, tax and even climate solutions perpetuate neo-colonialism. With Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now.

Why did COP26 fail the global south? and why we need climate reparations. With Daniel Willis, policy manager and campaigner on climate and aid.

What does international trade have to do with climate justice? With Jean Blaylock, policy manager and campaigner on climate and trade.

Run an info stall

We’ve lots of campaign materials relating to climate justice, including our popular illustrated booklet. Interest in climate justice is still high after the COP, so if you’re at uni you could run a stall to distribute the materials, and attract new people to your group. There’s also a petition people could sign using a QR code. Even if you’re not a uni-based group you could consider doing one elsewhere. Email [email protected] if you’re interested and we can send you all the materials you need.

Run a workshop

We have an introduction to climate justice workshop. A few of you will have either taken part in running or gone to one of these workshops, but we’ve great slides on this now (thanks to our Bristol activists!) and it’s worth putting on for others new to the movement. Check out the slides – download at the bottom of the page. We can help train you to run this and optionally run it with you, if you’d like. Email [email protected] if you’re interested.

End vaccine apartheid!

While many people in the UK are now getting a booster jab, just 3% of people in the world’s poorest countries have been vaccinated at all. The big pharmaceutical companies are making huge profits by refusing to share the recipes for their Covid vaccines. Over 160 countries are demanding the World Trade Organisation temporarily waives patents on Covid vaccines and treatments, so we can put an end to this pandemic, but shamefully the UK is blocking the proposal.

Run a reading group

Build your knowledge of this issue and the history of resistance to Big Pharma greed with a one-off reading group. Set a date and choose a few of these articles to read:
Big Pharma’s Finest Hour? Nick Dearden
Vaccine apartheid: The Global South fights back. Nick Dearden
Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property. Alexander Zaitchik
We Need A Movement Against Vaccine Apartheid. Leigh Phillips

Local campaigning and protests

We’ve a load of materials on vaccine apartheid and if want to get active on this then drop us a line and we can discuss. As ever just email [email protected].

Photo credit: Maddy Winters, Against the Grain Photography.

Download: Slides - Climate justice and youth activism Autumn 2021