Submitted agenda proposals
The process
On 5 December 2007, the Management Committee, including elected student representatives, met to prioritise which items will appear on The Forum 08 agenda.
The suggested proposals
Second campaign theme from 2009/10 onwards
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Who made the proposal |
Summary of proposal |
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Economic Justice |
Adam Ramsay and Alasdair Thompson |
Tackling the root causes of poverty, disease and oppression. |
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Food Security |
Kristina Diprose and El Hadshar |
An opportunity to highlight the devastating impact of climate change, while focusing emphatically on basic and essential human rights with local and global objectives for positive action. |
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The Enemy Within |
Rhiannon Horsley, Rachel Reid and Anna Rudge |
A campaign focusing on tackling barriers to development created by the UK, its government and the institutions our government is part of, such as the EU and G8. |
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Workers’ rights |
Ayah al-Zayat and Craig Griffiths |
Ending the exploitation and oppression of workers, inspiring responsible purchasing and fostering solidarity between students and workers worldwide. |
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Women, inequality and development. |
Hannah Greenslade and Rosie Trobe |
To develop a theme where existing issues in development are looked at from a gendered perspective, incorporating solidarity campaigning with women in the UK. |
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What about the kids? |
Nick Chan |
A cross-cutting focus on the particular challenges that children face. |
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Peace |
Sarah Holliday and Amanda Formisano |
Tackling the root causes of war. |
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Mining |
David Jarrett and Jo Hill |
Stop Britain contributing to human rights abuses in the Global South associated with the mining industry. |
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Militarising the Global South |
David Jarrett and Jo Hill |
End UK arms exports to, and military training for, governments guilty of human rights abuses. |
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Child poverty |
Ben Miller and Emily Nicholl |
Broad but not too broad, this theme opens up many opportunities on local, national and international scales to challenge unacceptable child poverty in the world. |
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Anti-privatisation |
Anna Wolmuth and Emma Hughes |
We would be challenging the takeover of public services and public space by corporations making private profit - at home and abroad. |
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Migrant workers’ rights |
Anna Wolmuth and Emma Hughes |
Solidarity work and campaigning with migrant workers against exploitation and desititution, for their rights to have a decent life in this country. |
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United Students Against Sweatshops |
Alex Wood and Anna Wolmuth |
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) campaign (not to be confused with No Sweat) USAS is an international student movement of campuses for sweatshop free labour conditions and workers’ rights. ‘Sweatshop’ is defined broadly and not just clothing. |
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Global Water Crisis |
Richard Hawting and Farrah Zaman |
To tackle the growing global water crisis on different fronts. |
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Curbing corporate power |
Sarah Waldron and Crispin Chatterton |
To challenge the use of unaccountable economic and political power which erodes human rights, fuels environmental destruction and undermines democracy. |
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Agrarian crisis in India |
Mohit Kaycee and Jon Goodman |
The agrarian crisis in India not only has marginalized and devastated a significant population (over 150, 000 farmers suicide within the last decade) but is now showing unimaginable and irreversible adverse effects on the environment through unstable GM crops and the introduction of Terminator technology under the guise of Research hybrids. |
Awaiting full proposal |
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Civil Rights at Home and Abroad |
Sephi Allen and Ruth Cape |
People & Planet campaigning to improve the rights of the individual globally. |
Other issues for discussion
Name of proposal |
Who made the proposal |
Summary of proposal |
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Revolutionise the Action Update |
Ric Lander and Georgina Rannard |
People & Planet has a mass of brilliant journalists with incredible stories to write about — but at the moment, their only outlet is the website news and the much fated journal. The action update could be so much more than it is. Let’s change it. |
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P&P National Newspaper or Magazine |
Rachel Reid and Rhiannon Horsley |
A topic for discussion, then course of action. Discussing how we can provide an alternative media to raise awareness of neglected issues, and improve the image of activism. |
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P&P Scotland Working Group Proposal |
Eilidh Macpherson and Georgina Rannard |
The final proposal of the P&P Scotland working group — to go forward with the groups work in setting up a permanent staff presence in Scotland. |
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Reaching out to returned Gap Year students |
Rhiannon Horsley and Charlotte Smith |
Many 18 year old now take a ‘gap year’ between leaving school and going to university, often with the ambition of doing some ‘good’ usually in the developing world. However research has shown that they have the greatest scope the ‘change people’s lives’ via their actions in the UK, ideally through campaigning or development education. For that reason People and Planet should actively try and engage with returned gap year students and encourage to campaign to end world poverty. |
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Democracy beyond The Forum |
Nick Chan |
A discussion to consider the role, place and legitimacy of the Summer Gathering and Shared Planet in People & Planet’s decisionmaking. |
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Expanding the network beyond Higher Education |
Rhiannon Horsley and Rachel Reid |
A discussion to look at how we can continue to keep group members involved, if at all, after they leave higher education and how continued involvement might increase FAN club contributions. |
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Carbon Rationing Consortium at Schools and Colleges |
Kate Perkins and Kevin Lister |
To incorporate carbon rationing into the Go Green campaign or launch an independent campaign. |
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Gender and People & Planet |
Emma Hughes and Anna Wolmuth |
A facilitated discussion on the influence of gender within the People & Planet network. |
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Where next for the Go Green Universities campaign? |
Emma Hughes and Bronwen Thomas |
To debate and decide the future of the Go Green Universities campaign after September 2009. |
HIV/AIDS or Trade?
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Summary of proposal |
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TAN and Fairtrade are brought together under EJ. |
Alex Wood and Crispin Chatterton |
That the Campaign Theme continued for 2008/09 should be Economic Justice but the Treat AIDS Now campaign becomes the University Network’s main office supported campaign strand within Economic Justice. |
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Sixth Form Fairtrade to stay |
Crispin Chatterton and Sarah Wilson |
If Trade Justice is dropped at the Forum 2008, sixth form Fairtrade work to be excluded from that decision and to continue regardless. |
