Corporate Power

Buy Right: Universities

People & Planet students voted for a campaign to revolutionise the way universities do business - now its time for the big launch. The Buy Right campaign aims for universities to respect human rights throughout their supply chains, from field to factory to student union shops.

University contracts with companies are worth £8 billion per year. This can be used as a tool to protect people’s human rights. The Buy Right campaign will build on the incredible success of over 300 universities, schools and colleges getting Fairtrade Status and go much further.

Programme highlights include:

Panel Debate

• How can people come together to resist human rights abuses in companies supply chains?

Workshops

• Lessons from the US: How to build a student movement against sweatshops

• Buy Right: Introduction to the brand new People & Planet Corporate Power Campaign- Find out how you can take action

• Pushing Buy Right forward with your university: launching Buy Right steering groups

Wear Fair: Schools and Colleges

Image © Students at Ealing and West London college

In schools and colleges across Britain, students and staff are wearing uniforms and sportswear made with cotton that was picked by cotton workers not earning enough to survive. We can and will make a difference to this. Fairtrade schools and colleges succeeded in improving the lives of poor food and drink producers, but there is still a £1 billion market in school and college clothing that has not got much better, until now. The Wear Fair campaign aims to transform schools and colleges and it is already proving a massive success.

Wear fair programme highlights include:

Panel debate

• The Shirt Off Your Back - Meet TV’s Stacey Dooley

Workshop

• Wear Fair: How to campaign for our schools and colleges to make the switch to Fairtrade clothing

The Reclaim Research Project: Universities

In our universities arms companies design new deadly weapons, drugs companies privatise AIDS vaccines and oil companies work out how to get even dirtier stocks out of the ground. What happened to education for the public interest; helping to solve social and environmental problems? People & Planet have decided to find out with the Reclaim Research Project. Come and join in the first national participatory research project to sniff out corporate influence on campus.

Reclaim Research programme highlights include:

Panel debate

• University: Public interest or an arms factory?- Meet the Guardian journalist that exposed BAE

Workshops

• Reclaim Research Project- Become a ‘super sleuth’ and sniff out corporate influence on your campus

• The Arms Industry and Education: Study War No More