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Anyone can be a media campaigner
Symon Hill- Ekklesia
Media engagement is a vital part of activism and is far too important to leave to experts. This is a chance to develop skills and knowledge for promoting campaigns to the media. Whether you’re running a campaign yourself or want to get local media interested in a bigger issue, this workshop will help. We will look at choosing which media to target, making your campaign newsworthy and contacting journalists
How do we reform our broken politics?
Clare Coatman - Power 2010
MPs’ expenses, rock bottom turnouts, attacks on our rights and freedoms – our democracy is in crisis. How else to explain the disastrous failure to act on climate change?
POWER2010 is a new bottom-up campaign targeting the next election which aims to give you the chance to have a say in how our country should be run.
Come to this session to explore how we reform our broken politics and get the democracy we urgently need.
United Students Against Sweatshops: lessons from the US on how to build a student movement against sweatshops
USAS and CGT union
A student movement has built up in the USA to struggle against sweatshops in the clothing industry. Through building links with workers in the Global South, unions in the US and through building the Workers Rights Consortium we have learnt a great deal. Now we come to share knowledge, tactics and plans with students in the UK so we can learn from each other.
Saving Sanctuary: take action to stop refugees becoming a political football at the 2010 general election
Jonathon Cox -CITIZENS for Sanctuary campaign
Join Organisers from London Citizens and the CITIZENS for Sanctuary campaign to learn about the Sanctuary Pledge and take action. The Sanctuary Pledge is an action targeting 200 constituencies across the UK in the run-up to the next general election. Learn the art of public negotiation so that you too can be equipped to persuade your prospective MPs to commit to providing sanctuary, campaign responsibly, and end the detention of children.
Grow Your Own
Andrew Taylor & Louise Hazan
A workshop exploring how to run a university grow your own project. Find out how to set up allotment projects, orchards, forest gardens, how to organise growing around the student calendar and the basics of permaculture design. We’ll finish the session with a spot of practical guerilla gardening - weather permitting!
How to make change in Student Politics
Rhiannon- P&P Management Committee.
Find out how to work with your SU to create change on your campus, everything you’ll need to know about getting money, support and help from your Union.
Muslims & the Environmental Movement: Exploring Assumptions, Building Bridges
Muzammal Hussain- Line
This workshop will encourage reflection and dialogue on values and experiences of Muslim and non-Muslim activists. We will explore some of the following questions: What kind of issues might concern Muslims most? Where might ecological activism and corporate globalisation fit in? How can bridges be built between Muslims and more mainstream activists? What values do we share? How can we work together? We will acknowledge and honour diversity within social groups.
Liberation Ecology: the good life, politics and economics in a post-carbon world
Dr Viki Johnson and Ruth Potts, New Economics Foundation
Climate change and peak oil point towards a near future in which we will have to learn to live with far, far fewer fossil fuel resources. This workshop explains why, what we can do to bring the sleeping architecture of a post carbon future to life, and explores the first steps already being taken in rich and poor countries alike to make the transition to post-carbon societies.
Mend it! How can we make green actions sound like perfect common sense
Sian Berry
In light of the recession and the increasing willingness of people to take measures that both save money and have more long-term benefits, how can we pitch our green campaigns as less about altruism and more about simple common sense?
How can communities prepare themselves against climate change? Practical Action’s strategies for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Nepal
Ben Murphy- Practical Action
Climate change is making extreme weather events such as flooding, more severe and more unpredictable in developing countries, making strategies to reduce these risks vital to development. This workshop is a chance to hear from members of Practical Action’s team in Nepal about how they are working with communities to reduce vulnerability and help them adapt and develop in our changing climate.
Stopping the Tar Sands catastrophe
Indigenous Environmental Network, New Internationalist, The Co-operative Financial Services The extraction of Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada, is the most destructive project on earth and risks runaway climate change and local ecological disaster - with profound consequences for indigenous communities on whose land these projects have been imposed. Hear about the local impacts and global consequences of this extraction - from indigenous activists and UK campaigners. Get involved in the growing UK movement to stop the tar sands - targeting BP, Shell, government and investors.
Indigenous Environmental Network
Reach Out- connecting with diverse and disadvantaged groups
Shilpa Shah- Akashi
Tired of the ‘white middle class’ stereotype of our movement? How do we connect beyond our comfort zones? Engage those beyond the usual suspects? This interactive workshop is introductory and it’s for anyone who would like to explore solutions to these questions. Come with an open mind and leave feeling inspired.
Cut the crap, let’s cut the carbon -Go Green Schools & Colleges workshop
Alys Mumford - People & Planet
School and college emissions make up a massive part of the UK’s carbon footprint. We want to transform the education sector to help it cut the carbon and Go Green! We’ll be looking at some of the problems, learning how you can effectively campaign to solve these, and planning some really great events for Go Green Week. An essential session for anybody who wants to make their school or college more environmentally-friendly.
An introduction to Copenhagen Climate Talks
Youth Delegation to Copenhagen-UKYCC
Have you heard about the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen, but don’t know what it all means? Then come to our workshop where we’ll be teaching you a little about the UN process, what a good deal would look like and what young people are doing around the world in the run-up and during the conference.
Should Liberty always come second to Security?
Panel Debate
Whether it is talking tough on terror, the rise of the database state or the growth of a surveillance society, is the size, role and reach of government out of control? We are told that measures such a 42 day imprisonment,stop and search and racial profiling at music concerts are implemented to protect our freedoms but what is the actual cost to society?
Introduction to the brand new People & Planet Corporate Power Campaign:Buy Right
The People & Planet network has chosen the new Buy Right campaign, within the corporate power theme, and which is launched…NOW! Discover how to support people’s human rights in supply chains from field to factory, and how to resist companies exploiting people who make the things we use every day. A workshop to help us develop strong links with people in the Global South, build campaigns together and make Higher Education’s £8 billion of procurement ethical.
Stacey Dooley Investigates
In 2007, fashion fanatic Stacey Dooley’s life took an unexpected turn when she travelled to India for TV’s Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts to live and work alongside the people in the Indian fashion industry making clothes for the UK high street. In the cramped backstreet workshops of the Mumbai slums she came face to face with child labour and what she saw there changed her life.
Meet Stacey, watch some of her new series Stacey Dooley Investigates, and discuss what you can do about sweatshops.
Pig Business plus Q&A
FILM
This is an exposé of the pig meat industry in the US, Poland and the UK. It reveals the hidden costs behind much of the meat on our supermarket shelves. Vast factory operations mistreat and overcrowd animals, poison local residents, destroy local farming communities, and spread contagious diseases like pig MRSA and swine flu which now threaten the entire human population.
How to politicise students - Nishma Doshi
Open space discussion-competition winner
If politics is not the solution, what is? We’re all campaigning and groaning that government isn’t listening. Many people are disillusioned with any form of authority, but are not doing anything to really change it. Let’s fuel students into politics to create the change we want to see in the world
Build attention grabbing, breath-taking campaign props and banners
In this creative and hands-on session, work side by side with renowned Political Artist Polyp. Help create an amazing spectacle for the Wave, the UK’s biggest ever climate march, on Saturday 5 December. You’ll come away with techniques and ideas to help you create your very own inspiring props and banners
