Session 2 (Saturday 4:00-5:30)
The Arms Industry and Education, Study War No More
Barnaby Pace- Campaign against the Arms trade
Are arms companies setting your university’s research agenda? What problems does that cause?What could we do about it? A workshop and discussion aimed at examining the effect of arms companies on campus. How to find out what is being done at your university and do something about it. Hold your university to higher standard and study war no more.
Campaign Against the Arms Trade
Cereal Offenders - Biofuels and Hunger
Emma Hughes -Action Aid
Since 2008 hunger has skyrocketed, and currently 1 in 6 people are going hungry. This workshop will explore the role that biofuels play in producing and exacerbating this hunger crisis and how the scramble for biofuels has led to corporate land grabbing and undermined women’s rights. The workshop will discuss what activists can do to stem the flow of biofuels and protect the right to food.
Post Copenhagen
UKYCC
This workshop will explore the possible outcomes of and consequences of any deal made at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen. However, more importantly we hope to address the concern that Copenhagen will be a ‘Make Poverty History moment’ and open up discussion for ideas and actions for post Copenhagen.
How technology is changing the ways we campaign
Liam Barrington-Bush, Louder.com
We all know how easy it is to waste time on the web, but can we also use it to change the world? Twitter, Facebook & YouTube have become buzzwords, but are you using them to their full potential for your cause? How can you harness the reach of social media to affect change on the issues that matter to you? Discuss e-campaigning ‘success stories’ and how new activist website Louder.org.uk can help you get your voice heard!
Zero Carbon Britain: It is Possible!
Tobi Kelner - Centre for Alternative Technologies
Know that we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels but not sure what the viable alternatives actually are? The Centre for Alternative Technology’s famous paper on ‘Zero Carbon Britain’ details how Britain can eliminate emissions from fossil fuels in 20 years and break our dependence on imported energy. This workshop will outline the conclusions of the paper in a fun and accessible way. Using interactive games to explain the current energy situation in the UK and how we can practically achieve a zero carbon Britain. This workshop is perfect for those who are new to energy and climate change.
Centre for Alternative Technologies
The Wear Fair Campaign. How to campaign for our schools and colleges to make the switch to Fairtrade clothing
Fiona Ranford & Adam Gardner, People & Planet and The Fairtrade Foundation
We’ve seen on TV the sweatshops and cotton farmer poverty that go into today’s clothing. Sadly sportswear and uniforms are also made in a way that keeps people poor. Come and discover how to change this £1 billion market, by campaigning for our schools and colleges to Wear Fair! Fun, games, interactive activities and practical advice for what to do in your school or college, including Fair Trade fashion shows and events.
‘Change we can believe in’ - what Obama’s experience as a community organiser teaches us about taking action for justice in the UK.
Jonathan Cox-London Citizens
Barack Obama’s election as US President is the biggest political event of the decade. His experience as a Community Organiser in Chicago is key to understanding who he is and how he won the election. Join Community Organisers from London CITIZENS – affiliated to the US organisation that trained Obama – to find out how they are using Obama-style techniques to make ‘change you can believe in’ on issues ranging from poverty to immigration.
Craftivism: Craft + Activism = Craftivism!
Sarah Corbett- Craftavist Collective
Craftavists aim to expose the scandal of global poverty, and human rights injustices though the power of craft and public art. Craftavists works focuses on creative, provocative, non-violent actions and participants will have the opportunity to design and create their own mini protests banners.
Street Style Surgery Fashion Fix
Sissy Rooney- Street Style
An introduction to the t shirt customisation process. Using a vast array of materials participants are able to customise and design their own t-shirts with slogans and messags
So you want to be a social entrepreneur?
Unltd
An interactive workshop giving information on social enterprise and entrepreneurship and providing a forum for generating and developing enterprising ideas. It will also offer an overview of UnLtd and the Awards programmes available to start-up social entrepreneurs.
Burma VJ
Film
Burma VJ recounts the efforts of a small group of independent video journalists who risked torture and life in jail to ensure the truth behind the country’s 2007 political uprising was broadcast to the world. Led by hundreds of Buddhist monks, more than 100,000 people marched peacefully against the military junta that has held the country in an iron grip for 40 years. The protesters and the monks suffered a merciless crack down as a result.
Pushing By Rights forward:How to work with your university to get ethical supply chain
Jim Cranshaw People & Planet
P&P groups have pushed 110 universites and colleges to go Fairtrade. Now what next? P&P’s new By Rights campaign will show new directions for universities who have Fairtrade Status, which fight for human rights throughout the supply chains of everything universities buy, from field to factory. This interactive, fun workshop will show you how you can transform your university and take our success with Fairtrade to the next level and beyond.
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.
Is it up to women to fix the world?
Panel Debate
Recently, female campaigners have become powerful figures in the public eye from grassroots activists and outspoken MPs to celebrities with a cause. Yet around the world women continue to struggle for equity. The climate crisis and the collapse of our economic system has been blamed, by some, on the ‘male way doing things’. Would things have been different if women had an equal voice? We will discuss the concept of people making positive change happen in different ways – do women have the answers to creating a fairer, cleaner world? How we can empower women to stand up and use their political power?
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Palestine – what’s happening and what you can do about it
Nadia Idle- War on Want
Palestinians are not victims of a natural disaster, but are suffering as a direct result of the Israeli occupation. Following Israel’s attack on Gaza, awareness of the situation and support for the Palestinian people has grown markedly in Britain, with student occupations spreading all around the UK in the beginning of 2009.Find out the latest news from the ground, what’s happening in the UK movement and what students can do here to help support people in Palestine.
Copenhagen and the global activists plan
Open space discussion-competition winner
The Copenhagen talks will set the worlds policy on climate change for the next 50 years. Making or breaking our future. Come along and find out what climate camp and other global activists are planning to do at Copenhagen and how you may want to get involved.
Trade
World Development Movement
It’s 10 years since campaigners shut down the World Trade Organisation in Seattle and inflicted a major defeat on the proponents of ‘free trade’. This workshop is an introduction to the case against free trade. What kind of trade do we want to see instead? Is Fairtrade an alternative or will its impact only ever be limited? And what can we do to make sure trade helps people out of poverty rather than just helping corporations to a tidy profit?
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
