An Economy for the 99% - SHARE IDEAS & TOOLS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Description
SHARE IDEAS & TOOLS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Finding new economic solutions
Securing investment in climate jobs & renewable energies
Challenging local and global inequalities
Scaling up what is already happening locally
Hear from national speakers & local projects
Explore ideas in discussions & debates
Take action with like-minded people
Speakers and Key Note Presentations
The Alternative to Austerity
Charles Secrett
He is a world famous environmental activist and a Green New Deal economist. He was head of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland between a1993- 2001. He is an author and broadcaster on environmental topics.
Move Your Money
Danielle Paffard
She helped establish the anti-cuts network UK Uncut and is co-founder of new campaign Move Your Money UK, and works at the London Community Credit Union.
Renewing our energies
Natalie Bennett
She is from Camden, a Journalist, Writer, Green, Feminist and now the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Climate jobs and a new economy
Chris Baugh
He is the assistant general secretary (AGS) of the PCS trade union. He leads on the PCS Green Agenda, and is active in the Million Climate Jobs Campaign
The Shift Campaign
George Barda
George Barda has been a social & environmental justice campaigner and activist for over a decade. He is one of the ‘leading’ activists in the Occupy movement.
Beyond the fragments
Peter Robinson
He is secretary of the Alliance for Jobs and Climate and Chair of the Derby Climate Coalition and has been involved in a range of Social Movements, including Anti-Apartheid and Portugal 1975-76
Climate Justice
Sarah Reader
She works for the World Development Movement (WDM) on the climate justice campaign. Outside of work she is involved in anti-arms trade, anti-cuts and environmental campaigning.
Workshops
1. It's the economy...stupid (Charles Secrett)
2. Working with the council and raising the climate jobs issue (speaker from Sheffield)
3. Creating sustainable livelihoods (Transition groups in Camden )
4. Barnet library and the Occupy movement (George Barda)
5. Setting up a local jobs/climate Alliance (Peter Robinson)
6. Move Your Money (Joel Benjamin)
7. The Restart Project (Ugo Vallauri)
8. Working with Trade Unions (Chris Baugh)
Participants will be able to select from 2 of the above.
Organised by
The Alliance for Jobs and Climate
Transition Movement Camden
Supported by
Camden Association of Street Properties
Camden Friends of the Earth
Camden Green Party
Camden Greenpeace (tbc)
Camden NUT (tbc)
Camden UNISON
Coalition of Resistance against Cuts
Equality Trust (tbc)
HOST universal
Million Climate Jobs Campaign
Move your Money
N & E London WDM
Transition Belsize
Transition Dartmouth Park
Transition Highgate
Transition Kentish Town
Transition Primrose Hill
Stalls and Video showings. Food will be available for sale.
TICKETS also available from: Houseman Books, Caledonian Rd
More information call: 07876595993 or email alliance@jobsandclimate.org